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Superflex Uses Humor to Challenge Corporate Power

Superflex's work questions economic systems and the commodification of art, but the artists also highlight the comedy innate in everyday life.
From left, Fenger, Christiansen and Nielsen of the Danish art collective Superflex.
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Sitting around the white Ikea-like desk in their studio, on the ground floor of a low-key office building in the gentrified northern part of Copenhagen, the core members of the Danish art group Superflex seem far less confrontational than you might expect. From their bases in Copenhagen, Stockholm and London, Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen and Rasmus Nielsen have been working together for 25 years on politically charged projects that have taken them everywhere from Texas to Africa, via Bangkok, Japan and many of the world’s most prestigious art galleries. This year sees their most high-profile commission to date, with the recent announcement that they are the latest artists invited to fill the vast Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern. Yet, despite the glamorous-sounding projects and

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