Inspired by Keith Haring’s Pop Shop, which the artist saw as a shop, art work and statement of practice in one, David Shrigley has had his little Shrig Shop in the French Quarter of Copenhagen since 2021, run with his longtime Danish gallery partner Nicolai Wallner.
Copenhagen is a sex-positive city – Denmark was the first country to legalise porn back in 1969 – and at contemporary sex shop Peech the team firmly believe that buying sex toys should not be embarrassing.
Opened in 2021 as an antidote to the stereotypical dark-and-seedy sex shop, its Nørrebro store is colourful and unthreatening, with helpful staff keen to make sure you feel comfortable and safe – a very Copenhagen take on the genre.
Prik is a portal back to a 1970s childhood, selling everything from little paper windmills that swirl in a breeze to tiny plastic animals, knitted dolls, doll houses, toy cars and tiny slips of red plastic fish that curl up in your hand and tell your fortune.
Run by Annette for the past 17 years, the treasure trove of a shop is packed to the rafters with dressing-up clothes and bags, room decorations and toys, with something at every price, for every child.
