Michael Kvium

(Danish, born 1955)

Michael Kvium is a Danish artist best known for his illustrations and paintings of grotesque creatures rendered in a realistic way. Kvium’s works are obliquely meant to comment on the ugliness of humanity and himself. “When you are working existentially, as I do, it's very important, all the while, to try to include the whole person, and the whole person is, of course, also the feeling of being human, from when one is very young until old age,” he remarked. “The feeling of being vulnerable, the feeling of frailness. But here, I'm working much more abstractly seeing that ordinarily, people react very violently.” Many of his works depict figures that resemble the artist, but are somehow contorted or discolored. Born on November 15, 1955 in Horsens, Denmark, the artist studied under Albert Mertz and Stig Brøgger at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He would go on to create Værkstedet Værst, a collaborative workshop for performance art, alongside artist Christian Lemmerz. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Red Brick Contemporary Art Museum in Beijing, China, and the Cabinet Des Estampes in Geneva, Switzerland, among others. Kvium lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Michael Kvium Artworks

Michael Kvium (1,532 results)

Composition, 1989

Michael Kvium

Composition, 1989

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Kvindebillede I (+ 2 others; 3 works), 1986

Michael Kvium

Kvindebillede I (+ 2 others; 3 works), 1986

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Composition, 1989

Michael Kvium

Composition, 1989

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Compositions (2 works in 1 frame)

Michael Kvium

Compositions (2 works in 1 frame)

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Composition, 1989

Michael Kvium

Composition, 1989

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Tankemodel, 1990

Michael Kvium

Tankemodel, 1990

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Figure composition, 1996

Michael Kvium

Figure composition, 1996

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Blind end, 1997

Michael Kvium

Blind end, 1997

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Denkmal, 1990

Michael Kvium

Denkmal, 1990

Sale Date: February 13, 2012

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Natural error I-III (set of 3, different sizes)

Michael Kvium

Natural error I-III (set of 3, different sizes)

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The Wake, 1999

Michael Kvium and Christian Lemmerz

The Wake, 1999

Sale Date: January 23, 2012

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Amorphous composition

Michael Kvium

Amorphous composition

Sale Date: January 9, 2012

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Selvportræt som Eckersbergs Thorvaldsen, 2001

Michael Kvium

Selvportræt som Eckersbergs Thorvaldsen, 2001

Sale Date: January 2, 2012

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Sort tale (Black speech), 2001

Michael Kvium

Sort tale (Black speech), 2001

Sale Date: December 7, 2011

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Fool, nr. 102, 2002

Michael Kvium

Fool, nr. 102, 2002

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Fool, no. 90, 2002

Michael Kvium

Fool, no. 90, 2002

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Three choices, 1989–1990

Michael Kvium

Three choices, 1989–1990

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Procession af større vigtighed (Procession..., 1987

Michael Kvium

Procession af større vigtighed (Procession..., 1987

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Michael Kvium

Profile, 2008

Sale Date: November 28, 2011

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Amorphous composition

Michael Kvium

Amorphous composition

Sale Date: November 21, 2011

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Organic composition, 1995

Michael Kvium

Organic composition, 1995

Sale Date: November 21, 2011

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Amorphous composition

Michael Kvium

Amorphous composition

Sale Date: November 21, 2011

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Composition, 1988

Michael Kvium

Composition, 1988

Sale Date: October 31, 2011

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Freestyle body, 2004

Michael Kvium

Freestyle body, 2004

Sale Date: October 3, 2011

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