Contact
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hello@LenaKeller.com
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Inquiries
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KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin
Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, München
Long Story Short Gallery, New York
Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris 




Approach
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Lena Keller lives and works near Munich, Germany. Including drawing and printmaking in her practice, her work particularly emerges from the thorough engagement with painting as a medium and its inherent genesis and qualities. Drawing from the classic genre of landscape painting, the artist interrogates our present relationship to the natural world. Her works often revolve around yearning and estrangement, blending representational depictions with digital influences. This involves the intertwining of technological and analog methods of image creation: The artist collages, edits and manipulates multitudes of personal and found images, allowing unfamiliar fragments to merge into new compositions. In examining the disparity between the original and depiction through painting a mutation, she emphasizes the distinct potential of painting to convey truth through approximation rather than direct reproduction. The result unfolds as a pictorial reality of their own, that is both familiar and intriguingly enigmatic.

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Lena Keller is a painter. She lives and works near Munich, Germany


Education

2021 – 2022 Meisterschülerin (Distinction)
Prof. Karin Kneffel, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

2016 – 2022 Fine Art / Painting
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München

Grants

Karl Trautmann Preis, Kester-Haeusler-Stiftung
Junge Kunst & neue Wege, Stipendium Freistaat Bayern



Public Collections

Kunstammlung des Deutschen Bundestages Berlin 
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München 



Solo Shows

2024
Lux Aeterna, Long Story Short Gallery, New York
2023
Watching my own rotation, 68projects by KORNFELD Galerie, Berlin
2022
Passages, Galerie Sabine Bayasli, Paris
2020
Everland, Galerie Heckenhauer, München



Art Fairs

Untitled, Miami Beach, USA
Art Busan, South Korea
Art Karlsruhe, Germany
Positions Berlin, Germany
Paper Positions Berlin, Germany



Group Shows

2024
Wilde Welten, Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, München
Tag der Druckkunst, Haus 10, Fürstenfeldbruck
Art Karlsruhe with KORNFELD GALERIE, Berlin
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,
ISBN 978-3-9821851-4-9 ➜

Boxenstop2, Catalogue, Staatl. Graphische Sammlung München,
ISBN 978-3-927803-52-7 ➜

Paperpositions Berlin, Catalogue, Positions Berlin GmbH

Open End, Catalogue, Kath. Akademie in Bayern