dooms day room, 2016
Greenwich, 2016
split, 2016
The Temple of the ducks, 2016
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
19.10.2016—15.01.2017
Lena Henke’s céramique sculptures of horses’ feet are alluring and womanly; coins are pushed in what seems like cracks, cleavages or vagina-looking forms. The hollow forms of the hoof sculptures are simultaneously awkward and robust, and suggest high-rise buildings with speckles evoking brickwork. Some include semi-opaque plastic milk containers, and become a kind of junk-animal homemade hybrid. Henke’s sculptures hint at horse fetishism, female sexuality, the subconscious, and collage, in a surrealist, almost “Dali-esque” world.
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Crédit: Guy L’Heureux, La Biennale de Montréal 2016
Biography
Born in 1982 in Warburg, Germany, Lena Henke lives and works in New York and Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Henke is a graduate from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at S.A.L.T.S., Basel, Switzerland (2016); Real Fine Arts, New York (2016); Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany (2015); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany (2014); and White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO (2014). Henke’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at 9th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2016), Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Stuttgart (2016); Regards, Chicago (2016); Vilma Gold, London (2015); Off Vendome, New York (2015); 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, New York (2014); and Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (2014). In 2013, Henke co-founded M/L Art Space, a collaborative curatorial project based in the streets and semi-public spaces of New York.
Photo : Topical Cream
