Specimens
Nicolai Howalt
12.05 > 02.07.2022 - EN
Specimens
Presentation
Specimens
The observation of living things is at the heart of the Specimens exhibition. The term obviously has a scientific connotation; it designates a plant or animal which is an example of a particular species or type. Specimens brings together four series of works that the photographer Nicolai Howalt has been creating since 2019 – Old Tjikko, Algae, Fasciations and Microscope/Preparation. They all share a common desire to question, reflect, marvel and perhaps understand.
Developing an initial concept, Nicolai Howalt then proceeds with a systematic and creative exploration of his subjects. Most often, this is not limited to looking or documenting. As a good alchemist, he also mobilises the very materiality of the subjects in order to extract knowledge about their profound natures, the essence of which is invisible to the naked eye. Throughout the working process, the photographer is receptive to what presents itself to him. These sometimes unexpected discoveries confer a very special poetry to the images; their perfection keeps viewers at a distance, whereas their sensuality attracts them.
Nicolai Howalt’s work has been widely exhibited in Scandinavia, Europe and the United States. It has been awarded by many prestigious institutions (Hasselblad Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation etc.). The exhibition Variations of Old Tjikko at Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen, 2020) received the award for the best exhibition of the year in Denmark, and the following year, the series was distinguished by the honorary fellowship of the Aage & Yelva Nimbs Fond (Denmark). In France, the Maison du Danemark hosted the exhibition How to hunt (a collaboration with Trine Søndergaard, 2012) and the photographs by Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard were acquired by the collections of the Hermès Foundation and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. In 2020, the Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne) acquired the entire Silver Migration series, which was presented in the same year in the Migrations exhibition at the Maria Lund Gallery, as well as a selection of works from the Elements series which were exhibited at the gallery in de travers (2017). Nicolai Howalt’s works feature in a large number of collections: J. Paul Getty Museum, United States – Hiscox Art Project, United States – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada – Israel Museum, Israel – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain – Museum of Fine Art Houston, United States – Artphilein Foundation, Italy – and in Denmark, those of: ARoS, Aarhus Art Museum – Kunsten, Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg – Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, – Bornholms Art Museum – Esbjerg Art Museum – Ny Carlsbergfondet, – Skagens Museum – Danish Arts Foundation – Brandts Collection, Odense – the Royal Library – National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen – Ny Kredit.
Agenda

Concert
Louis Siracusa & Antonin Le Faure (bass & viola)
Thursday 16.06.2022
8:00pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Violist Antonin Le Faure and bass player Louis Siracusa embark us on an initiatic journey exploring music from the past century with melodies written for (both) their instruments. Duets by Veress, Scodanibbio and Lutoslawski are Specimens as they offer us a general idea of the composers’ worlds. Their accents, whether oniric or melancholic, draw from both instruments’ lower register. These duets will be rhythmed by improvisations and will dialog with more classical pieces.
Opening
Specimens
Thursday 12.05.2022
Galerie Maria Lund
Publications and texts
Nul homme que la lune n'ait vu
L'Ancienne Nonciature & la Galerie Maria Lund
21.04 > 08.05.2022 - EN
Nul homme que la lune n'ait vu - No man that the moon hasn't seen
Presentation
An enigmatically-titled exhibition adorns the salons of L’Ancienne Nonciature:
The moon is mankind’s eternal light source. It has been illuminating and guiding us since the dawn of time. We observe the orb, whose trajectory gives rhythm to life. We project dreams and hopes on the moon, sometimes we even dream of reaching for it.
Its metamorphoses, from crescent to crescent – fluid, determined, circumscribed – display signs and act as an oracle. Each culture reads the moon, seeing it sometimes as feminine, sometimes as masculine. It has a hidden face and a visible face.
One day in 1969, a man set foot there, allowing poetry to embrace science.
Since then, of course, we have looked at the moon in a different way. However, the dreams it engenders are as immutable as its presence in our heavens.
Nul homme que la lune n’ait vu brings together the proposals of ten artists and photographers. They invite us to switch viewpoints to ask: What does the moon see when it looks at us?
Galerie Maria Lund / OFF – SITE
L’Ancienne Nonciature
Rue des Sablons 7
Place du Grand Sablon
BE 1000 Brussels
Agenda
Nul homme que la lune n'ait vu
VERNISSAGE
Thursday 21.04.2022
5:00pm > 9:00pm
L'Ancienne Nonciature
Place du Grand Sablon
BE 1000 Brussels
Paris Aubaine
CONCERT
Sunday 08.05.2022
4:00pm
L'Ancienne Nonciature
Place du Grand Sablon
BE 1000 Brussels
Si le fleuve sous tes paupières
Didier Boussarie
17.03 - 07.05.2022
Si le fleuve sous tes paupières
Presentation
If you are expecting Didier Boussarie in a distinct place, most likely will he be elsewhere. An unshakable libertarian with a captivating curiosity, he explores and thrives, digs further and always surprises. The work processes and matters change, exchange and sometimes return.
