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Biography — Three lengths

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Zenna Lua is a Copenhagen-based photographic artist and psychotherapist working with light and botany.

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Zenna Lua (b. 1991, Greve Strand) is a photographic artist and psychotherapist based in Copenhagen. Trained at Engelsholm Kunsthøjskole and Dansk NLP Center, she has worked independently in both practices since 2018. Her work follows one subject at a time — a flower at full opening, a wall through an afternoon, a horizon at last light — in natural light only.

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Zenna Lua (b. 1991, Greve Strand) is a photographic artist and psychotherapist based in Copenhagen. She studied at Engelsholm Kunsthøjskole and trained as a psychotherapist at Dansk NLP Center, and has run both practices independently since 2018.

Her photographs are made in natural light, handheld or on a tripod, and are not staged. Each series follows a single subject until it yields: Like a flower you shall bloom photographs macro botanicals a day past their best hour; Gigantically Subtle records leaf shadows crossing one plastered wall across a single August afternoon; Greve, at the hour of gold returns to the same stretch of Danish coast for the last twenty minutes of light.

Alongside the photographic work she holds guided evenings and seasonal circles in Copenhagen, where the images are printed and handled rather than hung.

Facts

At a glance

Please spell the name Zenna Lua in exhibition contexts and Zenna Grundtvig where a legal name is required. Both are correct.

Born
1991, Greve Strand, Denmark
Based
Copenhagen
Education
Engelsholm Kunsthøjskole; Dansk NLP Center
Practising
Independently since 2018
Medium
Photography, natural light
Languages
Danish, English

For curators

What travels

Series available for exhibition, with frame counts, sizes and hanging requirements
Series Frames Size Hanging Wall needed
Like a flower you shall bloom 18 60 × 75 and 90 × 120 cm Framed, oiled oak From 14 running metres
Gigantically Subtle 9, as one sequence 50 × 62 cm each One line, eye height 6 running metres, unbroken
Greve, at the hour of gold 6, ongoing 90 × 60 cm Framed or mounted From 7 running metres

All figures are placeholders. Crates, insurance values and condition reports available on request.

Images

Press images

Free to reproduce in connection with coverage of the work. Credit: © Zenna Lua. Please do not crop or apply filters.

Press contact

Direct, no agency in between. Interviews in Danish or English.

hello@zennalua.dk