Maria Finn
Elmegade 14 st.tv.
DK-2200 Copenhagen N
email: maria [at] mariafinn.dk


Represented by The Apartment, Athens - www.theapartment.gr

Education

PhD student in Fine Arts at Copenhagen Doctoral School, Department of Literature, Cultural Studies, and the Arts, and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 2007-2010
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1991-1997

Solo Exhibitions

2009

"Las babas del diablo / Soundtrack For A Park", The Armory Show, New York - solo presentation with The Apartment
2007 "Summer After Monika", The Apartment, Athens
2005 "Sometimes the Desert is Red", The Apartment, Athens
2003 "Deceptive Nature", Gallery Axel Mörner, Stockholm
2002 "Maria Finn", The Apartment, Athens
"New Games", Galleri 54, Gothenburg
2001

”Naturel”, Gallery Axel Mörner, Stockholm

2000 "Summer Games", Overgaden, Copenhagen
1998 ”Juicy Details”, Gallery Axel Mörner, Stockholm
”23 embroidered tablecloths”, Zoolounge, Oslo
1996 ”Du må”, Udstillingsstedet Nørre Farimagsgade, Copenhagen
1995 ”Party”, Udstillingsstedet Nørre Farimagsgade, Copenhagen
“3 x Paris", Overgaden, Copenhagen
”Paranoia”, window show, Udstillingsstedet Nørre Farimagsgade, Copenhagen
Group Exhibitions
2009 "Fri porto", Den Frie, Copenhagen
"Plum Velvet Nr. 4", Overgaden, Copenhagen
2008 Technically Sweet, Participant Inc. Anthology Film Archives, New York
“Strip”, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
"In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman", Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
“Digital Romance: Selected Works from the Aris Stoidis Collection”, VILKA, Thessaloniki
Technically Sweet, Overgaden, Copenhagen
”And Now?”, The State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2006 "Now Here and Never Again", Den Frie, Copenhagen
"Black & White", Hellenic American Union, Athens
"Strip", Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel
"Esplanaden", Den Frie, Copenhagen
"The Anniversary Show", The Apartment, Athens
"Strip", Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
"Here, I Disappear", The Apartment, Athens
2005  "Map and Fiction", Østre Anlæg/Amorparken/Fælledparken, Copenhagen
"Strip", Kunstverein, Hannover
"Strip", Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
"Deserted Lot", Southfirst, New York
2004 "The Nature of the Place", Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle
"The Rain is Always most beautiful by the Water", I-N-K, Copenhagen
"The Drawing Project", Vamiali's, Athens
"Summer Breeze", The Apartment, Athens
"The Charlottenborg Fall Exhibition", Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2003  "Spheres of Valency", Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava
"Plum Velvet Nr. 3", Overgaden, Copenhagen
"Drawings", Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden
"Fra Objektiv til Objekt", Den Frie, Copenhagen
2002 "Transpose", Passagen, Linköping, Sweden
"DK", ESAP, Perpignan, France
"Breathing Space", Parc André Citroën, Paris
"Esplanaden", Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
"Alibi", Den Frie, Copenhagen
2001 “Omstilling 4“, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
”Omstilling 3”, Jyväskylää Art Museum, Finland
“Maria Finn & Marion Meyer“, Colette, Paris
"KOM", Mozarts Plads, Copenhagen
2000 ”Sweet dreams (are made of this)", Exedra, Hilversum, Netherlands
”Omstilling 2”, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden
”Crack is wack”, Transmission, Glasgow
”What if”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
”Park”, Momentum, Moss, Norway
”Elysian Fields”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1999 ”Cities on the Move 4”, Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark
”Oh no, not me, I never lost control”, Gallery Specta, Copenhagen
”9 Drawings”, with Lars Jörgen Svensson, Lödöse Museum, Sweden
”Visions of periphery”, Gallery Carlos Falchi, New York
”Omstilling”, Jungersted & Broström, Copenhagen
Plum Velvet Nr. 2, fanzine
”Out of focus”, Rhizom, Århus, Denmark
”LAB – because you are worth it”, Overgaden, Copenhagen
1998 ”Boomerang”, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
”Wrapped”, Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø
"B&B unlimited presents", Galerie des Archives, Paris
1997 ”Alikeness”, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
”Purple fashion Nr. 3”, Colette, Paris
”Projekt IV”, Gallery Axel Mörner, Stockholm
”Stofskifte”, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
”D-I-Y”, Mapping and Instruction”, Bricks and Kicks, Wien
”Your home is an ideal place for crying”, B&B Gallery, Paris
"Sju sorters kakor", with Lisa Strömbeck, 1997, Tomelilla  Konsthall, Sweden
1996 ”Beige” by Purple Prose, Compartments, Saga Basement, Copenhagen
Plum Velvet Nr. 1, fanzine
1995 ”Åben udstilling”, groupshow Udstillingsstedet, Copenhagen
”Love all, serve all”, performance with Cecilia Wendt, Saga Basement, Copenhagen
Bibliography
“Når det politiske mudrer til”, Mette Sandbye, Weekendavisen, November 28 2008 [doc english] [pdf dansk]
“Bergmans filmreifer Einzug ins Museum”, Isolde Schaffter-Wieland, Schweitzer Ilustrierte, August 11 2008

