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)

Natural Piece (triptych), 2007

Michael Kvium

Natural Piece (triptych), 2007

Sale Date: October 3, 2011

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Sort tale, 2001

Michael Kvium

Sort tale, 2001

Sale Date: September 26, 2011

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Composition, blind spots, 2007

Michael Kvium

Composition, blind spots, 2007

Sale Date: September 19, 2011

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Keep dreaming, 2005

Michael Kvium

Keep dreaming, 2005

Sale Date: October 3, 2011

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Venstreorienteret maleri (Left oriented..., 1989

Michael Kvium

Venstreorienteret maleri (Left oriented..., 1989

Sale Date: October 3, 2011

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Indviklet forbindelse (Complicated connection), 1992

Michael Kvium

Indviklet forbindelse (Complicated connection), 1992

Sale Date: October 3, 2011

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Fatass, 1999

Michael Kvium

Sale Date: October 3, 2011

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Another tailwind, 2005

Michael Kvium

Another tailwind, 2005

Sale Date: October 3, 2011

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Figure composition, 1981

Michael Kvium

Figure composition, 1981

Sale Date: September 12, 2011

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Blindt billede

Michael Kvium

Blindt billede

Sale Date: September 5, 2011

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Freestyle body, 2004

Michael Kvium

Freestyle body, 2004

Sale Date: September 5, 2011

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Natural piece (+ 2 others; triptych), 2007

Michael Kvium

Natural piece (+ 2 others; triptych), 2007

Sale Date: September 5, 2011

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Composition, 2007

Michael Kvium

Composition, 2007

Sale Date: August 29, 2011

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White power (+ another, smllr.; diptych), 2000

Michael Kvium

White power (+ another, smllr.; diptych), 2000

Sale Date: June 27, 2011

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Simple sky piece, 2006

Michael Kvium

Simple sky piece, 2006

Sale Date: June 27, 2011

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People peeing (sketch), 1987

Michael Kvium

People peeing (sketch), 1987

Sale Date: May 30, 2011

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Two part story, 2006

Michael Kvium

Two part story, 2006

Sale Date: May 30, 2011

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Hu-Hej vilde dyr (The worlds largest cookbook)...

C. Lemmerz, P. Bonde, L. Nørgård, E. A. Frandsen, F. Turchi and Michael Kvium

Hu-Hej vilde dyr (The worlds largest cookbook)...

Sale Date: June 8, 2011

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Genetic joke (suite of 6), 1992

Michael Kvium

Genetic joke (suite of 6), 1992

Sale Date: June 8, 2011

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Hvide strømper, 1997

Michael Kvium

Hvide strømper, 1997

Sale Date: June 7, 2011

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Titelløs model, 1990

Michael Kvium

Titelløs model, 1990

Sale Date: June 7, 2011

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Down the stream, 2003

Michael Kvium

Down the stream, 2003

Sale Date: June 7, 2011

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Pale eyed view, 2006

Michael Kvium

Pale eyed view, 2006

Sale Date: May 16, 2011

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Composition, 1989

Michael Kvium

Composition, 1989

Sale Date: May 9, 2011

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