Thirty years ago, the form was dense, almost naive. Today, an expressive figuration seems to arise from more or less rapid gestures. A tireless painter and draughtsman, Didier Boussarie knows how to create worlds in volume or morph into a taxidermist when he wishes to play with an irresistible finding. For several years, the artist kept an arachnean colony in his studio in order to explore a new kind of acrobatics; with Indian ink he would darken the silk threads woven by his weaver friends.
In pictures
Agenda
Opening
Si le fleuve sous tes paupières
Thursday 17.03.2022
5pm > 8:30pm
Galerie Maria Lund
News
Didier Boussarie is part of Surpopulation
18.02 - 26.03.2022
IMMIX galerie
116 quai de Jemmapes, 75011 Paris
Press
Publications and texts
MEET - Didier Boussarie (subtitled in English)
Colours, materiality and tools
youtube.com
Sunsetter
Marlon Wobst
27.01 > 12.03.2022 - EN
Presentation
Variations of pinks of a silhouette that moves forward in a nocturnal background: Sunsetter… An enigmatic title that is rich in meaning – impossible to translate – and quite emblematic of Marlon Wobst’s new works.
If lucid observations of easy living existences were predominant in his work until now, a certain gravity seems to have taken over Marlon Wobst’s world. It cohabitates nevertheless with the playful, whimsical scenes that the artist cherishes. An evolution can also be seen in the way he paints: the juxtaposed colour planes and expressive gestures bring life to compositions where figures are often made of a few brushstrokes. The coloured matter creates a world less defined where figures barely stand out against big spaces that are deserted, wintery, sometimes heavenly – or even immersed in the ocean where they come face to face with blood red skies. It is warm, it is cold, the light is intense, almost blinding, and the water is rising. Nature, its elements, seem to reign as supreme.
As always, colour plays a major role in Marlon Wobst’s work. Dark tones have made their way through; the world has dimmed the light, and from a daytime vaudeville we are now immersed in a dark ‘théâtre noir’ setting. The decor makes it harder to find one’s bearings, but the delicate and personal palette subtly gleams and resists obscurity.
With Sunsetter, Marlon Wobst plays it by ear. Sometimes vision only offers bodies, a way to find comfort and enjoy, a toilet paper roll left in a room as an evocation of presence. At other times, this vision broadens to offer a perspective both terrible and splendid in its extravagance. There, one can feel helpless, fragile, or on the other hand, overwhelmed but completely and totally alive.
Agenda
Opening
Sunsetter
Thursday 27.01.2022
Galerie Maria Lund
Publications and texts
Tableaux
Bente Skjøttgaard
07.11.2021 - 08.01.2022
Tableaux
Presentation
It is painful to admit that I will not save the world with ceramics,
but this is my voice.
Bente Skjøttgaard, Glowing in the Dark, Biennale DK 2021
The tableau or tableau vivant designates a type of theater, where actors are immobilized as a silent image for a brief instant on a set, usually inspired by History. In the science field, the word tableau (table) refers to a structured presentation of a specific topic in images, words or numbers. Tableaux by Bente Skjøttgaard brings to life both these definitions.
During the second half of the 19th century, German biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) – fervent Darwinian and inventor of the concept of ecology – explored, among other things, the submarine world. In his book Art Forms in Nature (1904), tables (tableaux) inventory beings that live in the depths. These stunning and very detailed drawing boards have always fascinated Bente Skjøttgaard, who drew inspiration from them to create the works shown in Tableaux.
Bente Skjøttgaard’s works do not try to copy the natural world; they draw inspiration from it to create what is simultaneously concentrations of shapes, sensations and impressions.
But Tableaux remains nonetheless a feast – a celebration of different types of beauty, extravagance, imagination and a certain humor. By strolling between the tableaux of the exhibition, where in turns are visible, in little groups, natural vases caught in the current, high-headed carbon molecules and the wide-open mouths of ‘gourmet-greedy’ anemones, one understands that Bente Skjøttgaard shares her anxiety with us, but also delivers a tender yet attentive point of view.
In pictures
Agenda
Opening
Tableaux
Thursday, November 18th
Galerie Maria Lund
Un dimanche à la galerie
Sunday, November 7th
4pm > 6pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Voyager vers l'inaccompli
Yoon Ji-Eun
16.09 - 31.10.2021 - EN
Presentation
A fragment can have two meanings: it can lead to destruction or achievement.
