M-59 – THE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS FROM 1959

Once they were all young rebels on their way into a time filled with new artistic experiments, a struggle against the Academy and old traditions.  

 Gay Christensen: Woodcut.

At that time, in 1959, there were scarcely 10 painters with a clear artistic line, which went against the lyrical abstract. 

Today, there are 20 very different artists, and Markan Christensen is the only one who has been a member since 1959. The group is still courting the abstract in wood engravings, sculptures, paintings, mosaics, fragments, ceramics, and picture tapestries, but they also make room for surreal and figurative works.

Ole Bjørn: No title

Normally, the group exhibits its work in the exhibition building of “Den Frie”, but this year the artists are moving to the Round Tower with approximately 40 brand-new oeuvres, which will all be displayed in the big, bright library in the tower.

Mogens Phølsgaard: Ravnelys

“It is an amazing room,” the chairman of M-59, Gay Christensen, says. “It invites new experiments and expressions, which might lead M-59 in a new direction.”

The current members of M-59:

By Lotte L. Zeuthen