MARIE BONFILS

I aim at letting materials respire, and emotions inhabit form. The voice of my sculptures comes from the resonance of air passing through them. To give the body a voice as a resonant amphora.

I am interested
in the concrete nature of fantasy and how its clarification seems clumsy and awkward, almost painful. The confrontation of the subject with their soiled dreams. The transformation of sketches into the three dimensional has to be made from scratch, to bring forth the reality of illusion.



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InfoBorn 1978, Denmark

Collaborating with Galleri Maria Friis since 2025


Education



2013-2015 Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Royal Academy of Art Malmö, Sweden

2014HISK Postgraduate Program, Gent, Belgium, exchange

2010-2013Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Konsthögskolan i Malmö, Sweden

2000-2003Goldsmith apprenticeship at Georg Jensen, Denmark


Exhibitions & Projects
2026 Ultimo 2026: solo udstilling Galleri Maria Friis

2025DREAMS AND DESIRES, summershow Galleri Maria Friis

2018 Liberté-Egalité-Fragilité, solo Galleri CC, Malmö

2017 
Det kunstige Paradis, solo Galleri Arnstedt, Båstad

2016 
Niveauer af usikkerhed, solo Forlaget Gestus ved Officin, Copenhagen

Niveauer af usikkerhed, artist book, published by Forlaget Gestus, Copenhagen

2015 
Edstranska Stipendie show, KHM Galleriet, Malmö

Kenosis
, group show, Halmlageret Carlsberg, Copenhagen

Galleri Arnstedt, summershow, Båstad.

We will push the ship ashore and let it drift towards the darkest of oceans,
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö

Balancing Acts,
Master graduation Show, KHM Gallery, Malmö

2014 Understrøm, Young nordic talent, AroS museum of art, Århus

2013 Bachelor Degree Show, KHM galleriet, Malmö

2011 Malmö festivalen 2011, Sankt Petri Kyrka, Malmö

KE 11, Censored exhibition, Copenhagen


Grants & Awards 2025 The Danish Art Foundation work scholarship

Residency at Danish Art Workshops (SVFK)

2023Residency at Danish Art Workshops (SVFK)

2018The Danish Art Foundation work scholarship  

2016 Residency at Danish Art Workshops (SVFK)

2015 Edstranska Stiftelsen scholarship

2006Skt Loye Prize of honor, Goldsmiths Guild  

2005 Marzee graduation Prize


ExperienceWorked for the Fine art Bronze Foundry in Roskilde from 2019-2021 as well as freelance assistant for artists like Kirsten Ortwed, Tal R, Silas Inoue a.o

Co-founder of 51C, an artist run studio community and workshops, in Roskilde. Member of the board from 2018-2023.

Lived in Lucca, Toscana from 1988-1991 and from 2003-2006

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