Artist Walkthrough of SUPERFLEX: Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons
Join Jakob Fenger, co-founder of Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX, for an in-person walkthrough of the group’s exhibition Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons at the MAK Center at the Schindler House.
Opening Reception of SUPERFLEX: Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture invites you to the opening reception of Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons, an exhibition by the Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX. The exhibition brings together a focused presentation of works spanning more than three decades of the collective’s practice at the MAK Center at the Schindler House.
Designed by Austrian-American architect R.M. Schindler in 1922 as a multi-family dwelling, an experiment in communal living, the Schindler House was designed to accommodate collective daily life as well as personalized areas for individual activity. Playing off this history, Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons presents four works, each occupying its own space, completely separate yet strangely connected. The Spoons (1994), an early photographic lightbox depicting a circular arrangement of spoons; Hunga Tonga Rainbow (2016), presenting two photographs in which a rainbow is mirrored, creating a sense of artificial symmetry, a false whole; Proposal for the World’s Second-Tallest Building, a sculptural installation composed of ceramic sponge as a proposal for a new form of architecture; and Two Flies Staring at Each Other (on a Glass of Water) (2025), a meticulously fabricated sculptural vignette arranged in a perfect formation that would be nearly impossible to find in nature. Through subtle manipulations of familiar objects and images, the works produce moments of humor and estrangement while exploring questions of infrastructure, ecological interdependence, and collective perception.
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SUPERFLEX: Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons
June 12, 2026 – September 13, 2026
SUPERFLEX: Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons is presented in partnership with 1301PE.
Support for the exhibition generously provided by David Johnson. Special thanks to Brian Butler from 1301PE and Kukje Gallery.
Generous in-kind support provided by UniFor.
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