Lotte Konow Lund. What she said.

Lotte Konow Lund (born 1967) has been a prominent voice in the Norwegian artistic scene right since the start of her career. The exhibition at Kode this summer forms part of a series of presentations of major Norwegian artists with links to Western Norway and Bergen.

Konow Lund’s diverse artistic output is presented through around 100 works dating from 1998 through to the present, ranging from early, relatively unknown works to new pieces being displayed for the first time.

Her works incorporate a range of techniques, from video art, sculpture and painting through to printmaking, installation art and a socially-oriented artistic practice based on cooperation and dialogue.

The selection of works chosen reveals how Konow Lund has over the course of many years shed light on and explored contemporary social issues. By raising questions about class and feminism, social status and religion, she has become a prominent voice in the cultural debate, and her thoughts on the role of art as a socially-oriented practice are pivotal to the exhibition.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue containing newly-penned articles by curator Ana María Bresciani, art historian Amy Tobin, journalist and author Lena Lindgren and playwright and poet Cecilie Løveid.

About the artist

Lotte Konow Lund is a fine artist and professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, who trained at the National Academy of Arts in Oslo and at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London.

She has previously had solo exhibitions at venues including Kunsthall Trondheim, Henie Onstad Art Center, Lillehammer Art Museum and The Vigeland Museum. She has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and the Pratt Institute in New York.

Konow Lund has published the books Om kunst, 25 kunstnersamtaler (2021, “About Art, 25 Conversations with Artists”) and Dagbøkene januar 2014 – februar 2016 (2016, “The Diaries, January 2014 – February 2016”).