what happens when used machines start talking?
when an Integration Center for Migrated Plants gives german courses to foreign plants?
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Lena Violetta Leitner invents, intervenes and exchanges. In 2017, she graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Digital Arts) with the foundation of the Integration Center for Migrated Plants – IZMP.
In her work, she explores power structures and social patterns through means of irony and humor. The works, which range from installations to interventions to (sculptural) performances, question our constructions of the ‘natural’ or ‘foreign’. They use language in the form of code, text and sound, hacking objects, systems and structures.
exhibitions
2022
UPCOMING:
25., 26.6.
WÜST MI PFLANZ’N
(Experimentier-Werkstätte)
exhibition
PFLANZ’N
composition
Artist Residency auf! auf! with Steffi Baron-Neuhuber, Bad Ischl (AT)
Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR)
woodiana.today
State of Concept Athens (GR)
Where is the river? (residency research outcome of the Artist Residency Land Steiermark)
VBKÖ, Vienna (AT)
Lost. Element. Re-construction of the Witch.
13.01. – 13.02.
AA Collections, Vienna (AT)
BILLAA++
13.12. – 29.01.
2021
AA Collections, Vienna (AT)
BILLAA++
13.12. – 29.01.2022
Gallery SULUV, Novi Sad (RS)
May I introduce: Alien
25.10. – 05.11.
Improper Walls, Vienna (AT)
Hospitable Utopia
08.09. – 24.09.
Fabrikraum, Vienna (AT)
May I introduce: Alien(express)!
10.09. – 19.09.
Museum for Science and Technology, Belgrade (RS), Ars Electronica
woodiana.today bei art+science2021
23.09. – 23.10.
Museum Ulm, Ulm (DE)
Kunstreichgewächse – Bitte gießen!
24.07. – 17.10.
Gallery Reflektor, Užice (RS)
Hospitable Utopia
das möbel & online, Vienna (AT)
Real Stories
2020
Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna (AT)
May I introduce: Alien
www.mayiintroduce-alien.com
auftakt festival für szenische texte, Cologne (DE)
Die Chor
Gallery Die Schöne, Vienna (AT)
Die Geburt des Museums der Migration – IZMP Showroom
AA Collections, Vienna (AT)
Light at the end of the tunnel
2019
Neue Galerie Graz (AT)
Förderungspreis des Landes Steiermark für zeitgenössische bildende Kunst 2019
EHESS Paris (FR)
Study Days 2019 – Green Aliens Under The Microscope. Lecture Performance.
Botanical Gardens Graz (AT)
Solo Exhibition
2018
THE ESSENCE, Vienna (AT)
Heldinnenzentrale, Vienna (AT)
Schlage Wurzeln, Verwurzle dich nicht (A Lovesong) with Maria Hera
2017
AA Collections, Vienna (AT)
CORPOREAL, Trio Exhibition with Andrea Palašti and Paloma Tendero
Wittgensteinhaus, Vienna (AT)
Vergessene Frauen – Hammerherrinnen (soundperformance and installation with Ela A. Sattler)
Gallery U10, Belgrade (SRB)
Hacking the Network, Trio Exhibition with Maria Hera and Sejma Ferré
2016
Gallery Trebinje (BiH)
TV16
Amonhaus, Lunz am See (AT) Viertelfestival
Performance as Kollektiv OutSight
2015
Friday Exit, Vienna (AT)
I can’t connect at all – collective show Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory & Kollektiv OutSight
Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory, Vienna (AT)
Daily Diet – Duo Exhibition with Sejma Ferré
Redcarpet Showroom, Vienna (AT)
Tatorte – Solo Exhibition with Nora Staggl as Living Skirts
2014
Kunstverein Baden (AT)
pigons, manifests and more
Nationalgallery Mala Stanice, Skopje (MKD)
Obsession – Exhibition and residency as Kollektiv OutSight
das weisse haus, Vienna (AT)
Contemporaries of the near future
2013
Biennale Sessions Giardini, Venedig (IT)
Vertikal
das weisse haus, Vienna (AT)
digital frictions
2012
New Zero Art Gallery, Yangon (MYA)
Myanmar Multimedia Festival
2010
City Museum, Skopje (MKD)
White Night
City Museum, Graz (AT)
photo biennale
publicationS
Interview postcoronal Podcast (2020)
“Sprachlabor. Benimmkurs.”, LANDSTRICH Nr. 35 (2019)
Ausstellungstext für KulturKontakt Austria (2019)
Text for HERstory, KulturKontakt Austria (2018)
“Hammerherrin”, art book with E.A. Sattler (2018)
“Protokoll”, in Von Fluchten und Wiederfluchten (Hg. Artur Nickel), Geest-Verlag (2017)
“Eisen”, LANDSTRICH Nr.33 (2017)
“Entrinnerung”, Inszenierte Projekte, Edition Selene (2013)
“Clean Art”, Portable Exhibtion (Hg. Sejma Ferré) (2013)
residencies
2022
State of Concept Athens (GR) (grant by Land Steiermark)
2021
Gallery Reflektor, Užice (RS)
2017
Land Steiermark / Come on, Lunz am See
2016
Viertelfestival, Lunz am See
2015
Friday Exit as Kollektiv OutSight
2014
Nationalgallery Mala Stanica, Skopje as Kollektiv OutSight
In Parallel – Graz & Sarajevo
awards, grants
2022
Atelier grant, Styria
2020
Working grant, city of Vienna
2019
Working grant in the frame of the Promotional Prize for Contemporary Fine Art, Styria
2018
Mediaprize WIG, Vienna
with Maria Hera and FEM
COLLECTIVES
2021/22 “Danube Transformation Agency for Agency”
founding member Kollektiv OutSight
2020/21 Question me & answer
VBKOE member