Vråudstillingen : Grey Lighthouse & House of Green

I have become a member of the artists’ group Vråudstillingen, an association of artist, formed in 1942 in Northern Jutland. Vråudstillingen makes an annual exhibition at Engelundsamlingen in the town of Vrå.
My contribution this year is two large ink paintings on paper, each measuring 240 X 480 cm.
They were created in my studio in 2022.
Last day is August 27, 2023.

More info here : https://www.kunstbygningenvraa.dk/vraa-udstillingen/

Under the Blue Silver Sky

Solo show coming up at Charlotte Fogh Gallery in Århus.
Open June 9 2023 -> August

New works

Charlotte Fogh Gallery
Aaboulevarden 43C
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

A list of available works here : https://www.charlottefogh.dk/product-category/original-works/morten-schelde-original-works/

Saxild

A selction of my recent lithographies are on show at the new cafe and bakery Saxild in Skagen.
Make sure to drop by for a treat made of local produce !

https://saxildskagen.dk/

New lithograpies …

… printed and published by Atelier Clot, Paris.

Check it out here : www.scheldeartshop.com

New etchings in my webshop

I have published a new batch of line ethcings in cooporation with Michael Schäfer’s Print Workshop in Copenhagen.
Follow this link to see them all: https://www.scheldeartshop.com/shop

New lithos on the way

I have been working at Atelier Clot in Paris in december 2022, and look forward to presenting the new lithographies to you some time soon ! I expect them online in January 2023.

Meanwhile, I suggest to take a look at my webshop : www.scheldeartshop.com

I have gone through the drawers in the studio, and found some real gems that I thought were sold out. But there’s still some older prints left. At very fair prices, even !

“House at Dawn”

Solo exhibition at Hans Alf Gallery
New drawings
Opening 16/9-2022

further info:
www.hansalf.com

New lithography in my webshop

“House at Dusk”
69 X 84 cm, edition of 120, 2022
Published by Edition Copenhagen.

Link to my webshop :

www.scheldeartshop.com

New lithography in the webshop

“House at Dawn”
100 X 69 cm, edition of 120, 2022
Published by Edition Copenhagen.

Link to my webshop :

www.scheldeartshop.com

Rank Gallery // Schelde Studio

My wife Jeanne and I have opened a small gallery in Skagen, along with my studio. Please come visit if in Skagen! We are selling mainly my graphic works.
The adress is Skråvej 6 F (just behind the florist on the high street), 9990 Skagen.

I should be there working from week 29, 2022 and most working days. If you want to make sure I’m there, send me an email : info@mortenschelde.com

“The Great Big Winter Show”

Groupshow, artists of the gallery

Opens at Hans Alf Gallery
Friday January 14, 2022 6-7 pm

I contribute eight recent works.

hansalf.com

Schelde Art Shop

My recent lithographies are available here. When buying here, you are buying directly from me.

scheldeartshop

www.scheldeartshop.com

“Windows” at Arnstedt

My third solo show at Galleri Arnstedt, Östre Karup (near Båstad), Sweden, opens on September 4, 2021.
The show features works mainly produced during the third lock down in Denmark, the springtime of 2021. All pencil and ink on paper.

Enter Art Fair

With Hans Alf Gallery on Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen 2021
The gallery featured and sold a set of twin works at the art fair, Inside/Outside 1&2, both 150X120 cm, pencil and ink on paper, 2021

Drawing and limited edition print for Gyldendal

Gyldendal publishers in Copenhagen commissioned me to do a drawing on the occassion of their 250th anniversary. The drawing was reproduced as a Fine Art Print for 300 employees.

The room I’ve depicted is the famed ante-chamber, where you’d imagine the young authors waiting, sweat in their hands, to meet their editor.

Ocean of Time v.2

On show at Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen 27. November -> 9. January 2021

Installation photo, Faaborg Museum 2020

Photo by Andreas Bastiansen

Ocean of Time etching

Ocean of Time
Etching, 50 X 35 cm (plate: 31,5 X 23,5 cm)
Edition of 16, numbered and signed, 2020

Published by Printers Proof, Valby, Denmark

“27 Scenes”

Solo show in “The Locker Room”, new works at Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Århus, Denmark. Opening October 4, 16-19. 2019

04/10 2019 – 23/11 2019

Charlotte Fogh Gallery is pleased to present new works by Morten Schelde in the gallery’s Locker Room. The exhibition draws together some of Schelde’s most characteristic motifs and presents drawings of architecture, interiors and landscapes in the monochrome colors that characterize Schelde’s works.

Schelde says the following on his works: “The drawings are a way of feeling my own presence in the world. I draw therefore I am. Sometimes it’s heavy like a Bergman drama, other times the images feel like friendly postcards to the world.

