Birke Gorm: Let me stop you right there

24 May - 3 Aug 2025

Trash, identity, consumption: Birke Gorm collects scrap material from her surroundings and the public dump, then sculpts, sews, and assembles, defying the speed of late capitalist society.

Forum Stadtpark, Birke Gorm, No Hope No Fear, 2023. Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com

Trash, identity, consumption: Birke Gorm collects scrap material from her surroundings and the public dump, then sculpts, sews, and assembles, defying the speed of late capitalist society.


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Birke Gorm: Let me stop you right there24 May - 3 Aug 2025
Free

Trash, identity, consumption: Birke Gorm collects scrap material from her surroundings and the public dump, then sculpts, sews, and assembles, defying the speed of late capitalist society.
At the core of Gorm’s new works for her solo exhibition at O—Overgaden sits a question about the circular do’s and don’ts of public behavior—the unpicking of what’s high and what’s low, what’s right and what’s wrong, what’s trash and what’s not. Reflecting on what rules apply when humans are trained to handle the chores of our communal spaces, dangerously sharp materials are composed as eerie chandelier-like clusters, high-hung, far from touch, flipping their junk appearance into one of flashing glitter while hovering above a floor installation made from waste cardboard. Meanwhile, in another new series, Gorm creates a horizon of hundreds of neatly aligned dolls produced from tea towels and napkins.
Credit:
O-Overgaden

Fakta

Birke Gorm (b. 1986, DE/DK) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2018) and lives and works in Vienna. She has exhibited at venues including Kunstmuseet i Tønder (2024); Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2024); Forum Stadtpark, Graz (2023); MAK Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna (2023); Croy Nielsen, Vienna (2023); Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2021); and SMK, Copenhagen (2020).


Adress
O—OvergadenOvergaden Neden Vandet 17
1414 København K

Opening hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 13:00 - 18:00
Wednesday: 13:00 - 18:00
Thursday: 13:00 - 20:00
Friday: 13:00 - 18:00
Saturday: 11:00 - 18:00
Sunday: 11:00 - 18:00

Entry price
Free

Accessibility
Level-free access - no, but there is a stairlifter providing acccess to the ground floor
Handicap toilet - no
Free for companion - yes