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Bricks Gallery is pleased to share STREAM OF STRINGS, a solo exhibition by Martha Skou, opening at Horsens Art Museum on Saturday, May 2 2026.

The museum wrote the following about the exhibition:

"At a time when our perception is increasingly shaped by technological systems, and our relationship to the physical and the living is shifting, Martha Skou examines how movement, energy, and materiality shape the way we exist in the world.

STREAM OF STRINGS unfolds through textile installations, ceramic reliefs, sculpture, and sound. Across materials, Skou engages with forces and phenomena we do not normally perceive directly—such as vibrations, waves, and currents. She brings them forward as physical and spatial experiences, where energy does not appear as something abstract. Instead, it circulates, shifts, and moves through both organic and inorganic materials, across bodies, spaces, and surfaces. [...]"

Read more at www.horsenskunstmuseum.dk.


The exhibition is on view through September 13, 2026, and is generously supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, Statens Værksteder for Kunst, the Familien Hede Nielsen Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation, the Beckett Foundation, The Knud Højgaard's Foundation, and the Toyota Foundation.

Martha Skou (b. 1982) is a Danish interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA in Visual Communication from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, completed in 2014. Among her recent exhibitions are Format 3 at KANAL-Centre Pompidou (Brussels, BE, 2023), Connect Me at Trapholt– museum of modern art, craft and design (Kolding, DK, 2023), and Disharmony of Spheres at Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen, DK, 2021), all in collaboration with artist Louise Foo. Stream of Strings at Horsens Art Museum marks Skou’s first major institutional solo exhibition.

