Lisbeth Lunda
Lisbeth Lunda (born 1967 in Broenderslev, Denmark) is an educated art director with 25+ years’ experience in the advertising industry after which she changed gear. She is a graphic designer, a digital artist and now in full bloom as a self-taught painter with focus on big-framed acrylics.
Lunda has opened a door to her inner universe for the world to see.
A universe that reveals a lifetime of impressions that have been tucked away in remote corners of her mind. Fueled by her interaction with nature, music – and people around her. Processed by a creative and ultra perceptive soul. And now they’re out in the open. Captured and converted to people and animals. So still, yet so alive and with a vulnerability that touches even the toughest viewer.
The paintings pull you in and make you go though an emotional turmoil, ignited by a common reference.
Lunda’s feelings are, in fact, your own feelings. Her experience becomes your own. Because you have been there too. You know it, the instant you connect with the person in the frame. That person becomes you. Disturbing, yet liberating. You know that you’re not alone with those feelings anymore. Everything will be all right.
Her newest exhibition is called ICONs and is a story about iconic women throughout history that have lost life or opportunities only due to the fact they where women.
ICON's
In 2017, Kim Wall was murdered and most bestially dismembered and thrown into the sea, from a submarine, just hours after she had stepped aboard, to write an article about the captain/owner. In 2022, Mia is also raped, dismembered and buried deep in the forest after she gets into a car after a night out.
Both stories hit me so hard that I cried over the terrible fate of these two young beautiful women and just couldn't get them out of my mind. And one sentence kept running around in my head. "Just because they were women!" This destiny became theirs, just because they were women. And then it hit me; history is full of these women. Women whose fate was sealed by their gender. Women who lost their lives and opportunities for the sole reason that they were women.
ICON's is the story of these women.
ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Yu Fang"
Mixed media on canvas
100 x 140 cm
DKK 42.000,-
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ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Kim & Mia"
Mixed media on canvas
120 x 160 cm
DKK 64.000,-
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In 2017, Kim Wall was murdered and most bestially dismembered and thrown into the sea, from a submarine, just hours after she had stepped aboard, to write an article about the captain/owner. In 2022, Mia is also raped, dismembered and buried deep in the forest after she gets into a car after a night out.
ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Mary Jane"
Mixed media on canvas
100 x 140 cm
DKK 42.000,-
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Mary Jane Clarke // 1862-1910
The right to vote, equal pay and independence for women. The suffragettes sparked a more militaristic fight for women's rights. They wanted to do away with the degradation of women that was woven into the fabric of society.
ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Eva"
Mixed media on paper
74 x 94 cm with frame
DKK 14.800,-
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Eve, the first
"Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”
Genesis, chapter 3, verse 16
Just one small apple led to “the fall of man”, and it was Eve who tempted Adam. The old writings that characterize the great religions have unambiguously given the woman the role of the great temptress: She who led the man astray, on a stray path. She, who nurtured his sexuality and made it wild and untameable - even with complete premeditation. She who had deserved punishment and suffering as a result of her misdeeds.
ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Hildegard"
Mixed media on paper
74 x 94 cm with frame
DKK 14.800,-
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Hildegard Von Bingen // 1098-1179
"Everything flows through love, from the depths to the outermost stars". Thus, wrote Hildegard von Bingen, who was a famous writer, composer, naturopath and spiritual teacher in the Middle Ages. In addition, she was a recognized abbess at the Benedictine monastery in Bingen.
ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Masha"
Mixed media on paper
74 x 94 cm with frame
DKK 14.800,-
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(Mahsa Amini // 1999-2022)
The Iranian woman Masha Amini died after being arrested by the Iranian morality police. Her crime? She had not worn her hijab accordingly to the rules and regulations of the government.
ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Maren"
Mixed media on paper
74 x 94 cm with frame
DKK 14.800,-
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(Maren Splids // 1600-1641)
Burned alive at the stake. Consumed by the flames. Mocked by the surroundings. This was the fate of tens of thousands of women mainly in the Middle Ages.
ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Elizabeth"
Mixed media on paper
74 x 94 cm with frame
DKK 14.800,-
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(Queen of England from 1558 to 1603)
Can you marry a country? Elizabeth chose in the Middle Ages to do exactly that: to marry England. And thus, she became the "Virgin Queen". However, through her choice, she renounced the possibility of having love, children and carrying on the Tudor line. She called England her husband and the people her children.
ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Ane Katrine"
Mixed media on paper
74 x 94 cm with frame
DKK 14.800,-
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ICON's
Lisbeth Lunda
"Franca"
Mixed media on paper
74 x 94 cm with frame
DKK 14.800,-
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About Lisbeth Lunda
Lunda has opened a door to her inner universe for the world to see.
A universe that reveals a lifetime of impressions that have been tucked away in remote corners of her mind. Fueled by her interaction with nature, music – and people around her. Processed by a creative and ultra perceptive soul. And now they’re out in the open. Captured and converted to people and animals. So still, yet so alive and with a vulnerability that touches even the toughest viewer. The paintings pull you in and make you go though an emotional turmoil, ignited by a common reference. Lunda’s feelings are, in fact, your own feelings. Her experience becomes your own. Because you have been there too. You know it, the instant you connect with the person in the frame. That person becomes you. Disturbing, yet liberating. You know that you’re not alone with those feelings anymore. Everything will be all right.
The project was ‘See-soul-sound’ (2020 - 2021) created in collaboration with Kasper Eistrup, the frontman of the Danish alternative rock band Kashmir.
In this universe, the title of every painting corresponds to a Kashmir song, and the experience exploring the music and the lyrics together with the deep expressions of the vibrant creatures in the picture transfers the spectator into a whole new universe through a powerful symbiosis.
Lunda Lunda currently lives and works in Copenhagen, and in her contryhouse in Gilleleje, where she can get really close to the nature.