Lotte Konow Lund at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

Artist: Lotte Konow Lund

Exhibition title: Hold Everything Dear

Curated by: Milena Høgsberg

Venue: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway

Date: September 16 – December 18, 2016

Photography: Øystein Thorvaldsen, all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter

This mid-career exhibition will shed light on the socially and politically engaged practice of Norwegian artist Lotte Konow Lund (b.1967).

Lotte Konow Lund has remained committed to drawing as a medium since graduating from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 1997. In addition to a broad selection of drawings made over the past fifteen years, the exhibition includes a small selection of her seminal video works from the late 1990s and 200s that illuminate her artistic concerns. The drawings, as central to her thinking, including the Bredtveit project, a long term collaboration with the inmates of a local women’s prison, whom she teaches drawing. Together they explore concepts such as freedom, belonging, home, and power.

Konow Lund capture the convergence of the personal and the public, the individual and the universal and is known for her social critiques that extend beyond her drawings and into the public debate. Most recently she has garnered critical acclaim for Dagbøkene januar 2014 – februar 2016 (The Journals January 2014 – February 2016), published this year.

Lotte Konow Lund (b. 1967) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She studied fine art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, where she currently is Associate Professor at the Art and Crafts Department. Working in a range of media, from drawing to video-performace, sculpture and text, she is investigating questions relatede to identity, gender, the artist´s role in society, and power structures.

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, Solitude for Many, 2001 and The Party is Over, 2001

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, The Elemental Beat (The most wonderful), 2000, Vitrine, 2016 and Grete Nosebleed, 2015

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, The Journals January 2014 – February 2016

Lotte Konow Lund, Grete nesblod, 2015

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, The Journals January 2014 – February 2016

Lotte Konow Lund, Eline, 2015

Lotte Konow Lund, White President, 2015

Lotte Konow Lund, Indre tomrom og press utenifra, 2015

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, It cast no shadow and has no color, and yet it is so visible, 2011

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, The Lotte Konow Lund Collection

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, Gypsy Girls, 2011-2016 and Drawings, 2007 – 2016

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, Self-Portrait as Five Dictators and a Victim, 2007

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, French Lesson, 2001

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, Images from the Inside, 2015

Lotte Konow Lund, Images from the Inside, 2015

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, Images from the Inside, 2015

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, Video nr. 13 or crime and punishment, 1999

Lotte Konow Lund, Hold Everything Dear, 2016
Installation view, White President, 2007/2014, 1997, 2016, Weight, 2015, How Power Becomes Identity, 2015, Portrait of G, 2014, The Marxist Real Estate Baron, 2014, Bound to Bruce Nauman Bound to Henry Moore Bound to Fail, 2014, The Collector, 2015, Support Structure, 2014, Hanne, 2015, Bad Boy Much Worse Than First Assumed, 2015, Cage, 2015, Sculpture, 2016, Inner Void and Pressure from the Outside, 2015, Eline, 2015, Shadow, 2014, Back, 2014, Up Front, 2016