Undercurrents
View exhibited artworks:
A solo exhibition with Emmarosa Liebgen
Galleri Maria Friis are pleased to invite you to the opening of Emmarosa Verdoner Liebgen’s solo exhibition Undercurrents – her first solo presentation at the gallery. Liebgen was previously featured in the group exhibition Sitrende in 2024.
Like excavated relics or fragments of forgotten dreams, the exhibition unfolds through a series of paintings and etchings that explore metamorphic states where human and natural forms dissolve into one another. Working figuratively across both mediums, Liebgen’s motifs shift between female figures, sea creatures, and birds: each embodying moments of transition and transformation.
Her works traverse liminal spaces: between sleep and wakefulness, life and death, surface and depth: dreamlike layers that flow beneath the visible.
Emmarosa Verdoner 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 recollections solidify into silver-framed fragments. Rather than resolving emotions, her works allow them to hover – to remain unfinished. Grounded in feminist and eco-critical perspectives, Liebgen’s practice reflects on fragility, care, and the female experience. Like shards assembled into a weathered mosaic, her works appear as partial yet enduring remnants – delicate but dense with time.
Emmarosa Verdoner Liebgen (f. 1997) graduated from Funen Art Academy (2025). She has exhibited in various group exhibitions such as Preview at ODP3 (2025), Sitrende at Galleri Maria Friis (2024), Everything is Connected at FAA Project Room (2024). Earlier exhibitions include A Thin Layer of Bark Surrounds Us at Projekt Parleur (2022). Her works are represented in collections such as Egmont Fonden, Danske Bank, The Plant, and Middelfart Kirke and Ny Carlsbergfondet.
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Cover image:
Emmarosa Liebgen, Bloodstream, 2025, Oil on linen canvas, 44h x 43w cm