Maria Wæhrens

Maria Wæhrens (b. 1976) paints in an expressive and intuitive style. It can be said that her paintings contain every expressive artistic direction all at once, where the raw and unedited are allowed to take up space creating a documentary and lively expression. Wæhrens works both with automatic drawings, heavy materials and light paintings without any special rules or guidelines. The works are at once poetic and punk, violent, gentle and naive, and borders on the almost unfinished or incapable.

Maria Wæhrens graduated from the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts in 1998-1998 and from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1999-2005 under Professor and artist Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Wæhrens has previously exhibited at Møstings Hus, M100, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Kunsthal NORD, the Nivågaard collection and Lviv National Art Gallery, Ukraine. Latest she had a retrospective exhibition at Vejen Kunstmuseum in 2020/2021 and painted a site-specific mural at for O - Overgaden, Institut of Contemporary Art. Her works are part of the collection at The Museum of Religious Art, the Danish Arts Foundation, HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, SMK - The National Gallery of Denmark and The New Carlsberg Foundation. In 2021 she recieved the three year grand from the Danish Arts Council and in 2023 she recived the Jens Søndergaard og Hustrus Mindelegat.

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SPRING SHOW

13 Apr - 25 May 2024

It 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...

Maria Wæhrens: I Take Care of You and Me

10 - 17 Feb 2024

On Saturday February 10, 2-5 (kl 14-17) we open a one week exhibition with new monoprints and monotypes by gallery artist Maria Wæhrens in collaboration with BORCH Editions. Maria Wæhrens'...

Maria Wæhrens: Ash Wednesday

21 Apr - 3 Jun 2023

We are proud to present Maria Wæhren's (DK) second solo exhibition in the gallery, this time with the title Ash Wednesday. The paintings, which alternate between large-scale series of violent...

Maria Wæhrens: Tradition

30 Sep - 12 Nov 2022

For her solo exhibition Tradition Maria Wæhrens (DK) presents expressive and raw paintings, where abstract beings, body parts, emotions, and landscapes are painted with powerful intuitive brushstrokes. Screaming mouths,...