HANNA LJUNGH
Hanna Ljungh investigates the relationship between human and nature, between the organic and inorganic, and the complexity of these bonds. She works with a wide range of material, creating installations, sculptures, films, drawings, and prints. In her series of Curiosity Cabinets, for example, she has presented sought-after minerals taken from the ground, that are simultaneously vital components of the human anatomy. Her scientific approach to her practice has resulted in works and exhibitions about mountains, soil, minerals, and space. She has examined the effects on nature by human actions, as in the 6-hour long film I am a mountain, to measure impermanence, which shows the melting ice cap of Sweden’s highest mountain. And most recently, Hanna Ljungh has presented an exhibition where she takes the viewer on a journey into space, following in the footsteps of the space probe Rosetta on its way to a faraway comet. Her excursions into the microscopic parts of the ground or into the vastness of space is nevertheless a pure investigation in nature.
Hanna Ljungh, born 1974 in Washington D.C, currently lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Hanna Ljungh holds a BFA at Parsons School of Design in New York, 2000 and a MFA at Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, 2003.
Hanna Ljungh’s work has been exhibited at Moderna Museet, Malmö; Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde, Stockholm; Marabouparken, Sundbyberg; Arkdes, Stockholm; Fondazione Pine, Milan; Ystad konstmuseum; Vigelandmuseet, Oslo; Kunsthall Trondheim; Kristianstads Konsthall; Örebro konsthall; Studio Hippolyte and HIAP, Helsinki; The Swedish Cultural Institute, Paris; and Kumho Museum of Art in Seoul, among others.
Hanna Ljungh has received grants from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation and Längmanska kulturfonden among others.
Hanna Ljungh’s work is in the permanent collection of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Public Art Agency Sweden; Stockholm Konst; Region Skåne; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Magasin III, Stockholm; Nacka Kommun; Stockholms Läns Landsting; Gävle Kommun; Gävleborgs län; Norrköpings Kommun; Örebro Kommun; Region Uppsala; and Region Norrbotten, among others.