# Event Details

- **Event Name**: OPENING I Martine Myrup I ELEGY
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 09 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Fri, 09 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm (+02:00)
- **Event Description**: Galleri Maria Friis is pleased to invite you to the opening of ELEGY, Martine Myrup’s first solo show at the gallery.


Date: Friday, 9 October
Time: 17:00-20:00
Location: Galleri Maria Friis


Taking the monkey as both mirror and double — a figure suspended between the human and the animal, culture and nature — Myrup uses the animal body as a displaced visual language: familiar yet strange, intimate yet elusive.

In ELEGY, the life-size textile animal sculptures move through states of tenderness, dependency, vulnerability and loss. Rather than offering fixed narratives, the works inhabit an unstable space between closeness and distance, care and autonomy, presence and absence. The animal body becomes a vessel for what is difficult to articulate directly, allowing questions of attachment, mortality and our relationship to nature to remain open.

There is something elegiac in this movement: a desire to hold on to what is already slipping away. Myrup’s sculptures do not simply represent bodies, but evoke traces of touch, memory and care that linger after something has been lost.

The textile works are accompanied by a series of new ceramic works that extend the exhibition’s tactile language and engage with the same questions of fragility, memory and the unstable boundaries between the human and the animal.

Martine Myrup is an artist based in Denmark, working primarily with sculpture. Her practice explores sculpture as substitute and surrogate, as votive offering, and as a means of evoking and giving physical form to what has been lost.

Working with materials and objects that have already served their original purpose, Myrup draws attention to the histories embedded within them. Through recontextualisation, she allows these existing narratives to intersect with new ones of her own making.

Martine Myrup (b. 1977, Denmark) trained as a sculptor at the Glasgow School of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include A Bird Sings in the Bush of Your Bones, Øregaard Museum (2024), and Only Heaven and the Lilies Know, Officinet, Copenhagen (2023). Selected group exhibitions include Landscape, AKUT#5, Designmuseum Danmark (2024); Cheongju Craft Biennale, Cheongju, Korea (2023); FABRIK, Balterswil, Switzerland (2022); Gammelgaard, Herlev (2022); and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2020).

Myrup is represented in the permanent collection of Designmuseum Danmark.

ELEGY has received generous support from the Danish Arts Foundation, the National Bank of Denmark’s Jubilee Fund, and Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/copenhagen/opening-i-martine-myrup-i-elegy/200030788395717
- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 40

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Copenhagen 
- **state**: SK
- **country**: Denmark
- **location**: Store Kongensgade 116B, Copenhagen
- **lat**: 55.6876
- **long**: 12.59038
- **full address**: Store Kongensgade 116B, Copenhagen, Store Kongensgade 116B, 1264 København K, Danmark, Copenhagen , Denmark

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is OPENING I Martine Myrup I ELEGY being held?
  - **A:** OPENING I Martine Myrup I ELEGY takes place on Fri, 09 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Fri, 09 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Store Kongensgade 116B, Copenhagen, Store Kongensgade 116B, 1264 København K, Danmark, Copenhagen , Denmark.
- **Q**: Who is organizing OPENING I Martine Myrup I ELEGY?
  - **A:** OPENING I Martine Myrup I ELEGY is organized by Galleri Maria Friis.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** OPENING I Martine Myrup I ELEGY is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Copenhagen , this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If OPENING I Martine Myrup I ELEGY sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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