Art Attack: Henrik Vibskov in Helsinki 2014

Design Museo 25 February 2014

Design Museum Helsinki upper floor exhibition explores the wonder world of Henrik Vibskov, a Danish avant garde fashion designer and installation art creator.

Born in 1972, Jutland, Henrik Vibskov graduated from Central Saint Martins of Art and Design in London in 2001. He returned to Denmark, owned the label under his name, and has designed over 20 collections for both men and women. The Wall Street Journal, in an overview of New Nordic designers, praised his creation as “playful fashion sense that steers clear of Scandinavian minimalism, emphasizing instead the eclectic sensibility of multicultural Copenhagen.”

Vibskov’s installation is sometimes collaborated with his fashion show, which are full of various textures, strong colours and whimsical humour. The core of the Design Museum exhibition displays Vibskov’s solo exhibition and art set at the Paris Fashion Week of 2014.

In 5 showrooms and 1 exhibition hall, the fashion collection hanging in a dark spaces, decorated with Mint (large mint plastic sculpture) and Big Wet Shiny Boobies, which, it’s more a combination of young breasts and fresh sperms. Dozens of black ‘Bird Kite Necks’ composed an amusing childlike maze, where we visitors can linger in between and had fun. On the wall there are wooden puzzles interwoven with hundreds of colourful cranes. In the documentary screening room, uneven photos of Vibskov’s art exactly demonstrate the look of his Copenhagen studio. Exhibit the works in a limited space prove the ingenuity of curator and the team of Design Museo.

Though slimy, soft, centipede worms nausea me forever, or wooden child-puppets without facial expression bring up the idea of the handicapped after nuclear-leak incidents, still, the installation show perfectly of Vibskov crazy and creative states of mind. The black ‘n’ white wheel of fortune, the blast amount of white wool and the orange rollers are more or less Yayoi Kusama. Vibskov’s inspiration ‘cannot be gathered while sitting at the office’, nor can be “forced or given boundaries.”

Among a 21-minute documentary, this DanishPygmalion dissects his life on inspiration: “I enjoy placing myself in the midst of the unknown. It is then that I can learn and adapt to things completely new…..people go to office and work all day there, for me, it’s very strange.”

Indeed, it’s very odd and surely queer. 

Photography & Works Cited:

http://www.henrikvibskov.com/

http://www.designmuseum.fi/

http://inhalemag.com

Design Museo

Korkeavuorenkatu 23

00130 Helsinki