FOS

FOS describes his entire artistic project as “Social Design”. His practice investigates how physical space attains possibilities and solutions through social structures and how design, understood in terms of social relations, can change or develop into plastic models. His production spans from sculpture and large-scale installations, as can be seen in his exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein in 2006, to music and performance, where modular furnishings and clothing items become agents for collaborative processes. FOS understands social design as a connecting agent between art, design and architecture. His installations can involve large public platforms, design environments that include functional bars as well as events programmes of music and talks conceived in collaboration with local and international guests. Each event or object produced is a way for the artist to examine the role of art in society. For instance, he involves gallery staff as caretakers of the knowledge of his work. Most of his production centres around topics drawn from diverse fields of knowledge - science, economy, politics and art – with the aim to map an alternative landscape of information. Considering spaces as originating from social acts involving audience and producers, FOS’ projects gather meaning from the embodiment of information shared physically which can go as far as taking shape, for instance, in a hostel for homeless and drug-addicted men in Copenhagen.

FOS (Thomas Poulsen) (b. 1971, Copenhagen, DK) lives and works in Copenhagen. This year he will have a solo exhibition at GAK, Bremen, and is included in a group show at The San Carlos Museum, Mexico. In 2007 he had a solo presentation at Art Basel 38 Statements under the auspices of Max Wigram Gallery. In 2006 his work was shown in exhibitions in Denmark and internationally including the Busan Biennial (Korea); Social Design at Badischer Kunstverein (Germany); Eigenheim, everything but the sink, Kunstverein Göttingen (Germany) and Regarding Denmark, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre (Athens).

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