Maria Rubinke

Overview

Born 1985 in Haarby, Denmark.
Lives and works in Copenhagen.

Maria Rubinke graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Department of Ceramics in Bornholm, Denmark (2008). Rubinke works with bronze castings as well as classic porcelain figure, where she allows the incomprehensible and chaotic in the human subconscious to rise to the surface.

The pure white porcelain surface attracts the gaze of the viewer, but at the same time distorts our presuppositions when the small porcelain girls are slowly broken down and subjected to contrast-filled madness. They sink down and seem to drown in the thick mud of the bog and are fatally bitten by a snake. Like the surrealists, Maria Rubinke thematizes the complexity of the human psyche and works in a formal idiom all her own.

Selected Works

Biography / CV

Born 1985 in Haarby, Denmark.
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

EDUCATION

2008 – The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Department of Ceramics, Bornholm, Denmark

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Walking Shadow, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021

Ever, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2019

LEGACY, Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Kastrup, Denmark

LEGACY, Bornholms kunstmuseum, Gudhjem, Denmark

2016

VOLTA, New York City, United States

2014

It’s better to burn out than to fade away, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Denmark

2012

Fragile, Vejle Museum of Art, Vejle, Denmark

Galleri Franz Pedersen, Horsens, Denmark

2010

Haugar Vestfold Museum of Art, Tønsberg, Norway

2010/2009

Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009

Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark

2008

Falkener Project, Copenhagen, Denmark

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Monomythology, The Hole, New York City, United States

2023

Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

ENTER Art Fair – Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022

Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021

Beautés equivoques, Fondation Bernardaud, Limoges, France

Summer In The City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020

Chart De-centered, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018

No Ordinary Moments, EMMA Museum, Espoo, Finland

2016

Napoleon Complexity, AFA Gallery, New York & Las Vegas, United States

2015

Summer in the City no. 10, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Leaving an Image Behind, Galleri Kirk, Aalborg, Denmark

2014

Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013

Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark

2012

The Civic Museum, Bassano del Grappa, Italy

Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Brussels, Belgium

Rasson Art Gallery, Tournai, Belgium

Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Paris, France

Galleri Franz Pedersen, Horsens, Denmark

Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011

Rasson Art Gallery, Tournai, Belgium

Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Paris, France

Galleri Franz Pedersen, Horsens, Denmark

Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010

Haugar Vestfold Museum of Art, Tønsberg, Norway

Sølvberget, Stavanger Kulturhus, Stavanger, Norway

Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Paris, France

Gallery Artitled, Herpen, The Netherlands

Galleri Franz Pedersen, Horsens, Denmark

Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark

2009

Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, Denmark

Galerie Ulf Saupe, Berlin, Germany

Falkener Project, Copenhagen Denmark

Museum of International Ceramic Art, Grimmerhus, Denmark

2008

Falkener Project, Copenhagen, Denmark

Museum of International Ceramic Art, Grimmerhus, Denmark

Bornholm Museum of Art, Gudhjem, Denmark

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland

Haugar Vestfold Museum Art, Tønsborg, Norway

Vejle Museum of Art, Vejle, Denmark

CLAY, Museum of Ceramic Art, Middelfart, Denmark

Bornholm Museum of Art, Bornholm, Denmark

AWARDS

Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond, Talent prize 2008, for one graduating student

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

School of Architecture, Design and Conservation (Bornholm)

Silkeborg Kunstnerlegat

Commissions

2021

Finding Forever, permanent large scale sculpture, Villa Gug, Aalborg, Denmark

2021

Ever thine, Ever mine, Ever ours, permanent large-scale sculpture, Horsens, Denmark

2019

Wannabe Mermaid, permanent large-scale sculpture, Horsens, Denmark

2019

I Found Myself Within A Forest Dark, permanent large-scale bronze relief, Alchemist, Denmark