Marie Malherbe
Biography
Marie Malherbe was born in 1975 in Nice (France). Her fine arts education starts at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva (Charles Vogt’s class). She continues with sculpture in Paris (France), getting at the same time a bachelor in Mathematics (Paris-VI Pierre et Marie Curie University) and a Master’s degree in History at the Sorbonne. In 1996 she wins a scholarship from the Sorbonne in Byzantine History at the Ca’Foscari University in Venice. There she studies traditional and experimental etching techniques with Nicola Sene at the Centro Internazionale della Grafica. In 2003 she sets up her own painting studio in Vienna (Austria), continuing her research with German artist and art historian Ilona Neuffer.
Her work is about beauty as a divine sign lifting up souls and thus transforming the world. She paints her enchanted world in a poetic style mixing byzantine and baroque, as well as Jugendstil and contemporary languages.
She has been exhibiting in Paris, Vienna and Italy, and in the Venice Ghetto Vecchio every year since 2012. Her work has been recently selected for the opening of the « Photissima » Pavillion in the framework of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, and for the Cathedral Jubilee installation in Treviso in 2016. Various large scale installations of hers have been selected and exhibited in Sicilian monuments in the framework of the « Abramitic Pavilion » in the Interreligious Biennale of Sacred Art (BIAS) in Palermo in 2016 and 2018. She has been decorating the newly restaurated Pelegrini’s Chapel in Vienna from 2017 onwards. She keeps exhibiting small as well as large scale works in spiritually meaningful monuments and places.
The artist at work
Solo Expositions
2024 "Miracles Happen", Galleria R. Ferruzzi, Venice, Italy
2024 "7 Worte des Auferstandenen", Servitenkloster, Vienna, Austria
2024 "Die 7 Worte Jesu am Kreuz", Servitenkloster, Vienna, Austria
2023 "A Gathering for Peace", Chiesa anglicana San Giorgio, Venezia, Italy
2023 "Inhabiting Eternity", Galleria R. Ferruzzi, Venezia, Italy
2023 "Tautropfen der Auferstehung", Servitenkloster, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2022 "The grace of Love", Imagoars, Ghetto vecchio, Venezia, Italy
2022 "Er sah und glaubte", Servitenkloster, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2021 "Viaggi metaforici", Imagoars, Ghetto vecchio, Venezia, Italy
2019 "The Inner Woman", Venice Exhibition Gallery, San Marco, Venezia, Italy
2019 "Song of Songs", Imagoars Ghetto Vecchio, Venezia, Italy
2019 "Les Songes de Joseph", Peregrinikapelle, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2018 "Via Crucis / Via Lucis", Battistero San Giovanni, Treviso, Italy
2018 "The Prophet and The City", Imagoars Ghetto Vecchio, Venezia, Italy
2018 "Biznaga Tribute" (retrospective), Venezia, Italy
2018 "La Madonna-Contrabasso", Peregrinikapelle, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2017 "Angelus" (now permanent), Peregrinikapelle, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2017 "Look Up!", La Biznaga, Venice Carnival, Venezia, Italy
2017 "Via Crucis", Servitenkloster, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2017 "Avvento", La Biznaga, Venezia, Italy
2017 "Jacob", Imagoars Ghetto Vecchio, Venezia, Italy
2017 "A Song to Zenobia", MADE IN..gallery, Venezia, Italy
2016 "Il Giardino della Misericordia", Museo diocesano, Treviso, Italy
2016 "Danse avec l'Ange", La Biznaga, Venezia, Italy
2016 "A Sacred Covenant", 500th Anniversary of the Ghetto, Imagoars, Venezia, Italy
2016 "L'Arbre intérieur / Der innere Baum", Servitenkloster, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2015 "Le Colonne della Misericordia", Cathedral Jubilee, Treviso, Italy
2015 "This is Love", La Biznaga, Venezia, Italy
2015 "A Taste of Paradise", Imagoars Ghetto Vecchio, Venezia, Italy
2014 "Creation is a Love Story", Imagoars, Venezia, Italy
2013 "Histoires Baroques", Galerie 1zu3, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2013 "Le Jardin des Métamorphoses", Imagoars, Venezia, Italy
2012 "Nature Baroque", Casino' Venier, Venezia, Italy
2012 "Entre Terre et Mer", Imagoars, Venezia, Italy
2011 "Und Gott Sprach", Vienna, Austria
2010 "Femmes en Fleur", Vienna, Austria
2009 "Un Air de Venise", Galerie Pippa, Paris, France
2008 "Mykene", Galerie MOHA, Vienna, Austria
2008 "Urban Warmth", Vienna, Austria
2007 "Rouge", Vienna, Austria
Collective Expositions
2024 "Il Viaggio", Palazzo Minelli, Venezia, Italy
2023 "Gundula", Atelier Aperto, Palazzo Minelli, Venice, Italy
2023 "Luce : Trasformazione della Rinascita", Villa Farsetti, Santa Maria di Sala, Italy
2022 "Luce e Cosmesi", Spazio SV, campo San Zaccaria, Venezia, Italy
2020 "Il Gatto", Atelier Aperto, Venice, Italy
2020 "The Game of Time", BIAS, Castello di Morsasco, Piemonte, Italy
2019 "Ognuno giochi la sua carta", Palazzo Minelli, Venice, Italy
2019 "Αθέατη Πόλη" (Invisible City), Heraklion, Greece
2018 "The Door", BIAS, oratorio dell'Angelo, Palermo, Italy
2017 "The Amber Road", Laboratorium Venezia, Venezia - Badoere, Italy
2016 "The Creation", BIAS, oratorio San Mercurio, et alii, Palermo, Italy
2015 "This is Contemporary", 56th Venice Biennale, Venezia, Italy
2014 "Metropolis", Berlin, Germany
2014 "S.A.L.I.G.I.A.", Ex-Manifattura Tabacchi, Torino, Italy
2013 "Verticalità", Atelier 50, Roma, Italy
2012 "Il Dominio della Carne", Palazzo Zenobio degli Armeni, Venezia, Italy
2012 "LiberArti", Festival delle Arti, Giudecca, Venezia, Italy
2011 "Artista In-Formato" (2011-2019) Etching Biennale, Venezia, Italy
2010 "Libro della Notte", Venezia Viva, Venezia-Berlin-Washington, Italy
Permanent Collections
2024 "IL N'EST PAS ICI" (Les femmes au Sépulcre), Basilique de Neuvy Saint-Sépulchre, France
2022 MAJESTAS DOMINI, Installation, Servitenkirche, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2019 DIE TRÄUME DES JOSEF, Peregrinikapelle, Wien (Vienna), Austria
2019 VIA CRUCIS / VIA LUCIS, Cappella SSa Trinità, Bargano (Lodi), Italy
2017 VERKÜNDIGUNG, Peregrinikapelle, Wien (Vienna), Austria