MARIANNE GRØNNOW - BROKEN PALACE
22. February - 24. August 2008

With the spatial installation Broken Palace the Danish artist Marianne Grønnow has
created a seductive and contemplative space in THE HALL at GL STRAND, whose ruined
beauty brings traces of the decadent royal castles and decorated palaces of the past into
the present. The installation takes the exhibition title as it’s starting point; the crumbling
palace; something perishable, whose great period is over. Broken Palace consists of
tapestries of paper crystals, transparent pieces of furniture and shadows of trees painted
directly on the wall.
Marianne Grønnow belongs to the most original, Danish artists of contemporary art. She
is well-known both in Denmark and internationally for her sumptuous and poetic instal-
lations. Her work establishes a particular contrast between the monumental proportions
and the fragile material, between the tactile and the dreamily. During the last few years
her thorough work with ornament and decoration has gradually lead her to this charac-
teristic media, where ornaments cut and punched out in paper and cardboard let go of the
surface and move directly into the space.
Marianne Grønnow is educated at The Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen. Her
work is represented among others at Statens Museum for Kunst (The Danish National
Gallery) and Malmö Konstmuseum.

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