Mads Nielsen
Mads Nielsen explores painting as an act of transgression and dissolution, a process where the image pushes beyond its limits to become a physical and sensory experience. His research engages in a dialogue with Renaissance and Baroque painting, evoking atmospheres of tension, collapse, and rebirth. Through powerful and visceral representation, Nielsen stages floating bodies, burning landscapes, and fragments of matter dissolving into smoke and light, evoking what he himself defines as the "catastrophization of the sacred."
His works are not simply images to be contemplated, but painterly events where color and matter transform, evoking the desire for a beauty that emerges from ruin. With a language reminiscent of late-Renaissance Mannerism, he abandons idealization to reflect contemporary tensions, creating scenarios where endings and beginnings intertwine in a vortex of cosmic energy.
Exhibitions
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Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1997 in Lemvig, Denmark
EDUCATION
2020-2023 Master of Fine Arts, School of Painting and Pictorial Practices, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK. Professor Ferdinand Ahm Krag
2016-2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, DK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Pits, Annika Nuttall Gallery, Aarhus, DK
2023 I saw the boy break out of his skin. My heart turned over and I crawled in., Ex Nihilo, Copenhagen, DK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Year 2023, Møstingshus, Frederiksberg, DK
2023 Enter Art Fair w. Gether Contemporary, Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenaghen, DK
2023 MFA Degree Show, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenaghen, DK
2022 Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (The Fall Exhibition) 2022, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenaghen, DK
2022 A Thin Layer of Bark Surrounds Us, Project Parleur, Copenaghen, DK
2022 Aiming Their Bow Beyond the Kairos, AGA, Copenaghen, DK
2020 Generationer, Transformationer, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, DK
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2021 Fellowship, The Danish Institute, Atene, GR
2019 Artist in Residence, Kirsten Kjærs Museum, DK
OTHER EXPERIENCES
2019 Internship with artist Tove Storch, Copenhagen, DK