• The Gallery

    Galerie Maria Wettergren was founded by Maria Wettergren in 2010 in the Saint Germain district of Paris. Ten years later, she opened a new space on the rue Vieille-du-Temple in the Marais. The gallery is specialized in contemporary art and design by predominantly Scandinavian artists, who focus on interdisciplinary dialogues between art, design, architecture and crafts. Galerie Maria Wettergren represents a selection of the most significant and pioneering artists from Northern Europe in this cross-over field, notably in the domain of textile art, such as Gjertrud Hals, Hanne Friis, Astrid Krogh, Grethe Soerensen and Cecilie Bendixen. The gallery prides itself of various important museum collaborations and sales to the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and Mudac, Lausanne, among others. Maria Wettergren has been included in the Power 100 of Art + Auction and has received the Finn Juhl Architecture Prize for the promotion of Scandinavian artists on the international art scene. Galerie Maria Wettergren regularly participates in important international art and design fairs, such as TEFAF New York & TEFAF/Maastricht; FIAC Hors le Murs (Place de la Concorde); Design Miami/Basel; The Salon ART + Design, Park Armory New York; PAD Paris/London and Art Genève.

     

  • MARIA WETTERGREN
  • Maria Wettergren was born in Lemvig, Denmark, in 1971. She has a Bachelor degree in Art History from the University...
    Maria Wettergren was born in Lemvig, Denmark, in 1971. She has a Bachelor degree in Art History from the University of Copenhagen (1995). While subsequently preparing a Master degree, Maria Wettergren lived in Paris where she worked simultaneously for several art galleries such as Flux by Cyril Putman, while he was representing Fabrice Hyber and Huang Yong Ping at the Venice Biennale (1997 – 1999). In 2002, she decided to interrupt her studies to become the director of the Parisian branch of the Dansk Moebelkunst Gallery. She ran DMK until 2010, when she decided to open a gallery specialized in contemporary Scandinavian art design.
    Maria Wettergren received the Finn Juhl Architecture Prize in 2014. Maria Wettergren is assigned as an expert in contemporary design at the Art Genève Fair, and she is a board member of the gallery association Art Saint Germain-des-Près. She was a member of the Audi Award 2014 Jury together with Daniel Buren, Jean de Loisy and Emmanuel Perrotin. Maria Wettergren was included in the American Magazine Art + Auction’s Power 100 of the 100 most important personalities of the art world (December 2013).

     

  • PRIZES & AWARDS
  • Finn Juhl Architecture Prize Finn Juhl Architecture Prize Finn Juhl Architecture Prize

    Finn Juhl Architecture Prize

    On May 13, 2014, Maria Wettergren received as the first gallery owner ever the prestigious Finn Juhl Architecture Prize
  • Power 100

    Power 100

    In December 2013, Maria Wettergren was included in the « POWER 100 » selection of the 100 most important personalities from the art world by the American magazine ART+AUCTION

     
  • Best Contemporary Design Piece

    Best Contemporary Design Piece

    In March 2013, Galerie Maria Wettergren won the PAD Prize for the best Contemporary Design Piece with Mikko Paaakanen’s « Big Stool »