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Maiken Bent
Maiken Bent
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Maiken Bent (DK, b. 1980), creates sculptures that are both poetic, complex, and provocatively raw, and invite our gaze and imagination to travel back and forth from hard to soft and from figure to abstraction. In her practice there exists a deeply detailed investigation of aesthetics and materials. She finds aesthetic value and animism in combining highly unusual materials; carabines, fixtures, colorful skin-pieces, steel and sailing equipment. She turns aesthetic and societal ideals on their head and questions our relationship with objects, what is determined as objectively beautiful and in turn she looks for the missed aesthetic potential and new relations with and of the world.Maiken Bent is MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 2006. She has exhibited at Kunsthall Oslo, Yves Klein Archives, Paris, and KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin and at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ARoS Aarhus Museum of Contemporary Art, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Gl. Holtegaard, and Den Frie Center for Contemporary Art, DK. Her works are part of collections at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ARoS Aarhus Museum of Contemporary, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Sorø Kunstmuseum, SKMU Sørlandet Art Museum, Heart - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art and The Danish Arts Foundation. -
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SPRING SHOW
13 Apr - 25 May 2024It is our great pleasure to be able to welcome you all to the gallery's first SPRING SHOW, which is a group exhibition with all the gallery's represented artists: Maiken...Read moreMaiken Bent: FIXTURES
12 Aug - 24 Sep 2022For her first solo exhibition FIXTURES in in the gallery, Maiken Bent (b.1980) has created new sculptures that are at once poetic, complex and provocatively raw. Sculptures, which constantly causes...Read more
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MAIKEN BENT: I'M SORRY THIS SPACE IS RESERVED
GROUP EXHIBITION, NIKOLAJ KUNSTHAL, COPENHAGEN, DKAugust 30 - January 19 2025I'M SORRY THIS SPACE IS RESERVED WITH MAIKEN BENT Nikolaj Kunsthalle, Nikolaj Plads 10, 1067 Copenhagen The group exhibition 'I'm Sorry, This Space Is Reserved' will present a number... - News
MAIKEN BENT: CONTINENTAL FACILITIES
SOLO EXHIBITION, KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, BERLIN, GERMANYMarch 20 - May 1 2016CONTINENTAL FACILITIES BY MAIKEN BENT KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany With Continental Facilities, her first solo show in Germany, Bent presents existing and newly... - News
MAIKEN BENT: LØSØRE
SOLO EXHIBITION, GL. HOLTEGAARD, HOLTE, DKMay 5 - July 2, 2017LØSØRE BY MAIKEN BENT Gl. Holtegaard, Attemosevej 170, 2840 Holte, Denmark In the exhibition LØSØRE, Maiken Bent created a large site-specific installation for the entire building, which is based on...
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