CV
*1993 Weilheim in Oberbayern, GER
since 2016 lives and works in Munich, GER
Education
02/2023 Diploma presentation, Akademie der bildenden Künste München, GER
2019-20 Project class with Cordula Ditz, AdbK München, GER
2020-23 Study of fine arts, Focus sculpture, Akademie der bildenden Künste München, with Prof. Nicole Wermers, GER
05/2019 Internship with Stonemason Emilio Santucci, Palombara Sabina, IT
2018-19 Study abroad, Accademia di belle Arti Roma, with Prof. Oriana Impei, Prof. Paolo Canevari, IT
2014-20 Study of fine arts, Focus sculpture, Akademie der bildenden Künste München, with Prof. Hermann Pitz, GER
2013-14 freelance sculptress, Weilheim i. Ob., GER
2010-13 Professional training, Wood sculptor apprentice, staatliche Holzbildhauerschule Oberammergau, GER
Exhibitions (selected)
02/2023 Limitation Games / Diploma presentation (solo show), Adbk München, GER
09/2022 Herbstball / Kallmann-Museum, Galerie im Schloßpavillon, Ismaning, GER
07/2022 Undermining & Oversharing / Produzentengalerie Hamburg, GER
04/2022 Galactic cellar / galaxieoffgalerie x USG6, Nürnberg, GER
03/2022 Select Exhibition of the Cusanuswerk 2022 / Universität der Künste Berlin, GER
03/2022 Eat the cake and have it too / kontingentraum, Milchstraße 4., München, GER
11/2021 Am Ende gewinnt der Troll / Orangerie, München, GER
10/2021 Dark Matter / Science & Fiction Festival, Deutsches Museum, München, GER
05/2021 Undermining & Oversharing / Klasse Wermers & Friends, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, AT
07/2020 Ille #9 / ille galerie, Barerstraße 77, München, GER
01/2020 [ the cause of it ] / (solo show), AkademieGalerie, München, GER
02/2020 You’re not [ ], but I am / AkademieGalerie, München, GER
07/2019 Esposizione della scultura libreria / Casa dell’Architettura, Rom, IT
05/2019 Coesione / Castello Savelli, Palombara Sabina, IT
Awards and Scholarships
04/2023 International Scholarship Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus - Djerassi Resident Artists Program Woodside, California, US
11/2022 Scholarship „Junge Kunst und neue Wege“, Freistaat Bayern, GER
03/2022 Scholarship of the Cusanuswerk e.V., Bischöfliche Stipendienförderung, Bonn, GER
06/2019 Scholarship Summeracademy Venice, with Willie Bester, IT
05/2018 Erasmusstipendium (Study abroad Scholarship), GER
07/2013 bayerischer Staatspreis (Bavarian state award), GER
Approach
Anna Lena Keller is a visual artist who works mainly in sculpture and installation. The relationship between the built environment and bodies is the starting point of Anna Lena Keller's reflections. For her, architecture, including that of the exhibition space, is at first a rational, ordering and physically limiting system. Interventions with material serve to question and circumvent this system and to put it in a different relationship with the body. Modifications at the boundaries of exhibition spaces, e.g. by repeating surface structures, play with the idea of an expansion of the space and the permeability of its boundaries.
The expansion of the body through clothing and armour as movable, close-to-body architectures is a current topic. By means of exoskeletons, which add functions to the normative body, biologically given limits of human performance are exceeded. In this way, they are not only in the immediate vicinity of technical media, but also in biopolitical programs of self-optimization.
Anna Lena is inspired by the new, fragmented but infinitely complex spaces of narration, association and reality in which our medialized bodies roam and with which they increasingly merge. At the same speed with which we equip our spaces with “senses” through “smart” technologies, our bodies adapt and break down barriers that separate us from the outside world. Anna Lena reacts to this increasing permeability of body and space, from inside and outside.
Contact
instagram: anna.lena_keller
mail: anna.lena_keller@web.de
phone: +49163-9786929
CV
*1993 Weilheim in Oberbayern, GER
since 2015 lives and works in Munich, GER
Education
02/2023 Diploma presentation, Akademie der bildenden Künste München, GER
2019-20 Project class with Cordula Ditz, AdbK München, GER
2020-23 Study of fine arts, Focus sculpture, Akademie der bildenden Künste München, with Prof. Nicole Wermers, GER
05/2019 Internship with Stonemason Emilio Santucci, Palombara Sabina, IT
2018-19 Study abroad, Accademia di belle Arti Roma, with Prof. Oriana Impei, Prof. Paolo Canevari, IT
2014-20 Study of fine arts, Focus sculpture, Akademie der bildenden Künste München, with Prof. Hermann Pitz, GER
2013-14 freelance sculptress, Weilheim i. Ob., GER
2010-13 Professional training, Wood sculptor apprentice, staatliche Holzbildhauerschule Oberammergau, GER
Exhibitions (selected)
02/2023 Limitation Games / Diploma presentation (solo show), Adbk München, GER
09/2022 Herbstball / Kallmann-Museum, Galerie im Schloßpavillon, Ismaning, GER
07/2022 Undermining & Oversharing / Produzentengalerie Hamburg, GER
04/2022 Galactic cellar / galaxieoffgalerie x USG6, Nürnberg, GER
03/2022 Select Exhibition of the Cusanuswerk 2022 / Universität der Künste Berlin, GER
03/2022 Eat the cake and have it too / kontingentraum, Milchstraße 4., München, GER
07/2021 Isle of dry angles/ Happening, Munich, GER
11/2021 Am Ende gewinnt der Troll / Orangerie, München, GER
10/2021 Dark Matter / Science & Fiction Festival, Deutsches Museum, München, GER
05/2021 Undermining & Oversharing / Klasse Wermers & Friends, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, AT
07/2020 Ille #9 / ille galerie, Barerstraße 77, München, GER
07/2020 Blue bottle fly / Forum Schwanthalerhöhe, München, GER
01/2020 [ the cause of it ] / (solo show), AkademieGalerie, München, GER
02/2020 You’re not [ ], but I am / AkademieGalerie, München, GER
07/2019 Esposizione della scultura libreria / Casa dell’Architettura, Rom, IT
05/2019 Coesione / Castello Savelli, Palombara Sabina, IT
05/2018 Gedankengang/ Performance, Munich, GER
Awards and Scholarships
04/2023 International Scholarship Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus - Djerassi Resident Artists Program Woodside, California, US
11/2022 Scholarship „Junge Kunst und neue Wege“, Freistaat Bayern, GER
03/2022 Scholarship of the Cusanuswerk e.V., Bischöfliche Stipendienförderung, Bonn, GER
06/2019 Scholarship Summeracademy Venice, with Willie Bester, IT
05/2018 Erasmusstipendium (Study abroad Scholarship), GER
07/2013 bayerischer Staatspreis (Bavarian state award), GER
Approach
Anna Lena Keller is a visual artist who works mainly in sculpture and installation. In her works she is inspired by the new, fragmented but infinitely complex spaces of narration, association and reality in which our medialized bodies roam and with which they increasingly merge. At the same rate with which we equip our spaces with “senses” through “smart” technologies, our bodies adapt and break down barriers that separate us from the outside world. Anna Lena reacts to this increasing permeability of body and space, from inside and outside.
Contact
instagram: anna.lena_keller
mail: anna.lena_keller@web.de
phone: 0163-9786929