Marianne Vierø

Marianne Vierø works with installation, sculpture and print in a process driven by equal parts intuition and analysis. She investigates the underlying premises of our systems of understanding and considers the transformative potential of materials, methods, and gestures. Taking inspiration from the structures of language, her practice involves a continuous process of translation that collapses chronologies and categorization and places her work in a constant state of becoming.

During her residency at MORPHO she will experiment with sculpture and its representation in relation to temporality. One line of experiments will involve the development of a sculptural language shaped around sheet metal and encaustics (beeswax, resin and pigment). Another will materialize as analogue photograms speculatively documenting silhouetted sculptural form and subjective gesture on photographic paper. In May 2024 Marianne will present a solo exhibition at the Refectory, supported by the Danish Arts Foundation.

Marianne Vierø lives and works in Copenhagen. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. She’s been a resident at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; and Triangle Arts, NYC. Her work has been included in shows at The Art Museum at the University of Toronto; Den Frie, Copenhagen; De Vleeshal, Middelburg; and The Philadelphia Museum of Art among others. Selected solo shows include ‘Drawing Nude’ at Rita Urso, Milan; ‘Dunk’ and ‘Great Transformation’ at Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam; and ‘Zeppelin Bend’ at PAKT, Amsterdam. Her work is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.