ARTIST
MARIE SANDBERG
Art at the Plaza
Marie Sandberg - "Romanée Conti"
Marie Sandberg is a contemporary Swedish artist with a background in fashion design, who now creates expressionistic and visually powerful paintings. She works with oil and mixed media on a large scale, often with wine motifs and the use of decorative materials such as corks. With a strong sense of spatiality, she allows her paintings to become an integrated part of the interior, while the works are characterised by colour, form, and a distinctly personal character.
Background & Education
- Marie Sandberg, born in 1961 in Sweden, is an artist with previous experience as a fashion designer who has since transitioned to working full-time with art.
- She has exhibited works at, among other venues, Liljevalchs Spring Salon with great success and has held several solo exhibitions since 2002.
Style & technique
- Sandberg works primarily in oil or mixed media on canvas. She uses techniques such as palette knife, sometimes brush – and experiments with texture by applying materials like corks to her works, especially in motifs featuring wine bottles.
- Scale is significant: she wants the paintings to dominate and be integrated into the room, without visible frames – the canvas is stretched directly onto custom-made stretcher constructions.
Themes & motifs
- Sandberg repeatedly returns in her artistic practice to motifs such as wine bottles, with titles such as “AMARONE” and “PETRVS” reflecting a fondness for the symbolism and aesthetics of wine.
- Her works combine vibrant figurative elements with modern and contemporary art, giving them a distinctive visual identity.
Sales history
- One example of her artworks is an oil on canvas from 2003 entitled “Puligny Montrachet 1994”, which was sold at auction through Bukowskis.
- Other works in mixed media have been sold at auction; for example, a painting of a wine bottle, signed and dated ’06 (measuring approx. 91 × 41 cm).