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)

Compositions with figures (3 works)

Michael Kvium

Compositions with figures (3 works)

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Silent knowledge (in 4 parts), 2000

Michael Kvium

Silent knowledge (in 4 parts), 2000

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Moneyhead (+ 3 others; set of 4)

Michael Kvium

Moneyhead (+ 3 others; set of 4)

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Renhed

Michael Kvium

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Fingerpeg, 1999

Michael Kvium

Fingerpeg, 1999

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Moneyhead, Bubblehead, Eternalhead and..., 1998

Michael Kvium

Moneyhead, Bubblehead, Eternalhead and..., 1998

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Tryghed

Michael Kvium

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Composition (+ 2 others; 3 works), 1996

Michael Kvium

Composition (+ 2 others; 3 works), 1996

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Composition with figure (+ Composition with..., 1996

Michael Kvium

Composition with figure (+ Composition with..., 1996

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Freestyle body, 2004

Michael Kvium

Freestyle body, 2004

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Freestyle body, 2004

Michael Kvium

Freestyle body, 2004

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Composition (+ Composition; 2 works), 1996

Michael Kvium

Composition (+ Composition; 2 works), 1996

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Freestyle body, 2004

Michael Kvium

Freestyle body, 2004

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Kunsten til sygdom (7 works), 1992

Michael Kvium

Kunsten til sygdom (7 works), 1992

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Compositions with figures, 1998

Michael Kvium

Compositions with figures, 1998

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Ghost no. 3, 2002

Michael Kvium

Ghost no. 3, 2002

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Ghost no. 4, 2002

Michael Kvium

Ghost no. 4, 2002

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Taste (on 2 canvases), 1999

Michael Kvium

Taste (on 2 canvases), 1999

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Udsigt til indsigt (on 3 canvases), 2007

Michael Kvium

Udsigt til indsigt (on 3 canvases), 2007

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En moderne helt (+ 3 others; 4 works)

Michael Kvium

En moderne helt (+ 3 others; 4 works)

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Self portrait, 1994

Michael Kvium

Self portrait, 1994

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Composition U.T., 1991

Michael Kvium

Composition U.T., 1991

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Re-generation, 1988

Michael Kvium

Re-generation, 1988

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Lille misbrugeligt maleri, 1997

Michael Kvium

Lille misbrugeligt maleri, 1997

Sale Date: November 30, 2009

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