Maximillian Brown

"The peaks and crevasses of perspective, so high and so low, sometimes seeming so far out of reach, sometimes approaching at such haste that one cannot comprehend the fall or rise. With each drop of sweat, each callus, each scar, each damaged limb taken throughout which has yet to heal, the depths and heights seem no smaller. As we attempt to navigate this landscape, we may find ourselves growing more comfortable with our techniques, steps and navigation, taking the ever lasting journey through the rugged terrain as if to find the final height, yet this height is not ours to choose"

- Maximillian Brown

Maximillian Brown redirects the focus of his paintings from the end product, muddying the lines between the process and the result. Most importantly, the works are located in the same space and reality as the viewer and the viewer's body.

"Traces of hours of labour embedded in cotton canvas. Ancient work. These paintings didn’t paint themselves. The painters hope. The light lit in an Indonesian cave 51.200 years ago. Talk about religion. Inner and outer landscapes. Please - the cliches are true. Multiple dimensions - is consciousness one of them? Perhaps also fundamental? With these paintings, a non-dual approach to the practice. Forget the head for a moment. Let your body think. There is nothing to step into. You have already arrived. Forget the head. These paintings are not riddles. There is nothing to solve. Sit with them. Like trees. Or rocks. Or friends. Or foes. Or horizons"

- Jesper Elg

Born 1994 in UK
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark

EDUCATION

2014-2017
University of Westminster, BA (Hons) Mixed Media Fine Art

RECENT SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

2025
As Two Flies Danced, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2024
Through the Absent Landscape, Public Service Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.

2022
A Vagrant’s Paradise, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
An Arduous Crux, OUTPOST, Copenhagen, Denmark
I See A Darkness, a duo exhibitioon with Rose Eken, Charlotte Fough Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark

2021
To Not Swim Would Only Mean To Sink (Methadone Comfort), Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
HAUS X V1 Gallery, HAUS, Copenhagen, DK

2024
Fortune Teller, V1 Salon, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Summer Group Exhibition, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Landscape, Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023
I AM THE OCEAN, OUTPOST, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kadeau Autum Exhibition, Kadeau, Copenhagen, Denmark

2022
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Almost Always Never Open, OUTPOST, Copenhagen, Denmark