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Mie Mørkeberg: Untitled, undated. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 170 x 190 cm. Mie Mørkeberg: Untitled, 2006. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 x 160 cm.
Mie Mørkeberg’s paintings balance between the figurative and the abstract. With expressive brushstrokes and dripping paint, she shapes her universes, where the atmosphere can be both absurd and threatening. The two paintings represent an early period in Mie Mørkeberg’s painting practice, where the distinction between man and nature is undergoing a dissolvement, and where indefinable spaces set the scene for enigmatic motifs. In general, in her early practice, the paintings are almost always empty of people, even though the motifs often indicate a human presence. Thus, human objects are to be found in the paintings, while the people themselves rather exists as a possible before or after. When Mie Mørkeberg received the National Art Foundation’s three-year work grant in 2015, she decided to rethink her artistic practice. This resulted in a new world of motifs, where women took their place in the artist’s paintings. Here, the women were boxing, drowning or in conversation, and while the motifs were new, the painting technique was unmistakably hers, where alternating thick and transparent layers of paint build the composition of the work. As a new approach, she introduced a collage technique with the canvas, which emphasized her painterly techniques and allowed her to work more freely with the image surface. Today, Mie Mørkeberg has once again opened her circle
of motifs, where animals and people seem to coexist, and where the universe becomes increasingly enigmatic..
Mie Mørkeberg (1980 DK) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 2006. She has most recently exhibited at the Trapholt Museum of Art and Design, DK; Gl. Holtegaard, DK; Den Frie, DK, and Brandts, DK. Mie Mørkeberg has created several works for public spaces, including the UN City in Nordhavn, and she has
been selected to paint the large group portrait of 30 significant women in Danish politics. The portrait will be exhibited permanently in the Conversation Room at Christiansborg. Mie Mørkeberg is represented by Galleri Tom Christoffersen in Copenhagen
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