Tejn (artist)

TEJN
Born

1976 (age 39–40)


Denmark

Known for Street art, sculpture
Character freeing itself by cutting its chain with a bolt cutter. Chained in front of the Museum of Danish Resistance During WW2

TEJN (born 1976) is a pseudonymous Danish artist, who began his artistic work as a street artist in 2007 and occasionally exhibits contemporary art in galleries.

Artist description

Sculpture carrying the stencilled text: "My Ancestors Went Hunting in These Woods", Chained to tree in a small city forest threatened by urban planners

TEJNs gallery sculptures typically demands a more extended effort to interpret, than his street art sculptures, which he often gives a layer of a more digestible nature, allowing it to communicate with an audience passing by on foot or bike.

The highly symbolic works typically debate philosophy, politics or existentialism, suggesting a form of self-appraisal among the audience.[1]

Based in Copenhagen, TEJN's street art has made its mark on most bigger European cities.[2] He is best known by his trademark: "Lock Ons"[3] which are site-specific sculptures or statues, typically welded in recycled iron and chained in the street without permission,[4] often mounted to urban furniture with a bicycle lock.[5] His second most preferred media is paintings on paper, pasted up with wheatpaste on a wall.[6][7] TEJN also makes installations,[8] stencil-art, and conceptual art.[9]

Technique

TEJN finds metal scrap for his sculptures in urban areas and uses some of it in its original form. The rest is shaped and welded into figurative objects that express a narrative deadopen for interpretation.[10]

The iron is later "given back to the street" as street sculptures, in the same areas where he originally collected the material.

Examples of artworks/interventions

Pipe-smoking sailor with rainbow shoulder sleeve insignia
Closeup of sailor
Reaching for Freedom. Character handcuffed to bars in the wall, trying to reach chained bolt cutter just out of reach. Lock On installation, Berlin.

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Exhibitions

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

See also

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References

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