A mass of impasto, Morten Skrøder Lund’s paintings are dense microcosms. Here, memories and moments are re-visioned and re-visioned, in fleshy dabs of oil, acrylic and gesso. Abstract and unmoored, these surfaces vibrate, casting the solidity of life to the wind.

Selected works

Exhibitions and series

Wet Suction Spins Forever
Belmacz, 2023

Morten’s third presentation with Belmacz. Here, hung high upon the gallery’s walls, the surfaces of his paintings reverberate, almost lighting up the gallery, transforming the space into a dynamic ecosystem.
(read about the exhibition here)

Parterre
Kunstscenen.xyz, 2019

“…The parterre was a noisy, often boisterous place, where talking, whistling, drunken brawls, hissing, even dancing and singing was common behaviour and where people reacted on the stage performance with applause or booing or by pelting the stage with oranges. …”
read the exhibition text here

merge
Christian Andersen, 2018

The paintings in merge were each made by projecting visual sources onto the canvas; for example, a painting by Caravaggio depicting a horse and its fallen rider and the image of a sitting as well as a reclining figure. As each work progressed, these visual sources began to blend together, forming a third source imaged here by Morten.
(read about the exhibition here)

ome
Belmacz, 2018

Can a painting capture a moment in time before the moment dissolves?

Morten Skrøder Lund is labouring over canvassed surfaces in order to respond to this self-imposed chore. His canvases use colour and shape outside aggregates of abstract or figurative ideas. Many 20th Century painters have extensively dealt with these alleged opposites, but Skrøder Lund seeks his thrills outside outmoded criteria, melding polar positions into a seemingly momentous painting. Forging ahead, the artist is looking to create situations and compositions, where an openness allows his forms to dissolve into a perceptible transient instance.
—Ben Street, 2018

Mustang
LTD Gallery, 2016

“The work in Lund’s exhibition is heavy on interplay and the alchemical, toying with various combinations of paints, finishes and various physical interjections with the canvas that underscore his interest not in the act of painting so much as that explicitly engaged with the hand and it’s expression of movement, but of a more expansive perspective on both the body and the paint in engagement with the surface….”
(read more here)

Lyst
Christian Andersen, 2015

“Morten Skrøder Lund’s paintings often bear traces of action and material segmentation, with corporal qualities such as paint that is peeling off, paint that accumulates in puddles, jarring brushstrokes, and materials that morph under different chemical reactions.”
(read the full press release here)

Wellbound
Belmacz, 2014

Skrøder Lund considers himself not to be a painter but as “someone who produces paintings”. His works are textured but reduced and with a rich atmospheric intensity. He uses bold constellations of colour and subverts the usual detached and calculated formulas of what is expected in ‘process painting’.
(read the press release here)

Hang
Christian Andersen, 2013

“Morten Skrøder Lund’s textured paintings strains from thoughts on reduction, stripping away narrative logic in favour of the disjointed.”
(read the press release here)

Master
Christian Andersen, 2011

Things should not always add up.
Morten Skrøder’s aim has been to rid his work of depictions and
associations to other works of art.
This can be seen as a new attempt to rid abstraction from the markers
of abstract painting. If so, it is accidental.

Rather, as in a sequence of Drone music, when a note or chord is played prolonged,
without support of a melody and recurring rhythms, all narrative progression is
overcome. Here Morten Skrøder has found a space equaling what he is painting.
The sounds bring no message outside its presence.
The painting tries to free itself from any relation.
—Staffan Boije af Gennäs, 2011

Texts and publications

ome
published on the occasion of ome, Morten Skrøder Lund second solo show at Belmacz in 2018.

Texts

Artist Spotlight | text by George Greenhill

Painting as Cup | text by Michael Jeppesen

Artist biography

Morten Skrøder Lund (b.1980, Vejle, Denmark), completed his MFA at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Professor Tumi Magnusson. A mass of impasto, Morten paintings are dense microcosms. Here, memories and moments are re-visioned and re-visioned, in fleshy dabs of oil, acrylic and gesso. Abstract and unmoored, these surfaces vibrate, casting the solidity of life to the wind.

Selected exhibitions include: Wet Suction Spins Forever, Belmacz, London (2023); Lys over Lolland, Sukkerfabrikken, Denmark (2019); Parterre, Kunstscenen, Copenhagen (2019); merge, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2018); ome, Belmacz Gallery (2018); Occupied With Imaginations, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö (2018); IF YOU DON’T LIKE ART, GOODBYE, FUCK OFF, GO-HOME…, Nordic Contemporary Art Collection, Vestfossen (2017); Becoming Zero, Galleri Flach, Stockholm (2017); Yey, an unusual way of spelling yay, Jir Sandel, Los Angeles (2016); Mustang, LTD Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Lyst, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2015); Group Show V, Alexander Levy, Berlin (2014); Wellbound, Belmacz, London (2014); Circus T M, Belmacz, London (2014); Hang, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2013); il monaco, Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted (2013); Ibur, with Jonas Jensen, NoMad, Frankfurt (2012); Master, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen (2011); Such a Short Memorial Form, Phonebos IMO, Copenhagen (2010); Brief Relief, Koh-i-noor, Copenhagen (2008); Moist Envelope, Henningsen Contemporary, Copenhagen (2008).