“Shoppinglist”, embroidery on linen/cotton, 95 x 54 cm, 2025. (1 package of rye bread, Welfare, 1 tray of liver paté, Care, 1 cucumber, Community, 6 eggs, Patience, ½ butter, Patterns)
“Kirsebær (after Marie Gudme Leth)”, appliqué, embroidery, linen/cotton, 110 x 153 cm, 2025.
In the Darkness, We Ask the Sun to Remember Us
In the Chapel Park, Sct. Hans Garden, Roskilde, a large patterned decoration has been cut in the grass. Together, visual artist Maria Finn and landscape architect Jacob Kamp have created the large-scale grass installation “Mirakel” (after Josef Frank)”. The work is created by shaping the grass and leaving it to grow. The work is based on a textile pattern from the 1920s designed by Austrian-born architect, artist and designer Josef Frank (1885-1967), in which a complex and varied pattern emerges and continually develops by repeating and rotating a single element. A small part of Frank’s pattern has been transferred in a large scale to the grass of the Chapel Park by Finn and Kamp. Here, it once again becomes part of the landscape and visitors can view it from a distance or step inside it.
Miracle (after Josef Frank), Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, at Sct. Hans Garden, 2024.
Hypothetical Picnic
Daydream # 18 (Kynnefjäll), digitalt print on barytapapir mounted on dibond, 130 x 86 cm, 2021.
The Zone, embroidery, linen/cotton, 170 x 150 cm, 2024, further down Barsebäck I, photo banner, 390 cm x 260 cm, 2022.
Barsebäck II, III, photo banner 390 x 260 cm, 2022. Hypothetical Picnic, HD-video, 10 min., 2023.
Misreadings
Misreadings, Bergkvara konsthall, Sweden, 2023. A series of interpretations of textile patterns by Viola Gråsten.
Misreadings
Törnrosa (after Viola Gråsten), embroidery linen/cotton, 150 x 173 cm, 2022.
Grey # 11, 2017, pencildrawing on paper, 50 x 65 cm.
Grey # 12, 2017, pencildrawing on paper, 50 x 65 cm.
Careless Nature 2017-2022
Careless Nature
Det blæste, og hun kunne godt lide at høre, birkebladenes raslen.
It was windy, and she liked to listen to the rattle of the birch leaves.
Når hun strakte ud efter brombæren sad skjorten fast i tornene som lavede en stor revne.
As she reached for the blackberries, her shirt caught on the brambles, which tore a big hole.
Hun plukkede blomster og opdagede ikke brændnælden men kunne mærke da det brændte til.
She was picking flowers and did not notice the stinging nettle, but she felt it when it stung.
Bottom: The Beauvais Lot 2022
Drengen løb væk fra de andre for at finde et gemmested.
The boy ran away from the others to find a hiding place.
Ilden var gået ud, og han undrede sig over, hvor de andre var henne.
The fire had burned out, and he wondered where the others were.
I et hjørne lå nogle gryder brugt til et måltid en gang.
In a corner lay some pots that had once been used for a meal.
Careless Nature
Hon stannade upp när hon upptäckte hur många fjärilar blommorna drog till sig.
She paused when she discovered how many butterflies the flowers attracted.
En svärm små flugor följde efter henne så hon var tvungen att öka takten.
A swarm of little flies followed her, so she had to increase her pace.
Några brända böcker fick honom till att spekulera över vad som hade hänt där.
Some burnt books made him wonder what might have happened there.
Bottom: The Ellstorp Lot 2022
Framför henne stannade kaninen, för att sedan rusa iväg.
The rabbit stopped in front of her, then raced away.
Träden var inpackade som reliker värda att bevaras.
The trees were wrapped up like precious relics to be protected.
Hen hade gjort ett hål för att få tillgång till området.
They had made a hole to gain access to the area.
Unfinished
Unfinished
Texts from the collection Unfinished, about time, fiction and memory.
Tower to Tower
Grid – landscape pattern
Kivik Art Centre 5.5.2020
In Kivik Art Centre’s unique environment, visual artist Maria Finn and landscape architect Jacob Kamp established the work Grid in a wheat field, in the summer 2020. Grid had previously been established in Amorparken in central Copenhagen in 2019, where a grid pattern was transferred on the lawns. In the squares, the grass was allowed to grow high while the passages were cut so that visitors could move through the work and thus get a different experience of the park. The work Grid was reestablished at Kivik Art Centre, where the part of the wheat field that leads to Snöhetta’s sculpture Viewfinder was cut in the same geometric pattern. The corridors made it possible for the visitor to move through the field to reach to Viewfinder, which made the landscape accessible in a completely new way. By moving through the wheat field the visitor experienced it up close, and not from a distance, offering an intimate experience of fields we usually only pass by.
