Lene Vollhardt (b. 1988, New York, USA) previously studied at University of Art Karlsruhe. In performances, moving image, choreography, objects, installations and in markings, Vollhardt explores the bodies’ inscriptions of control. She often relates to her practice through the embodiment and animation of concepts and feelings. Through her practice spanning modified every-day apparel, dance, automatic writing, guided meditation and publishing, to working with latex, textile and metal to create movement apparatuses, Vollhardt instigates the body as vehicle of pleasure, liberation, illness, death and interconnectedness.
RA Schools student from 2018 to 2022
Royal Academy of Art London, Postgraduate Studies, 2018 - 2022
University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Germany, Diploma Media Art, 2012 - 2016
2017 Fellowship of Arts Foundation of the Federal State Baden-Wuerttemberg
2013 – 2016 Scholarship of German National Academic Foundation
2016 Recipient of Arthouse Award Hong Kong
2015 Recipient of Fokus Film Award of Nikolaj Kunsthal
2014 Film Commission, 22. European Days of Culture
2013 The Institute, Dau Project, Kharkov Ukraine
2013 DAAD Erasmus Scholarship at UvA Amsterdam
2016 Project-grant of Riemschneider Stiftung
2016 Project-grant by cultural trustboard of EU-Project Parallax 3D
2014 Film Commission, 22. European Days of Culture Germany
2013 Project-grant of ZKM | Museum of contemporary art Karlsruhe
2022
Art Exhibition Reviews 2021, writing and initiation, supported by Kunstverein Muenchen
2021
Air is a storage Medium, lecture at Central School of Speech and Drama
2020
Blockchain was born in a millieu that was already colonized, Arts of the Working Class
Permeable Subjects, Arts of the Working Class.
2022
The Sphere 2032, Performance at Contempo Festival Kaunas, Lithuania
2021
Stampede, Royal Academy Schools London
Performative Contracts, lecture performance for The Sphere Metagallery
2020
Premiums, Royal Academy of Art London
2019
Sharjah Film Forum, Sharjah Art Foundation, Arabic Emirates
Landgrab, Sadie Coles HQ Shop, London
2018
Her stories, her bodies, Athens Queer Museum (Aphrodite Festival), (GR)
Every Muscle, Every Bone, BarBarbette, Berlin (GER)
Moving Bodies, European Cultural Days, Karlsruhe (GER)
Eminent Domain, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (US)
2017
Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival (HK)
Toronto Arthouse Film Festival (Toronto Filmweek) (CA)
(Non) - Available Bodies, Art Foundation Baden-Würrtemberg
Athens Digital Arts Festival, ADAF Postfuture (GR)
Kraftwerk, OrgaOrga, Mainz (DE)
Priestress, The Living Gallery, New York (USA)
Wanderschaft, Schauburg Karlsruhe (GER)
Transcreen Festival Amsterdam (NL)
2016
Fokus 16, Nikolaj Kunsthal Kopenhagen (DK)
Kongress der Moeglichkeiten, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (DE)