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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Maria WæhrensAskeonsdag #3 (Ash Wednesday #3), 202370 x 50 cm
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Maria WæhrensAskeonsdag #4 (Ash Wednesday #4), 2023
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Maria WæhrensAskeonsdag #5 (Ash Wednesday #5), 202370 x 50 cm
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Maria WæhrensAskeonsdag #6 (Ash Wednesday #6), 202370 x 50 cm
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Maria WæhrensAskeonsdag #7 (Ash Wednesday #7), 202370 x 50 cm
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Maria WæhrensFarvel (Farewell) , 202360 x 40 cm
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Maria WæhrensMin vej (My way), 202389 x 77 cm
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Maria WæhrensOpvågning (Awakening), 202367 x 55 cm
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Maria WæhrensSanselig bevidsthed (selvet) (Sensuous Consciousness) (The Self) , 2023160 x 240 cm
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Maria WæhrensSolen og såret (Sun and Wound), 2023160 x 120 cm
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Maria WæhrensVingen, 202361 x 52 cm
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Maria WæhrensIn love , 202262 x 66 cm
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Maria WæhrensThe fish of the sea and the birds of the air , 2022180 x 150 cm
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Maria WæhrensUntitled #1, 2022140 x 220 cm
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Maria WæhrensUntitled #3, 2022220 x 85 cm
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Maria WæhrensUntitled #8, 202298 x 70 cm
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Maria WæhrensBetween, 202150 x 61 cm
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Maria WæhrensRepainting (the house 2006) , 202160 x 40 cm
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Maria WæhrensEnglen, 2019570 x 190 cm (3 x 190 x 190 cm)
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Maria WæhrensGå din vej Maria #3, 2019120,9 x 80,1 cm
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Maria WæhrensGå din vej Maria #8, 2019121 x 80,3 cm
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Maria WæhrensBroken Hand, 2018170 x 180 cm
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Maria WæhrensMY PAIN YOUR PAIN #1, 201770 x 50 cm
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Maria WæhrensMY PAIN YOUR PAIN #6, 201770 x 50 cm
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Maria WæhrensMY PAIN YOUR PAIN #8, 201770 x 50 cm
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Maria Wæhrens: I Take Care of You and Me
10 - 17 Feb 2024On 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'...Read more -
Maria Wæhrens: Ash Wednesday
21 Apr - 3 Jun 2023We 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...Read more -
Maria Wæhrens: Tradition
30 Sep - 12 Nov 2022For 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,...Read more