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Eli Lundgaard

Eli Maria Lundgaard (b. 1989, Trondheim, Norway) Lundgaard is a Norwegian artist, currently based in Malmö, Sweden. She holds a master in fine art from Malmö Art Academy (2018), and a bachelor in fine art from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2015). She works in different media, mainly video and sculpture. Her work has been presented at The Moscow International Biennale for Young Artists (2016 and 2018), the onboard program at The 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017), as well as at several exhibitions and screenings in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. In her work Lundgaard’s aim is to manipulate, deconstruct and reconstruct the world around her, and to erase or blur common definitions and concepts. She is interested in the uncertainty of narratives, situations, and phenomena, those which can neither be confirmed nor dismissed. In the space between fact and fiction, she turns the seemingly familiar into something strange and foreign. In her artistic practice Eli Maria Lundgaard delves into human’s psyche and its understanding. She researches how we produce meanings, and how we make connections and relations between our inner and the outer world. She questions interaction and mutual influence between the subject and its surroundings. Lundgaard is interested in the way a body is being shaped by the environment and vice versa. In her new work for the Future Generation Art Prize, Lundgaard creates a hermetic poetic environment, in which she is mixing one’s perception of the inside and the outside. Lundgaard is appealed by uncontrollable nature and situations or experiences that exist outside the rational, and visualizes this through her contemplative video and biomorphic sculptures, kept inside boxes. The piece interrogates the self and functions as a set of associations that question the boundaries between visible and invisible, living and inanimate, mental world and the external.
Eli Maria Lundgaard (b. 1989, Trondheim, Norway) Lundgaard is a Norwegian artist, currently based in Malmö, Sweden. She holds a master in fine art from Malmö Art Academy (2018), and a bachelor in fine art from Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2015). She works in different media, mainly video and sculpture. Her work has been presented at The Moscow International Biennale for Young Artists (2016 and 2018), the onboard program at The 1st Antarctic Biennale (2017), as well as at several exhibitions and screenings in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. In her work Lundgaard’s aim is to manipulate, deconstruct and reconstruct the world around her, and to erase or blur common definitions and concepts. She is interested in the uncertainty of narratives, situations, and phenomena, those which can neither be confirmed nor dismissed. In the space between fact and fiction, she turns the seemingly familiar into something strange and foreign. In her artistic practice Eli Maria Lundgaard delves into human’s psyche and its understanding. She researches how we produce meanings, and how we make connections and relations between our inner and the outer world. She questions interaction and mutual influence between the subject and its surroundings. Lundgaard is interested in the way a body is being shaped by the environment and vice versa. In her new work for the Future Generation Art Prize, Lundgaard creates a hermetic poetic environment, in which she is mixing one’s perception of the inside and the outside. Lundgaard is appealed by uncontrollable nature and situations or experiences that exist outside the rational, and visualizes this through her contemplative video and biomorphic sculptures, kept inside boxes. The piece interrogates the self and functions as a set of associations that question the boundaries between visible and invisible, living and inanimate, mental world and the external.