Karriere Bar is a bar

Bar (establishment)

A bar is a business establishment that serves alcoholic drinks — beer, wine, liquor, and cocktails — for consumption on the premises.Bars provide stools or chairs that are placed at tables or counters for their patrons. Some bars have entertainment on a stage, such as a live band, comedians, go-go...

 and restaurant

Restaurant

A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...

 in the Meatpacking District

Meatpacking District, Copenhagen

thumb|Entrance to Øksnehallenthumb|Slagtehusgade, former slaughterhouses in the Brown Meat District, now housing various creative venuesthumb|Detail of main building, the White Kødby...

 of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, co-founded by Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

-based, Danish artist Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Hein is widely known for his production of experiential and interactive artworks that can be positioned at the junction where art, architecture, and technical inventions intersect...

 in 2007. The establishment features interactive

Interactive art

Interactive art is a form of installation-based art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. Some installations achieve this by letting the observer or visitor "walk" in, on, and around them; Some others ask the artist to become part of the artwork.Works of...

 and Site-specific art

Site-specific art

Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork...

 by various international artists. Co-founded by Danish artist Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Hein is widely known for his production of experiential and interactive artworks that can be positioned at the junction where art, architecture, and technical inventions intersect...

, it opened in 2007 as one of the first new places to open in the Meatpacking District. The artworks are integrated into the design of the restaurant, involving a concept for the menu

Menu

In a restaurant, a menu is a presentation of food and beverage offerings. A menu may be a la carte – which guests use to choose from a list of options – or table d'hôte, in which case a pre-established sequence of courses is served....

, the lamp (Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research...

), the moving bar (Hein), a concept for live transmission of the conversation at one of the tables (Cardiff

Janet Cardiff

Janet Cardiff is a Canadian installation artist. Born in Brussels, Ontario in 1957 Cardiff studied at Queen's University where she graduated in 1980. She also studied at the University of Alberta and graduated in 1983. She works in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff and...

/Miller

George Bures Miller

George Bures Miller is a Canadian artist noted for his collaborative works with wife Janet Cardiff. Miller and Cardiff represented Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale...

), the toilet

Toilet

A toilet is a sanitation fixture used primarily for the disposal of human excrement, often found in a small room referred to as a toilet/bathroom/lavatory...

s [AVPD] and many other components of the restaurant environment.

Represented artists

Franz Ackermann

Franz Ackermann

Franz Ackermann is a German painter and installation artist based in Berlin. He makes cartoonish abstraction....

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Kristoffer Akselbo,
AVPD,
Kenneth Balfelt,
Bank & Rau,
Massimo Bartolini,
Monica Bonvicini,
Janet Cardiff

Janet Cardiff

Janet Cardiff is a Canadian installation artist. Born in Brussels, Ontario in 1957 Cardiff studied at Queen's University where she graduated in 1980. She also studied at the University of Alberta and graduated in 1983. She works in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff and...

/George Bures Miller

George Bures Miller

George Bures Miller is a Canadian artist noted for his collaborative works with wife Janet Cardiff. Miller and Cardiff represented Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale...

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Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist based in New York. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora , depicting the Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite....

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Gardar Eide Einarsson,
Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research...

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Michael Elmgreen

Elmgreen and Dragset

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are artist-collaborators since 1995 and their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design....

 & Ingar Dragset

Elmgreen and Dragset

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are artist-collaborators since 1995 and their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design....

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Ceal Floyer,
FOS

Fos

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Alicia Framis,
David Garcia

David Garcia

David Garcia was a broadcast journalist for ABC News. Garcia had the distinction of becoming one of the first Hispanic news correspondents for a major American television network in the 1970s....

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Dan Graham

Dan Graham

Dan Graham , is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery....

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Tue Greenfort

Tue Greenfort

Tue Greenfort is a Danish artist best known for his environmentalist works. He studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste , Frankfurt am Main and at Academy of Fünen, Denmark.-Selected Solo Exhibitions:...

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Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale...

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Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Carl Michael von Hausswolff is a composer, visual artist and curator based in Stockholm, Sweden. His main tools are recording devices used in an ongoing investigation of electricity, frequency, architectural space and paranormal electronic interference...

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Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein

Jeppe Hein is an artist based in Berlin and Copenhagen. Hein is widely known for his production of experiential and interactive artworks that can be positioned at the junction where art, architecture, and technical inventions intersect...

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Carsten Höller

Carsten Höller

Carsten Höller is a German artist. He lives and works in Farsta, Stockholm, in Sweden. Today, he also shares a house in Ghana with colleague Marcel Odenbach.-Early life and education:...

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Jesper Just

Jesper Just

Jesper Just is a Danish artist, and living and working in Copenhagen and New York, NY. From 1997 to 2003 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts....

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Ernesto Neto

Ernesto Neto

Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto is a contemporary visual artist.Ernesto Neto began exhibiting in Brazil in 1988 and has had solo exhibitions abroad since 1995...

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Dan Peterman

Dan Peterman

Dan Peterman is an internationally known artist who is recognized for his work with ecologically themed installation art. Additionally, he is employed as a professor of art at the University of Illinois, Chicago.-Work:...

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Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal is a British-German artist based in Berlin. His works, which he calls "constructed situations", involve one or more people carrying out instructions conceived by the artist.-Early life and education:...

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Tomas Saraceno,
Claude El Skorrari,
Robert Stadler

Robert Stadler

- Biography :He studied designat IEDand at ENSCI in Paris wherehe cofounded, 1992, the RADI DESIGNERS. The group was active until2008. Since 2000, He lives and works solo in Paris.- His works :...

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Simon Starling

Simon Starling

Simon Starling is an English conceptual artist and was the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize. He lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin, and is a professor of art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.-Biography:...

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Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija is a contemporary artist residing in New York. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element...

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Johannes Wohnseifer

Johannes Wohnseifer

Johannes Wohnseifer is a German artist based in Cologne.Johannes Wohnseifer was born in Cologne, Germany. He often draws reference to the German history of his youth, such as the 1972 Summer Olympics and the Red Army Faction...

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