Danish artist Michael Kvium's (b. 1955) paintings and sculptures are never pleasant, and yet his pictorial universe is strickingly fascinating. Michael Kvium deals with heavy existential issues. He unfolds human conditions, dilemmas and moral corruption by confronting us with grotesque, vulgar and corporal motives in outrages situations. Hyper real naked women and men, children and babies stained with blood or with their organs attached to the body - the affective value is always to the point. Kvium makes us cover our eyes, but at the same time he knows that our curiosity will make us peep through our fingers and leave us choked and without mercy.
Edition Copenhagen has collaborated with Michael Kvium the last 15 years. Since 1995 when Michael Kvium made his first lithograph Red Shoes at the
workshop he has made a number of excellent and diverse lithographs. In the spring of 2006 the cooperation reached it's height by a solo exhibition with Kvium's lithographic works from a four year long period. In relation to the exhibition Edition Copenhagen also published a catalogue raisonné. Kvium's latest visit in the workshop was autumn 2009 where he made two lithographs The Act and La Vida.
