Benedikte Bjerre
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Year of Birth
Country of Birth
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2022
1987
Denmark
palace enterprise
Inventory I-III, detail
With a background in sociology, Bjerre works formally with sociological phenomena in the form of sculptures and installations that often have a coherence with their surroundings. She uses observations from everyday life and is concerned with how the viewer sees and experiences their surroundings. The spatial consciousness as well as the surrounding society are often included in Bjerre's practice.
Bendikte Bjerre’s (b. 1987) recent solo exhibitions include Kunstverein Göttingen (DE) and Goeben, Berlin (DE). Along with group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Mainz (DE), SMK National Galler ...
Lisa's Chickens (Farm Life), consists of 50 balloon chickens filled with helium. Written underneath the foot of each chicken is one of the 50 most popular girl’s names in the country where the work is being exhibited. Playing on the notion of “chicks”, the work comments on the treatment of women, and their role in society and history overall.
Benedikte Bjerre works. Machines work and when they don’t work anymore, you buy new machines that work. In order to buy machines, you have to work. We color our air.
Doesn’t a clock employ any working person and doesn’t a person employ a machine and don’t machines employ incredible amounts of people. The straight road to time on your hands is paved with domestic appliances and paved with time from the hands of others.
Works is an image of work and in shape of a physical movement (the replacement of one work for another during the exhibition ...
