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With colour, with body
2016
hand cut linoleum floor, cast bronze figures in concrete foundation, ink on wall

Installation view:
Institute of Energy Technology, Ålborg University, Denmark


With colour, with body
2016
hand cut linoleum floor, cast bronze figures in concrete foundation, ink on wall

Installation view:
Institute of Energy Technology, Ålborg University, Denmark


With colour, with body
2016
hand cut linoleum floor, cast bronze figures in concrete foundation, ink on wall

Installation view:
Institute of Energy Technology, Ålborg University, Denmark


UpUpUpUp
2016

Installation view:
CentroCentro, Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid, Spain

 

Dogs & Sails
2014

Permanent commission:
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, UK

 

Dogs & Sails
2014
(installation detail)

Permanent commission:
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, UK

 

Dogs & Sails
2014
(installation detail)

Permanent commission:
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, UK

 

Dogs & Sails
2014
(installation detail)

Permanent commission:
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, UK


Peacock Blue Cut
2015
paper, ink, glue
variable dimensions

 


Politics I-LV
2013
ink dipped paper, adhesive
approx 38 x 28 cm each

 

Ocean
2014
paper collage
66 x 90.5 cm

 

Ocean
2014
paper collage
66 x 90.5 cm

 

Tree Stripe
2012
Frieze London
Sculpture Park, Regents Park

 

Tree Stripe
2012
Frieze London
Sculpture Park, Regents Park

 

Gardiner’s Eye Stripe
2012
ink on wall
SWITCH, Baltic 39, Newcastle, UK

 

The Akhenaton Stripes
2011
ink on wall
dimensions variable

 

Start Stop
2012
ink, watercolour, tape, fabric, pencil crayon on paper, perspex, nylon bolts
56 x 37.5 cm

 

Six and One (10)
2010
pencil, marker pen, watercolour, collage on paper
75.5 x 56 cm

 

Foot on the Ground (Light-Headed)
2011
perspex, nylon bolts, found paving slab
180 x 60 x 12 cm

 

Red
2010
fibreglass, pigment
172 x 40 x 30 cm

 

Installation view:
A Figure, A Rectangle
Maria Zahle, Ib Brasse
curated by Maria Zahle
Left to right:

Ib Brasse
J’aime
1970
bronze, iron, wood, paint
41 x 43 x 20 cm

Maria Zahle
Hollow
2010
plasteline clay on wall
168 x 54 x 44 cm

Maria Zahle
Follow
2010
perspex, tape, marker pen
176 x 38.5 x 20 cm

Maria Zahle
Yellow
2010
perspex, tape
164 x 25 x 26 cm

 

Follow
2010
perspex, tape, marker pen
176 x 38.5 x 20 cm

 

Hollow
2010
plasteline clay on wall
168 x 54 x 44 cm

 

Another Cut
2010
ink dipped paper

installation view: Stour Space, London

 

Born in 1979, Copenhagen, Denmark. Lives and works in London and Copenhagen.


Education

2009

Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK

2005

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

2004

Fine Art summer programme in Norfolk, Yale University, US

2001

Fine Art Photography Foundation, KUBA, Copenhagen, Denmark


Selected Solo Exhibitions/Two-person exhibitions

2016

Maria Zahle, CentroCentro, Madrid, ES

2015

My Favourite Phone Number, Arcade, London

2012

And Annika, Arcade, London, UK

Zippy, Zippy with Peggy Franck, Dorethea Schlüter Galeri, Hamburg, DE

2010

A Figure, A Rectangle with Ib Braase, Arcade, London, UK

2008

Hotdog, Jumping Frog, Albuquerque with John Walter, Tisvildeleje Pakhus, DK

2007

a2+b2=c2, The Hex, London, UK


Selected Group Exhibitions

2016

Baldock Pope Zahle, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK

2015

PAW, Arcade, London

2013

Squares & Triangles, Arcade, London, UK

Politics, Arcade, London, UK (curated by Maria Zahle)

The Double, Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen, DK

2010

Amer Abbas Gallery, curated by The Hex and Bell Street Project, Vienna, AT

Alice Channer, Dagmar Heppner, Alicja Kwade, Maria Zahle, BolteLang, Zurich, CH

2009

Double Object, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

Autonomy Together, Trottoir, Hamburg and Subvision Festival, Hamburg, DE

Middlemarch, Auto-Italia South East, London, UK

2008

Double Object, Occasionals, London, curated by Leigh Robb, UK

Production Still – Mike Cooter & The Hex, Moot, Nottingham, UK

The Hex Retrospective, Limoncello Gallery, London, UK


Selected Residencies, Prizes and Awards

2016

Commissioned artist for the Department of Energy at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, DK

Commissioned artist for Art Across the City, LOCWS International, Swansea, UK

2014

Commissioned artist for the Department of Energy at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, DK

2013

Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award (ARMA) Artist Residency at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, UK

Artist in residence, CAC, Andratx, Majorca, ES

2009

British School in Rome Prize, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK

2007

The Landseer Award, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK

2005

Artist in Residence, Bangkok University, TH

Terence Cuneo Memorial Prize

Duveen Travel Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

2004

Ellen Stoeckel Battell Fellowship, Yale University, US


Projects

2008-9

Participant in the project What Do Artists Do?, organised by Phyllida Barlow, supported by the Arts Council, England

2007

Member of music group ‘Squares & Triangles’

The Hex Colony, summer artist colony, SE

2006

Co-director (with Jason Dungan) of The Hex, London.


Bibliography

2012

‘And Annika’ Time Out, London, review by Rebecca Geldard, June 11th

2010

Artforum, Critic’s Picks: Alice Channer, Dagmar Heppner, Alicja Kwade, Maria Zahle. Review by Quinn Latimer

http://artforum.com/new.php?pn=archive&id=24859

Subvision Festival, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg

2009

Double Object, exhibition catalogue, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

ArtSlant, Round 2, Double Object review by Sarah McNulty,

http://www.artslant.com/lon/articles/show/8795

Frieze Magazine, Mike Cooter and The Hex. Moot.

Review by Sam Thorne, Issue 121, March

Manipulations, by Maria Zahle, self published book

2008

A Calzone, self published collaborative book

Production Still, exhibition catalogue, Moot, Nottingham

2007

‘Aquarium’, Time Out, London review by Martin Herbert, Nov 23rd