Photo: Jan Søndergaard
Saturday August 22, 2025 marks the official inauguration of Skibet in Bavnehøj, a monumental new public artwork by Tove Storch.
Seventeen meters long and anchored in the central reservation of Enghavevej, the striking red vessel unfolds Storch’s characteristic play with fragility and strength, intimacy and form. Skibet will stand as one of Copenhagen’s largest permanent sculptures, transforming an everyday urban space into a place of encounter and reflection.
With this new work, Tove Storch adds a powerful chapter to Denmark’s tradition of public art, a sculpture at once poetic and commanding, both deeply material and full of imagination.
Tove Storch’s practice moves between the sensual and the conceptual, where subtle shifts in form and substance open new ways of experiencing the body, space, and time. With Skibet, she brings this sensitivity into a monumental scale and urban context, extending and renewing the trajectory of her work.
A symbolic vessel floats into the intimate space between two traffic access roads. The work consists of a metal structure and cast concrete. Working within a feminist tradition, Tove Storch exposes much of her artistic process. The interplay between the materials is central, blurring the boundaries between the individual parts. The heavy mass bends the metal inwards, and out of these reactions a motif emerges. References to organs, hunting, mythology, and spaceships coalesce to form an elegant, strange and remarkable creature.
