Contact
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hello@LenaKeller.com

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Inquiries
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KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin ︎Link
Galerie Bayasli, Paris ︎Link













Watching my own rotation (excerpt from press release)
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“[...] In Lena Keller's work, the out-of-focus landscape elements are much larger, indicating a global statement of distance. Natural disasters, climate change, and pollution now account for this distance, replacing closer associations.
The viewer is alone, alone in their direct view of the outside, alone in their inability to enter nature, which nevertheless is right in front of them. They are also denied a real understanding of this landscape. When the details disappear, it is no longer possible to identify a particular location or even describe the landscape. The visual language of Lena Keller’s painting is not illustrative or didactic; it does not seek to enlighten or alert. It is much more complex and subtle, evoking human longing through the blurred motifs, the special light, and the intense mood. This is not a longing for nature or landscape in an objective sense but a pure, subjective desire to connect and feel oneself within them. Lena Keller's paintings do not show human beings but reveal a great deal about human needs. [...]”

Larissa Kikol, Art Historian/Curator
Full press release ︎Link






Legal notice
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Photography Credits:
Verena Hägler, Thomas Lomberg, Joe Clark, Gerhard Haug

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













current



Sept 14 – Nov 11, 2023 | Solo show

‘Watching my own rotation’

with 68projects by KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin (DE) ︎Link

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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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past



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 ︎Link
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Art Busan Fair, South Korea 
with Kornfeld Galerie Berlin, May 2023 ︎Link
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Art Karlsruhe, Fair 
with Kornfeld Galerie Berlin, May 2023 ︎Link
(next to works by Martin Spengler & Tammam Azzam)
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Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris (FR)
‘Passages’ Solo show, October 2022 ︎Link

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Rundgang / Graduation show ADBK 2022

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Positions Art Fair, Berlin (DE)
with Galerie Heckenhauer, September 2022 ︎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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Contact
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hello@LenaKeller.com
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Inquiries
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KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin ︎Link
Galerie Bayasli, Paris ︎Link








Approach
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With reference to the classical genre of landscape painting, I develop my works from manipulated photographic imagery that often revolves around human connection and alienation from natural habitats. In this context, I am interested in questions concerning our perception and how we are affected by the digitally shaped environments surrounding us. In my paintings (oil paint on cotton using a brush), representational depictions combine with allegedly virtual influences, resulting in a pictorial reality of their own.








CV
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Education


2016 – 2022 Fine Arts (Diploma)
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München


2021 Meisterschülerin, class Prof. Karin Kneffel, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

2005 Mediadesign (Bachelor)
DHBW Ravensburg and Open University London



Public collections

Sammlung des Deutschen Bundestages, Berlin
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, München


Grants

2022 Kester-Haeusler-Stiftung “Karl Trautmann Preis”
2021 Stipendium Freistaat Bayern “Junge Kunst & neue Wege”


Solo shows

2023 (until Nov 11, 2023)
Watching my own rotation,
68projects by KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin

2022
Passages, Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris

2020
Everland, Galerie Heckenhauer, München


Group shows / Fairs

2023
Untitled Art fair, Miami Beach with KORNFELD GALERIE
Les affinités électives, Galerie Bayasli, Paris
Gefilde & Gebilde, Museum Fürstenfeldbruck
Art Busan, Korea with KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin
Art Karlsruhe with KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin

2022
small matters, Kunsthaus Marthashofen, Grafrath
Karl Trautmann Preis, Haus 10, Fürstenfeldbruck
Fading Sights, ADBK München

2021
cling together swing together, Galerie Noah Augsburg
Positions, Art fair Berlin with Galerie Heckenhauer
The call of the wild, Galerie Bayasli, Paris
Bei geöffnetem Fenster, ADBK München
In Bewegung, Haus 10, Fürstenfeldbruck
Postponed, Neue Galerie Landshut

2020
Boxenstop2, Museum Pinakothek der Moderne, München
PaperPositions, Art fair, Berlin
auf Sicht, Kunstraum Harbeck, Puchheim
Debütanten, Künstlervereinigung Fürstenfeldbruck
pale blue dot, Weltraum, München
pale blue dot, Schaufenster Münchner Stadtmuseum
off the cuff, Kunst66, München
Winter, Kulturraum Grafrath

2019
Wandlungen, Altes Gefängnis, Kulturverein Freising
Kreiskulturtage, Künstlervereinigung Fürstenfeldbruck
Jahresausstellung Akademie, ADBK München
Open End, Kath. Akademie in Bayern, München

2018
Beste Aussichten, Kloster Schlehdorf Kochelsee
EndeNeu, Optimolwerke München
Jahresausstellung Akademie, ADBK München

2017
WandTafel A57, Kunsthaus Marthashofen, Grafrath
Jahresausstellung Akademie, ADBK München


Bibliography

Karl Trautmann Preis, Catalogue, Kester-Haeusler Stiftung
Everland, Catalogue, Galerie Heckenhauer
Paperpositions Berlin, Catalogue, Positions Berlin GmbH
Open End, Catalogue, Kath. Akademie in Bayern
Boxenstop2, Catalogue, Staatl. Graphische Sammlung München