Bio

Geometric yet organic, meticulous yet spontaneous, Lulu Kaalund’s playful crochet frolics in the interstices between contemporary art and folk art: Vivid and unexpected palettes grow and merge into optical assemblages that nonetheless retain a sensual tactility enabled by the artist’s deft familiarity with her materials. Her work has received enthusiastic acclaim in Wallpaper (March, 2021), I-D Magazine (January, 2021), and from NY Magazine’s senior art critic Jerry Saltz, who proclaimed on his Instagram as a comment to a selected series of various crocheted Kaalund works: “all good paintings to me” (2020).

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Born 1988 in Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2024
It's More Like an Obsession, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023
My So-Called Life, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
I’ve made a huge tiny mistake, ALMA, Stockholm Art Week, Sweden

2021
With me! You shall live with me, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020
Serenity Now, Outpost Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark


SELECTED GROUP EXIHIBITONS

2022
Art Herning, V1 Gallery, Herning, DK
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020
MINE IV, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Today's Special #5, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected Works
With me! You shall live with me. 2021
INSTALLATION VIEW
EIGHTEEN
Untitled (People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day). 2022
Crocheted cotton and wool yarns stretched on canvas and wood frame, 4.5 needle
200 x 170 x 5 cm
Untitled. 2022
Crocheted cotton and wool yarns stretched on canvas and wood frame, 4.5 needle
120 x 120 x 5 cm
With me! You shall live with me. 2021
INSTALLATION VIEW
EIGHTEEN
Untitled (After all, one can't complain. I have my friends). 2021
Crocheted cotton and wool yarns stretched on cotton canvas and wood frame, 4.5 needle
160 x 160 x 5 cm
Untitled (A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference). 2021
Crocheted cotton and wool yarns stretched on cotton canvas and wood frame, 4.5 needle
160 x 160 x 5 cm
With me! You shall live with me. 2021
INSTALLATION VIEW
EIGHTEEN
Untitled (We didn't realise we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun). 2021
Crocheted cotton and wool yarns in white painted oak frame with Ultravue glass, 4.5 needle
56.6 x 54.5 cm
Untitled (A friend is one of the best things you can have, and one of the best things you can be). 2021
Crocheted cotton and wool yarns in white painted oak frame with Ultravue glass, 4.5 needle
56.6 x 54.5 cm
Untitled (Any day spent with you is my favorite day). 2021
Crocheted cotton and wool yarns in white painted oak frame with Ultravue glass, 4.5 needle
56.6 x 54.5 cm
Untitled (When all else fails, take a nap). 2021
Crocheted cotton and wool yarns in white painted oak frame with Ultravue glass, 4.5 needle
56.6 x 54.5 cm

Store

Angela. 2023

Lulu Kaalund

Angela. 2023

£136
Jordan. 2023

Lulu Kaalund

Jordan. 2023

£136
Untitled. 2023

Lulu Kaalund

Untitled. 2023

£136