Birke Gorm
Images
Birke Gorm, installation view girl anachronism, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, 2022, photo by Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen
Birke Gorm, installation view girl anachronism, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, 2022, photo by Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen
Birke Gorm, installation view girl anachronism, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, 2022, photo by Jacob Friis-Holm Nielsen
Birke Gorm, installation view full stop, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, 2021, photo by Malle Madsen
Birke Gorm, installation view full stop, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, 2021, photo by Malle Madsen
Birke Gorm, capacity & composure, 2021, jute, can tabs, carabiners, grommets, aluminum, bean bag chair: 185 × 135 cm, stool, photo by Malle Madsen
Birke Gorm, huswif (AIT), 2021, jute, wood, metal scraps, 67 × 32 × 13 cm
Birke Gorm, huswif (TREE), 2021, jute, metal scraps, 77 × 32 × 10 cm
Birke Gorm, huswif (WON ZERO), 2021, jute, weeds, 66 × 35 × 25 cm
Birke Gorm, installation view Labour Chest, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna, 2021, photo by Eva Kelety
Birke Gorm, ulterior motives (work animal), 2021, jute, aluminium, polyprophylengarn, 110 × 170 cm, photo by Eva Kelety
Birke Gorm, installation view Labour Chest, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna, 2021, photo by Eva Kelety
Birke Gorm, installation view Labour Chest, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna, 2021, photo by Eva Kelety
Birke Gorm, some girls’ mothers are bigger than other girls‘ mothers (03), 2020, jute, can tabs, aluminium, 106 × 102 cm
Birke Gorm, installation view common crazies, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2020
Birke Gorm, common crazy II, 2020, Burlap, canvas, tie linings, yarn, grommets, 147 × 139 cm
Birke Gorm, loaf of meat (4246g), 2020, Terracotta brick, terracotta pebbles, grains of wheat, fabric, metal parts, 55 × 21 × 10 cm
Birke Gorm, loaf of meat (3805g), 2020, Terracotta brick, terracotta pebbles, grains of wheat, fabric, metal parts, 51 × 17 × 10 cm
Birke Gorm, installation view Whistle And I’ll Come to You, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Jute fibres, metal, 120 × 100 cm each, 2018
Birke Gorm, How to do Anything (Laurels), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 120 × 100 cm
Birke Gorm, How to do Anything (Soliloquy), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 120 × 100 cm
Birke Gorm, installation view I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2018
Birke Gorm, I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST no. 1 (The Bishop), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 200 × 100 cm
Birke Gorm, Untitled, 2018, hammer shaft, 3D print
Birke Gorm, I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST no. 2 (The Pagan), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 200 × 100 cm
Birke Gorm, I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST no. 3 (The Executioner), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 200 × 100 cm
Birke Gorm, installation view I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2018
Birke Gorm, installation view IOU, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017
Birke Gorm, IOU, 2017, wood, 85 × 12 × 10 cm
Birke Gorm, move (from the marrow to the bone, from the bone to the muscle, from the muscle to the skin, from the skin to the hair, and from the hair) away from here, 2017, Sand covered cardboard, cable binders, carved wood, wire, 100 × 45 × 45 cm
Birke Gorm, move (from the marrow to the bone, from the bone to the muscle, from the muscle to the skin, from the skin to the hair, and from the hair) away from here, 2017, (detail) Sand covered cardboard, cable binders, carved wood, wire, 100 × 45 × 45 cm
Birke Gorm, move (from the marrow to the bone, from the bone to the muscle, from the muscle to the skin, from the skin to the hair, and from the hair) away from here, 2017, Sand covered cardboard, cable binders, carved wood, wire, 100 × 50 × 50 cm
Birke Gorm, IOU (2), 2017, wood, 43 × 8 × 9 cm
Birke Gorm, IOU, 2016, Wood, 65 × 9 × 5 cm ø 7 cm
