“When space transformed for the first time, it was night.
On that night mountains began to breathe. (…)”
A short nocturnal story by Lena Hensel in images and texts
an opening of the drawings’ exhibition and an art-book presentation
October 6th 2011, 6.00 p.m.
House of Albums, 17 Zwierzyniecka St., Kraków, Poland
come and join us! during the opening Lena Hensel will recite her texts!
NOCTURNE by Lena Hensel is an art-book published in a limited edition of 50 exemplars for Polish and German language version (translation: Artur Kożuch)
exhibition organizer: House of Albums
curator of the Speciality of the House project: Karolina Harazim
NOCTURNE exhibition by Lena Hensel will be presented at House of Albums until December 2011
Lena Hensel (1980, Berlin). Graduated from Akademie der bildenden Künste in Nürnberg (Department of Sculture), then the Fine Arts Academy in Kraków (also the Department of Sculture). Since 2007 Lena Hensel is intensely artistically active in Kraków and Berlin, she ogranised the Fe.kontakt International Sculpture Symposium (Schindler’s Factory, Kraków). She took part in collective exhibitions in Germany and Poland (i.e. in Poznań, Zielona Góra, Tarnów, Hamburg, Essen). In 2009 the first solo exhibition by Lena Hensel, ‘materia in somnis’, was presented at Kolory gallery in Kraków. Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholar in 2010.
Lena Hensel creates in an author’s techniques. She combines materials, the delicate with the coarse, the soft with the hard. Objects and drawings created by the artist construct relations and as such – installations- going much further than the classical frames of sculpture or graphics.
“Speciality of the House”* – composition of the most carefully chosen ingredients – Spécialité de la Maison. “Speciality of the House” is a cycle of contemporary art presentations in the House of Albums interiors.
House of Albums
ul. Zwierzyniecka 17
Cracow, Poland
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