🌾✨ Last day to visit Ranch by the French artist duo Jacent at Kunstverein Siegen!
Their immersive installation merges domestic life and performative space — a stage of intimacy, play, and transformation.
📍Kunstverein Siegen
🕓 Open until 6 pm
📸 Installation view: Ranch, 2025, photo by Simon Vogel
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In Ranch by Jacent, history, intimacy, and imagination fold into one another — turning symbols of labor and identity into gestures of transformation. Downstairs, the legendary Siegen figures Henner and Frieder reappear, yet no longer as monuments of heroism: they shimmer beneath lamps and fabric, adorned with jewelry, moving within a circular arena that feels part dance floor, part ritual, part dream.
Nearby, La sieste — a lamp echoing Jean-François Millet’s La Méridienne — translates a 19th-century image of rural rest into a sculptural object. What was once the midday break of workers becomes a moment of stillness and reflection within a world of overexposure and constant motion. Light replaces the body; illumination becomes a form of care.
Ranch opens a space at once local and planetary — where humor meets exhaustion, labor meets festivity, and the familiar turns fluid. A landscape of gestures, pauses, and shared reverie.
Photos: Simon Vogel
Curated by Jennifer Cierlitza
#Jacent #Ranch #KunstvereinSiegen
Henner & Frieder – In Motion ✨
In their new installation, the French artist duo Jacent (Jade Fourès-Varnier & Vincent de Hoÿm) reimagine Henner and Frieder — two emblematic bronze figures created in 1902 by sculptor Friedrich Reusch to honor Siegen’s industrial workers. Originally representing a miner and a steelworker, the statues have long stood as silent witnesses to the city’s industrial history.
Jacent bring these “heroes of labour” back to life as monumental light sculptures. Once static and masculine, the figures now appear adorned, shimmering, and in motion — their gender roles fluid, their gestures festive. Installed within a circular arena that also functions as a dance floor, they no longer commemorate productivity and discipline, but celebration and transformation.
The work blurs the line between monument and performance, turning commemoration into choreography. Past and present, the local and the global, tradition and future – all merge in a luminous dialogue.
By setting Henner and Frieder in motion, Jacent invite us to rethink how histories are embodied, how memory can dance, and how tradition remains alive only when it moves. 💃🏽🕺🏽💡
#Jacent #HausSeel #KunstvereinSiegen #HennerUndFrieder #PublicSculpture #ContemporaryArt #LightSculpture #ArtAndHistory #Transformation #IndustrialHeritage #MonumentInMotion #Ranch #ContemporaryCurating
🧸⛓️🎏🎐🪄On view: „Ranch“ - @jacent__
Pieces of fabric, floral patterns, tiny figures, and bits of jewelry trace a soft choreography of gestures, memories, and moods. What first appears as scattered remains begins to form its own rhythm — a timeline without linearity, drifting between the domestic and the symbolic, the intimate and the performative. Some elements are like quick sketches, fleeting thoughts caught in material form; others crystallize into dense image-fields, echoing lives lived and imagined.
Curated by @jennifercierlitza
#Jacent #Ranch #ContemporaryArt #InstallationArt #PoeticAssemblage #MaterialMemory #SoftArchitecture
🐈🪞💡Tomorrow at 4 pm: Join the curator of the exhibition, Jennifer Cierlitza, for a guided tour of Ranch by Jacent (Jade Fourès-Varnier & Vincent de Hoÿm).
Their large-scale, immersive installations transform the white cube into a welcoming space where art and life merge. Playfulness and humor intertwine with reflections on work, everyday life, and social structures—inviting visitors to linger, reflect, and take part.
📍Kunstverein Siegen
🗓 Sunday, Oct 5, 4 pm
Photos: Simon Vogel
#kunstvereinsiegen #siegen #jacent #ranch
✨ Opening this Friday ✨
Join us for the opening of Ranch, the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by artist duo @jacent__ (Jade Fourès-Varnier & Vincent de Hoÿm).
📅 Friday, Sept 19, 6 PM
📍 Kunstverein Siegen
With a welcome by the Mayor of Siegen and an introduction by curator Jennifer Cierlitza.
Jacent transform the white cube into a space of hospitality – merging art and life through large-scale, immersive installations. Humor and rural references meet reflections on work, everyday life, and social structures.
Curated by @jennifercierlitza
At 7 PM, head over to @mgksiegen for the opening of exhibitions by Rupprecht Geiger, Cory Arcangel and Not done yet – a perfect double program for a Friday night in Siegen.
1: House Call, @sanstitre.gallery , Paris, 2023
2: Don‘t Push the River, @le.shed , 2022
#kunstvereinsiegen #jacent
