Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong

Dirty Fucking Rat

18.7-24.8.2025

Open Saturdays and Sundays 13:00-15:00

Opening: 18.7 18:00-21:00

Welcome to Dirty Fucking Rat! Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong have made a new part of their Days soap opera universe, a film called Los Tres Puntos, which is shown within its scenography, alongside the very first edition of their soap-digest Common Issues. 

In the film, the recurring character Marlie hosts her astrology podcast “Astrosapiate” from behind the front desk of Berlin’s Maximal Hostel, the biggest hostel in the world. At K4 a scenographic textile backdrop shows present day Warschauer Str.––the area directly around the newish skyscraper The Edge Tower, known colloquially as The Amazon Tower, and pejoratively as a dirty fucking rat––placing the audience within the main location of the film, where Marlie tries to turn the lives of her friends and callers into entertaining content.

In Common Issues, Ellinor & Zayne talk to a number of the film’s collaborators about their behind-the-scenes lives. Featuring: Alicia Luz Rodríguez, Cosima zu Knyphausen, Lene Berg, Stix Omar, Juan Larraín González, Ivanna Heredia-Torres, Magda Kaucz, Una Gjerde and yours truly Hedda Grevle.

Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong’s practice (mostly) revolves around the serial video ‘soap opera’ project Days, and their work relates to its storylines or functions as its scenography. Days adapts the romantic themes, typical to soap operas, to stories about labour (emotional, unpaid and abstract labour), and its domestic spaces are swapped for the neoliberal ‘third spaces’, such as the cafe, hostel, bar, rideshare, gym, co-working space, public park, etc. The video works engage numerous collaborators in forms of satirical auto-fiction and docudrama, set within synthetic stylized spaces that speculate urban dystopia. 

Their work has been exhibited in Oslo at Fotogalleriet and The Vigeland Museum; in Norway at Agder Kunstsenter (Kristiansand) and Buskerud Kunstsenter (Drammen); internationally at Triangle-Astérides (Marseille), Sundy (London), NKR (Düsseldorf), FORT biennale_01––Forte di Fortezza (Bolzano), Kling & Bang (Reykjavik); their videos have been screened at Kunstnernes Hus Kino (Oslo), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Porn Film Festival (Berlin), Dreamland Film Festival (Athens), Okay Space (Athens), CCA Ujazdowski (Warsaw), Felleshus––Nordic Embassies (Berlin), and multiple Radical Film Network Meetings (Berlin). They first public sculpture, Phonehenge, was recently erected at Granåsen Ski Centre (Trondheim); they have upcoming solo exhibitions at the Berlin project spaces DoomSpa and DieRaum, and the group show Travail utile, fatigue inutile curated by Una Gjerde will open at Podium (Oslo) later this year.