Matias Faldbakken

Danish | 1973

Matias Faldbakken is a Danish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1973. His work is currently being shown at Kode, Rasmus Meyer in Bergen. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Astrup Fearnley Museet have featured Matias Faldbakken's work in the past.Matias Faldbakken's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 568 USD to 262,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2010 the record price for this artist at auction is 262,500 USD for UNTITLED (MDF), sold at Sotheby's New York in 2016. Matias Faldbakken has been featured in articles for Wallpaper , e-flux and ArtDaily. The most recent article is 118 ½ at Emalin written for Contemporary Art Society in February 2024.

Untitled (Canvas 28) - Matias Faldbakken

Untitled (Canvas 28), 2009

Graphite on linen

60 x 60 in.

UNTITLED, 2007

canvas tape on Belgian linen

153 by 152.5cm.; 60 1/4 by 60in

Untitled (Canvas #99) - Matias Faldbakken

Untitled (Canvas #99), 2015

Newsprint on unprepared linen canvas

153 x 152,5 cm

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Untitled (Sack #7

By Matias Faldbakken

Phillips London

Untitled (Garbage Bag #14)

By Matias Faldbakken

Christie's London

Untitled (Canvas #81, NYT Thursday, July 3 2014)

By Matias Faldbakken

+20%

above mid-estimate

Christie's London

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Current Exhibitions

Composition for the Left Hand. With Works from the Kagge Collection

Kode, Rasmus Meyer

Bergen | Norway

Feb 16,2024 - Jun 09,2024

Past Exhibitions

118½

Emalin (The Clerk’s House)

London | UK

Jan 13,2024 - Mar 16,2024

All Crescendo, No Reward

Zabludowicz Collection, London

London | UK

Sep 28,2023 - Dec 17,2023

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Articles

118 ½ at Emalin

Contemporary Art Society 23/02/2024

Emalin gallery announced its arrival in its new space with a group show of fifteen artists, some from their regular programme and others specially invited.

The Clerk’s House Is a New Shoreditch Gallery Space with a Spooky Past

Wallpaper 02/02/2024

The Clerk’s House in Shoreditch, London, becomes Emalin gallery’s ‘118½’ exhibition space, showcasing contemporary independent works in a historic setting

Composition for the Left Hand

e-flux 26/01/2024

Kode Bergen Art Museum launches a major exhibition, curated by Marta Kuzma, wherein contemporary art from the collection of Norwegian polar explorer and adventurer Erling Kagge interweaves with rarely displayed works from Kode’s historical collection.

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Coverage

“ ..Beyond the visual representation of negation Faldbakken's art can be understood as an incarnation of an artistic attitude which is not only based on the presentation of negation but much more on an unconventional... ”
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Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen

“ ..Based on this position, various concerns meet in Faldbakken's work such as the impulse towards vandalism, the search for freedom through rebellion, an obsession with death and suicide, the rejection of... ”
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Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen