Lundgren Gallery

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.

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 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.