Collecting archaic, easily accessible, often accidentally found material such as jute, terracotta,
wood, and metal is characteristic of the work of Birke Gorm. Her sculptures convey a raw, appealing immediacy whose multilayered
levels of meaning can be decoded upon closer inspection. By re-appropriating domestic labour processes — acts that have historically
connoted unpaid work by women — the artist shows the potential, contained in the production and circulation of everyday objects,
for the dismantling of patriarchal gender hierarchies.
Birke Gorm (b. 1986, Hamburg) lives and
works in Vienna. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include 'dead stock' at MAK, Vienna (2023); 'routes and routines’ at Martina
Simeti, Milan (w. Marie Lund); and ‘full stop' at Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2021). Upcoming and recent group exhibitions
include Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin; Museum Sønderjylland, Tønder (both 2023); mumok, Vienna; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
am Main, and Kunsthalle Vienna (all 2022).
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