Maria Veie is an art historian, critic and curator with a strong focus on site specific, performative and sound based art. Recent projects: «Queer Spirit» by Pride Art, «Kraft» by Øyvind Brandtsegg and Erlend Leirdal, «Into the Pink Sun» by MFA, KiT NTNU and «Paralysens Liturgi» by Liv Kristin Holmberg and composer Eirik Havnes in Nidaros Cathedral. Currently she’s working as a Publishing Editor at Museumsforlaget specializing on academic publications within art history and museology.
Between 2018-2022 Veie developed a number of anthologies; «Criticism for an absent reader» that she co-edited together with Anette T. Pettersen, «Gustav Vigeland + Nidaros Cathedral. Two National Icons», «Silver Linings. Clouds in Art and Science», «Digital og analog tegning» and «Et kunstmuseum i endring?» together with Line Engen and Boel Christensen Scheel. Among her upcoming anthologies are «Kunsten å utvikle et sted», «Kunstsentrenes vekselstrøm», «Spreng grensene», and «Tingenes metode».
She founded Galleri Maria Veie in 2008. From 2009-2013 the gallery was connected to a permanent location in Oslo, developing solo shows by young artists. Since 2014 Maria Veie has presented pop-up projects in other cities, eg. ‘Abgesang des Posthauses’ together with the vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices and the artist Goro Tronsmo at Berlin Art Week 2016.
From 2012-15 she was in charge of the Photography workshop Oslokids for schools in Oslo, and TOMROM, a collaboration between the arts associations in Vestfold County. After the last workshops for the city of Oslo in 2014 she took on a project on behalf of Eidsvoll municipality, and presented a pilot artist residency at the hydropower plant Eidsvoll Verk in collaboration with Mathiesen Eidsvold Værk ANS, Akershus County, Cycle Music and Art Festival (IS) and the University of Toronto (CA).
