ABOUT
Maria Dubin was born in Gentofte, Denmark, and spent her childhood in Los Angeles and Stubbekøbing. She currently lives and works between Copenhagen and Paris.
A student of Professors Erling Fredriksen and Christian Magle, Glyptoteket in Copenhagen, Maria studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under professors Sennelar and Sivestri 1983-1987. During a five-year stay in Tunisia, she explored ceramics, mosaics, and tapestry. Maria is also the founder of the art movement Artunite which brings together artists from various disciplines to create work for individuals in challenging life situations. Having lived in The United States, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Tunisia, she is now based in Denmark and France, continuing to work on projects worldwide.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SITE SPECIFIC WORKS
* With publication
2023 Completion of The Secret Garden, paintings, collage, paravents, glass-work, film, floor decoration, light and color composition, The main hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark*
2023 Symphony, new paintings, Musikhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 The Old Convent Garden in the Tunis Medina, Fahrenheit Gallery, Carthage, Tunisia*
2022 The Spanish Garden, Gallery Peltier, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 Drawings from the Tunis Medina, pop up Darmeso Artist Residency, Tunisia
2022 Tactile Metamorphosis, Holmegaard Works Museum, Denmark*
2021 Garden and Mountain Drawings, pop up Beckett Foundation, Andalusia, Spain
2021 Tactile Metamorphose, pop -up, The Factory for Art and Design, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 Textile Circularity, Art & Technology, Holmegaard Works Museum, Denmark*
2020 Take a walk in the Park, Holmegaard Works Museum, Denmark*
2020 Take a walk in the Park, Art Academy, Fyen, Denmark*
2019/20 Tania Blixen´s Blumen, Kunst im Kapellengang, Uniklinikum, Giessen, Germany *
The Secret Garden, gesamtkonstwerk, site specific work, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Les Fleur de Karen Blixen, Librairie galerie Fahrenheit 451, Tunisia *
The Marsa Mural, private collection, Tunisia.
Træet, site-specific painting Støvring library, Denmark
2018 Microscopic Feast, commission painting, CEA, Science center and University Paris, France
2017 Karen Blixens Blomster, Karen Blixen Museum, Rungsted, Denmark*
La Arbre Rouge de ma Mere, Clean Earth Capital, Serbia
2016 Retrospective of public works, painted in schools in Northern Jutland, during a 10-year period. Dronninglund Kunstcenter, DK*,
Mural, Inflectional disease department, Rigshospital, Copenhagen, DK
2015 Mural, Oncologic Institute, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 The Message of the Flower – is the flower, Galleri Hegnhøj and Blyme, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 The Message of the Seahorse – is the seahorse, Litera, Nis, Serbia
2013 Seahorse Symphony – Why Fish never cease to Inspire, keynote speaker and exhibition, Copenhagen University, DK
Seahorse Symphony, at Centro de las Artes de San Augustin, Oaxaca, Mexico
2012 World in Denmark – City Plantastic, keynote speaker and exhibition, Copenhagen University, DK
Life Paintings, at Hospice Djursland, Denmark*
2011 The Haeckel Paintings, where included in the Rambøll collection
Completion of The Wall, 1000m2 calligraphic wall painting, Rambøll, Aarhus, Denmark*
2009 Akvarium, CCA Center, Andratx – Mallorca, Spain
The Erotic Garden, mural, private home Luxembourg
Respecting Mother Earth, mural, Novozymes, Bostad , Sweden
2014 The Message of the Seahorse – is the seahorse, Litera, Niš, Serbia
2013 Seahorse Symphony – Why Fish never cease to Inspire, keynote speaker and exhibition, Copenhagen University, DK
Seahorse Symphony, at Centro de las Artes de San Augustin, Oaxaca, Mexico
2012 World in Denmark – City Plantastic, keynote speaker and exhibition, Copenhagen University, DK
Life Paintings, at Hospice Djursland, Denmark*
2011The Haeckel Paintings, where included in the Rambøll collection
Completion of The Wall, 1000m2 calligraphic wall painting, Rambøll, Aarhus, Denmark*
2009 Akvarium, CCA Center, Andratx – Mallorca, Spain
The Erotic Garden, mural, private home Luxembourg
Respecting Mother Earth, mural, Novozymes, Bostad, Sweden
2008 The Fungus Paintings, Belgrade Museum of Natural history, Belgrade, Serbia
The Organic Paintings, Novozymes, Curitiba, Brazil
The Glass Wall, Athens, private collection, Greece
Elskovshaven, mural, private collection, Luxembourg
Urania Paintings, Kunsten, North Jutlands Art Museum, Aalborg
2007 Science Paintings, Novozymes, North Carolina, USA
Belgrade Pillars – the Garden within Belgrade, Serbia
Drawings for the Bulowsvej mural, Life, Copenhagen University, DK
2006 Feed more Geese and get Rich, Novozymes, Beijing, China
The African Paintings, Aalborg Zoo, Aalborg
