Berlin | ArtRegion: Berlin, Tiergarten

Klosterfelde Edition

Lena Henke: Auf dem Asphalt botanisieren gehen

30. April – 30. Juli 2022

Throughout her practice, Lena Henke produces sculptures and installations that intimately recast histories of modernism, design, and urban planning. Her process begins with research into the physical spaces in which she lives, works, and exhibits her artworks. Henke’s engagements with site-specificity result in sculptures whose often appropriated forms are at once rigorous and flirtatious. Her works challenge the patriarchal legacies of modern culture while bringing the lived experiences of gender to their surfaces. For the past decade, Henke has produced a body of work that explores her personal relation to the architecture and urban design of New York City, where she has continuously lived and worked. For her exhibition at Klosterfelde Edition, Henke shifts her geographic focus to the urban space of Berlin, where she has temporarily relocated. Henke’s new set of sculptures excavates the local histories and household artefacts of the Hansaviertel, a neighborhood comprised of postwar modernist social housing where the artist’s studio is currently located.