House Flipper

by Esben Gyldenløve

Opening: Friday, February 14, 5-8 PM

Exhibition period: February 15 – March 22, 2025

Opening hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 2–5 PM

Curated by Astrid Wang

Esben Gyldenløve’s House Flipper interrogates the intersection between hostile architecture, political representation and class segregation— in our public spheres and in the context of the exhibition space. A full-scale replica of a restrictive iron structure from outside of the amusement park Tivoli dominates the exhibition, forcing visitors into controlled movement. Other works, including an enlarged replica of the artist’s lost tooth cast in scratch cards, explore the bodily cost of the cycles of desire and consumption. With equal parts candour and satire, Gyldenløve’s work stakes out modes of resistance by reclaiming objects and signs from common spaces, the home, and finally, his own body.

Esben Gyldenløve (b. 1983, DK) holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He works with sculpture in an expanded field, typically exploring a new subject for each project or exhibition and deploying a diverse range of performative and conceptual gestures in a practice, which does not easily lend itself to categorisation. The interest in how embodiment, perception, and representation mutually constitute each other, materially and ideologically, is however always the common starting point for his work.

The exhibition er generously supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Augustinus Fonden og William Demant Fonden.