Birthe Jørgensen
2025
Birthe Jørgensen combines sculpture, sound, text, and found objects to create site-specific works. Moving between studio practice and interdisciplinary collaborations, she explores art's potential to foster democratic repair. She holds an MLitt in Sculpture from the Glasgow School of Art, where she lectured from 2013–2019. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in public and private collections.
"I was able to develop research initiated at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, focusing on ICARUS, a digital interface tracking animal migration from space."
"I visited museums and galleries across the Ruhr region and explored Germany's industrial heartland. At the end of my stay, I presented the solo exhibition Navigational Kin."
The Teachers oath
elm wood infected with Dutch elm disease, egg-oil tempera, oil paint, hardwax oil
31 × 70 × 7 cm
2024
Hand gestures have long signified allegiance, belief, and testimony. The Teacher's Oath evokes the importance of personal conviction in times of deep, rapid often brutal change, while the life line crossing tree rings suggests that our fate is inseparable from that of the natural world.
The lilacs will blossom again
limewood and color pencil
20 x 16 x 8 cm
2018
Referencing an old Danish saying ‘the lilac will blossom again’, that poetically intertwines the human state of mind with the seasonal rhythm that inevitably will bring about a more benign climate, Jorgensen questions the comforting adage as we can see evidence of the impact of human travel and activity on our world. The carefully carved lilac flower, is part-coloured but also ‘bleached’, like the dying coral in our seas.
