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25/06/2018 - 19/09/2018

Lena Skrabs

In her artistic practice Lena Skrabs mainly tries to investigate the oddity of the human species. Her work covers diverse media and moves along the interface between object, performance and participation. Touching topics such as leisure, work and play, Lena Skrabs enjoys to translate her daily-life observations into serious games in which she is making use of stereotypes and familiar images. She is a lover and explorer of the mundane and interested in processes of work- and everyday life. Her artistic practice is connected in unconventional methods that trigger surprise and irritation and often reveal to its full extend only at second glance. A big part of her work is the organization and hosting of social events as well as running public spaces. Her passion presently focuses on the spectrum of professionalism and dilettantism, service-culture and working performance.

Lena Skrabs was born in Hamburg/Germany in 1990 and is currently living and working in Berlin. After finishing her BA at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Bonn, she studied the Master program Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University Weimar. During her master studies she was partially living in Tokyo, spending one year at Tokyo University of the Arts in the Intermedia Arts department. Her work has been exhibited and performed in various exhibitions, fairs and festivals internationally within Germany, Norway, Sweden, Cuba, Spain and Japan. Lena Skrabs has been granted with the PROMOS scholarship by Bauhaus-University Weimar and the Jasso scholarship by the government of Japan.

www.lenaskrabs.com

Paloma Sanchez-Palencia

Paloma Sanchez-Palencia is working on the interface between art, design and the playful life. Her works are saturated with obviousness, clichés and bad jokes. She is deeply interest in everydayness, the extraordinary in the ordinary, in collections of all sorts, clubs, presentations, organizations, situations, in the investigation of artistic, domestic and service systems in relation to everyday life. Work, leisure and the celebratory possibilities of the ordinary are her main topics of research and practice.

Paloma Sanchez-Palencia studied Fine Arts at University of Granada in Spain sliding one year as exchange student at University of Ostrava in Czech Republic. Recently she finished the Master program Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University Weimar. Paloma was born in Brazil, currently lives and works in Berlin.

Lena Skrabs, Free The Moon
, Crowdfunding campaign and video work The internet, 2015 Free the Moon is a poetic mission. Lena Skrabs started a Crowdfunding campaign in order to fly to the Moon and liberate it from the flags planted up there in the course of six manned Moon landings. The technical implementation is possible - all she needs to realize the utopia is 10 billion Euro. Lena Skrabs is using the Internet to cross the border from cyberspace to outer space.
Lena Skrabs, Free The Moon
, Crowdfunding campaign and video work The internet, 2015
Free the Moon is a poetic mission. Lena Skrabs started a Crowdfunding campaign in order to fly to the Moon and liberate it from the flags planted up there in the course of six manned Moon landings. The technical implementation is possible - all she needs to realize the utopia is 10 billion Euro. Lena Skrabs is using the Internet to cross the border from cyberspace to outer space.
Paloma Sanchez-Palencia, GIFshop, Performative intervention, Kunstfest Weimar, 2015 A temporary store ran by Paloma Sanchez-Palencia for two weeks at Fabulous Jakobsplan during KunstfestWeimar 2015 . Everything that was on sale has been a .gif before.
The GIFshop was offering non-ending xerox posters, broken images magnets, towels printed on towels, screenshot zines, animated .gif, pixelated postcards and mysteries. www.fabulousjakobsplan.com
Paloma Sanchez-Palencia, GIFshop, Performative intervention, Kunstfest Weimar, 2015

A temporary store ran by Paloma Sanchez-Palencia for two weeks at Fabulous Jakobsplan during KunstfestWeimar 2015 . Everything that was on sale has been a .gif before.
The GIFshop was offering non-ending xerox posters, broken images magnets, towels printed on towels, screenshot zines, animated .gif, pixelated postcards and mysteries. www.fabulousjakobsplan.com
Braze, Sanchez-Palencia and Skrabs, The Tiny Tour, Participatory performance PARK(ing) Day Berlin , 2017 The Tiny Tour is a site-specific tour with real and fictitious facts about everything a space is and could be. Dressed as classic tour guides, our international team was guiding the participants in three available languages through a space that might seem insignificant or mundane at the first glance, but turned out to offer an unimagined potential. The group was exploring a microcosmos in a humorous way through matters of function, context and self-conception of the site, which led to new findings but also challenged the already known. The Tiny Tour was developed as a collective work of Vanessa Brazeau, Paloma Sanchez-Palencia and Lena Skrabs.
Braze, Sanchez-Palencia and Skrabs, The Tiny Tour, Participatory performance PARK(ing) Day Berlin , 2017

The Tiny Tour is a site-specific tour with real and fictitious facts about everything a space is and could be. Dressed as classic tour guides, our international team was guiding the participants in three available languages through a space that might seem insignificant or mundane at the first glance, but turned out to offer an unimagined potential. The group was exploring a microcosmos in a humorous way through matters of function, context and self-conception of the site, which led to new findings but also challenged the already known. The Tiny Tour was developed as a collective work of Vanessa Brazeau, Paloma Sanchez-Palencia and Lena Skrabs.

Past Residencies

2023

Landscape, Ecology & Environment Research Residencies

4 Plein Air Cn G 2017 BOTANICS Glasgow GP010288good3