Lene Vollhardt (*White Plains, USA/ GER) is a Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Filmmaker and Bodyworker.
Her works document loss and control, OFTEN IN relationship to FAILED utopian political ideals.
Her practice often being oriented on ritual, she seeks new modes of sensing, connecting and valuing, Sometimes in connection with other-than-human languages. She correlates the recovered experiences of these interventions to performative installations, films, essays and community protocols.
She is a member of the Sphere, a digital common and crypto economic gift-interface implementing a portfolio of social obligations.
She Has published a column "permeable subjects" For the Multilingual Street Journal Arts Of the working class, on technology and Dissociation.
VOLLHARDT'S Works have been featured in Institutions such as 13th Sharjah Film Forum; Nikolaj Kunsthal; Royal Academy of Art London; Kunstraum Kreuzberg; HongKong Art House Festival; Loop Art FAIR barcelona. SHE HAS BEEN A Fellow of Kunststiftung Baden-würtemberg, AND Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, and the recipient of Fokus Award.
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Lene Vollhardt
*White Plains, New York (USA)
lives and works in London
Education
Postgraduate Diploma, 2018 - 2022, Royal Academy of Art Schools London
Diploma Media Art, 2012 - 2016, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe
Awards
2022 Dunoyere de Segnozac Travel Award
2020 Edna-Rose-Weiss Award, London
2017 Grant of Arts Foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg
2017 Hong Kong Art house Film Award
2016 ZKM Prize Shortlist, Karlsruhe
2016 Project-grant of Riemschneider Stiftung
2016 Project-grant by cultural trustboard of EU-Project Parallax
2015 Fokus Art-Film Award of Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen
2013 - 2016 Full-study-grant of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2014 Film Commission, 22. European Days of Culture Germany
2013 Project-grant of ZKM | Museum of contemporary art Karlsruhe
2013 DAAD Erasmus Scholarship at UvA Amsterdam
Selected shows, Residencies
Impulstanzfestival, Atlas Residency (upcoming), Vienna, Ausria, 2023
After the datafication of flesh. The Sphere x 2033 LARP (Live Action Role Play) at Contempo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania (LI), 2022
Class of 2022 Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK) 2022
Doubles, performance in Jacob Peter Kovner's Film, 2021
Stampede, Royal Academy Schools London, 2021
Premiums, Royal Academy of Art London, 2020
Sharjah Film Forum, Sharjah Art Foundation, Arabic Emirates, 2019
Landgrab, Sadie Coles HQ Shop, London, 2019
Every Muscle, Every Bone, BarBarbette, Berlin (GER), 2018
Moving Bodies (European Days of Culture), Karlsruhe (GER), 2018
Eminent Domain, Ex-Robert Miller Gallery, New York (US), 2018
Her stories, her bodies, Athens Queer Museum (GR), 2018
And so the internet spoke, though shalt make yourself an image, Haus 10, Feldfuerstenbrueck (GER) 2018
Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival (HK), 2017
Toronto Arthouse Film Festival (as part of Toronto Filmweek) (CA), 2017
(Non) - Available Bodies, solo show at Art Foundation Baden-Würrtemberg, 2017
Athens Digital Arts Festival, ADAF Postfuture (GR), 2017
Proposition for a work space, OrgaOrga, Mainz (DE), 2017
Priestress, The Living Gallery, New York (USA), 2017
Wanderschaft, Schauburg Karlsruhe (GER), 2017
Transcreen Festival Amsterdam (NL), 2017
Installation and audio piece as part of Bless No. 56: Workers Delight, Vitra Museum Weil am Rhein / Basel (CH), 2016
Grace Chapters, solo show at University of Art Karlsruhe, 2016
Fokus 16, Nikolaj Kunsthal Kopenhagen (DK) 2016
Recreational Guide for Workers, ZKM Karlsruhe (performance for ZKM Shortlist) 2016
Congress of Possibilities, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (DE), 2015
Be careful what you wish for, solo show at UNG~5, Cologne (DE), 2015
Strange Fruit Video Festival, Lethabel Gallery, London (GB), 2015
Fokus 15, Nikolaj Kunsthal Kopenhagen (DK), 2015
Reading in Figments of highest impersonality, Das Gift, Berlin (DE), 2015
Women in War, Exhibition and Short Symposium (initiated), European Days of Culture
