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In her book The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing writes that we are already
entangled
with others before we even begin a collaboration with them.
With
these complex entanglements of actionable matter in mind, Lena Rosa Händle's working methods continue the exploration of gesture
as a movement between bodies. Like her photographic portrait works, her installations also show possibilities for moving differently
– and thus also for acting differently.
Lena Rosa Händle presents selected works from her artistic practice.
Anna
Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World. On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2015, p. 29. / Laura Guy: Wie bewegt die Fotografie? Camera Austria International #162/2023, p. 56
Lena
Rosa Händle works as a visual artist in Vienna and deals with questions of (queer-feminist) visibility. She combines social
realities and cultural codes with utopian moments. Her works critically reflect social, political, historical and ecological
realities with regard to a future worth living.
After studying art at the Academy of Visual Arts
Leipzig (diploma, 2011; master student, 2013), she worked as a university assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2013-17).
This was followed by residencies in New York (2017), Spain (2018) and London (2022), among others. She has shown numerous
international and national exhibitions and worked in cooperative social art projects, including at the Klima Biennale Wien
(Endecke die Weisheit des Waldes, 2024), the NS-Dokumentationszentrum München (TO BE SEEN. Queer Lives 1900-50, 2022-23),
Kammerspiele München (Ich sehe mich. Also bin ich, 2022), the Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid (Thank You for Shopping with Us!, 2021),
at FOTO WIEN (To Care is Revolutionary, 2019), and at the Schwules Museum Berlin (Lesbisches Sehen, 2018) as well as at Halle
14, Bauwollspinnerei Leipzig (2016).
Her work has been honoured several times, including with the
Austrian State Scholarship for Artistic Photography, the working scholarship of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State
of Saxony and purchases from national and international public and private collections. Her artist's book Laughing Inverts
(Kehrer Verlag, 2015) was nominated for the German Photography Prize and was part of an international travelling exhibition.