Life often finds itself between destruction and a desire to achieve (…)
In the end, it is a struggle between utopia and void.
Yoon Ji-Eun, July 2021
Suddenly, a blinding light. Shapes appear, move and waltz, lifted by an invisible breeze. It’s all about suppleness, angles, textures and colors. By looking closely, fragments reveal themselves: they are hair, trees, legs, architectures, blades of grass…. YOON Ji Eun’s latest works tell the story of a world admittedly cracked and floating, but a world that is also stratified, organic and cyclic. In a movement from inwards to outwards, the artist seizes images of division, separation, reshaping or even dispersion. She describes how she sometimes lets herself daydream and feels projected into space. A couple of brief instants, airy and miniscule, she is almost weightless and comes close to void and light.
Confronted with a world in transition, a reality that she cannot grasp, YOON Ji-Eun chooses to take some perspective and reacts by means of figures and shapes decomposing and immaterializing. Bi and tri-dimensionalities are not the only ones cohabitating in her drawings on papers and sculpted woods. The artist activates yet another dimension, which is both temporality and musicality. If certain compositions strike in their verticality, others are multi-focal for everything to appear undulating, shapeshifting, moving. Light and void thus create a world of possibilities. The world can transform and rise again. Grace, utopia and nothingness engage closely with each other.
Agenda
Opening
Voyager vers l'inaccompli
Thursday, 16th Sept. 2021
Galerie Maria Lund
Talk
A discussion between Yoon Ji-Eun and the art historian and curator Elora Weill-Engerer.
Saturday, 16th Oct. 2021
5:30pm > 8:00pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Perdre le fil - Losing the thread
Johanna & Mickael Berdugo, Emmanuel Pariente
01.07 – 04.09.2021
Perdre le fil
Presentation
Holding the thread with one’s fingertips. Making a connection with almost nothing. Letting go without any apprehension, neither rupture, nor void.
Finding a thread and pulling on it.
Smiling, laughing, bursting into laughter, hearing a burst.
Bursting words and images, actions and sounds. Images that mooooooove and lines that spin.
An artist-poet-performer.
A collector in love with other people’s images.
A poet-photographer who strikes cords.
A troika that makes us lose track.
Each one proposes, follows an alternative idea, an answer is suggested…
In a multimedia game of ‘exquisite corpse’, a photograph meets a drawing and allows for a sentence to come along in the next round.
Nostalgia is never what it used to be.
Anonymous photographs come to life. The moon comes out of a mouth and also mumbles words. A goldfish that swims in the street and swoons in front of our window.
The thread is stretched, from absurdity to tenderness, from eroticism to fondness. Nonetheless the obviously good-natured games of infinite and undefined possibilities do carry a serious project: poetry and a delicate laugh.
Agenda
Event
Opening
01.07.2021
5:30pm > 8:30pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Event
Performance
July 8th, 2021 at 7:30pm
July 25th, 2021 at 4:30pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Sunday opening
marais.guide
July 25th, 2021
2pm > 6pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Publications and texts
Titre
Dates
Contrairement à une opinion répandue, le Lorem Ipsum n’est pas simplement du texte aléatoire. Il trouve ses racines dans une oeuvre de la littérature latine classique datant de 45 av. J.-C.,
On being
Lyndi Sales
06.05 – 27.06.2021
On being
Presentation
Lyndi Sales is searching.
She is searching for an elsewhere and is searching for a reunion. An escape to better connect to the world, to others, to herself. A love quest in the platonic sense, where love means a progression towards the knowledge of beauty and in fine the access to the indivisible*.
Lyndi Sales’ work process is meditative: she repeats gestures in a carefully crafted sound universe to provoke specific emotions (sadness, euphoria, melancholia, ecstasy) in order to enter a state of maximum receptivity… A dream of Utopia in response to a void, the feeling of being separated from others, even though beings are the universe and breathe together. The artist aspires to overcome contradictory emotions that characterize human life, by opening herself to an interior, contemplative world leading to other levels of consciousness. By doing so, she reaches new visions and distances herself from a sometimes hurtful societal reality.
* The definition of Diotima in Plato’s Banquet.
