Maiken Bent
About
Maiken Bent (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, and 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 nationally at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ARoS, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Gl. Holtegaard, and Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. Internationally she has exhibited at Kunsthal Oslo, Yves Klein Archives, Paris, and KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin. Her works are part of collections at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ARoS, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Sorø Kunstmuseum, SKMU Sørlandet Art Museum, Heart - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art and The Danish Arts Foundation.
Works
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Maiken BentTools #22, 2024255 x 35 x 20 cm
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Maiken BentCarapace #1, 202312 x 95 x 45 cm
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Maiken BentTools #21, 2023180 x 47 x 20 cm
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Maiken BentFixtures # 10 , 2022176 x 46 x 46 cm
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Maiken BentFixtures #2, 202246 x 50 x 40 cm
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Maiken BentFixtures #3, 2022120 x 64 x 97 cm
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Maiken BentFixtures #4, 2022179 x 76 x 76 cm
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Maiken BentFixtures #5, 2022184 x 65 x 65 cm
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Maiken BentFixtures #6, 2022182 x 76 x 76 cm
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Maiken BentFixtures #7, 2022145 x 115 x 49 cm
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Maiken BentFixtures #8, 202297 x 28 x 30 cm
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Maiken BentTrapez #3, 201750x40x35 cm
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Maiken BentTrolley #12, 2016110 x 65 x 110 cm
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Maiken BentOCC-W #3, 2012190 x 55 x 24 cm
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Maiken BentOCC-W #9, 2012115 x 35 x 35 cm
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Exhibitions
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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 more -
Maiken 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