Søren Martinsen
Selvportræt som Træ
80x100 cm, 2022. Oil on linen
I am a visual artist, working primarily in painting - with additional ventures into video and installation.
My primary focus is to depict the world we live in with all its idiosyncrasies, terror and beauty. To achieve this, my main focus over a number of years has been an exploration of landscape, in the widest sense of the word. The concept of landscape in an artistic context is for me a very rich and inspiring framework for making art that deals with the human condition and the condition of our environment simultaneously.
A human perspective: we are inherently alone, looking at the world. Nature and culture, humans and the planet, are inextricably linked in the view we have of the world, the two-eye perspective we are born with. I am not trying to show more than what can be seen from our point of view, but to show the world with compassion and note the atmosphere and the stories about us and the world in the tableaux I present.
Søren Martinsen, 2025
Curriculum vitae
Søren Martinsen, born 1966 in Lyngby, Denmark
Education: The Royal Danish Academy of Arts, l989 - l995. MA in Fine Art,
Goldsmiths' College, University of London, 1993-1994
Solo Exhibitions:
Tipping Point, Kunsthal Kongegaarden, Korsør, DK 2024.
STILL, gallery Møller Witt DK 2023
Felled Tree/ Fældet Træ, sculpture for Næstved harbour promenade, DK 2022
Menneskespor, galerie Møller Witt, DK 2020
THE GIANTS, Sorø Art Museum. Denmark, DK 2018
2018 View over an area, West Jutland Art Museum Janusbygningen, DK 2017
Occupied Landscape, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg DK 2017
New Landscapes, Martin Asbæk gallery, DK 2016
The Borderline Syndrome, Sdk, Flensburg, DE 2015
Public work for Aarhus Municipality, Site-specific total installation: Nursing homes, Hedevej, Risskov 2013-14
De Mina, Martin Asbæk gallery, Copenhagen, DK 2013
The Dane, Trapholt, Kolding, DK 2013
The Dane, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, DK 2012
Country Song, X-room, Statens Museum for Art, DK 2008
Collections:
Sorø Academy, Sorø Art Museum
, Kobberstiksamlingen,
Statens Kunstfond, Statens Museum for Kunst, Arken
, Aros, Kastrupgårdsamlingen,
Uppsala Konstmuseum , Malmö Konstmuseum
, Nykredit,
Nordea, Ny Carlsberg Fonden, Trapholt Museum
Næstved Kommune, Kolding Kommune