![]() Henke’s work references urban planning, Land Art, human relationships, sexuality and Fetishism, consistently infiltrating the patriarchal structure of art history with a very smart and humorous tone. Lena Henke (born 1982 in Warburg (GER), lives and works in New York City and Frankfurt am Main) has developed a diverse body of sculptural works, often arranged in comprehensive spatial installations. Using strategies of intervention, appropriation and control, the artist also examines her relationship to herself and her family environment. She takes up themes like interpersonal relationships, sexuality and fetishism. She explores the ideas of urban planners, landscape architects and urban theorists such as Jane Jacobs, Roberto Burle Marx and Robert Moses. ![]() In a subtle way and with a humorous undertone, Henke enjoys infiltrating the patriarchal structures of art history. In her vocabulary of forms and materials numerous references such as Minimalism or Land Art can be found, which she likes to combine with surrealist motifs. Recurring motifs include interventions into the classic working methods of sculpture, recourse to anthroposophical methods, often through a biographically motivated approach or the control of "architecture". Her interest in spaces is not limited to presentation or intervention in existing architecture it is also revealed in a broader sense in the appropriation of objects, urban situations and psychological spatial constellations. Lena Henke has developed a diverse body of sculptural works, often arranged in comprehensive spatial installations. Henke has studied at the Frankfurter Städelschule under Professor Michael Krebber (2004-2010).
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