31/08/2026
🕸We’re delighted to announce 🕸
our new collaboration with Danish artist
MARIA ZAHLE
and happy to host her 1st solo show in France
MARIA ZAHLE
‘Le mur vert bouteille’ (A bottle green wall)
weaving – sculpture – monotyping – poetry
11. 09. 2026 > 7. 11. 2026
Trained in London at The Slade School of Fine Art (2001-2005) and at The Royal Academy Schools (2006-2009), Maria Zahle (born in Denmark in 1979) lived in England from 2001 to 2015. She now lives and works in Copenhagen.
Her practice is multi-disciplinary and includes weaving, painting, paperworks, printing, writing and performance.
The artist was commissioned for institutions and public spaces: New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester (UK), 2014 – Aalborg University, Departments of Energy and Technology (DK), 2016, three pedestrian tunnels, Copenhagen (DK), 2016-2019, and Nyckelpigans Idrottshall (a gymnasium), Sunnanå, Skellefteå Kommun (SE), 2025.
Her work has also become part of the collections of the Skovgaard Museum, Viborg (DK) 2024 and of the New Carlsberg Foundation (DK), 2023.
Maria Zahle has published several collections of texts and essays: Maria Zahle: ‘The Toe, The Horse, The Sister’, published by AkermanDaly, 2020 – Christine Clemmesen and Maria Zahle: ‘Stråle Kant Dag’, design by Officin (DK), 2018 – Maria Zahle: ‘8 Poems’, published by AkermanDaly, 2017 – ‘Occasional Geometries, Yorkshire Sculpture Park’, an essay by Diana Campbell Betancourt, 2017.
Fig. 1
Maria Zahle in her Copenhagen studio.
Fig. 2 + 3
exhibition views ‘No Stranger or Lover to Me’
- Conversation between Phyllida Barlow and Maria Zahle, Rønnebæksholm, Denmark (2021).
Fig. 4
Public commission : ’Ljusvattnet / Lightwater’, handwoven work in 4 parts (each part approx. 350 x 167 x 12 cm) for Sunnanå Idrottshal, Skellefteå Kommun, Sweden (2025).
Fig. 5
Public commission : Aalborg University, Departments of Energy and Technology, Denmark (2016).
Fig. 6
A double-page from Maria Zahle : ‘8 Poems’. Visual poetry. Published by AkermanDaly (2017).
Distinguished by the ‘Australian Book Designers Association Award, Winner - Best