Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

SUPERFLEX

Now through July 28, 2024

The celebrated Danish art collective SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen. Working with an extensive network of collaborators from within and outside of the art world, SUPERFLEX investigates alternative systems of social and economic organization. Over the years their works have taken the form of energy systems, beverages, sculptures, hypnosis sessions, paintings, plant nurseries, contracts, and public spaces.

For their exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego’s (ICA San Diego) North campus in Encinitas, SUPERFLEX presents work that emphasize interspecies living—a category of SUPERFLEX’s project development that solicits the participation of other species, considering the perspectives of plants and animals. The exhibition includes the two-channel film installation, Beyond the End of the World (2021), which offers a mysterious glimpse of a post-Anthropocene future. A site-specific ceramic installation produced in collaboration with the ICA ceramics lab draws on imagery from the film and is on view in our Artist Pavilion. Beyond the End of the World is also the first exhibition at ICA San Diego / North to span the entire Encinitas campus.

“SUPERFLEX’s ability to distill humanity’s most pressing challenges into an accessible visual language is what makes them such an ideal fit for our Interface season. The directness in their approach to both art making and their subject matter ultimately results in projects that resonate with visitors,” says Dr. Jordan Karney Chaim, Curator of ICA San Diego.