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BIO
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Lena Keller is a painter living and working near Munich, Germany. Her work engages with the evolving language of landscape painting, using it as a lens to explore our current relationship with nature.
Rooted in a historical genre that reflects societal change, her oil paintings respond to the present socio-ecological state with a sense of urgency and quiet reflection. In her practice Keller merges artificial features with natural depictions into a new pictorial reality.
Exploring the disparity between image and representation through creating a mutation, Keller seeks to emphasize the potential of painting to convey truth through approximation rather than reproduction. The inherent ambiguity of her works provides viewers with a point of reference against their own realm of experience.
Keller graduated from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München as “Meisterschülerin” (recognition). Her work has been acknowledged in institutional exhibitions and international galleries and art fairs, including the Museum Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (2020), the Museum Fürstenfeldbruck (2023), Untitled art fair Miami (2023), Art Busan art fair South Korea, Art Duesseldorf art fair (2025), Positions art fair Berlin (2021/2020), and Art Karlsruhe art fair (2023/2024). She has held solo shows at Long Story Short Gallery New York (2024), Galerie Sabine Bayasli Paris (2022/2024), 68projects by Kornfeld Galerie in Berlin (2023) and Galerie Heckenhauer Munich (2020). Keller's art is housed in the federal permanent collections of the Kunstsammlung des Deutschen Bundestages Berlin (2020) and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München (2021). She has been honored with the Karl-Trautmann-Preis by the Kester-Haeusler-Stiftung (2022) and a postgraduate scholarship from the Bavarian State Government's program Junge Kunst und neue Wege (2023).
