Lundgren Gallery
Rannva Kunoy
Rannva Kunoy regularly starts from a black ground, and the way she works in a reverse of ground and surface resembles what you see in copper print plates, where lines are furrows rather than strokes. As the lines often are the results of removing paint, the print parallel makes sense both in regards of the process and the resulting paintings.
Just like in the works by Metzger and Fontana, there is a performativity in Kunoy’s works that runs against the grain of most painterly tradition. It is a riotous form of painting, an uproar in its making, where conflict is intentionally neither resolved nor interrupted. This performativity transpires also to the viewers, by the particular pigments she uses and the reflective surfaces of the paintings. They evolve and change as you move in the space; the surfaces shape and reshape continuously depending of the light and viewing angles. A blue surface turns green and recedes back to blue while you pass; a glossy-car-paint-look turns velvety, and what seems flat evolves into a relief-like structure. But this relief is at the same time super thin, as if light had only momentarily materialized, transformed to substance through a form of alchemy. And reversed: the pigment, a piece of dust or dirt, transubstantiated into the purest light.
Biography
RANNVA KUNOY
B. 1975, Faroe Islands
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
1999-01Royal College of Art, Fine Art Painting, London
1996-99 City and Guilds of London Art School, Painting 1995-96 City and Guilds of London Art School, Foundation
SOLO EXHIBITION
2021 Rannva Kunoy, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
2020 Rannva Kunoy, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca, Spain
2019 Solo presentation, Untitled, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Rannva Kunoy, Lundgren Gallery Mallorca, Spain
2017 Rannva Kunoy, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
2016 Rannva Kunoy, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca
2015 Rannva Kunoy, Centre PasquArt, Biel
2010 Rannva Kunoy, Nordic House, Torshavn, Faroe Islands
Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 I Care Because You Do, The Mass, Tokyo, Japan Curated by Matt Black
Her Dark Materials, Eye of the Huntress, curated by Phillippa Adams
REFLECTIONS: Human/Nature, Gana Art Hannam, Seoul, South Korea Curated by Matt Black
2020 Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
Libra, Steinprent, Torshavn, Faroe Islands
Samtaler om tage, Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen,Denmark Curated by Kinna Poulsen
2019 The Inhuman/difficult transition. London, curated by Andrea Medje Jones
Post Analog Studio, The Hole, New York
En kort historie om Abstraktion, Roennebaeksholm, Denmark, Curated by Julie Sass
The inhuman / difficult transition / curated by Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Thames-Side Studios Gallery London
2018 Known Unknowns, Saatchi Collection, London
2017 Summer Exhibition 2017 (curated by Fiona Rae), Royal Academy of Arts, London
2016 Vienna Contemporary, Lundgren Gallery,
2015 Painting the Sky Blue, Lundgren Gallery
Lundgren Gallery
Lundgren Gallery currently represent 14 artists, emerging but also established artists, mostly belonging to a younger generation. The program’s focus is on interdisciplinary, concept-oriented and space based approaches in a variety of media: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, video, VR, sound and performance.
In addition, the gallery offers a residential function for their artists. The gallery has about 1.500 Square meters of spaces divided into 2 galleries and storage rooms and located on Gremi Fusters 45 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Also with an Online Viewing Room.

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Rannva Kunoy
Rannva Kunoy regularly starts from a black ground, and the way she works in a reverse of ground and surface resembles what you see in copper print plates, where lines are furrows rather than strokes. As the lines often are the results of removing paint, the print parallel makes sense both in regards of the process and the resulting paintings.
Just like in the works by Metzger and Fontana, there is a performativity in Kunoy’s works that runs against the grain of most painterly tradition. It is a riotous form of painting, an uproar in its making, where conflict is intentionally neither resolved nor interrupted. This performativity transpires also to the viewers, by the particular pigments she uses and the reflective surfaces of the paintings. They evolve and change as you move in the space; the surfaces shape and reshape continuously depending of the light and viewing angles. A blue surface turns green and recedes back to blue while you pass; a glossy-car-paint-look turns velvety, and what seems flat evolves into a relief-like structure. But this relief is at the same time super thin, as if light had only momentarily materialized, transformed to substance through a form of alchemy. And reversed: the pigment, a piece of dust or dirt, transubstantiated into the purest light.
Biography
RANNVA KUNOY
B. 1975, Faroe Islands
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
1999-01Royal College of Art, Fine Art Painting, London
1996-99 City and Guilds of London Art School, Painting 1995-96 City and Guilds of London Art School, Foundation
SOLO EXHIBITION
2021 Rannva Kunoy, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
2020 Rannva Kunoy, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca, Spain
2019 Solo presentation, Untitled, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Rannva Kunoy, Lundgren Gallery Mallorca, Spain
2017 Rannva Kunoy, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York
2016 Rannva Kunoy, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca
2015 Rannva Kunoy, Centre PasquArt, Biel
2010 Rannva Kunoy, Nordic House, Torshavn, Faroe Islands
Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 I Care Because You Do, The Mass, Tokyo, Japan Curated by Matt Black
Her Dark Materials, Eye of the Huntress, curated by Phillippa Adams
REFLECTIONS: Human/Nature, Gana Art Hannam, Seoul, South Korea Curated by Matt Black
2020 Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
Libra, Steinprent, Torshavn, Faroe Islands
Samtaler om tage, Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen,Denmark Curated by Kinna Poulsen
2019 The Inhuman/difficult transition. London, curated by Andrea Medje Jones
Post Analog Studio, The Hole, New York
En kort historie om Abstraktion, Roennebaeksholm, Denmark, Curated by Julie Sass
The inhuman / difficult transition / curated by Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Thames-Side Studios Gallery London
2018 Known Unknowns, Saatchi Collection, London
2017 Summer Exhibition 2017 (curated by Fiona Rae), Royal Academy of Arts, London
2016 Vienna Contemporary, Lundgren Gallery,
2015 Painting the Sky Blue, Lundgren Gallery
Lundgren Gallery
Lundgren Gallery currently represent 14 artists, emerging but also established artists, mostly belonging to a younger generation. The program’s focus is on interdisciplinary, concept-oriented and space based approaches in a variety of media: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, video, VR, sound and performance.
In addition, the gallery offers a residential function for their artists. The gallery has about 1.500 Square meters of spaces divided into 2 galleries and storage rooms and located on Gremi Fusters 45 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Also with an Online Viewing Room.
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