Book launch and Talk

Book launch and Talk
Tove Storch, Lauren Elkin and
Maria Kjær Themsen
4. maj 14.00-16.00

The Danish artist Tove Storch's continuous studies of sculpture and materials are known to many. On the other hand, her work with sculpture as a feminist object is barely described. A new publication by Art Hub Copenhagen titled Slump into Rebellion now wishes to make up for this. It does so by collecting and disseminating Storch's artistic practice over the past 20 years and for the first time bringing a feminist theoretical perspective to it, centrally with an essay by Lauren Elkin, author of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (2023).

To celebrate this new book, Gammel Strand and AHC invite you to a launch and talk with Tove Storch and author Lauren Elkin, moderated by art critic, curator, and editor of the book Maria Kjær Themsen. The event will be held in english.

More about the publication
Slump into Rebellion gathers three texts on Danish artist Tove Storch’s work and thought. Firstly, a conversation between Danish curator Stine Hebert and Storch herself, who take us back to the start of their friendship, and into the “backroom” that any artist maintains throughout their working life, a room of conversations informing and developing their artistic practice. The second text in this book is by Lauren Elkin – American translator and author – examining Storch’s art works through the lens of feminist theory, laying bare important but less discussed reflections on their subversive potential. Finally, Slump into Rebellion also includes a republishing of a poetic text by curator and art critic Paola Paleari, which fascinatingly weaves together Storch’s work and Newton's law of universal gravitation. It is possible to buy the book at the event.