Contact
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hello@LenaKeller.com
Inquiries
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KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin ︎Link
Galerie Bayasli, Paris ︎Link
Ceci n'est pas un paysage
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“[...] Landscape thus reveals more than just a relationship between world and image. It also illustrates the relationship between humans and the world, showing that we are digital Ptolemaics. It is a testament to Lena Keller's keen analytical eye that her painting takes on this neglected image- world relationship. Her work reflects the genre and media history of the landscape image, revealing our relationship to landscape and, thus, our relationship to the world.
At the same time, it develops this world relationship in diffrent directions. I want to single out one of them: some color progressions suggest inflammation, for example, in “Forest Slope 2” (2022). These bring to mind the well-known danger of total environmental destruction - total in that human life on earth would no longer be possible. This would, of course, also mean that there no longer are landscapes, only nature. This impression of an impervious, deserted, and perhaps even hostile nature is supported by the abstract character of the images: it is unclear what the images depict, but there's a sense of defamiliarization and detachment. They almost seem surreal and disturbed, without a human trace. The fact that we see them as landscapes is only the result of a perceptual convention, which, however, is also a conventional relation to the world. And this relation to the world will ultimately lead to the destruction of ourselves and of landscapes.
Keller’s landscape paintings thus have a peculiar, dystopian sense of time. They show us nature not as landscape but as post-landscape.. [...]”
Dr. Björn Vedder
Excerpt, read full exhibition text here ︎Link
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Photography Credits:
Verena Hägler, Thomas Lomberg, Joe Clark, Gerhard Haug
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upcoming
Dec 6 – Dec 10, 2023 | Art fair
Untitled Art, Miami Beach (US)
with KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin ︎Link
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with KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin ︎Link
past
Sept 14 – Nov 11, 2023 | Solo show
‘Watching my own rotation’
68projects by KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin (DE) ︎Link
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July 2023 | Group show
‘Les affinités électives’
Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris (FR) ︎Link
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June 2023 | Group show
‘Gefilde und Gebilde’
Museum Fürstenfeldbruck (DE) ︎Link
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May 2023 | Art fair
Art Busan (KR)
with KORNFELD GALERIE Berlin ︎Link
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May 2023 | Art fair
Art Karlsruhe (DE)
with KORNFELD GALERIE Berlin ︎Link
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October 2022 | Solo show
‘Passages’
Galerie Bayasli Paris (FR) ︎Link
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May 2022 | Grant
Karl Trautmann Preis
Kester-Haeusler Stiftung ︎Link
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September 2021 | group show
‘cling together swing together’
Galerie Noah, Augsburg (DE) ︎Link
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October 2021 | Art fair
Positions Berlin
with Galerie Heckenhauer, München (DE)︎Link
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April 2021 | group show
‘the call of the wild’
Galerie Bayasli, Paris (FR) ︎Link
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September 2021 | group show
‘Boxenstop 2’
Museum Pinakothek der Moderne, München (DE) ︎Link
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October 2021 | Art fair
Paper Positions Berlin
with Galerie Heckenhauer, München (DE)︎Link
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October 2021 | Solo show
‘Everland’
Galerie Heckenhauer, München (DE)︎Link
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Januar 2020 | group show
‘Debütanten’
Künstlervereinigung Fürstenfeldbruck (DE) ︎Link
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Legal notice
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Photography Credits:
Verena Hägler, Thomas Lomberg, Joe Clark
Copyright © 2005 – 2023, Lena Keller + VG Bild-Kunst. All rights reserved. No part of this website (including texts, images or videos) may be reproduced, distributed, published or transmitted in any form and media, without prior written consent.
Responsible for content: Lena Keller
USt-IDNr: DE 293764452
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68projects by KORNFELD GALERIE
‘Watching my own rotation’ Solo show until Nov 2023 ︎Link
(photos: Gerhard Haug)
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Museum Fürstenfeldbruck (DE)
‘Gefilde & Gebilde’ Group show, June 2023 ︎Link︎
Art Busan Fair, South Korea
with Kornfeld Galerie Berlin, May 2023 ︎Link︎
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Art Karlsruhe, Fair
with Kornfeld Galerie Berlin, May 2023 ︎Link
(next to works by Martin Spengler & Tammam Azzam)︎
Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris (FR)
‘Passages’ Solo show, October 2022 ︎Link
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(next to works by Martin Spengler & Tammam Azzam)
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Positions Art Fair, Berlin (DE)
with Galerie Heckenhauer, September 2021 ︎Link
(left to right: 1-5 Lara Eckert, 6-8 Sergeii Chaika, 9-12 Lena Keller, Photo: © Joe Clark)
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Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris (FR)
‘The call of the wild’ Group show, June 2021 ︎Link
(left to right: 1-5 Lena Keller, Jerome Combe, Paul Iratzoquy, Florian Viel)
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Galerie Heckenhauer, München (DE)
‘Everland’ Solo show, November 2020 ︎Link
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Pinakothek der Moderne, München (DE)
‘Boxenstop 2’ Group show, September 2020 ︎Link
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Künstlervereinigung Fürstenfeldbruck (DE)
‘TAPED’ Group show January 2020
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Paper Positions Art Fair, Berlin (DE)
with Galerie Heckenhauer, September 2020 ︎Link
(works pictured here: Mauren Brodbeck, Lena Keller)
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