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Kunstverein Göttingen presents the works of Danish artist Benedikte Bjerre in an extensive solo exhibition. In “let it go let it go”, the artist develops a questioning and forward-looking perspective on the topic of her own production conditions by reinterpreting and recontextualizing previous works in her career.

In her works, Bjerre questions the extent to which economic and social structures influence our actions and being. In her sculptures and installations of recent years, she has primarily worked with industrially produced materials and symbolic products to address the growing decoupling of time and space in a globalized society. Invariably shaped by a sociological and critical view of the present day, the artist adapts images, symbols and procedures of a late-capitalist world of commodities. In humorous constellations, for example, she let helium balloons shaped as chickens dance (“Lisa’s chickens”, 2016) or led oversized, soft, comic-like suitcases and boxes through the exhibition space (“High Hopes”, 2018). In her solo exhibition, “let it go let it go”, Bjerre shows a reconfiguration of these and other works, thereby reacting to her own production processes as an artist, whilst also acting as a mirror to society. The prominent question posed, is the extent to which one can rid oneself of inherent patterns, in order to allow individual change, as well as change on a societal level.

The title of the exhibition quotes Elsa, the protagonist from the Disney film “Frozen”, who emancipates herself from her parental home and the accompanying restrictions by following the motto “let it go let it go”, in order to live in seclusion and allow her magical powers to unfold. However, the relief of her newly acquired freedom is also accompanied by a sense of loneliness and insecurity. For the exhibition, Bjerre creates a structure, which makes this kind of intermittent stage tangible: on the one hand, the works are exposed in an already adapted state; on the other hand, they seem to be waiting for possible further changes – or simply for their next destination.

Benedikte Bjerre (born 1987 in Copenhagen) studied at Städelschule Frankfurt from 2009 until 2015, and from 2013 until 2016 at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. Bjerre has received residencies including De Ateliers in Amsterdam and Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, as well as stipends such as the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Since 2019, she is a professor at the Det Jyske Kunstakademi in Aarhus. Her works have been presented in solo shows at Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted, Denmark; Kantine Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Salon Kennedy, Frankfurt. She has been part of group shows at Kunstverein Hamburg and at the Arken Museum for Modern Art, Denmark. Her works are part of following public collections: Swiss Mobiliar, Switzerland and MMK Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt.

Curator: Tomke Braun

Thanks to our funding partners:

Kunstverein Göttingen presents the works of Danish artist Benedikte Bjerre in an extensive solo exhibition. In “let it go let it go”, the artist develops a questioning and forward-looking perspective on the topic of her own production conditions by reinterpreting and recontextualizing previous works in her career.

In her works, Bjerre questions the extent to which economic and social structures influence our actions and being. In her sculptures and installations of recent years, she has primarily worked with industrially produced materials and symbolic products to address the growing decoupling of time and space in a globalized society. Invariably shaped by a sociological and critical view of the present day, the artist adapts images, symbols and procedures of a late-capitalist world of commodities. In humorous constellations, for example, she let helium balloons shaped as chickens dance (“Lisa’s chickens”, 2016) or led oversized, soft, comic-like suitcases and boxes through the exhibition space (“High Hopes”, 2018). In her solo exhibition, “let it go let it go”, Bjerre shows a reconfiguration of these and other works, thereby reacting to her own production processes as an artist, whilst also acting as a mirror to society. The prominent question posed, is the extent to which one can rid oneself of inherent patterns, in order to allow individual change, as well as change on a societal level.

The title of the exhibition quotes Elsa, the protagonist from the Disney film “Frozen”, who emancipates herself from her parental home and the accompanying restrictions by following the motto “let it go let it go”, in order to live in seclusion and allow her magical powers to unfold. However, the relief of her newly acquired freedom is also accompanied by a sense of loneliness and insecurity. For the exhibition, Bjerre creates a structure, which makes this kind of intermittent stage tangible: on the one hand, the works are exposed in an already adapted state; on the other hand, they seem to be waiting for possible further changes – or simply for their next destination.

Benedikte Bjerre (born 1987 in Copenhagen) studied at Städelschule Frankfurt from 2009 until 2015, and from 2013 until 2016 at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. Bjerre has received residencies including De Ateliers in Amsterdam and Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, as well as stipends such as the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Since 2019, she is a professor at the Det Jyske Kunstakademi in Aarhus. Her works have been presented in solo shows at Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted, Denmark; Kantine Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Salon Kennedy, Frankfurt. She has been part of group shows at Kunstverein Hamburg and at the Arken Museum for Modern Art, Denmark. Her works are part of following public collections: Swiss Mobiliar, Switzerland and MMK Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt.

Curator: Tomke Braun

Thanks to our funding partners: