Croy Nielsen

Birke Gorm

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Birke Gorm, installation view common crazies, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2020

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, common crazy II, 2020, Burlap, canvas, tie linings, yarn, grommets, 147 × 139 cm

Birke Gorm, common crazy II, 2020 (detail), Burlap, canvas, tie linings, yarn, grommets, 147 × 139 cm

Birke Gorm, common crazy II, 2020 (detail), 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 (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, loaf of meat (3805g), 2020, Terracotta brick, terracotta pebbles, grains of wheat, fabric, metal parts, 51 × 17 × 10 cm

Birke Gorm, installation view Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019 Photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Birke Gorm, installation view Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019 Photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

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, 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 (Laurels), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 120 × 100 cm

Birke Gorm, How to do Anything (Soliloquy), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 120 × 100 cm

Birke Gorm, How to do Anything (Soliloquy), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 120 × 100 cm

Birke Gorm, Norms, 2018, hammer shaft

Birke Gorm, Norms, 2018, hammer shaft

Birke Gorm, installation view I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2018

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, 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, 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. 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, I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST no. 3 (The Executioner), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 200 × 100 cm

Birke Gorm, Untitled, 2018, hammer shaft, 3D print

Birke Gorm, Untitled, 2018, hammer shaft, 3D print

Birke Gorm, installation view I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2018

Birke Gorm, installation view I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2018

Birke Gorm, Untitled, 2018, hammer shaft

Birke Gorm, Untitled, 2018, hammer shaft

Birke Gorm, installation view IOU, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Birke Gorm, installation view IOU, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Birke Gorm, IOU, 2017, wood, 85 × 12 × 10 cm

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, 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, (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, 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 (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

Birke Gorm, IOU, 2016, Wood, 65 × 9 × 5 cm ø 7 cm (detail)

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

Birke Gorm, IOU, 2016, Wood, 48 × 7.5 × 11.5 cm ø 7 cm

CV

Birke Gorm

*1986, Hamburg — Lives and works in Vienna

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

Exhibitions

2021
Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (solo)

2020
Achterl, Gabi+, Vienna (solo)
common crazies, Croy Nielsen, Vienna (solo)

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
I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (Solo)
Carved and Shaped by Proximity, PINA, Vienna

2017 
CONDO, Bodega, New York
GTdaHÖ, Hotel Ambassador, Vienna, 2017
IOU, Croy Nielsen, Vienna (Solo)
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 
シ 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 

Exhibitions

2020

Birke Gorm

common crazies

25. 1. – 7. 3. 2020

2017

Office:

Birke Gorm

IOU

29. 3. – 6. 5. 2017

News

Birke Gorm

Interview with Birke Gorm
in PW Magazine
By Leonie Huber

5/2020

Images

Birke Gorm

*1986, Hamburg — Lives and works in Vienna

Birke Gorm, installation view common crazies, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2020

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, common crazy II, 2020, Burlap, canvas, tie linings, yarn, grommets, 147 × 139 cm

Birke Gorm, common crazy II, 2020 (detail), Burlap, canvas, tie linings, yarn, grommets, 147 × 139 cm

Birke Gorm, common crazy II, 2020 (detail), 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 (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, loaf of meat (3805g), 2020, Terracotta brick, terracotta pebbles, grains of wheat, fabric, metal parts, 51 × 17 × 10 cm

Birke Gorm, installation view Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019 Photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

Birke Gorm, installation view Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien, Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2019 Photo: kun​st​-doku​men​ta​tion​.com

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, 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 (Laurels), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 120 × 100 cm

Birke Gorm, How to do Anything (Soliloquy), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 120 × 100 cm

Birke Gorm, How to do Anything (Soliloquy), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 120 × 100 cm

Birke Gorm, Norms, 2018, hammer shaft

Birke Gorm, Norms, 2018, hammer shaft

Birke Gorm, installation view I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2018

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, 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, 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. 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, I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST no. 3 (The Executioner), 2018, Jute fibres, metal, 200 × 100 cm

Birke Gorm, Untitled, 2018, hammer shaft, 3D print

Birke Gorm, Untitled, 2018, hammer shaft, 3D print

Birke Gorm, installation view I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2018

Birke Gorm, installation view I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, The Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 2018

Birke Gorm, Untitled, 2018, hammer shaft

Birke Gorm, Untitled, 2018, hammer shaft

Birke Gorm, installation view IOU, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Birke Gorm, installation view IOU, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Birke Gorm, IOU, 2017, wood, 85 × 12 × 10 cm

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, 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, (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, 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 (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

Birke Gorm, IOU, 2016, Wood, 65 × 9 × 5 cm ø 7 cm (detail)

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

Birke Gorm, IOU, 2016, Wood, 48 × 7.5 × 11.5 cm ø 7 cm

CV

Birke Gorm

*1986, Hamburg — Lives and works in Vienna

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

Exhibitions

2021
Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (solo)

2020
Achterl, Gabi+, Vienna (solo)
common crazies, Croy Nielsen, Vienna (solo)

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
I CAN SMILE AT THE PAST, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (Solo)
Carved and Shaped by Proximity, PINA, Vienna

2017 
CONDO, Bodega, New York
GTdaHÖ, Hotel Ambassador, Vienna, 2017
IOU, Croy Nielsen, Vienna (Solo)
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 
シ 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 

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