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Birke Gorm (Hamburg 1982) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. For her series How to do Anything, she chooses the jute bag as her starting material - an object understood as an archaic container of goods and symbol of world trade serves Birke Gorm as an artistic means of expression. By detaching the material from its function and creating a kind of canvas out of it, she creates possibilities to transport new contexts. She works on her support material and sews her motifs onto it. Similar to drawing, but with the help of jute fibers, Gorm creates her individual visual language. The choice of her pictorial content is extremely contemporary - current organizational forms of work and the self-regulation and self-optimization often associated with them are the subject of Gorm's series. The haptic manual work process that the artist undertakes provides a counterweight to many of her pictorial motifs, which illustrate our contemporary achievement-oriented society. Birke Gorm is a recognition award winner of the STRABAG Artaward International 2020.
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