For more than forty years, Sonja Lucien has been painting intuitively and without reservation. It has sharpened her spiritual abilities and developed a unique, spiritual art in a class of its own.
The spiritual has in recent years made a serious entrance into the art world. The performance society has put us all under pressure, and spiritual art opens up new avenues where we can rediscover lost parts of ourselves.
Lucien's coloristic and symbolic practice expresses a parallel world that contains sensitivity and strength. Her paintings invite the viewer on a journey into the universe of the soul, where there is both light and darkness and not least a different reality.
For Lucien, art is a medium through which life can unfold without limitations.
Choosing life as a spiritually-conscious artist is about respecting the soul and the universal spiritual forces that show the way to creation and the self, regardless of external living conditions.
Lucien is a graduate of the Graphic Arts School and Aarhus Art Academy as well as the art academy in Zagreb, Croatia.
She has traveled widely and lived abroad for several years, but is now based in the small, idyllic village Stavreby in Denmark.
Sonja Lucien
Born in Silkeborg, Denmark
Educated at the Academy of fine Art, Aarhus, DK and the Academy of fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia
Lives and works in Stavreby, Denmark.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 Meyer Rigger Gallery, "Soulscapes", Berlin, Germany
2016 Galerija eSCe, "Povratak na mjesto Zlocina" Memory exhibiton, Zagreb, Croatia
2015 Paratissima, Skopje, Macedonia
2013 Galerie Eros, Copenhagen“About Love and Kierkegaard”, Denmark
2010 Curtea de Arges, Romania
2009 Il Palagio Gipsoteca Libero Andreotti, Pescia, Italy
2006 GA2006 Art & Science, Milan, Italy
2005 Art & Math,Boulder, USA
2004 GA2004 Art & Science, Milan, Italy
1987 "Den blå Hest", Ridehuset Århus, Denmark
1987 Muzej Slavonije Osijek, Croatia
1986 Artists Books, Basement Gallery,Malmø, Sweden
1985 "Ravna group" Galleri Klostergaarden, København, Denmark
1984 ”Group exhibition, Kvindegalleriet, København, Denmark
1982 ”Group exhibition” Silkeborg galleri, Denmark
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2014 Curtea de Arges, Pitesti, Romania
2011 "Street Fragments"Museum of Art, Monreale, Palermo, Italy
2011 "Street Fragments" Curtea de Arges, Romania
2010"Stories from Life and Heaven"Curtea de Arges, Romania
2010 "Stories from Life and Heaven"Basilica San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy
2009 GalleriaRiotto, Pietrasanta, Italy
2007 "Darkness and Light"Second Space Gallery, London
1998 Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya
1995 Galleri Knud, København, Denmark
1992 Kanonhallen, København, Denmark
1991 Galerija eSCe, Zagreb, Croatia
1985 "Electrical Pictures" Kvindegalleriet, København, Denmark
Set Designs, grahic works, curatorial work and other:
1998-2000 Various graphic designs
1997-98 Various set designs and graphic works for the theatre“Vandrefalken”
1990 Theatre project with Zlatko Buric for Danish and immigrant children
1987-1990 Living in Zagreb. Creating set designs for theatre plays with Zlatko Buric.
1987-1990Co-founder and curator of eSCe– Croatia’s leadingexhibition space focusing on contemporary experimental visual art, performance and music, including artists from all over the world.
1987-1990 Graphic design. Cartoonist for Zagreb film.
1984-85 Member the painters group“Ravna”
1983-1985 Member of“Kvindegalleriet” in Copenhagen.A gallery with cultural manifestations, art exhibitions, literary meetings, performances etc.
Publications:
Represented in the DADA-Base at the Museum of Modern Art, New York under my old surname Hindkjærwithtwo handmade art books”Jeg synes vi skal” ”København”
link:MOMA New York
Described under Hindkjær in the artbook“Udsigt feministic strategies in Danish art” page 137-39
Informations Forlag, 2004. Redaktion: Kvinder på værtshus ved Nynne Haugård, Nanna Debois Buhl, Åsa Sonjasdottor, Lisa Strömbeck