“Honeymoon”

Installation art
with Lene Bach-Lauritsen in Carlsbergbyens Galleri & Kunstsalon
Opening 3. May 2019 1730-2030

Pasteursvej 3, Copenhagen V

https://www.facebook.com/CBYkunst/

More details to follow

Drawing Attention

Den Frie, 12/4-22/5 2019

Descendence

I made the cover of Asger Techaus new album:
https://www.facebook.com/asgertechauofficial/

“Drawing attention”

DRAWING ATTENTION – drawing on its own terms

April 13th – May 22th 2019.
Exhibition opening: Friday April 12th from 5 PM – 8 PM.

DRAWING ATTENTION is an exhibition with its finger on the pulse of drawing today – a fresh take on the current revitalisation of drawing as an independent field of art with unique tactile qualities. With an unabashed dedication to the analogue, drawing forms the basis and conceptual focus of DRAWING ATTENTION. The exhibition has been created by the artists’ association Den Frie Udstilling, headed by artists Maria Finn and Peter Holst Henckel as curators. In addition to the association’s own artists, some of Denmark’s leading figures in the field have been invited to participate with works based on drawing in the widest possible sense of the term.

Whereas in the past drawing was a natural, technical point of departure for every young painter, graphic artist or sculptor, it is no longer a necessary discipline in the arts. Despite which, drawing continues to be a medium embraced by artists of every generation. During recent decades, the bodily and analogue have lost ground to touchscreens, digital technologies, and wireless communication, which might explain the revival of interest in more traditional techniques and media, and a growing appreciation of their tactile qualities. This is highly apparent in current contemporary art – perhaps as a backlash against the rampant digitalisation of society today. DRAWING ATTENTION delves into this shift, exploring drawing as an independent medium in its own right.

Maria Finn has worked with drawing for many years, and Peter Holst Henckel with a more conceptual approach to the potential of the medium.

Participating artists: Al Masson, Anette Abrahamsson, Ann Lislegaard, Anne Skole Overgaard, Asbjørn Skou, Camilla Berner, Cathrine Raben Davidsen, claus ejner, Cecilia Westerberg, Christian Lemmerz, Claus Carstensen, Elle Klarskov Jørgensen, Emil Westman Hertz, Ferdinand Ahm Krag, Fie Norsker, Freddie A. Lerche, Finn Naur Pedersen, Finn Reinbothe, Hannah Heilmann, Hein Heinsen, Henriette Heise, Henrik B. Andersen, Henrik Menné, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, HuskMitNavn, Jasper Sebastian Stürup, Jens Hüls Funder, John Olsen, Julie Nord, Jytte Høy, Jørgen Michaelsen, Karin Lind, Katya Sander, Kirsten Ortwed, Kristine Kemp, Lars Bent Petersen, Leif Kath, Lis Nogel, Maria Finn, Marie Søndergaard Lolk, Margrete Sørensen, Mette Gitz-Johansen, Mette Winckelman, Mikkel Carl, Milena Bonifacini, Morten Schelde, Morten Stræde, Nanna Riis Andersen, Nils Erik Gjerdevik, Ninna Poulsen, Pernille With Madsen, Peter Holst Henckel, Pia Rönicke, Rasmus Myrup, Signe Guttormsen, Sophia Kalkau, Sophie Dupont, Stense Andrea Lind-Valdan, Sys Hindsbo, Søren Jensen, Thorbjørn Lausten, Thorgej Steen Hansen, Torben Ebbesen, Yvette Brackman og Zven Balslev.

New original graphic prints available

I work with various printing houses to produce original graphic works.
The prints are original in the sense that the image is made specifically for the medium, as opposed to a reproduction of an existing image.
The posted image here is of me working on a lithographic stone at Atelier Clot in Paris in October 2018. (Photo: Lene Bach-Lauritsen)
I have produced a lot of lithographic prints, as well as copper etchings and a few silk screen prints and wood carvings.

Over the years, I have had the pleasure of working with several renown printing houses, including
Niels Borch Jensen Editions, Hostrup-Pedersen & Johansen, Edition Copenhagen, Printers Proof, Officin prints, all in Copenhagen, Hjørring Grafisk Værksted in Jutland and Atelier Clot in Paris. Also, I have produced several digital prints, made from drawings on the computer.

Most of my graphic work can be seen – and purchased – here : http://www.formatartspace.dk/kunstnere/morten-schelde/

Any questions about available graphic works can be directed at anne@formatartspace.dk