Birke Gorm, IOU, 2016, Wood, 65 × 9 × 5 cm ø 7 cm (detail)
Birke Gorm, IOU, 2016, Wood, 48 × 7.5 × 11.5 cm ø 7 cm
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Education
2015–16 University of Fine Arts, Hamburg (DE) prof. Jutta Koether
2012–18 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT) prof. Monica Bonvicini
Scolarships
2015 ASA Scholarship, HfbK, Hamburg
2014 Scholarship for Salzburg Summer Academy, Stone Symposium
2014 Residency at CCA Andratx, Mallorca
Solo exhibitions
2023
dead stock, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (upcoming)
2022
girl anacronism, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk
2021
full stop, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen
Huswif, SPARK Art Fair, Vienna
Strabag Art Award, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna
2020
Achterl, Gabi+, Vienna
common crazies, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
2018
I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
Group exhibitions
2023
New Ambitions, Bundeskanzleramt, Vienna (upcoming)
Group show, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (upcoming)
2022
Here and Now. Vienna Sculpture 2022., Kunstraum Dornbirn
Changes, mumok, Vienna
Blooming Simulacra, Kunstgarten, Graz
Welcome Stranger, Lemme, Sion
The Art-Nature Laboratory or The Mushrooming Cabinet of Wonders, Kunsthalle Vienna
Here and Now. Wien Skulptur 2022., Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna
Skulptur Biennal Ærø, Søby
Routes and Routines, Martina Simeti, Milan
Befindlichkeiten, curated by Franziska Sophie Wildförster, Austrian Embassy, Berlin
Walk, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2021
Our Vampires, Sperling, Munich
A rural death, Fluent, Santander
Ancient Tongues, L’Inconnue, New York
2020
Group show, Los Angeles, Güsterrode
2019
Textus Ex Machina, aqb Project Space, Budapest
back there, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Months, Years, Copenhagen
2018
A Suitcase (2.02 tonnes of CO2e), egret egress, Toronto
Whistle and I’ll Come to You, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz
Carved and Shaped by Proximity, PINA, Vienna
2017
CONDO, Bodega, New York
GTdaHÖ, Hotel Ambassador, Vienna, 2017
Birke Gorm, Nora Kapfer, Jean Marc Routhier, @ Real Positive, Cologne
2016
Gebärden und Ausdruck, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg
Dreaming Dictionary 2, Skulpturinstitut, Vienna
J’avais pensé: “GIRLS IN MOLENBEEK”, Atelier BEK, Brussels
Site/Cite. Speaking in Tongues While Splitting One’s Own, Kunsthaus Graz
Viasniod, Handyshop, Vienna
RW Club, @ Mes Meufs, Raum D Museumsquarteir, Wien
The Trusting Place, Gallery HfbK, Hamburg
Wendezeiten, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
EMOZIONALE, Via Cesare Balbo, Milan
To Take on Stage, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2015
E‑1, parking garage, Vienna
Bortolotti Delirio, Eiscafé Bortolotti, Vienna
PÖR RÖR RÖR, Bar du Bois @ Parallel Vienna
Interrupted Meals, Garret Grimoire, Vienna
CHE TUTTI I VERMI DIVENTINO ACQUA (The Lizard), Riverside, Bern
20 Jahre Halle für Kunst, (Bar du Bois), Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Hamburg
BEEFF, Aquarium, sculpture dept, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
This isn’t Even my Final Form, Bar du Bois, Vienna
Oh, here’s this wavy thing that looks like itself, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen
Birke Gorm & Sophie Hammer, V.esch, Vienna
Fresh, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2014
Like repeadetly dragging a cheesegrater over cheese, Aquarium, sculpture dept, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
There is no such place as away, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
BYOB, Royal Danish Arsenal Museum, Copenhagen
2013
KE, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Publications and Selected Press
2021
Mayer-Heinisch, Clarissa, “Birke Gorm: Handwerk als Malerei”, Parnass, February
2020
Huber, Leonie, “Birke Gorm: Durch das Material arbeiten”, PW Magazine, May
2019
Watzl, Paula, “Birke Gorm”, Parnass, September
Black Pages, June, issue 91
News
Group show
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
New Ambitions
Bundeskanzleramt, Vienna
