“All that prevents you from leaving, all that is your enemy”

DANH VO 23 May – 20 September 2026

Danh Vo was born in Vietnam in 1975 and grew up in Denmark. His practice resembles that of a collector or archaeologist. He often works with found, historical objects, which he reworks or presents in new contexts. The artist’s personal history is interwoven with broader questions of politics, religion and cultural identity. Meaning is not stable: things, people, and cultures are always in transit, on their way to somewhere else, to something different.

The exhibition traces migration, faith, sexuality, and memory with materials that seem caught between dissolution and transformation. Bronze religious sculptures appear as cracked fragments that have lost their authority. Their fissures make room for living fungi, for decay and rebirth. The sacred form is made vulnerable like a body, and history reveals itself as something living. The exhibition’s title comes from a text that Vō found inscribed in the home of a French missionary to Vietnam. It suggests that earthly attachments stand in the way of spiritual pursuits.

Take a look behind the scenes:

Video: Thomas Gunnar Bagge