María Kristín

The Nature Within | Gallery NW

June 5 – June 16, 2019

Exploring the intersections of art, nature and the self the artists use the artist book’s intimate, tactile and sensual space to get in touch with their inner and outer world and to share their stories. 

“The Nature Within” 

– An exhibition showing unique artist books and the personal process in the making of them 

with 

María Kristín H. Antonsdóttir (IS) and Lene Harbo Pedersen (DK) 

The presented artists use the artist book’s intimate, tactile and sensual space to get in touch with and share experienses in connection with a major life change. When serious disease happens. When somebody close dies. When reality becomes a self-study. Going through mournful periods. Exploring the circle of life and death. Investigating the construction and articulation of memory, the existence individually and in affiliation with others. 

In the exhibition the two artist’s unique and handmade books ”Untitled Family Album #1” by María Kristín H. Antonsdóttir and ” Mod er mærker” by Lene Harbo Pedersen will be showcased together with visualization of the process material of sketches, archives, collages, reliefs, photographs, albums, nature elements and text. 

The content of the process in the making of them and the collaborations with other artistst, the exhibition will show the investigations, considerations of approaches and perspectives until the final choices of medium, method and material made.

Link to Copenhagen Photo Festival's event: https://copenhagenphotofestival.com/begivenhed/the-nature-within/

Being Human I Human Being | Carlsberg Byens Galleri og Kunstsalon

June 6 – June 16, 2019

This exhibition is a group exhibition with selected works from students and alumni from the two art schools Copenhagen School for Film & Photography and Pratt Institute, New York, which is listed as the worlds’ fifth best art school. The selected works focus on how to depict the many faces of humanity, both visually and philosophically. It explores the universal aspects of life, laughter, and everything in between in order to illustrate a wide understanding of what makes us all human. 

Exhibiting artists are: Hongyu Pu, Robert Leon Scheirer III, Duff Norris, Asger Korsgaard, Remington Smith, Xingze Li, Alexandria Barcenas, D-Jai Kosiyabong, Gerö Ambrus, Aaron Cohen, Anna Hyvärinen, Shinhee Yu, Liselotte Rasmussen, Christina Thurston, Akhira Montague, Gabriella Rivera, Su Ji Lee, Alexander Sedelnikov, Gitte Elgaard Nielsen, Spencer Harris and María Kristín H Antonsdóttir.

Link to Copenhagen Photo Festival's event: https://copenhagenphotofestival.com/en/begivenhed/being-human-i-human-being/

Material Analogues | F19 

8.juni - 16.juni 2019

Together with Copenhagen Photofestival, and two other photoartists: Inanna Riccardi & Elina Johanna Heise, I would like to welcome you to our upcoming exhibition, Material Analogues. You can read more on the link below:

https://copenhagenphotofestival.com/begivenhed/inanna-riccardi-maria-kristin-h-antonsdottir-elina-johanna-heise-material-analogues/?fbclid=IwAR3eBSd0UGzkaCQ5ZG5K09rM4KKjUcfIeFie_CbSKqefQZfXg9J6OI7nqs0 

Material Analogues presents various works that revolve around notions of memory, family, identity, and how these concepts are influenced by and represented in different historical periods. The three artists involved invite the audience into their worlds on the basis of archive material from their own families.

The exhibition is being held in the apartment of one of the artists, to highlight how an intimate and private moment is necessary when dealing with these compelling and delicate issues.

We invite the audience into a private home, where the private surroundings create a different and meaningful frame for three stories about family, memory and identity.