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| Haaning Jens Born in 1965 in Hoersholm, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen. For the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale Jens Haaning will present a new work entitled Albanian Pigeons. He will be driving to Tirana, Albania and collect approximately a hundred pigeons from the streets of Tirana and then transport them back to Thessaloniki. The Albanian pigeons will be released on a square in the city’s center, where there is a lot of pigeons already, with the hope that they will become a part of the pigeon population of Thessaloniki. The intervention will bee carried out during the opening days of the Biennale. Haaning's practice engages to the politics of distribution and visibility that govern our social behaviour and safeguard class division. Through a calculated process of exchange, Haaning’s works bring to light the forms of co-existence that result from the circulation of goods and the migration of people. Haaning’s exchanges usually involve a displacement, such as the temporary relocation of a factory employing immigrant workers into a museum (Middelburg Summer 1996), or take the form of a counter-productive transaction, such as the swap of streetlight bulbs between the cities of Kassel, Germany and Hanoi, Vietnam (Kassel-Hanoi, light bulb exchange, 2002). Involving a complex negotiation with the propriety of artistic institutions, Haaning’s clandestine works often infringe upon social or legal norms, leaving the viewing subject at a crossroads between impotence and agency. Stephanie Bertrand  Download CV |  Albanian Pigeons, 2009 |
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