THE TENT

A photograph of a girl in the middle of an egg-and-spoon race. She moves forward with both concentration and lightness, carrying something precious and fragile that must not break. The exhibition The Tent by Birgitte Munk oscillates between playfulness and seriousness, between the joy of a moment and the awareness that it may disappear. Memory as an act of balance.

Munk’s exhibition revolves around something very concrete: the tent. A temporary space, a shelter, a home independent of a fixed address. The Tent gives the tent several meanings. It is not only a symbol of summer and freedom, but also of impermanence and vulnerability. What these uses share, however, is the tent’s ability to offer a sense of protection, fragile as it may be.

Based on her father’s photo archive, Munk unfolds a visual landscape of memories centered around the tent, accompanied by a newly composed sound work by Magnus Munk Tækker. The exhibition is curated in collaboration with Julia Mejnertsen.


THE TENT, Artist Book
© Birgitte Munk 2025
Self-published in a handmade edition of 50 copies. Signed and numbered. w148 x h205 mm, 108 pages.

THE TENT, Combi Camp 500
Birgitte Munk, 2026
Original Combi Camp 500 (1972) , cut up, washed and rearranged. Layers of fabric, plastic panes and mosquito netting are activated manually by slide projections from the archive, taken by Palle Munk between 1965 and 1972.

THE TENT, Light boxes 1–5
Birgitte Munk, 2026
Photo Combi Camp 500, digital printed on opal plate.

THE TENT, Soundtrack
Magnus Munk Tækker, 2026
The sound piece created for The Tent captures the experience of an overnight trip to Amager Fælled, accompanied by an acoustic guitar and a tent. The recordings from the camping trip have been edited and compiled into 15 different tracks, which form the soundscape for the exhibition. It is a work that radiates hope, life and gratitude – both a look back and a look forward. It is simple in its expression and seeks, through its form, to create an atmosphere and a sonic universe that unfolds in space rather than in time. The piece features acoustic guitar, field recordings and musical drones created by stretching the existing recordings.

Thanks for support:
Tækker
Aarhus City Council