Malte Fisker

Artist Statement – Malte Fisker

With his works, Malte Fisker demonstrates a strong position as both a continuator and innovator of the concrete, non-figurative painting tradition. This is most strongly seen in the consistent attention to the sensual and formal qualities of painting that dominate the works in the exhibition. Fisker has mastered both the sensibility and the technique of evoking a sense of texture on the canvas that draws the eye into the color-saturated space of the paintings.

With references to mathematics, architecture and computer graphics, the works are built up of multi-colored coloristic compositions where one color dictates the next and so on.

The colors are intuitive, as opposed to the flat composition that stems from a more conceptual approach. The fields seem dictated by the square frame of the canvas but the diagonals create rhythm and movement in the images. Positive and negative shapes are applied with almost mathematical precision, a field that was first seen as a figure can suddenly take on the character of a ground. The bright, clear colors allow the images to breathe and contrast with the more solid dark shades.

Lines, stripes, triangles and complex grid systems characterize Fisker’s design language, rich in different combinations of geometric shapes. Geometry is a perfectionist ideal, but the delicate vibrating lines show the hand’s intimate work with the material, making them beautiful and down-to-earth. Fisker seeks the aesthetic in the colors with great emotional and intense results and the small openings created by the perception between hand and eye and the impact of light leave the final stage of creation to the encounter between viewer and work.

1. 1. Light is the most important part of my work
   2. My work is very much at the surface.
   3. My work is extraordinarily flat.
   4. There is no irony in my work whatsoever.
   5. Golden and Williamsburg makes my day.
   6. Colour is magic.
   7. In the process time is important.
   8. My work is silent and meditative.
   9. Geometry is the perfect skeleton for abstraction
   10. One work leads to the next and all are part of a larger understanding

CV

Malte Fisker

Education:

2006-2013 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Solo, Duo & Trio Exhibitions:

2025
Abstrakte Portrætter, Davis Gallery

2024
Klar Form, Orange Contemporary,
with Frode Steinicke & Christina Bardram

3 Konkrete, Gallerie Lorien
with Ole Folmer Hansen & Hans Jørgen Hvid Camel, Richard Winthers Hus
Boats & Black Paintings, Udstillingsstedet, Sorø Geometric Solutions, Infomedia’s Kunstforening
2023 Ways to Conclusions, Galleri Aaaa Nordhavn with Hans Jørgen Hvid

Space & Colour, Davis Gallery with Christina Bardram

Sequence, System and Memory, Vejle Kunsthal
Full Colour Brush Imprints, Den Blå Automat, Vejle Kunsthal Traces & Imprints, Birkerød Kunstforening
with Marie Birkedal

2022
Empty Space – Full Space, Oticon

Zoom & Shadows, Richard Winthers Hus Bold, Skjold Contemporary
Black Brush Imprints, PCA, Digevej

2021
Sacred Lines, Grøndalslund Kirke

2020
Basic Perspective, Galleri Lars Borella Elementary Matters, Politikens Hus

2019
Pompeii, Udstillingsstedet, Sorø

Adoration of the Trinity, Dyssegårdskirken

Draw A Line Then Cross It, Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, with Astrid Marie Christiansen

2018
Red Oxides, Kirsten Kjærs Museum Asian Paper Paintings, ArtFrame

2017
Opaque Paintings, Helleruplund Sognegård Ambiguous Abstraction, Udenrigsministeriet The Journey of Line and Colour, Vandrehallen

2013
Cathedral, BKS Garage

2012
Narcissus, Gallery B15

2010
Tilt Mode, Hans Alf Gallery

Exhibitions:

2025
Pure Abstraction, Galleri Anne Aarsland, curated by Malte Fisker Gruppeudstilling, Kunsthal Brantebjerg
8th Biennale of Non-Objective Art, Istanbul Sommerudstilling, Davis Gallery Gruppeudstilling, Søllerød Salonen

2024
Geometri i Tid / Geometrisk Tid, Kunstetagerne, Hobro Kunstmuseum Papir, Orange Contemporary, curated by Malte Fisker & Eva Louise Buus Gruppeudstilling, Frederiksberg Allé Salonen
10 års jubilæumsudstilling, Gallerie Lorien

Gruppeudstilling, Rigshospitalets Kunstforening, Gallerie Lorien

2023
Variations in Surface Type, Anne Aarsland Gallery, curated by Malte Fisker Sommerudstilling, Davis Gallery
Sommerudstilling, Udstillingsstedet, Sorø

2022
Vinterudstilling, Davis Gallery Gruppeudstilling, Anne Aarsland Gallery Statements, Mehrkunst, Germany

2021
Above & Below, Galleri Kunst86, Ryesgade 86

2020
In My Own Space, Bredgade Kunsthandel

2019
Gruppeudstilling, Mors Salonen

2018
Gruppeudstilling, Amager Salonen

2017
Konstruktioner, Kunstbygningen i Vrå

2016
Gruppeudstilling, Frederiksberg Salonen

Contemporary Perception, Galleri Benoni

2015
Six Views, Kvadrat 16 Gruppeudstilling, Finansforbundet
Picture Poking Pulling, Nordahl & Nissen Contemporary
0601-0603, Pop-Up udstilling, Grønttorvet

2014
Family Man, Odradek

2013
Afgang 2013, Kunsthal Charlottenborg 24 Spaces, Malmø Konsthall GoodBones, Københavns Rådhus

2012
Alt_Cph, Antechamber, The Factory of Art and Design

2011
Modus Operandi, Gallery Tom Christoffersen
Images of Man in the Context of the Painting Tradition, Rohde Contemporary All of a Sudden, Gallery Christoffer Egelund

2010
Triangle, Gallery Christoffer Egelund X-mas, Gallery Christoffer Egelund Christmas, Hans Alf Gallery
Gallery Juni, Kiel, Germany

KUP, Hans Alf Gallery

2009
Forårsudstillingen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg

2007
Sommerudstillingen, Galleri Nakke Hage

Det er kunst, Galleri Nakke Hage

2006
Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning

Public Decorations:

2019
Large and Comprehensive Decoration, CPHbusiness

2012
Wall Painting, Kunstnerkollegiet

Legater:

2021
Maleren Helge Bechs mindelegat

2016
Arbejdslegat, Statens Kunstfond