PUBLICATION
After an inspiring year in the mentoring program of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, I finally hold the publication in my hands!
I would like to thank Julia Katharina Thiemann for the wonderful text, Nanna Heidenreich for the great mentoring and Barbara Pflanzner for the mentoring program!
Excerpt:
In her artistic practice, Lena Violetta Leitner addresses the socio-political conditions of our human coexistence based on how we deal with and think about plants, animals and the nature that surrounds us. Varying levels of individual, personal behavior, feedback, for example with individual, concrete plants, as well as developments in society as a whole are linked together in her artistic works in a subtle way, thus reflecting the interdependencies of our complex reality of life in the post-Antropocene in a critical and humorous way.
With her mostly participation-oriented and collectively created art, Lena Violetta Leitner explores cross-species border crossings in an aesthetic way and questions our human social coexistence and our self-image in the structure of our environment.
structure of our environment. Lena Violetta Leitner’s ironic exaggerations always harbor an explosive core of future-oriented fiction that could rethink and reshape our world.
Julia Katharina Thiemann