Marie Louise Kold is an internationally renowned metal artist. She has made a name for herself with her ability to turn bare metals into highly emotionally charged works of art. She etches, patinates and shapes copper, brass and bronze into unique works of art, that not only change depending on angle and light, but also slowly transform from touch and time.
Her art, both wall-hung and standalone, is strongly three-dimensional, not least because there are many different surface structures. Her work is also commissioned by architects to become a permanent part of walls and other built structures, integrating it within buildings in ways that range from the subtle to the eye-catching. In 2022 she created Sluuki, a suspended sculpture made of copper and brass, for a newly-built elementary school in southern Sweden. Words and text, used both directly and indirectly, are prevalent in many of her works.
Among her public works, most notable is the large copper portrait of assassinated Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, which hangs in the European Parliament in Strasbourg
Over the years Marie Louise has supported several causes relating to freedom of speech and freedom of the press through sales, auctions and donations of her art. During the spring of 2022 she made an exclusive series of brass works, the entire proceeds from which were donated to humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
Educated in archaeology, metallurgy, art and bronze casting, Marie Louise Kold has been creating metal art since the mid-1990’s. She has exhibited extensively and her art is in private collections all over the world, including in that of the Swedish Royal Court.
Marie Louise’s work is exhibited and sold internationally. She is based in southern Sweden where she works out of her large studio, surrounded by forests and wild animals.
Marie Louise Kold was born in 1974 in Århus, Denmark.
