Her artworks can be consumed in different ways, some by being watched, whereas installations require the consumer to partake in the work. The specific material are the inspiration for the constructions. They inspire different angels, shapes, contents and structures. Valeur is an experimental artist who works with sculptures, wall constructions, light-objects, collages, woodcuts books and ecetera.
Materials are the inspiration for the constructions. Her artworks lives in between, Objet Trouvés, Art Brut, Navisme and abstractions. Exhibited at museums and biennales. CICA Museum Korea, Alexandria Museum of Art LA, Esbjerg Museum, DK. Participated in Crossing Continents Intercontinental Bienal, Argentina, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Panama. Several Sculpture by the sea, Denmark and Australia. She`s had solo and Group exhibitions in London, Paris, Holland, New York, Athens, Barcelona, Venice, Poland and several places in Denmark. Installations at The Sustainability festival Aarhus, Copenhagen town hall square, Culture harbor, etc. Received several funds over the years. She won The Pinacothégue awards, Luxembourg Art prize, and in Australia she`s won The Spinifix Thrust Artist Subsidy, The Crowe Horwath Artist Subsidy and The Kids Choice Prize, and she`s won in Denmark The Founding Directors Award to an invitation to Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe and Bondi. She was selected for the Artistonich Magazine, and she had several books published. In 2016 she moved from the houseboat in Copenhagen, to the countryside, in order to work in silence. Today Valeur`s lives on a yard, called Vavasgaard, here she`s built her biggest installation, Galleri Valeur representing her works, mixed with a restaurant, where her husband Vastardis is chef of the cuisine. Valeur have produced over 1.400 works over the years, and in 2018 she began mapping Danish cities in woodcut, a project for coming decades. Galleri Valeur and VAVAS Restaurant opening hours Thursday-sunday 17-23 o`clock
Contact information to Mikala Valeur/artist and owner of Galleri Valeur
Adr: Vavasgaard/ Galleri Valeur
Skagensvej 88 Tversted, 9881 Bindslev, Nordjylland
Phone: +45 23449804
Mail: [email protected]
Web: Vavasgaard.dk
Web: Gallerivaleur.dk Fine art, Contemporary, Art bru
