Margrete Sørensen

Margrete Sørensen (b. 1949) has been an influential figure in Danish contemporary art since the late 1970s, known for large-scale installations, sculptural objects, and public artworks that challenge the viewer’s perception of space and material. Working across sculpture, installation, and architecture, she draws on the legacy of historical constructivism and the postwar concrete art movement, combining materials such as iron, wood, plaster, mirrors, and colored wires into visually and physically engaging forms.

Since her debut at Stalke Galleri in 1988, Sørensen has presented several major solo exhibitions at the gallery, becoming one of the key artists in its program. Her works often transform architectural settings through light, color, and spatial rhythm, creating environments that shift between the poetic and the playful.

Public commissions form an important part of her practice, most notably the 2019 altarpiece for Enghave Church in Copenhagen – an extensive gesamtkunstwerk integrating mirrors, glass, and printed imagery into a dynamic dialogue between religious tradition and contemporary visual language.

In her recent NEIGHBOR MUTATION Artstamp series, Sørensen continues to explore transformation and interconnection, using drawn “microchips” as symbolic reservoirs of meaning, where material, memory, and spatial illusion merge.

Stamp series created by Margrete Sørensen to mark her 75th birthday, based on the NEIGHBOR MUTATION drawings. Each stamp features abstract compositions with symbolic references to growth, memory, and connection, exploring spatial and poetic dimensions through graphite and ink

View the complete Margrete Sørensen NEIGHBOR MUTATION Artstamp series

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