Grid – landscape pattern
Kivik Art Centre 21.6.2020
Grid – landscape pattern
Kivik Art Centre 21.6.2020
Grid – landscape pattern
Kivik Art Centre 21.6.2020
Careless Nature
Forgetful Nature
Careless Nature
Careless Nature
Grid – patterns in grass
In May Maria Finn and landscape architect Jacob Kamp installed a temporary artwork in grass, Grid, in the Amorpark in Copenhagen. The work used the existing lawns that were cut in a grid, where the squares in the pattern were allowed to grow high, while the stripes were cut down and created paths where you could walk. To enforce the biodiversity in the city, the grass are allowed to grow high several places in the city’s parks and this was utilized in Grid to create a spatial element that offers a new experience of the park.
Grid – patterns in grass
Grid – patterns in grass
Grid – Patterns in Grass
Grid – patterns in grass
Drawing Attention
Everything Represents, Nothing is – Ingmar Bergman and the Arts
Free Children, Free Art
Free Children, Free Art, Den Frie – Centre for Contemporay Art, Copenhagen, 2018. Transforming Patterns, embroidery, cotton/linen, 171 x 149 cm, 2018.
Mirakel (after Josef Frank)
Maria Finn and Jacob Kamp, landscape architect, have together created a work in grass for Olseröd’s Konsthall. The work is titled “Mirakel (after Josef Frank)”, and is based on Josef Frank’s textile pattern with the same title. Frank’s title suggests that it is a miracle that a large pattern can take shape out of a few parts that are repeated. Finn and Kamp uses a part of the pattern for a grass work where a simplified drawing is transferred to grass that is allowed to grow high over the summer. Frank created textiles for the home, and when patterns from them are transferred to a landscape, they also enlarge the intimate space where they usually occur. The frames of the home are expanded and connected to their surroundings.
Mirakel (after Josef Frank)
“Mirakel (after Josef Frank)”, Maria Finn & Jacob Kamp, Olseröds Konsthall, Olseröd, 2017.
Mirakel (efter Josef Frank)
“Mirakel (after Josef Frank)”, Maria Finn & Jacob Kamp, Olseröds Konsthall, Olseröd, 2017.
Mirakel (after Josef Frank)
“Mirakel (after Josef Frank)”, pencil drawing on paper, 29 x 42 cm, 2017.
Four Telegrams and a Short Story
Four Telegrams and a Short Story
Catleya I (after Josef Frank)
Catleya II (after Josef Frank)
“Catleya II (after Josef Frank)”, MDF panel, 122 x 244 cm, 2016.
“Catleya III (after Josef Frank)”
“Catleya III (after Josef Frank)”, MDF panel, 122 x 244 cm, 2016.
Four Telegrams and a Short Story
“Telegram (Catleya)”, “Telegram (Lyon), pencildrawings, 50 x 65 cm, 2016.
About Losing
100 x Spring
Installation view ”Honeysuckle I – IV (after William Morris)”, 2014, ”100 x Spring”, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art.
100 x Spring
”Honeysuckle I – IV (after William Morris)”, pencil on paper under glass, 2014.
Refuge
“Summer after Monika, act IV”, walldrawing. “Refuge” with Anette Abrahamsson, Nässjö konsthall, 2013.
Refuge
From left: “Summer after Monika”, DVD 5:32 min., 2007. 8 sketches for walldrawings, “Summer after Monika, act I – VIII”, watercolour on paper, 28 x 40 cm, 2007 – 2013.
Refuge
“Summer after Monika, act V”, sketch for walldrawing, watercolour on paper, 28 x 40 cm, 2013.
Retake
Hidingplace, walldrawing, Retake, Tranen, Gentofte hovedbibliotek, 2012.
Retake
Retake, Tranen, Gentofte hovedbibliotek, 2012.
Images Between the Word and the film
Gaps in the Landscape
“Gaps in the Landscape”, MDF-panel, 122 x 244 cm, 2010.
Images Between the Word and the Film
Installationview “Images Between the Word and the Film” at Overgaden June 2010. From left: “Sometimes the Desert is Red”, 2004 & 2009, “Parkscenario”, “Summer after Monika”, DVD, 5:32 min., 2007, “Las babas del diablo”, DVD, 5:44 min., 2010.
Sometimes the Desert is Red
Las babas del diablo
Behind the Face
A Technical Problem
Images Between the Word and the Film
“Parkscenario: Parc de la Villette, Parc André Citroën, Parc de Buttes Chaumont, Bois de Boulogne” 24 c-prints 15 x 22 cm,1999 – 2009.
In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman
Installationview “Summer after Monica act III”, walldrawing in “In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman” at Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun.
In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman
Installationview with “Summer after Monika”, DVD, 5:32 min., 2007, and drawings “Summer after Monika I – VII”, pencil on paper, 29 x 42 cm, in “In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman” at Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun.
In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman
Installationview with “Summer after Monika”, DVD, 5:32 min., 2007, in “In Silent Conversation with Ingmar Bergman” at Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun.
Summer after Monika
“Summer after Monika act II”, walldrawing at The Apartment, Athens.