  • Soft Rise
    Martha Skou
    Soft Rise, 2026
    Dyed devoré modal
    Oak frame
    400 x 144 cm
    MS 97
  • Gradient Noon
    Martha Skou
    Gradient Noon, 2026
    Dyed devoré modal
    Oak frame
    360 x 144 cm
    MS 96
  • After Hours
    Martha Skou
    After Hours, 2026
    Dyed, decoloured devoré modal
    Oak frame
    300 x 144 cm
    MS 95
  • Rays of Light
    Martha Skou
    Rays of Light, 2026
    Dyed devoré modal
    Oak frame
    Framed: 183 x 273 cm
    Unframed: 180 x 270 cm
    MS 87
  • Kinetic
    Martha Skou
    Kinetic, 2026
    Dyed and discharge-dyed devoré modal with dry stencil
    Oak frame
    Framed: 143 x 223 cm
    Unframed: 140 x 220 cm
    MS 101
  • Sensitive
    Martha Skou
    Sensitive, 2026
    Dyed devoré modal
    Oak frame
    200 x 144 cm
    MS 93
  • Parallels
    Martha Skou
    Parallels, 2026
    Decoloured devoré modal
    Oak frame
    Framed: 153 x 143 cm
    Unframed: 150 x 140 cm
    MS 83
  • Beginnings
    Martha Skou
    Beginnings, 2026
    Devoré modal
    Oak frame
    Framed: 143 x 143 cm
    Unframed: 140 x 140 cm
    MS 74
  • Belonging
    Martha Skou
    Belonging, 2026
    Dyed devoré modal
    Oak frame
    Framed: 143 x 143 cm
    Unframed: 140 x 140 cm
    MS 73
  • Circular Path
    Martha Skou
    Circular Path, 2026
    Dyed devoré modal with dry stencil
    Oak frame
    Framed: 143 x 143 cm
    Unframed: 140 x 140 cm
    MS 72
  • That Moment
    Martha Skou
    That Moment, 2026
    Dyed modal with dry stencil and heated print
    Oak frame
    Framed: 138 x 102 cm
    Unframed: 135 x 100 cm
    MS 91
  • Pursuing
    Martha Skou
    Pursuing, 2026
    Dyed modal with dry stencil and heated print
    Oak frame
    Framed: 138 x 102 cm
    Unframed: 135 x 100
    MS 84
  • Passionate
    Martha Skou
    Passionate, 2026
    Dyed modal with dry stencil and heated print
    Oak frame
    Framed: 138 x 102 cm
    Unframed: 135 x 100 cm
    MS 79
  • Looking Through
    Martha Skou
    Looking Through, 2026
    Dyed, decoloured devoré modal
    Oak frame
    Framed: 117 x 50 x 8 cm
    MS 60
  • Continues
    Martha Skou
    Continues, 2026
    Dyed modal with heated print
    Oak frame
    Framed: 102 x 63 cm
    Unframed: 98 x 60 cm
    MS 71
  • Fading Trinity
    Martha Skou
    Fading Trinity, 2026
    Dyed modal with heated print
    Oak frame
    Framed: 73 x 87 cm
    Unframed: 70 x 84 cm
    MS 66
  • Made of Same
    Martha Skou
    Made of Same, 2026
    Dyed, decoloured devoré modal
    Oak frame
    Framed: 73 x 73 cm
    Unframed: 70 x 70 cm
    MS 82
  • Sunny Moon
    Martha Skou
    Sunny Moon, 2026
    Dyed, decoloured modal
    Oak frame
    Framed: 65 x 65 cm
    Unframed: 62 x 62 cm
    MS 62
  • Half and Half
    Martha Skou
    Half and Half, 2026
    Devoré modal
    Oak frame
    Framed: 63 x 63 cm
    Unframed: 60 x 60 cm
    MS 99
  • Horizon Beyond
    Martha Skou
    Horizon Beyond, 2026
    Dyed, decoloured devoré modal
    Oak frame
    Framed: 63 x 63 cm
    Unframed: 60 x 60 cm
    MS 98
  • Rise and Fall
    Martha Skou
    Rise and Fall, 2026
    Dyed, decoloured devoré modal
    Smoked oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 79 x 92 cm
    Unframed: 70 x 83 cm
    MS 88
  • Space
    Martha Skou
    Space, 2025
    Dyed, decoloured devoré modal
    Smoked oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 80 x 88 cm
    Unframed: 69 x 80 cm
    MS 56
  • Ebb
    Martha Skou
    Ebb, 2026
    Dyed, decoloured devoré modal
    Smoked oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 87 x 77 cm
    Unframed: 75 x 65 cm
    MS 68
  • La Noche
    Martha Skou
    La Noche
    Pigment, salt, drying print, modal
    Smoked oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 79 x 92 cm
    Unframed: 67 x 61 cm
    MS 102
  • El Dia
    Martha Skou
    El Dia
    Pigment, drying print, modal
    Smoked oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 79 x 92 cm
    Unframed: 67 x 61 cm
    MS 75
  • Flow
    Martha Skou
    Flow, 2026
    Dyed, decoloured devoré modal
    Smoked oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 77 x 65 cm
    Unframed: 67 x 55 cm
    MS 61
  • Intertwined
    Martha Skou
    Intertwined, 2026
    Devoré modal with heated print
    Oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 51 x 52 cm
    Unframed: 42 x 42 cm
    MS 103
  • One of a Kind
    Martha Skou
    One of a Kind, 2026
    Discharge-dyed devoré modal with dry stencil
    Smoked oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 30 x 61 cm
    Unframed: 18 x 49 cm
    MS 80
  • Change Reaction
    Martha Skou
    Change Reaction, 2026
    Discharge-dyed devoré modal with dry stencil
    Smoked oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 26 x 64 cm
    Unframed: 14 x 52 cm
    MS 63
  • Two and Two
    Martha Skou
    Two and Two, 2026
    Discharge-dyed devoré modal with dry stencil
    Smoked oak frame with UltraVue glass
    Framed: 25 x 38 cm
    Unframed: 13 x 25 cm
    MS 89
  • Melt Lines
    Martha Skou
    Melt Lines, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 35 x 30 cm
    Unframed: 32 x 27 cm
    MS 81
  • Comfort
    Martha Skou
    Comfort, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 32 x 32 cm
    Unframed: 29 x 29 cm
    MS 110
  • Heat Sparks
    Martha Skou
    Heat Sparks, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 33 x 32 cm
    Unframed: 30 x 29 cm
    MS 109
  • Together
    Martha Skou
    Together, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 31 x 32 cm
    Unframed: 28 x 29 cm
    MS 108
  • Continuum
    Martha Skou
    Continuum, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 32 x 32 cm
    Unframed: 29 x 29 cm
    MS 107
  • Living
    Martha Skou
    Living, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 30 x 32 cm
    Unframed: 27 x 29 cm
    MS 106
  • Liquid Axis
    Martha Skou
    Liquid Axis, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 32 x 32 cm
    Unframed: 29 x 29 cm
    MS 105
  • Cyklus
    Martha Skou
    Cyklus, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 32 x 33 cm
    Unframed: 29 x 30 cm
    MS 104
  • Shift
    Martha Skou
    Shift, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 33 x 32 cm
    Unframed: 29 x 30 cm
    MS 92
  • Transfer
    Martha Skou
    Transfer, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 30 x 32 cm
    Unframed: 27 x 29 cm
    MS 90
  • Fused
    Martha Skou
    Fused, 2026
    Glass
    28 x 23 x 6 cm
    MS 77
  • After the Melt
    Martha Skou
    After the Melt, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 32 x 31 cm
    Unframed: 29 x 28 cm
    MS 70
  • Becoming
    Martha Skou
    Becoming, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 32 x 33 cm
    Unframed: 29 x 31 cm
    MS 69
  • Change
    Martha Skou
    Change, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 29 x 27 cm
    Unframed: 28 x 25 cm
    MS 112
  • Expanding
    Martha Skou
    Expanding, 2026
    Stoneware and glass
    Artist frame
    Framed: 31 x 24 cm
    Unframed: 28 x 21 cm
    MS 67
  • Trinity
    Martha Skou
    Trinity, 2025
    Glazed stoneware
    22 x 32 x 5 cm
    MS 47
  • Melting
    Martha Skou
    Melting, 2026
    Aluminum
    30 x 26 x 5 cm
    MS 65
  • Rotation
    Martha Skou
    Rotation, 2026
    Lacquer and pigment on metal
    69 x 41 x 40 cm
    MS 94
  • Repeating
    Martha Skou
    Repeating, 2026
    Lacquer and pigment on metal
    61 x 38 x 20 cm
    MS 86
  • Entangled
    Martha Skou
    Entangled, 2026
    Lacquer and pigment on metal
    190 x 130 x 120 cm
    MS 100
  • Purify
    Martha Skou
    Purify, 2026
    Lacquer and pigment on metal
    190 x 128 x 120 cm
    MS 85
  • Rest
    Martha Skou
    Rest, 2026
    Lacquer, pigment, birch plywood, metal
    150 x 72 x 45 cm
    MS 64
  • Pause
    Martha Skou
    Pause, 2026
    Lacquer, pigment, birch plywood, metal
    150 x 72 x 45 cm
    MS 78
  • Sound like a Touch
    Martha Skou
    Sound like a Touch, 2026
    Pigments, paint, MDF, birch, plywood and electronics
    150 x 150 x 45 cm
    MS 111
Press release

