Lena Kaapke: Spacial notations is on view at Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt
September 6 – November 10, 2024
Lena Kaapke works as a conceptual sculptor in the field of installative contemporary ceramics. She works at the interface between art and science. Artistic research is still a young field in the visual arts. Based on questions of how emotional, creative, empathic, and imaginative research can/should be, how knowledge-oriented, theory-driven and rational art can be, artists usually work in an interdisciplinary way. They use both scientific and artistic methods and procedures. Researching, collecting, documenting, and categorizing lead to knowledge-guiding and aesthetically meaningful results, which are presented in exhibition arrangements as atlases, archives or laboratories. Mostly scientific topics are the subject of the investigations, with which artistic research often reacts to or intervenes in social debates.
In her exhibition, Lena Kaapke presents works on the elements of water and earth, which she explores, measures, and describes as constituents of our environment in terms of their materiality and expressive potential. At the same time, these elements refer to forthcoming developments on our planet. The term notation comes from the Latin verb notare, which means to describe, to designate, to make recognizable, but also to perceive or notice. spacial notations thus shows the artist’s subjective perceptions and designations of the environment, distribution and relationships, fixed in space and time.
Lena Kaapke was born in Flensburg in 1989 and lives in Kiel. From 2008 to 2015, she studied Latin philology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts. After that she was a Muthesius project student until 2018 as part of the postgraduate program. Her works have been shown at national and international exhibitions in Germany, China, Latvia and Italy, among others.
She has received various scholarships, her works have received several awards and are in public collections, including the International Ceramic Art Avenue Taoxichuan, Jingdezhen, (CHN). Since 2021, she is one of the youngest artists to be represented in the collection of the Federal Government (Federal Art Collection) installation 242,814 Liter.
An exhibition by the Erfurter Kunstverein. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
Text by Susanne Knorr
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