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Through her paintings, Mie Mørkeberg creates connections between the outer and inner worlds, the dreamlike, instinctual, and subconscious, unfolding in a strange universe where animals and humans coexist and seem to nourish one another. Mie Mørkeberg has developed a visual language of repeated motifs: glowing sun-like shapes, mysterious figures, and swirly formations that vibrate with rich colors in her symbolist image space. Mie Mørkeberg conducts a continuous exploration of materials. She blends oil and acrylic and alternates between transparent and thick layers of brushstrokes. She applies cut-out pieces of canvas to experiment with composition and breaks in the image surface. The result is a tactile, almost skin-like quality that echoes the often raw and vulnerable people she is interested in depicting.
Since 2022, Mie Mørkeberg has been working on a group portrait of 30 significant women in Danish, Faroese, and Greenlandic politics. This project marks her first time painting with portraiture and a foundation in real life. The painting, titled Samtalen 1918-2024 (The Conversation 1918-2024), will be permanently displayed at Christiansborg. Although the painting differs in several ways from her previous work, it is deeply infused with Mie Mørkeberg’s expression: the intensity and depth of the colors, the intricate swirls that connect with the politicians’ clothing, and the mystical quality that arises in the meeting of many women from different generations and positions. Three radiant suns open the painting, like portals leading back to Mie Mørkeberg’s symbolist world of motifs while simultaneously pointing toward the future.
Mie Mørkeberg (1980, DK) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. In addition to several solo exhibitions, including at the Trapholt Museum of Art and Design (2021) and Kunstmuseum Brandts (2015), she has created multiple public artworks, including works for the UN City in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn (2015), Roskilde Municipality (2019), and Mercantec in Viborg (2022). Her works are part of the collections at the Trapholt Museum of Art and Design, Randers Art Museum, the organization Kunst på Arbejde, the Danish Arts Foundation, and the New Carlsberg Foundation. In 2015, she received a three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation, and in 2024, she created Samtalen 1918-2024 – a group portrait of 30 women in politics, commissioned by the Danish Parliament.
Fruit Hunter, Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2022)
Feber, Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2018)
Den Glemte Have, Sanseudstilling, Brandts (2015) - timelapse video af opbygning her.
Vakuum, Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2014)
Private - Public, Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2012)
Afterwards, Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2009)
Hjemmefra, Galleri Tom Christoffersen (2007)
Ugens Kunstner - Mie Mørkeberg af Marianne Ager, kunsten.nu (2015)
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Samtalen 1918-2024, olie på lærred, 280 x 450 cm
Fruit Hunter, 2022, oil on canvas, 200 x 250 cm
Inside the Treetop, 2022, oil on canvas, 140 x 280 cm
Rind, 2022, oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm
Pigeons, 2022, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm
Kryptomanian Lemon Tree, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 190h x 290w cm
The Orange Dream, 2022, olie på lærred, 250 x 400 cm
The Orange Dream, 2022, olie på lærred, 420 x 220 cm
Tal til Hånden, oil on canvas, 250 x 150 cm
The Nameless Knight, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 190 x 460 cm
Kryptomanian Mermaid, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 190 x 340 cm
The Sleepwatchers, 2021, oil and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 140 cm
Peartree, oil on canvas, 170 x 190 cm
Portal, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 170h x 190w cm (1)
Portal, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 170h x 190w cm
In the Shadow of Khaos, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 250h x 150w cm
Untitled (90), 2019, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm