• Artists

  • Anne Marie Ploug, art, Copenhagen, Galleri Maria Friis

    Anne Marie Ploug

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Anne Marie Ploug is above all other things a visual artist specializing in printmaking. She focuses on what is often overlooked or considered marginal and turns it into the main subject of her art. Using both traditional and experimental graphic techniques, she creates works where lines, forms, and rhythms…
  • Emmarosa Liebgen, art, Copenhagen, Galleri Maria Friis

    Emmarosa Liebgen

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Emmarosa Liebgen is a Danish artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and etching. Her works orbit themes of loss, remembrance, and impermanence, taking shape as fragile vessels for what might otherwise slip away. Human and natural forms fold into one another: bodies erode into soil, blossoms sprout faces, and…
  • Martine Myrup, art, Copenhagen, Galleri Maria Friis

    Martine Myrup

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Martine Myrup is an artist based in Denmark, working primarily within sculpture. Myrup's primary interest is sculpture as a substitute or surrogate, as a votive offering, but also a desire to evoke and give physical form to what has been lost. Working exclusively with materials and objects that have…
  • Luna Scales, art, Copenhagen, Galleri Maria Friis

    Luna Scales

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Luna Scales is a video-based Danish artist. Her practice shows a consistent interest in the body, patterns of movement and directions of the gaze. With posing bodies framed in environments akin to romantic imagery, Scales often uses herself as a subject: Here, she works with the medical language and…
  • Tore Hallas

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Tore Hallas is a DK-based artist, working primarily within film, photography, and sculpture. Through theatrical set-ups and intimate imagery, he invites us to reflect on the interaction between the world and the othered body and mind, exploring themes of queerness, fatness and religious ontologies. Which bodies are considered desirable…
  • Lina Hashim

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Lina Hashim (b. 1978, Kuwait) lives and works in Copenhagen. Working across photography, performance, and installation, she explores the tensions between Islamic traditions, Western culture, and female identity. With a background in anthropology and early schooling in Islam, Hashim’s practice is shaped by her personal history as a Danish-Iraqi…
  • Nina Saunders

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Nina Saunders is a UK-based artist and known for her unique approach to disrupting the familiarity of everyday objects through thought-provoking sculptures. Using found items such as furniture and taxidermied animals, she transforms them in ways that often evoke surrealistic connotations. By altering elements of familiar objects like armchairs…
  • Emil Salto, art, Copenhagen, Galleri Maria Friis

    Emil Salto

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Emil Salto works with painting, photography, and film, exploring materiality and sensory impressions through geometric shapes, light and vibrating colors. From the '00s to the late '10s, Salto focused particularly on photograms: images made without the use of a camera, illuminating photosensitive paper. In recent years, Salto has turned…
  • Marie Munk, art, Copenhagen, Galleri Maria Friis

    Marie Munk

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Marie Munk is an interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Her work explores the impact of technological innovation on our environment, behavior, and bodies. She creates alternative realities that blend the playful with the eerie, using silicone to comment on society's relationship with the body.  …
  • Nanna Starck, art, Copenhagen, Galleri Maria Friis

    Nanna Starck

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Nanna Starck’s sculptural artistic practice is centred around the relief with a focus on the grotesque body, the abject, gender and sexuality. Starck’s work with the sculptural body as a political tool uses boundary-pushing scenarios to address topics like alienation of the body in society, feminism and body positivity.…
  • Al Masson

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Al Masson's artistic journey is marked by an unwavering refusal to be confined to a single artistic genre. He embraces the dichotomy of focusing on form, color, and composition while simultaneously engaging in creating installations that “decorate” a space with an assortment of objects and artworks. Masson also harbors…
  • Orsolya Bagala

    Selected Artworks Biography Exhibitions News Explore Hungarian-born Orsolya Bagala, captivates with her unique portrayal of women, blending the archetypal with the surreal. Her subjects range from tender depictions of motherhood to fantastical forms, housing multiple entities within them. Bagala's art often examines the hues of flesh and blood, lending her work a visceral, emotional depth.…