Superflex is a Danish art collective founded in 1993 by Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, Jakob Fenger, and Rasmus Nielsen and has since grown to incorporate a growing rotation of global collaborators. Public space has often served as one of the most fruitful and provocative places for Superflex to challenge reactionary ideologies. In perhaps their most famous use of public space, Foreigners Please Don’t Leave Us Alone With The Danes! (2002), they created a poster series that mocked the increasingly xenophobic rhetoric toward immigrants in Denmark. The poster humorously alludes to the increasing danger that anti-immigrant and nationalist ideology poses not only to immigrants but to the moral fabric of an ethnic majority in a nation. Since its initial release during the Danish EU Presidency in 2002, the self-deprecating poster has become entrenched in Danish politics, emerging in restaurants, cafes, and on light-posts whenever anti-immigrant sentiment is on the rise. Over the last two decades, Superflex has reprinted and redistributed the poster not only as an ongoing political commentary but also to experiment with the public circulation of cultural objects.
—William Hernandez Luege
