Ingrid Lønningdal:
Grooves and Ridges

In her practice as a visual artist, Ingrid Lønningdal seeks to provide an understanding of the spaces we inhabit, often by using architecture as a starting material. Her projects deal with how we relate to our surroundings, and she is keenly interested in spatiality and colour, urban renewal and architecture. The works are materialised trough painting, drawing, photography, text, and textile.

At Trøndelag Centre for Contemporarty Art Lønningdal presents textiles made of jute and silicate paint, inspired by the modernist architect Herman Krag who designed the office building where the gallery is located today.

In many of Lønningdal’s works, she conducts close studies of buildings, very often low status buildings such as factories and production facilities. These buildings carry some of the most iconic markers of prestigious modernist architecture: modularity and prefabrication. She has also been interested in mid-century modern architecture, such as that found in California, as well as highly esteemed post-war architecture in Norwegian cities. Her work highlights themes such as what kind of ideologies the buildings manifest, the ‘commodification of the unique’ stemming from modernism, degrees of accessibility, and connections between architecture and art.