Lisa Jeannin

The fact that they are difficult to comprehend is their great asset. It is in the unutterable and the unrealistic that our imaginations, as observers, can start to grow. This is why we are caught in Jeannin’s world, why we accept it and enter into an alliance with it.

In other words, anything can happen – and does – in Jeannin’s art. To see an exhibition with Lisa Jeannin is to visit the place where rational reality counts for little, where it is exchanged for a while for her unnatural but nevertheless completely logical world, logical as dreams are logical. For, just as in dreams, it is the contexts and the encounters created within her gallery of figures that generates the fundamentally different and personal world of her art. The individual figures are frequently easily recognisable from everyday life, history and popular culture. The tortoise, the Mummy, the skeleton, the monsters, Mozart, the suitcase…One gets the feeling that fables, film and life itself serve as the inspiration for her works.

Lisa Jeannin

Born 1972 in Uppsala.
Lives and works in Antwerpen. [BE]

Education

1996–2001
Malmö Art Academy, Malmö

1995–1996
Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving, Den Bosch, Breda [NL]

Selected solo exhibitions

2005
Breaking the law, ALP galleri Peter Bergman, Stockholm

2004
Galleri Ping Pong, Malmö

2001
Ö, Index, Stockholm

Selected group exhibitions

2005
Sydkraft, Loop-raum, Berlin [DE]

2004
MALM 1, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö

2004
Mörkrets Hjärta Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg

Selected bibliography

Dan Jönsson, ”Svaleboskolan i Veberöd”, Statens konstråds katalog #34/2005.

Leif Holmstrand, ”Två sorters fragment gällande Lisa Jeannin” Mörkrets Hjärta (utst.kat./exh. cat.), Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, 2004.

Leif Holmstrand, ”Öppning spricka brospann” Under Bron (utst.kat./exh. cat.). Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, 2003.