Galerie Maria Wettergren is pleased to present Phenomena, an exhibition of textile sculptures by the contemporary artist and architect, Cecilie Bendixen. As reflected in the title, the Danish artist is drawn to natural phenomena, and she poetically explores the way in which essential dynamics can be captured by her sculptures though different materials and methods. Materials themselves often guide Bendixen through her empirical practice, where she gains inspiration by movement and form through touch and sight, carefully observing how a material can be approached. She considers the different qualities that make it unique: its shape, texture, strength, how it looks when it is fixed, and how it can interact with natural dynamics.

The Danish architect Cecilie Bendixen (born in 1975) is considered as one of the most significant textile artists of Scandinavia. She graduated as an architect from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in 2005. In 2013, she made a Ph.D. research project on textiles and sound, underlining two main questions: How can sound be shaped by textile and conversely, how can textiles be shaped by sound? These questions have given form to a series of sound absorbing textile sculptures and installations.

Cecilie Bendixen’s interdisciplinary approach to design, involving science, arts, crafts and architecture makes her an important contributor to the contemporary art scene. Exhibitions include the World Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Madrid; Crafted Matter, Korea; Design Miami Basel and Rundetaarn, Copenhagen. She was nominated for the Nordic Textile Awards in 2017, and the same year she received the Bindesboell Medal. Her works are part of important private and public collections, such as the Danish Art Foundation and the Galila Barzilaï-Hollander Collection, Brussels.