Lova Ranung

Lova Ranung works in film and animation and is based in Stockholm.

Her work highlights the complex relationship between human understanding and invasive and weed species, portraying them not as inherently good or bad, but as forces of change and disturbance. She evokes a science-fiction environment set in digital space, to think about the rapid changes in biodiversity and our attempts to understand and map them. Emphasizing instability as an ecological condition, Ranung draws inspiration from the invasive species such as Garden Lupin – an invasive plant in northern Europe that benefits some species while harming others – or the giant hogweed, introduced for its beauty but later despised for its harmful effects. 

Ranung’s focus is on our attempts to conceptualise these shifting dynamics within our ecological reality, both through the histories of science and through the micro narratives that evolve around them.

In 2026, Lova Ranung began a new film-work at Treignac projet, based on events in the life of Carl Linnaeus, the “father of modern taxonomy”.