Björn Perborg’s creative work encompasses animations, videos, sculptures and installations. One typical aspect of many of his works and their characteristic humour is the artist’s personal perspective on specific facts, often making it seem as if
an anthropologist from outer space were studying the habits and customs of societies on earth. As a result, the absurdity of specific situations or behaviour is made more obvious.
With “Geschichten aus dem Koffer“ (Stories from a Suitcase), Björn Perborg is presenting a new series of works that combines five oversized suitcase-sculptures with a two-channel video installation. The inside of each suitcase functions as a kind of exhibition space en miniature, where five different stories are told on the basis of animations, an installation, a slide show and a photo exhibition in mini format: these are Björn Perborg’s personal experiences, but things that could happen in the same or a similar way everywhere; an artist’s reflections on travel, on the scenarios for events and places in his life, on roots and nostalgia.
Finally, Björn Perborg’s two-channel video installation surprises visitors with a grandiose, ‘sparkling’ – in the truest sense of the word – new interpretation of the drum-groove from Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” and a precisely synchronised firework display.