Born 1982
Lives and works in Berlin
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Lena Inken Schaefer's works are objects which often hide an unclear meaning full of unveiled secrets. Their materiality changes its meaning and is read through gestures and actions and their processes. Perceptions are interrupted as views are altered.
She talks about ornament as a tool of separation and decoration as seen in the evolution of ornamental behavior, which used to separate itself from its surroundings. Schaefer pursues the theme of absence to degrees of similarity and abstraction and their evolution via movement, material and different associative contexts.
(Excerpts taken from the text composed by Magdalena Magiera for Based in Berlin, 2011)
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EDUCATION
2003 - 2009 Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Stabsichelbogen, Krome Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011
46 Fragments from Belarusian 100 Ruble bills, 4D, Berlin
2010
It All Belongs To You* , Splace, Berlin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
One thousand and one sessions, with Shannon Bool & Mariechen Danz, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Pyjama St. John, Künstlerstätte Stuhr-Heiligenrode, Germany
37th Award by Bremer Förderpreis for Visual Arts, Städtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany
2013
Solo., Einheit 01, Berlin
Item Perspectiva, Von flüssigen Stammbäumen im Geröll der Vernetzung, Espace Beaumont, Luxembourg & Krome Gallery, Berlin
2011
krise # 1.8, Berlin
Based in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2010
Conditional Matter, Naked State Gallery, Brussels
Garden, Art, Action, Stirling Gardens, Perth
2009
Hüttendong, after the butcher, Berlin
+ 10, Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig
WORKSHOPS / LECTURES
2013
Langer Atem #5, Symbolisches Kapital, with Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberger Kunstverein
Weltentauschen, Heidelberger Kunstverein
2010
The Scientific Illustration, Sharjah Museums Department, Sharjah
GRANTS
2014
Three-month work stipend at Schloss Plüschow, Germany
37th Award by Bremer Förderpreis for Visual Arts, Städtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany
Catalogue sponsorship, The Governing Mayor of Berlin
2013-2014
Ten months residence in Künstlerstätte Stuhr-Heiligenrode, Lower Saxony
2010
Exhibition Sponsorship German artists abroad of the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa eV ) Perth
2009
Nominated for the development project of the Columbus Art Foundation Ravensburg
Born 1982
Lives and works in Berlin
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Lena Inken Schaefer's works are objects which often hide an unclear meaning full of unveiled secrets. Their materiality changes its meaning and is read through gestures and actions and their processes. Perceptions are interrupted as views are altered.
She talks about ornament as a tool of separation and decoration as seen in the evolution of ornamental behavior, which used to separate itself from its surroundings. Schaefer pursues the theme of absence to degrees of similarity and abstraction and their evolution via movement, material and different associative contexts.
(Excerpts taken from the text composed by Magdalena Magiera for Based in Berlin, 2011)
•
EDUCATION
2003 - 2009 Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Stabsichelbogen, Krome Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011
46 Fragments from Belarusian 100 Ruble bills, 4D, Berlin
2010
It All Belongs To You* , Splace, Berlin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
One thousand and one sessions, with Shannon Bool & Mariechen Danz, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Pyjama St. John, Künstlerstätte Stuhr-Heiligenrode, Germany
37th Award by Bremer Förderpreis for Visual Arts, Städtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany
2013
Solo., Einheit 01, Berlin
Item Perspectiva, Von flüssigen Stammbäumen im Geröll der Vernetzung, Espace Beaumont, Luxembourg & Krome Gallery, Berlin
2011
krise # 1.8, Berlin
Based in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2010
Conditional Matter, Naked State Gallery, Brussels
Garden, Art, Action, Stirling Gardens, Perth
2009
Hüttendong, after the butcher, Berlin
+ 10, Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig
WORKSHOPS / LECTURES
2013
Langer Atem #5, Symbolisches Kapital, with Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberger Kunstverein
Weltentauschen, Heidelberger Kunstverein
2010
The Scientific Illustration, Sharjah Museums Department, Sharjah
GRANTS
2014
Three-month work stipend at Schloss Plüschow, Germany
37th Award by Bremer Förderpreis for Visual Arts, Städtische Galerie, Bremen, Germany
Catalogue sponsorship, The Governing Mayor of Berlin
2013-2014
Ten months residence in Künstlerstätte Stuhr-Heiligenrode, Lower Saxony
2010
Exhibition Sponsorship German artists abroad of the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa eV ) Perth
2009
Nominated for the development project of the Columbus Art Foundation Ravensburg
50000
2014
water color on cotton paper
ca 600 cm x 60 cm
Krome Gallery, solo exhibition "Stabsichelbogen", Berlin
50000
2014
water color on cotton paper
ca 600 cm x 60 cm
Krome Gallery, solo exhibition "Stabsichelbogen", Berlin
50000
2014
water color on cotton paper
ca 600 cm x 60 cm
Krome Gallery, solo exhibition "Stabsichelbogen", Berlin
Stabsichelbogen
2014
Video Projection
ca 16" loop
Krome Gallery, solo exhibition "Stabsichelbogen", Berlin
Stabsichelbogen
2014
Video Projection
ca 16" loop
Krome Gallery, solo exhibition "Stabsichelbogen", Berlin
strong, professional, extra
2014
plaster, watercolor, foam
ca 24 cm x 11 cm x 7 cm
Krome Gallery, solo exhibition "Stabsichelbogen", Berlin
Erdkarussell
2014
Slide Projection
66 slides
Krome Gallery, solo exhibition "Stabsichelbogen", Berlin
untitled
10 drawings
water color on cotton paper
total size: 510 x 90 cm
each 90 x 50 cm
Exhibition view at Krome Gallery Berlin, 2013
Ronde
brazen coin blanks
Exhibition view at Kunstwerke Berlin, 2011
photo: Amin Akhtar
Closed Systems, 2011
Prototype display case of Neues Museum, Berlin
Donation of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) as a contribution to the exhibition.
260x140x80 cm
Exhibition view at Kunstwerke Berlin, 2011
photo: Amin Akhtar
Color pencil on paper
50 x 70 cm
2012
46 fragments from Belarusian Ruble Bills
Exhibition view at 4D Berlin, 2011
46 fragments from Belarusian Ruble Bills
Watercolor on paper
Exhibition view at 4D Berlin, 2011
Exhibition view at Columbus Art Foundation Leipzig, 2009
photo: Werner Hannappel