Tino Sehgal at Blenheim Park & Gardens

Esther Schipper is is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Tino Sehgal at Blenheim Park and Gardens, Oxfordshire. Organised by Blenheim Art Foundation, this will be the first exhibition at Blenheim designed specifically for the Park and Gardens.

Tino Sehgal is known for artworks composed exclusively using the human body, voice, and social interaction. His artistic practice focuses on the fleeting gestures and subtleties of social encounters, with participation and open exchange as the subjects of value, rather than material objects. For this project, Sehgal will present a complex, roaming choreography imagined for Blenheim, involving more than 30 participants.

Conceived as a series of scenes rather than works with fixed locations, the exhibition will move fluidly throughout the Park and Gardens like a game of encounters, responding to specific conditions such as the number of visitors, the location or the weather. Akin to a swarm or flock, the group of participants – the majority of whom are local residents cast specially for this project – will gather and disperse in a fluid and porous choreography, enacting moments of connection with visitors and their surroundings.