Julie Falk (b. 1991, Copenhagen) is a sculptor who lives and works in Copenhagen. Through acts of subtraction, wear, and repetition, her practice derives form rather than producing it, operating through gestures of upkeep, erosion, and continual adjustment. Withdrawing from the certainty of objecthood, form in Falk’s work emerges through processes of ongoing recalibration, where material is shaped as much by duration as by intervention.
Unfolding as a means against its own end, her work approaches notions of capacity and efficiency as unstable and contingent, subject to constant negotiation rather than fixed measures of productivity. In this way, Falk’s practice questions normative temporal structures and embedded hierarchies, proposing alternative modes of value and attention.
Falk employs materials such as cardboard, cast metal, marble remnants, and mobile phone footage. What may appear to arise through addition is instead achieved through subtraction. Materials remain in flux, testing the boundaries between use and exhaustion, permanence and finitude.
Installed in space, Falk’s works often register as provisional or understated, inviting viewers into a heightened awareness of duration, scale, and process. The works resist immediate legibility, instead unfolding through sustained attention, as the viewer becomes attuned to subtle shifts, repetitions, and accumulations over time.
Falk has presented solo exhibitions at Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2024), and Gammel Strand, Copenhagen (2023), and has participated in group exhibitions in Denmark and internationally, including Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing (2025). Her works are held in the collections of Sorø Art Museum, Copenhagen Municipality, the Danish Arts Foundation, and the New Carlsberg Foundation.