“In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman”, Petra Giezendanner, catalogue, Kunstmuseum Thun, 2008 [doc]

“On the fringes of narrative”, Despina Zefkili, Athinorama, December 27 2007 [doc]

"Maria Finn: Summer After Monika", Andrea Gilbert, City Uncovered, December 6 2007

“Summer After Monika”, Rania Georgiadou, E, November 2007 [pdf]
"All Alone", Augustine Zenakos, a:athens contemporary art review #9, January 2007 [pdf]
"The Stripped and the Naked", Yannis Constantinides, Athens Voice, March 31 2005 [doc]
"White Drawings on Red Desert", Fotini Barka, Efetherotypia, April 27 2005
"Black & White Desert", Despina Zefkili, Athinorama, April 24 2005 [doc]

"Svensk konst nu", Sophie Allgård, SAK årsbog 2004 [doc]

"Kunstnerisk frirum", Kristine Kern, Politiken, July 4 2003

"Finn belyser de förföriska modereportagens retorik", Thomas Olsson, Svenska Dagbladet, April 5 2003

"Naughty Nectar", Katherina Zacharopoulos, Ethnos, September 22 2002

"White drawings and Parks", Maria Aroni, Anti, September 20 2002

“Popular culture and art; an effective mix”, Alexandra Koroxenidis, Herald Tribune, September 16 2002

“Drawing like Sex”, Augustine Zenakos, TO VIMA, September 15 2002
"Maria Finn", Despina Zefkili, Athinorama, July 25 2002

"Portraits", Jeff Rian, Purple 10, spring issue 2002

”Kurragömma i naturen”, Lars O Ericsson, Dagens Nyheter, March 3 2001

"Trendmönstring i konstens Moss", Fred Andersson, Svenska Dagbladet, June 10 2000

"Tvetydig sommer", Kristine Kern, Politiken, November 3 2000

"Mærket på kroppen”, Rune Gade, Information, November 1 2000

”On Maria Finn’s Photographic Works”, Jonas Ekeberg, catalogue ”Park”, Momentum, Moss 2000

”Baseball”, Kristine Kern, Art magazine 1% #5, 1999

”Forbidden Figs”, Lars O Ericsson, Dagens Nyheter, November 15 1998

"Kvindekunsten vender tilbage", Naja Alberdi Platz, Information, February 24 1998

”Purple Buste”, Simon Sheikh, Purple Prose #11, 1996

”Du må”, Simon Sheikh, Øjeblikket #27, 1996

Magazines - contributions

SUM #1 2007

Fabrik #2-3 2005
Øjeblikket #44 2004
Purple #5 2000, #10 2002
bang #1 1999
Purple #2 1998, #3 1999, #4 1999
Purple Fashion #3 1997, #4 1998
Index #2 1998
S.cr.a.m. #3 1998

updated Jan. 25, 2010