Bricks Gallery is pleased to share STREAM OF STRINGS, a solo exhibition by Martha Skou, opening at Horsens Art Museum on Saturday, May 2 - 2026. 

The exhibition is on view through September 13, 2026,

The museum wrote the following about the exhibition: 

 

"At a time when our perception is increasingly shaped by technological systems, and our relationship to the physical and the living is shifting, Martha Skou examines how movement, energy, and materiality shape the way we exist in the world.

 

STREAM OF STRINGS unfolds through textile installations, ceramic reliefs, sculpture, and sound. Across materials, Skou engages with forces and phenomena we do not normally perceive directly - such as vibrations, waves, and currents. She brings them forward as physical and spatial experiences, where energy does not appear as something abstract. Instead, it circulates, shifts, and moves through both organic and inorganic materials, across bodies, spaces, and surfaces. [...]"

 

Read more at www.horsenskunstmuseum.dk.


The exhibition is supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, Statens Værksteder for Kunst, Familien Hede Nielsen Foundation, Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation, Beckett Foundation, Knud Højgaards Foundation, and Toyota Foundation.

 


 

The exhibition is generously supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Danish Arts Foundation, Statens Værksteder for Kunst, the Familien Hede Nielsen Foundation, the Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen Foundation, the Beckett Foundation, The Knud Højgaard's Foundation, and the Toyota Foundation.