Henriette Heise
DAY SKY
book launch, exhibition
15 May 2025, 17:00–20:00
Henriette Heise

is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Heise has co-founded and run several collaborative projects: The Info Centre in London, The Copenhagen Free University, the local TV-station tv-tv and most recently The Studio Whisperer’s Office. Heise combines collaborative work with a more introverted studio-based practice: While working through different materials and media (including text), Heise’s artistic work is a continuous investigation of what is considered overlooked and claimed as unmonumental. By critically disrupting the conventional hierarchies by paying attention to the disregarded, the ambition is to resuscitate what is otherwise professed hidden, useless or uninteresting – and to ratify those conditions and formations that include the tired, the invisible and the exhausted, as belonging to plausible futures. In recent years Heise has been researching late work by artists who found a way to continue in spite of – or perhaps because of – crisis and resistance.

Steven Zultanski

is the author of ten books, including Help (2024), Relief (2021), On the Literary Means of Representing the Powerful as Powerless (2018), Honestly (2018), and Bribery (2014). With the artist Ed Atkins, he co-wrote and co-directed Sorcerer(2022), a theatrical project which has been realised as a play, a film, and a book. Atkins and Zultanski's new feature film, Nurses come and go, but none for me, premiered at Tate Britain in spring 2025. He lives in Copenhagen.

Acknowledgements

  • Designed and silk screened by stanza with seven original drawings by Henriette Heise.
  • Text by Steven Zultanski.
  • Published by s/z in an edition of 50
  • Price 480 DKK / 65 €
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