Stages

MORTEN SCHELDE:
STAGES
Since the late 90’s, Morten Schelde’s unmistakable pencil has
played a leading role on the
Danish art scene. His works are held in esteemed institutions such as the National Gallery of Denmark, Arken and Louisiana, he’s had numerous museum shows in Denmark and abroad, and in 2010 he was part of the elite group of artists, who decorated the Palace of Frederik VIII.
For the past couple of years, Schelde, who is most readily associated with intense, surreal, often monochrome drawings, has been preoccupied with painting, which became clear in his first solo show with Hans Alf Gallery, ”New Paintings” in 2017. Now, however, Schelde has returned to his paper and pencils with renewed vitality, poignancy and fantasy.
Art historian Cecilie Marie Dalhoff from Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg writes the following about Schelde’s new exhibition, Stages:
”In Morten Schelde’s artistic universe the medium of drawing is intended as a space for experiences and encounters. Within the frame of the artworks the stage is set for an inspiring mixture of past and present, unfolding in distinctive and personal interpretations of a life lived. Standing before one of Schelde’s visually powerful, multi-layered drawings we intuitively appreciate how the work of the hand bestows expression and meaning to the many repetitive everyday still-lifes, functioning between apparent normality and discreet catastrophe. The scenes depict a wide range of biting dichotomies as Schelde’s view on society seems to be torn between a lust for life and loss of trust, an extreme materialistic distress and a never-ending
happiness materialised in Danish Modern design. The exhibition partly takes its title from these acute and well-composed stages, which unfold before us almost true to life size and seem ready for us to explore. But something is not quite as it seems at first glance. The imagery appears distorted and characteristic.
In his predominantly monochrome depictions of the worlds of yesterday and today Schelde finds his motives in a mixture of vast amounts of non-chronological photographic material, which he, over the course of more than 20 years, has meticulously collected and transferred repeatedly until the motives have fallen into place in the right scale. The sum of the many autobiographical works takes us from Norway to Berlin and Ghana – from the stages of early childhood to life as an established artist. The works thus represent time gone by both in method and motive. The temporal aspect of the word ‘stage’ is from this perspective just as important as the work’s theatrical qualities.
The visible journey of the motive makes it possible for us to trace the images as they progress; as we view the various works in the exhibition we grasp the temporality embedded in the depicted scenes and the process. In a way the deserted scenes almost resemble used movie sets or theatre stages. The visible almost seems momentary and transitory in Schelde’s works, while the rampant process preceding it is invisible if not known. In the same way as putting something on stage in the theatre is akin to putting something under the light, rendering the invisible visible, realising an artistic concept, Schelde uses his drawings to shed light on a procession of familiar and intimate everyday stages and situations. Through this he focuses on the everyday drama of modern day family life and all the untold tales of society’s present day Odysseuses as well as looking back on his own background. It is therefore characteristic of and essential for Schelde’s work that the situations do not reveal their inhabitants. Instead the empty scenes open themselves up to their audience and allow each visitor to create their own narration. The exhibition thus becomes a testament to the significance of the lived life that for most of us contains a vast accumulation of seemingly ordinary situations that Schelde encapsulates and invites us to explore anew.”
STAGES opens on Friday February 22 and will be on view until March 30.

Catalogue available, including all artworks in the exhibition and text by Cecilie Marie Dalhoff.

More info : Hans Alf Gallery

Red Horse Meditations, Viborg Kunsthal

Red Horse Meditations
Morten Schelde

7. februar – 3. maj 2015

Den danske billedkunstner Morten Schelde er kendt for sine surreelle tegninger og malerier, der forvandler velkendte omgivelser til gådefulde scenarier. I værkerne kombinerer han teknisk præcision med eventyrlige fabulerende historier og giver med afsæt i snart drøm, snart virkelighed, en anderledes refleksion af den verden, vi befinder os i.
Red Horse Meditations

I udstillingen Red Horse Meditations er skoven og bevægelsen gennem den et gennemgående tema. Schelde har skabt en fantastisk, tegnet verden af tæt bevoksning, dybe skovsøer, stejle bakker, vilde heste og børn i praktisk tøj og gummistøvler.

Alt er malet med en sort, flydende tuschfarve på papir fra gulv til loft, så man kan bevæge sig i mellem tegningerne, som mellem træerne i en skov.
Labyrintisk installation

Den labyrintiske installation af tegningerne, kombineret med rødmalede grene der breder sig i udstillingsrummet gør oplevelsen af udstillingen kompleks og kropslig. Der skabes en intim stemning, hvor tegningerne ophæver tyngdekraften, forskyder perspektivet, forvrænger proportionerne og sammenstiller motiver på uvante måder.

Scheldes værker rummer således en både kropslig og visuel invitation til at bevæge sig ind i skoven og forsøge at vikle de forskellige emotionelle, visuelle og narrative tråde ud.

Udstillingen omfatter desuden et stort udvalg af Scheldes seneste værker og er den største soloudstilling af kunstneren til dato.
Fakta

Morten Schelde (f. 1972) er uddannet fra Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi i 2001. Han er repræsenteret på både danske og udenlandske museer og udstillingssteder, heriblandt Statens Museum for Kunst, Louisiana, Arken og Museum Der Bildenen Künste i Leipzig. Han har desuden skabt flere udsmykninger, bl.a. til Kronprinsparrets Palæ og Ros-kilde Universitetscenter (RUC).

Udstillingen er støttet af Statens Kunstfond.

Viborg Kunsthal
Riddergade 8
8800 Viborg

“New Works”

GALLERI SUSANNE OTTESEN
NEW WORKS
Stig Brøgger, Morten Buch, Pernille With Madsen, Jesper Rasmussen, Morten Schelde, Jasper Sebastian Stürup, Marijke van Warmerdam
7. november – 20. december 2014
Fernisering fredag 7. november 2014 kl. 17-19