what happens when used machines start talking?
Lena Violetta Leitner
invents, intervenes and cooperates. Her works are mostly created in close exchange with people from different fields. She is part of the collective OutSight and DTAFA (Danube Transformation Agency for Agency).
In 2017 she graduated from the Digital Arts program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with the foundation of the “Integration Center for Migrated Plants” (IZMP). Since then, she has been fascinated by plants and their socio-political dimension – addressing the connections between science (especially biology), language and society in her work with irony, humor and speculative fabulation.
Lena Violetta Leitner has exhibited at Venice Biennale Sessions, State of Concept Athens, das weisse haus, Neue Galerie Graz, Ars Electronica, Museum Ulm, Galerie U10 and VBKÖ, among others. In 2022 with DTAFA she received two “Ö1 – Fixing the Future” awards. In 2022 she was awarded the start scholarship for media art.
exhibitions
2022
Delphi 2.0 : Phyto-Pythia
Solo Exhibition
Mz* Baltazar’s Lab (AT)
23.09. – 21.10.
The Danube Sea – NOVI SAD 22 (RS) – European Capital of Culture 2022
How to become an island? as DTAFA
Lehartheater, Bad Ischl (AT)
WÜST MI PFLANZ’N? Experimentier-Werkstätte
Exhibition as Kollektiv OutSight in the frame of the Artist Residency auf! auf!
Lehartheater, Bad Ischl (AT)
PFLANZ’N
Composition and performance as Kollektiv OutSight
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
“TREMATE” in Zine COAPPARATION I, II, III, ed. Claudia Reiche, Andrea Sick, thealit Bremen (2022)
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)
Novi Sad (European Capital of Culture) with DTAFA
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
Start Scholarship Media Art (BMKÖS)
Ö1 awards “Fixing the Future” (with DTAFA)
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