Lena Marie Emrich

1991 Born in Göttingen, working and living in Berlin
2016 – 2017 Studio for Spatial Activities of Miroslav Bałka, ASP Warsaw, Class of Paweł Althamer, ASP Warsaw
2013 – 2017 Sculpture, Class of Schäfer und Vlekov, Academy of Art Berlin
2011 – 2013 Fine Arts, Media Class of Arnold Dreyblatt, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel

“Inspiration starts by creating a blank space in your mind. Travel can help. Detach. Get lost. Discover. Breathe. Reconnect.”- Lena Marie Emrich

In her work, Lena Marie Emrich focuses on the marginal and the social - both topics that are key elements in her artistic practice. Car tuning races, abandoned airports, arenas, hip-hop videos – all these are cultural references that nourish her multidisciplinary practice. Emrich interweaves performance, documentation and sculpture and sheds light on the characteristics of these unique communities. Her works tell of the encounter between supposedly rigid everyday objects and human longings, and conserve them in a simple formal language.

Selected grants

2020
Winner of the TOY Berlin Masters Award of the Berlin Masters Foundation
Winner of the Price of the Kunstverein Hannover
(including a work scholarship at Villa Minimo 2021/2022)
Villa Lena Foundation, Palaia, Italy
La Pause Artist in Residency, Agafay Marrakesh, Morroco
Stiftung Kunstfonds for the project Flagge Zeigen

2019
Finalist of the Bloom Art Award by Warsteiner

2018
Stipent of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt

Selected exhibitions

2022
*M. Regie: Sarah Kohm, stage design, Schaubühne, Berlin

2021
NEVER FIGHT THE CURRENT, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin (s)
A total burnout x SCOPES, Komuna Warszawa, Warsaw
Graciously letting go, Anaïs Lellouche, London (s)
FUTURE PAST PERFECT, Spoiler, Berlin
Tipping Point, curated by Arthur Löwen and Marlene A. Schenk, Frankfurt
Meanwhile evaluating doubt with our elbows, MÉLANGE, Cologne (s)
Lines of Passage, curated by Nadine Isabelle Heinrich and Valeria Schäfer, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, Italy
facing B, curated by Stephan Koal, Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain
CLUB QUARANTINA, curated by Gilles Neiens, Grimm Museum, Berlin / wildpalms, Düsseldorf

2020
Living with the Arts, curated by Philipp Bollmann, window shop concept installation at KaDeWe, Berlin
Zugunsten der Gegend, with OFFICE IMPART, Berlin Decks
Mainly Fair Later, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen (s)
Berlin Masters 2020, Arndt Agency, Berlin
Que dérobe le détour d‘une piste, 1–54, Pikala Bikes, Marrakesh

2019
Airblade Blues, Bubenberg, Paris (s)
Salon d’hiver, Bubenberg, Paris
A total burn out, Spoiler, Berlin
Eigenbedarf, Uferhallen, Berlin
Wild Wild Grammar, Kunsthalle Osnabrück

2018
Infinity Drift, Spaced Out x PSM Gallery, Kerkow, Angermünde (s)
Empowering Pose 01 – Rude Receptionist, Weserhalle, Berlin (s)
Going Beyond, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
Hoch hinaus, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
INLET, Cracow Gallery Weekend, New Era Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland

2017
Academy Positions, Positions Berlin Art Fair, Bikini Berlin
Bitte bitte bitte, Graduation Show of Academy of Art Berlin Weißensee, SEZ, Berlin
Invoice Exhibition, online intervention, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin
Girlhood, lokal_30, Warsaw, Poland

(s) solo exhibition
*upcoming