Who is Yngve Holen?

Who is Yngve Holen?

Yngve Photo by Richard Dowker. In July of last year, the 37-year-old Norwegian artist Yngve Holen walked into the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. Donning a medical smock and mask, he toured the laboratory and came upon a team of surgeons performing optogenetic research on a lizard.

What did Yngve Holen discover at the Planck Institute?

In July of last year, the 37-year-old Norwegian artist Yngve Holen walked into the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. Donning a medical smock and mask, he toured the laboratory and came upon a team of surgeons performing optogenetic research on a lizard.

What happened when Yngve Holen 3D printed a chicken?

In 2011, the artist Yngve Holen (1982–) ran over a chicken with a Toyota RAV4 and 3D-printed its remains. Unlike Descartes’s test subjects, Holen’s chicken was already dead, plucked, and de-clawed. Yet, when he crushed it open, a soul appeared:

What is Michael Holen’s “brain”?

The brain and its reconfiguration have always been central themes in Holen’s work. For his earlier series Parasagittal Brain, he cut mass-produced household kitchen items in half with a water saw. Tea Kettles, a water cooler, a “smart fridge.”