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
2023
Stiftung Kunstfonds: NEUSTARTplus-Grant for visual art Residency at Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
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
2025
HAPPY PLACE, Ausstellung der Biennale für Freiburg 3, Freiburg
2024
Brace, Brace, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE (s)
I hope this finds you well, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, DE
Enjoy Schatz, Schaubühne, Berlin, DE
Soft Cruelties, Meyer Zafra Gallery, Paris, FR (s)
2023
Soft Cruelties, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, DE (s)
The Notion of Silence, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, DE
The Darkest Corners, aarduork, Venice, IT
Rhizomes, Sainte Anne Gallery, Paris, FR
For Now, Grisebach, Düsseldorf, in cooperation with OFFICE IMPART, DE
Tobias Naehring, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, DE (s)
2022
Ostfriesland Biennale, OFFICE IMPART, Leer, DE
Art Brussels, OFFICE IMPART, Brussels, BE
stage design, Schaubühne, Berlin, „Erinnerung eines Mädchens“, Regie: Sarah Kohm
2021
NEVER FIGHT THE CURRENT, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE (s)
A total burnout x SCOPES, Komuna Warszawa, Warsaw, PL
Graciously letting go, Anaïs Lellouche, London, UK (s)
FUTURE PAST PERFECT, Spoiler, Berlin, DE
Tipping Point, curated by Arthur Löwen and Marlene A. Schenk, Frankfurt, DE
Meanwhile evaluating doubt with our elbows, MÉLANGE, Cologne, DE (s)
Lines of Passage, curated by Nadine Isabelle Heinrich and Valeria Schäfer, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milan, IT
facing B, curated by Stephan Koal, Espacio Minimo, Madrid, ES
CLUB QUARANTINA, curated by Gilles Neiens, Grimm Museum, Berlin / wild palms, Düsseldorf, DE
2020
Living With The Arts, curated by Philipp Bollmann, window shop
concept installation, KaDeWe, Berlin, DE
Zugunsten der Gegend, with OFFICE IMPART, Berlin Decks, DE
Mainly Fair Later, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, DE (s)
Berlin Masters 2020, Arndt Agency, Berlin, DE
Que dérobe le détour d‘une piste, 1–54, Pikala Bikes, Marrakesh, MA
2019
Airblade Blues, Bubenberg, Paris, FR (s)
Salon d’hiver, Bubenberg, Paris, FR
A total burn out, Spoiler, Berlin, DE
Eigenbedarf, Uferhallen, Berlin, DE
Wild Wild Grammar, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, DE
*(s) solo exhibition
Public Collections
Her work is held in collections including the Burger Collection, the Sprengel Museum, Arndt Collection and Marval Collection.
Journal
Socials
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