Marie Lund (b. 1976, Denmark) investigates surfaces and materiality in her works, distinguished by their exploration of shape and molding. Incorporating materials such as found objects, metal, clay, textiles, and concrete, the artist reveals forms that are recognizable yet unconventional in their manipulation of volume and texture. Lund’s investigation into surface and materiality results in a body of work in which form transcends the mundane. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal College of Art. Her work has been shown at the Museo Marino Marini, the Palais de Tokyo, Museum Kunstpalast, and Tate, among others.

Marie Lund’s oeuvre is characterized by a multifaceted approach to the discipline of sculpture. She is interested in the transformation of materials and the shaping of forms. Bodies, everyday objects, and architectural elements are the starting points for her artistic research into the nature of volume, surface and structure. She often works with found objects whose back-story is embedded in the material. Her sculptures are either in the centre or in the margins, but always part of the infrastructure for interaction.The artist transforms these into her own shapes by adding or subtracting, accentuating marks or blurring them, dissolving structures or revealing new qualities.

Marie Lund poetically exposes imprints and reactionary forces as she explores the place and moment of intersection where different objects meet the external world. Lund thoughtfully manipulates these elements, as the physical traces of her process are left visible for us to find in the forms she creates. Leading us down a path of new experiences and perceptions, she draws out the sublime from the ordinary. Lund’s works have a distinctly atmospheric quality about them, as if the dichotomies between form and content, internal and external, the body and the material, which are explored in her work can be felt throughout.