ASTRID MARIE CHRISTIANSEN

Exploring the lopsided visual world of Astrid Marie Christiansen often
emphasizes how her works often are completely "off", where it can be difficult for us to make sense of what is happening with the visual perception when observing her multidimensional works.
We are lead on an optical journey that is vivid, crooked and experimental, and where you have doubts whether it is painting or sculpture. This is, among other things, due to the frames, which literally are crooked, by virtue of the artists' self-built stretchers, which have become the artist's signature.

Art historian and writer Josephine Fity describes it in the artist's new catalog, which is also launched in the gallery at the opening, like this :
“This 'dance' the art pieces make with the viewer is due to the deliberately lopsided and asymmetrical wooden frames on which the canvases are stretched. They give the impression that the painting is twisting out of its normal square shape and almost transformed into a sculptural object. Objects that allow the eye to wander and discover new dimensions in all the small corners of the painting and arranged tripping. A continuous search and play with colors, shapes and spaces.
You have to physically move out to the sides, bow, take a step forward and maybe one back again to capture it all.
The works are what you are seeing: a constant negotiation between shape and color.
The outcome is an elevating release that breaks with daily life. ”
The artist expresses it herself like this:
"I'm a talkative person. Therefore the painting is me keeping on talking when are no more words left."

Astrid Marie Christiansen was born in 1981 and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2012. She works with and is painting with everything from watercolor, pencil, coffee, optical black and white, varnish and pastel colors.
SOLO AND DUO SHOWS

2019
OFF, KIRK Gallery
Solid, Camilla Reyman og Astrid Marie Christiansen, Koldinggade KBH
Draw a Line Then Cross it, Malte Fisker og Astrid Marie Christiansen, Kunstpakhuset I Ikast

2018
Dazzle Camouflage, Boulevard156

2017
Pardon My Darlings, Polikens Forhal

2016
På Kanten, Erland Knudssøn Madsen og Astrid Marie Christiansen, Kunstbygningen I Vrå
I Make Science, Vandrehallen

2015
Anna Sørensen & Astrid Marie Christiansen, Borup Kulturhus

2014
Long, Long, Long, Galleri Tom Christoffersen

2012
Fundamental Funnies, Vanløse Kulturstation

2011
Garage: Astrid Marie Christiansen og Claus H. Jensen, BKS Garage

2009
Points of Return, Hans Alf Gallery 2010
Systemer i Grønningen


GROUP SHOWS

2019
Kunsthal Nord, ENTRE
ART Herning, KIRK Gallery

2018
A space in time, KIRK Gallery
North Art fair, Aalborg, KIRK Gallery
Beauty is in the Reaction, 2018, Koldinggade 12 (Kurator og udstillende kunster)
Interdimensionale, Gammelgaard, Herlev
Black White and Shades of Grey, Koldinggade 12

2017
Teksturer, Koldinggade 12
NordArt. Büdelsdorf, Tyskland
Vestjyllandsudstillingen (gæsteudstiller), Janusbygningen

2016
Christmas Show, Galleri Christoffer Egelund
Reality Perceived, Galleri Christoffer Egelund

2015
Pop Up, Grønttorvet København
Picture Pulling Poking, Nordahl og Nissen Contemporary (kurator og deltagende kunstner)
100 Kvinder på Kro, 2015, Byens Kro

2012
Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Afgangsudstilling, Nikolaj Kunsthal
Berlin Klondyke, Odd Gallery, Yukon, Canada, 2011 og Los Angeles Art Center, 2011/12 
Juleudstilling, Hans Alf Gallery, 2010/11
Triangle, Galleri

2010
Christoffer Egelund
KUP, Hans Alf Gallery

2009

Forårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg

COMMISIONS

2019
Udsmykning af gulv, Bakkeskolen i Esbjerg
Cykelbro, facader. Grøndalsvej i Odense (titel: Hi-Vis Serenade)

2017
BUC, Bispebjerg Hospital

2016
Retsbygningen i Svendborg, retssal 6

2014
Alfabetbyen, Vesterbro Bibliotek

2012
Mindlab, Erhvervs- og vækstministeriet
Kulturministeriet, 2011-2012


SPONSORSHIP

2018
Statens Kunstfond, arbejdslegat

2016
Statens Kunstfond, produktionsstøtte til På Kanten

2014
Statens Værksteder, træværksted og atelier, juni - august
Statens Kunstfond, produktionsstøtte til udstillingen Long, Long, Long