Deferred Action, solo show at One Night Only Gallery Zürich (CH), 2013
2013 The Institute, Dau Project, Kharkov Ukraine (residency with DOP Jürgen Jürges)
Performing the Image (curated by Isaac Julien), Loop Art Fair, Barcelona, (ES), 2013
Selected publications & writing
Art Exhibition Reviews 2022, editor-in-chief, supported by Kunstverein Muenchen, 2022
Reverberating interferences, book published by monika jaeckel, 2021
This Thing we call Art, blog published by Kelly Lloyd, 2021
Permeable Subjects, Text/Interview with Chris Kraus, Arts of the Working Class, 2019
Blockchain was born in a milieu that was already colonized, Text/Interview with Laura Lotti Black Swan DAO, Arts of the Working Class, 2019
Virtual neighbors, Text/interview with Luce de Lire, Arts of the Working Class, 2019
L´ ancient regime strikes back, Author Luce deLire, E-Flux, 2018
Und also sprach das Internet, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2018
Macht, Räume und ihre Akteure, KubaParis, Author: Muriel Meyer, 2018
13th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Postfuture, Exhibition Catalogue, 2018
Wem gehört der Körper? Author Nikolaj Forstbauer, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 2017
Spaces, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Editor Maria Gärtner, 2016
Fokus Special Edition Magazine, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhaven (DK), 2018
Jennifer, Author Daniela Müller, Ansel Verlag Zürich, 2016,
Perforation of the Self. Munitionsfabrik: FeministischesArbeitsKollektiv (Hrsg.), 2015
Sasha Waltz & Friends: Objekte Installationen Performances, 2015
“Identität und Massenmedien sind Zwillinge”, Selbstdarstellungssucht.de (article), 2015
Goethe Institut Denmark Culture Calender, 2015
“Fokus 2015” (10.02.2015) Badischer Staatsanzeiger (11.02.2015)
Memoires Perdues, Europäische Kulturtage Karlsruhe (D), 2014
Loop Art Fair, (exhibition catalogue), Barcelona (ESP), 2013
Parallax - New Forms of immersive Media - Author: Ludger Pfanz, hrsg. Ciant, Praha, 2012
Selected talks
Of the Spheres. Artful asset formation with The Sphere, ecologies, technologies programme, Schuhmacher College, Dartington UK, 2023
Air is a storage Medium, CCSD (Central School of Speech and Drama), London UK, 2022
Drawing machines, RAttract Program, London UK, 2022
The Sphere:Towards new ecologies of funding in the Arts, Money lab/institute of network cultures, Amsterdam NL, 2021
Available bodies with FAK, talk at TOYTOYTOY, Kunstakademie Mainz, GER, 2018
Vague Wars, Triple I, Rome (IT), 2016
Vague Wars, (lecture performance of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), Palazzo Rizzi, Montepulciano (IT), 2014
Memoires Perdues, Prinz-Max-Palais, European Days of Culture Karlsruhe, 2014
Vague Wars, Memoires Perdues: Gender und Krieg, European Days of Culture Organiser of symposium and exhibition 2013
Ja, Aber - Frauenperspektiven, Orgelfabrik Durlach (GEDOK), 2013
Postcolonial perspectives on law and trafficking (co-organizer), a discussion with FAK and Roella Lievelt of Share Network Amsterdam, 2013
Body work / performance / spirit education
Seki-Method dance teacher training by Minako Seki, 2022 – 2023, Berlin & London
Plantally plant spirit ceremonies monthly 2019 – 2023
Yawanawa sacred medicine retreat, 2019, Acre, Brazil
Dancer/performer for Carlos Atabey Romero, I feel so mezzaziney, London Contemporary Music Festival, Muy Serio, Selfridges London, 2019
Theta Healing Practitioner Dig Deeper (2018), Advanced DNA 3 (2018)
Theta Healing Practitioner Advanced DNA (2016)
Dancer/performer for Sasha Waltz, Performances, Objects, Installations ZKM, Karlsruhe 2014 - 2015
Dancer/performer for Liz Magic Laser, Research and Reporting, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe and KW Contemporary, Berlin 2014 - 2015
Performer for Alexandra Pirici, Fluids, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2015
Performer for Christian Falsnaes (A Good Reason Is One That Looks Like One, Globale, Karlsruhe, ZKM), 2016
Theta Healing Practitioner Basic DNA (2014)
Aura Empowerment Reiki Practicioner (2008)
Spine Alignment Reiki Practictioner (2007)
Angel Aura Clearing System Practitioner (2007)
Angel Karma Clearing System Practitioner (2007)
Angel Chakra Clearing System Practitioner (2007)