Dialogue in the Dark – The Paintings, Experimentarium-Science Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Bacteria Mural, Novozymes, Bagsværd, DK
The Paul Paintings, Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 The Fungus Paintings Botanical Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark
Animals, ink drawings, Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark
Ink Drawings & Paintings Museum of Natural History, Copenhagen
2004 Greek Gods and Myths, Olympic Games, Athens, Greece*
2003 And the Dragons follow me around, Mungopark Theater, Allerød
Manhattan, Marsa, Marseille, Parkart Gallery, Marseille, France
2001 Måleri, Textil, Mosaik, National Museum of History, Stockholm, Sweden*
2000 Bateau Espoir, Belverdere Museum, Tunis, Tunisia*
Petits Bateaux, Cherif Fine Arts Gallery, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
1999 Les Dragons de la Marsa, Mille Feuilles Gallery, La Marsa, Tunisia*
1998 La Madone, le Poisson et le Dragon, Museum of Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
1997 Mabrouka Latexco, Tielt, Belgium
1001 Nuits, Wijnhoven Gallery, Brugge, Belgium
1996 Circles in Circles, Cirque Romanes, Paris, France
1995 Portraits- People I know, Art Senal, Issy – les Moulineaux, France
1994 Europe Factory Montreuil, Frankrig
1992 Politikens Art collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
1990 Ingen vej fra Vallingby, Gallery Plaisiren, Stockholm, Sweden
Portraets, Gallery Projekt Copenhagen, Denmark
1989 The Mermaid, Praia Culture Center, Cap Verde
1988 Hyldest til Alfred, Gallery Marius, Copenhagen, Denmark
Maleri og Musik Collaboration with the pianist Tove Jakobsen, Dronninglund Castle, Fuglsang, Lolland, Denmark
1987 Tuborg Art Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2018 Workshop and exhibition, Kairoun, Tunisa
2017 Workshop and exhibiton, Gafsa, Tunisia
Film premiere of the ARTUNITE movement’s first collaboration, Vanlose kulturcenter, Denmark
2016 The first ARTUNITE event, Kongelunden refugee camp, Denmark
2007 The Apple Paintings, Kunsten-i-Maden Festival, Aros, Aarhus, DK
2004 – 2002 The Fabels of Jean de la Fontaine
Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, USA;
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA;
Temple University, Rom, Italy;
American University Gallery, Aix en Provence, France
2002 Le Sept, La Maison de Quaregnon, Belgium
2000 Terra Moretti, Sculpture Award Bresica , Italy
1999 Morir Sonando, Varick Str. Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Ceramique Galleri Sargadelas, Milano, Italy
1997 Salon de Paris, Cairo, Egypt
1996 Àrt in Containers Brugge, Belgium
1994 Fantastic Wanderings, New York Painters, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut, USA
1992 Group Show Test Site Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1991 Scandinaves Contemporain, Albi, France
1989 Stenninge Gruppen, Bonneluches Pakhus, Nysted, Denmark
1989 Stenninge Gruppen, Mjallby Konstgård, Mjallby, Sveden
1988 Forårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
1987 Scandinaves a Paris, Galleri de l´Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
1986 Fuglsang, Lolland, Denmark
1984 Cite Universitaire Paris, France
SELECTED MURALS AND PUBLIC WORKS
The Wall, 1000m2 calligraphy wall in the Ramboll main office in Aarhus, Denmark
Curiosity Cabinet, large ink drawings on the walls of Skørping School, Denmark
The Whale, oil on canvas, 2 x 5 m, Copenhagen University, Denmark
The Science Paintings, 2 x 5 m, North Carolina, USA
Noah’s Ark, oil on canvas, 4 x 8 m, Aalborg Hospital, Denmark
Feed more Geese and get Rich, oil on canvas, 2 x 5 m, Novozymes, Beijing, China
Dialog in the Dark, oil on canvas 4 x 8 m, Science Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Brazilian Paintings, Novozymes, Curitiba, Brazil
The International Alphabet and the Sea, Glas, cobber, painting, stone and light The Main Building, Business Park Sofia, Bulgaria
The Glass Wall, Laminated painted glass, Somers Collection, Belgium
1989 Stenninge Gruppen, Mjallby Konstgård, Mjallby – Sveden
1988 Forårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen – Denmark
1987 Scandinaves a Paris, Galleri de l´Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris –France
1986 Fuglsang, Lolland, Denmark
1984 Cite Universitaire, Paris, France
ART DIRECTION FOR THEATRE AND FILM
2014 Woman in Red – Seahorse Aria, Nis, Serbia
1996 The Ballet, Handle with care, life inside Dallas, Texas, USA
1994 Collaboration with students in the dance department at the Juilliard School, New York, USA
1993 La mere d’Icar, Theatre Espace Acteur, Paris – France
1992 Quartier Mozart, Motion picture, Cameroun
1990 Want me not, Motion picture, England
1989 Collaboration with the students at London International Film School
1987 Antigone, Theatre Internationale Cite Universitaire, Paris, France
1984 Ørbæk Revyen, Ørbæk, Denmark