One of the central questions of Marie’s work is: How much freedom do we really have?
A multidisciplinary artist, her practice moves fluidly across Sculpture, Painting, Installation, Drawing, Costume, Performance and Fashion.
Her work forms playful spatial elements, using a large sense of scale, she uses colour as a spatial agent that intervenes in Architecture and Perception, Wall based painting, Sculptural elements and drawn gestures. Employing a bold colour palette, she tests how colour can conquer space and reveal the psychological battle between freedom and internalised rule.
Her work often resists resolution, using excess humour, materials and mis-logic to destabilise familiar structures and invite a more embodied encounter with the space.
Marie’s strategically arranged compositional juxtapositions reveal an otherness and melancholily. Creating conceptual, mostly abstract work, where the meaning of the work must be completed by the viewer; Brenneis is interested in unlocking areas of feeling, forcing the viewer back into their own instinctive imagination
Marie is a Reader in the Aesthetics of Taste and mentors on Colour, her artworks have been exhibited at: The Art Car Boot Fair, House of Barnabas, London Soho Pride, Vogue Fabrics Queer Arts, Dalston, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, Saatchi Art Gallery, Elephant West Gallery, Get Living London, World of Co -Bulgaria, The Performance Pad Depot -Mainz, Germany, Hackney Wicked Arts Festival, V&A Make Believe exhibition, London, Aesthetica Art Prize, York 2014, London Architecture Festival. Stour Space Gallery, Modern Panic VIII, The Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, USA, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, Space Station 65 Gallery, Art Academy of Latvia, Bethlem Museum of the Mind, St Pancras Hospital Gardens, London, Edge Hill University, Liverpool. Central School of Speech and Drama and the Arts Project London.
Her work has been performed at: The National Gallery in Prague, Trinity Laban Bonnie Bird Theatre, Duckie at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, The Performance Pad Depot -Mainz, Germany, Stratford Circus Theatre, Goldsmiths University, Royal College of Art, Hackney Empire Theatre, London and the University of East London.