Marie Kølbæk Iversen

Marie Kølbæk Iversen is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans installation, video, and performance, often engaging with themes of temporality, memory, and ecological interconnectedness. Her work frequently draws on scientific and mythological frameworks, exploring the relationships between human and non-human entities. Through examinations of im/material phenomena, Kølbæk Iversen probes the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, the real and the imaginative. Her research-based projects often involve collaboration with scientists, musicians, and other cultural practitioners, resulting in artworks that offer multilayered perspectives on both natural and cultural systems.

Currently a postdoctoral researcher at SMK Thy—the Danish National Gallery, 2023-25, Kølbæk Iversen defended her Ph.D. dissertation, "Neo-worlds: Transformative Agency through Fright, Rite, and Myth," and obtained her PhD degree in 2023. In 2024, she published a monography with Mousse and Podere Trafonti titled "Histories of Predation," which was based on her doctoral research project carried out 2017-22 between the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Aarhus University.

Marie Kølbæk Iversen is represented in several public collections and has exhibited extensively in Denmark and internationally, including at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (DK), the Gwangju Biennial (KR), Henie Onstad Art Center (NO), Centre d'art contemporain (CH) and O – Overgaden (DK). She performs under the artist name of Donnimaar, and has so far released two music albums: “Vredens Børn” (MoBC Records, 2021), and “O Tilli” (Speckled-Toshe, 2025).

Kilde: Marie Kølbæk Iversen