Photo by Elisa von Brockdorff
Marie Louise Kold works with metal intuitively, obsessively, and with deep respect for a material that can never been fully tamed. She etches, patinates and shapes copper, brass and bronze into works that are strongly three-dimensional, emotionally charged, and alive to light, angle and touch. They slowly transform from touch and time.
Her work ranges from intimate wall-hung pieces to large-scale architectural and corporate commissions. She has created works for permanent public collections, including a copper portrait of assassinated Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, which hangs in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, and LEGACY, a sculpture in copper and Maltese limestone commissioned for Malta’s national art collection. A commission by Canon for the premises of Axis Communications in Lund resulted in a monumental work built from 5,944 individual bronze squares — its pixel density and aspect ratio a direct reference to the subject’s contributions to digital camera technology. Words and text appear frequently in her work, used both directly and as underlying structure.
She has also created works that exist at the intersection of art and cultural heritage — among them a commission for the Notarial Archives in Valletta, created to accompany the Kantilena, the oldest known literary text in the Maltese language and a UNESCO Memory of the World inscription. Private commissions have taken her work across Europe, most recently an extensive, permanent installation of 47 individual copper pieces for a private residence in Spain.
Over the years Marie Louise has supported causes relating to freedom of speech and freedom of the press through sales, auctions and donations of her art.
Her art is in private collections across the world, including that of the Swedish Royal Court. She exhibits and sells internationally.
Born in Århus, Denmark in 1974 and educated in archaeology, metallurgy, art and bronze casting, she has been creating metal art since the mid-1990s and is based in southern Sweden, where she works out of a large studio surrounded by forests and wild animals.
