Maria Wallenstål-Schoenberg

Born in Uppsala, Sweden 1959, Maria lives and works in Munich.

Maria Wallenstål-Schoenberg draws on the basic aspects of Concrete Art, which can be seen above all in her absolute prioritisation of colour as a means of expression. Nevertheless, she frees her working method from 

the strict rules and uncompromising adherence to theory to which some representatives of this movement bave dedicated themselves. She softens the forms and allows for sensuality, dispensing with strict geometry and surface perfection. She does this by allowing certain irregularities, which are unavoidable as she applies the carefully mixed colours with a palette knife and allows a tactile dimension to flow into her works through impasto application.

In a continuous and exploratory repetition, Maria Wallenstål-Schoenberg creates colour spaces that support and reinforce each other to create a harmonious sound. This design idea draws on the principle of complementarity in colour theory and at the same time functions metaphorically for the essential relationship between the viewer and the picture. In this case, this painting is a composition of colour fields on one plane. Two reflecting portals in different shades of light and dark orange are created by the incidence of light and the surface structure left behind by the painting tool.

This results in a variety on the seemingly homogeneous surface. Beneath the light colour fields are further layers of other colours that are only visible at the edges of the form and the picture. Traces of blue, green and orange... These layers serve to reinforce the presence of the orange colour areas and make them more vivid and profound. A highly reduced mixture of these colours, typical of Maria Wallenstal-Schoenberg's colour palette, surrounds the two orange forms as well as a third element on the right-hand side of the painting, which looks like a mixture of circle and rectangle and is painted beyond the edge of the painting. The way in which Maria Wallenstål-Schoenberg works with the colours and the limits of the canvas and the tension between the desire to expand and the awareness of these limits of our perception enables us to look beyond the purely visible.

- Taratin

Selected latest solo exhibitions

2023 Encuentro II, dual Exhibition with works by Fatima Conesa, Galerie Ulf Larsson, Köln

2023 Maria Wallenstål-Schoenberg, JUPITER, Sternwywiol, Hamburg

2022 Encuentro I, dual Exhibition with works by Fatima Conesa, Galerie Nueva, /Galerie Ulf Larsson, Madrid

2021 Färg 4, Maria Wallenstål-Schoenberg, Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne

2019 About Color, Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne

2019 MaterialMalerei-FarbMalerei, dual Exhibition with works by Jürgen Paas, Neue Galerie Landshut e.V.

Selected latest group exhibitions

2022 Preview ART-K, Galerie Fiser&Gräf, Munich

2022 Konform_Reform, Neue Gruppe, Halle 50 Munich

2022 Bescherungsauflagen, Neue Galerie Landshut, Landshut

2022 Hard Edge, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin

2023 Farbrausch II, Galerie Wywiol, Hamburg

2023 Whiteot 3, Neue Gruppe, Rathausgalerie Landshut, Landshut

2023 Blütezeit, Halle50, München

2021 Künstlerfreunde, Stadtmuseum Hattingen, Hattingen

2021 Farbe auf Papier, GalerieBraun, Stuttgart

2021 ABSTRAKT, Städtische Galerie Ehingen, Ehingen

2021 Kaleidoskop Arte Contemporanea in Germania 

Art fairs

2023 -2018 art KARLSRUHE, Karlsruhe, with Galerie Filser & Gräf, Munich, Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne, 

2023 POSITIONS BERLIN Art Fair, Berlin, with Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne

Available works