Lockdown Stories. Part 1: Benedikte Bjerre

During this (and – hopefully – the last) lockdown we wanted to hear more from our artists and what they are doing in isolation. So we asked them 3 questions about their life and their current practice, and so we are launching this series – Lockdown Stories.

Benedikte Bjerre

1. On what are you working at the moment?

I am working on three things right now: a publication for the show I just did at Kunstverein Göttingen, finishing a public sculpture for The danish building and property agency (the state) and public work to mark the one year anniversary of the lockdown here in Denmark, the last is for the national gallery SMK.

2. How does the lockdown influences your art production?

The lockdown influences in many ways, on a practical level many things has to be done on a distance and its freaking irritating that it has become so hard to get materials. But still to me the biggest deal is how hard it is to build up energy around something when the conditions and plans changes over and over again. The dramaturgy of art-production has dissolved into some sort of dark unavoidable swamp…

3. What are you doing to stay cheerful?

There is a baby growing in my belly which helps me to stay cheerful + I am never alone and have a lot of daily physical human contact…

The picture shows a small element in the public sculpture I am working on, still in the workshop and under production a few weeks back.