Maria Zahle received her Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy Schools, London and BA in Fine Art (Hons) from The Slade School of Fine Art, London. Zahle's practice is interdisciplinary, and she works with sculpture, textile, collage, performance, and poetry. Zahle insists on the body and the process of making as unavoidable prerequisites of her works – and as decisive for the images and imprints we all leave on the world. In recent years, sculptural weaving and plant dyeing have become a central part of her practice.
 
 Zahle has exhibited with solo shows at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2023); Arcade, Bruxelles (2022); Rønnebæksholm, Næstved (2022); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2021); Arcade, London (2018) and Sophienholm, Kongens Lyngby (2018). Her previous duo and group exhibitions include shows at Fraktal Ventesal, Skørping (2024); Skovgaard Museet, Viborg (2024); Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (2023); Violet Art Space, Antwerpen (2022); Hillerød Library, Hillerød (2021); Frise Kunsthal, Hamburg (2021); CCA, Andratx (2019) and Kettles Yard, Cambridge (2018). 

 Zahle has created public commissions for Sunnanå Idrottshal in Skellefteå, Sweden (ongoing), three pedestrian tunnels in Copenhagen (2016-2019), the Department of Energy Technology at Aalborg University, Aalborg (2016), and the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester (2014). Three works from her latest solo exhibition in Alice Folker Gallery have been purchased by the New Carlsberg Foundation.