Agenda
Event
Paris Gallery Weekend
03/04/05/06 06.2021
11 am - 6 pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Sunday opening
marais.guide
May 30th, 2021
2pm-6pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Concert
Carte blanche to Louis Siracusa & Antonin Le Faure
Contemporary, baroque and improvised music
Bass & viola
June 4th, 2021
7pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Publications and texts
Titre
Dates
Contrairement à une opinion répandue, le Lorem Ipsum n’est pas simplement du texte aléatoire. Il trouve ses racines dans une oeuvre de la littérature latine classique datant de 45 av. J.-C.,
bla bla bleu
Peter Martensen & Morten Søndergaard
04.02 - 28.03.2021
bla-bla-bleu
Presentation
“Blue conversations” between the two Danish artists are behind bla bla bleu, the first shared exhibition of painter Peter Martensen and his dear friend poet, performer and artist Morten Søndergaard.
Indigo lies at the heart of it all: its sounds, space, light, time. Peter Martensen alludes to the indigo colour as a state and evokes the distance it brings as a master of memory and oblivion. He points out its luminosity in the obscurity and compares its melancholic tone to a cello’s. Morten Søndergaard puts forth its transformative and enchanting dimension, its link to the depths of existence.
Agenda
Opening reception
bla bla bleu
Thursday, Feb. 4th
12pm - 6pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Exceptional opening
The gallery will be open on Sunday, March 7th!
Sunday, Mar. 7th
2pm - 6pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Performances
Morten Søndergaard
Consultations du Pharmacien des Mots
Dates and schedule to be defined
Galerie Maria Lund
Reading
Morten Søndergaard
L'attrape-soleil
Dates and schedule to be defined
Galerie Maria Lund
Meeting
On lithography with
Peter Martensen
Date and schedule to be defined
Atelier Clot - 19 rue Vieille du Temple - Paris 4ème arr.
Press
Dossier de presse
Carte blanche à Min Jung-Yeon
Novembre 2019
Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet
Peter Martensen "ravage " l'entendement
Libre Belgique - Arts Libre
23 Août 2017
Semaine du 23 au 29 Août 2017
Roger-Pierre Turine
Vous avez dit "Complot" ?
Dossier
Le Monde diplomatique
Juin 2015
N°735
Dossier illustré par Peter Martensen
Publications and texts
rv à l'air libre
Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen
16.10.2020 - 30.01.2021
rv à l'air libre
Presentation
Accumulations of life remnants, still-lives of contemporary existence, architectures or altars meant for libations of consumerist society… As static as they are, Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen’s sculptures are intimately linked to pulsating life. A crowbar, old dentures found in an abandoned factory, a toaster, a piece of electric cable, a small shapeless cushion or even traces of nicotine on the wall; the inspirations are limitless. Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen is fascinated by the nooks of life, including those that exist in silent rejection or that could be described as ugly.
With an audacious ease that can be slightly provocative, Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen builds, piles, surrounds and hangs matter in rooms with an often precarious equilibrium. Skilled colorist, the artist navigates between the monochrome that unifies the artwork’s components and – on the contrary – the plurality of colors and textures, to bring out the personality of each element. A cunning feel for matters and materials manifests when the ceramic volumes include an old table leg, a glass tile, a log or a metallic element. In her world, total freedom and curiosity with an edge of playful humor reign: Take this… and take that… and then I add an extra…The artist is at ease in the chaos of potentials.
With rv in the open air, the desire for oxygen and vitality are very much present. Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen invites us to an imaginary picnic where games, spontaneity and the immediate can unfold as they are reunited with earth, the fundamental. A dream – maybe – but an essential dream that Pernille Pontoppidan Pedersen wishes to materialize to create a connection between beings… Funny birds will fly from an unknown location, the earth will reveal remains buried under the moth and ceramic feasts will open our appetite.
Agenda
Opening reception
With the artist present.
Thursday, October 15th
5 - 8.30 pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Late night opening
Extra hours!
Thursday, October 22nd until 10 pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Exceptional opening
A sunday afternoon at the gallery!
Sunday, October 18th from 2 pm to 6 pm
Sunday, October 25th from 12 pm to 7 pm
Galerie Maria Lund
Vernissage
Migrations
Samedi 16 novembre 2019
18h-20h30
Galerie Maria Lund
Artist talk
Nicolai Howalt & Esben Klemann
Samedi 16 novembre 2019
17h
Galerie Maria Lund
Artist talk
Nicolai Howalt & Esben Klemann
Samedi 16 novembre 2019
17h
Galerie Maria Lund
Press
Dossier de presse
Carte blanche à Min Jung-Yeon
Novembre 2019
Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet
Peter Martensen "ravage " l'entendement
Libre Belgique - Arts Libre
23 Août 2017
Semaine du 23 au 29 Août 2017
Roger-Pierre Turine
Vous avez dit "Complot" ?
Dossier
Le Monde diplomatique
Juin 2015
N°735
Dossier illustré par Peter Martensen