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.

 

We are also very pleased to present the artist of the year in PS44, namely Hannibal Dahl, who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2025. The choice of Hannibal Dahl reflects an ambition to give a young artist the opportunity to immerse themselves in their practice and develop it in a format that gives it room to grow. His work naturally resonates with the exhibition year’s examination of migration as an artistic and societal phenomenon — not as a direct thematic parallel, but as a related impulse. Dahl’s interest in transit spaces, non-places and the forces that move through the body and space touches on something of the same thing: states of movement, displacement and transformation, where identity and belonging are never stable entities. In the work leading up to Departure, he has expanded his research in a more spatial direction and has become concerned with how specific contexts actively shape the meaning of the work. It is a practice with direction — and with something at stake. The exhibition opens on June 27th and runs until September 20th. Curated by Julia Rodrigues   44Møen would like to thank the following foundations for their support in making this year’s exhibition at PS44 possible: the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation and the Augustinus Foundation. The artist would also like to express heartfelt thanks to the Danish Arts Foundation, the Sculptor Gottfred Eickhoff and Gerda Eickhoff Foundation, the curator and the team behind 44Møen, as well as Sofie, Iris, Rikke, Flemming, Lærke, Charley, Mathias, Finn, Lisbet, and Christina.