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Katrin von Lehmann: Proxy 8-7, 2018

Katrin von Lehmann: Proxy 8-7, 2018
Photo: Foto©Bernd Hiepe/2018

Katrin von Lehmann

Strict Methods, Excellent Variations

Katrin von Lehmann: Proxy 8-7, 2018
Photo: Foto©Bernd Hiepe/2018

Katrin von Lehmann

Strict Methods, Excellent Variations

Duration:

June 19 – November 07, 2025

Exhibition opening:

Thursday, 19. June 2025, 7 p.m.

Opening hours:

Monday to Friday, 10 a.m–6 p.m.

Venue:

Berlin-Brandeburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Jägerstraße 22-23
10117 Berlin

Free admission. Access to the exhibition via Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin. Please report to the reception desk.

Please note that due to events at the Leibniz Hall, only parts of the exhibition may be accessible at the time of your visit.


“In my drawing practice, I work with pen, brush, scissors, bone folder and hole punch on and with paper. My artistic work in which I develop own experimental setups is very much informed by scientific methods. Working with a systematic set of rules opens up an infinite cosmos of possibilities that I am free to explore. I work with series of works that emerge from my interactions with scientists. This leads to collaborations with internationally operating institutes and their staff in fields such as cloud and plant classification, cell division, human diversity, genetic basic research, and sustainability.

My attitude to scientific methods is, however, ambivalent: On the one hand, I am guided by the fascination of how science tries to methodologically and systematically explain seemingly chaotic facts of life. In order to do so, it develops experimental systems. The observed disruptions significantly help to extrapolate new insights. On the other hand, scientific research only cares about what can be measured. Everything else does not exist. It is the space between these poles where I create my art.”

Katrin von Lehmann

 

At the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy, the artist Katrin von Lehmann (*1959 in Berlin) shows selected works on paper that have emerged from her engagement with science and scientific methods.

 

With support from the Schering Stiftung.

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Side events 

Exhibition opening

June 19, 2025, 7 p.m.

With artist Katrin von Lehmann, art historian and Academy member Horst Bredekamp, and Academy president Christoph Markschies

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Artist led tour

July 15, 2025, 4 p.m.

With Katrin von Lehmann.

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Katrin von Lehmann, born 1959 in Berlin, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and graduated with the first and second state examinations. From 1991 to 1993, she held a DAAD fellowship in Lisbon. She worked as artist-in-residence at, among other places, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2012–2013), the Geophysical Institute in Bergen, Norway (2014), and FRIAS – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (2021–2024). Funded by Culture Moves Europe (Goethe-Institut Brussels), she spent time in the spring of 2025 conducting research at the National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, which will exhibit her current project “Ramping Growth in Colonial Herbarium” in the fall of 2025. In her artistic experimental set-ups, she inquires into facts of life between the poles of order and disorder.

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This Project is realized in cooperation with the following partners:

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

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