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Gry Björge
About.
Gry Björge is an artist based in Berlin working across analogue film, photography, expanded cinema, and sculpture. Her practice engages with analogue processes, materiality, and the physical conditions of image-making, often exploring alternative printing methods and experimental approaches to light-sensitive media.
In her collaboration with Anders Bigum in the artist duo bigum+Björge, she focuses less on creating or shaping material in a conventional sense, and more on combining, observing, and understanding existing elements. Natural materials such as dried leaves, sticks, branches, and seeds are used to create figures and image-like constellations, where composition emerges through close attention rather than imposed form. Björge holds a degree in Industrial Design from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Her work focuses on how images are formed and transformed through non-digital processes and material-based approaches.
Projects.
Soft transformer
Soft Transformer is a collaborative work by Gry Björge and Mikala Hyldig Dal, created as a mixed-media installation with sound and sculptural elements. The piece takes the form of a cocoon-like spatial environment that surrounds the viewer, functioning as both sculpture and sonic space.
Inside the installation, a whispering, shifting sound composition unfolds as if narrated from within an organic, non-human intelligence. The cocoon is built as a soft, immersive structure that extends into the surrounding space, creating a fragile architecture that feels both protective and unstable. The work explores themes of bodily transformation, artificial intelligence, and contagion histories, where material, sound, and narrative merge into one continuous environment.
Infini
Peachick
Peachick takes its title from the baby peafowl, and the association with the peacock’s tail as it unfolds into a wide, decorative fan. The work is developed as a playful hut for children, designed to be visually stimulating for children and appealing for adults.
It explores the idea of elevating play objects into something sculptural and aesthetically present in space, rather than purely functional or temporary. Built as a structure that can stand freely in a room, Peachick allows for moments of gathering, imagination, and use, while also being able to be quickly disassembled and stored without requiring much space.
The work moves between play, design, and sculpture, where functionality, imagination, and form are held together in a light and flexible system.
Bigum+Björge
Bigum + Björge is a collaboration between visual artists Anders Bigum and Gry Björge, working at the intersection of experimental image-making, expanded cinema, and installation. Rooted in a close engagement with natural environments, the practice explores how perception, materiality, and atmosphere can be translated into visual forms that move between clarity and ambiguity. A central part of the work is the use of non-toxic, plant-based photographic processes as an alternative to conventional chemical image production. These methods shape both the aesthetics and the pace of the work, allowing images to emerge through slow, responsive, and materially grounded processes. The collaboration also extends into live expanded cinema using slide projection and 16mm film, where image, sound, and light are composed into immersive, site-specific performances. Here, analogue technologies and manual interventions create layered environments that shift between documentation and imagination. Together, Bigum + Björge develops a visual language shaped by experimental film, installation, and sculptural work, where nature is not only a reference, but an active presence in the making of the work.
Pareidolia
Ephemeral Beings
Ephemeral Beings is an ongoing project by Bigum + Björge that began in photography and print and has expanded into film and live performance. It explores short-lived forms that feel suspended between past and future, where nature and imagination overlap. Sculptural forms are made from materials found in the landscape during walks, shaped in response to place and moment. They exist only briefly before being photographed and then returned to nature, where they break down and disappear. The project now continues in moving image and performance, where the forms appear through light, sound, and projection as fleeting presences in space.