CV

Lena Grossmann, born 1991 in Munich, lives and workes in Munich

Education

• 2013 - 2022
  studies of fine arts at Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, class Prof. Olaf Nicolai

• 2018 - 2020
  M.A. contemporary music composition at the Züricher Hochschule der Künste, Prof. Isabel Mundry

• 2019
  Meisterschülerin, class Prof. Olaf Nicolai

• 2022
  Diploma of fine arts, at AdBK Munich

Funding (selection)

• 2025
  Production funding, WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SEE? - ON BEING WATCHED, City of Munich

• 2023
  dance scholarship choreographic research, City of Munich

• 2022
  Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis für Bildende Kunst Bavarian State's Ministry for Art and Science

• 2022
  Stepping out NPN (nationales Performance Netz) for MIMETIC BODIES

• 2022
  produktionsunabhängige Förderung (non production-linked funding) from the City of Munich (in the sector of dance)

• 2021
  DIS-TANZ-SOLO (DIS-TANZEN), scholarship Mimetic strategies - a choreographic research (working title)

• 2020
  Leonard und Ida Wolf-Gedächtnispreis für Bildende Kunst, City of Munich

• 2019
  Bundespreis für Kunststudierende des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (Federal Prize for Art Students, by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research)

• 2019
  Debütförderung (Debute founding) from the City of Munich (in the sector of dance), for code and shadow;reverse TRIO

• 2019
  Production funding, BLZT (residual funds), for code and shadow; reverse TRIO

• 2019
  Jubiläums – Stipendien – Stiftung zur Akademie der Bildenden Künste in München

• 2018 -
  Scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

• 2018
  Production funding, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, for Strecke (1-7) aus Armkreis (0)

• 2018
  Production funding from Stadt Kassel for the dance-project Strecke (1-7) aus Armkreis (0)

• 2016
  Max-von-Widnmann Preis, Anneliese Senger Stiftung

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2025 Performance, exhibition,WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SEE? - ON BEING WATCHED, KNUST, KUNZ Gallery, München
• 2024 Project in public space MIMETIC PRACTICE IN PUBLIC SPACE, S-Stations München
• 2024 Performance, participative exhibition, MIMETIC BODIES, Kunstverein Freiburg
• 2022, Performance, participative exhibition, MIMETIC BODIES, Lothringer 13 Halle, Munich
• 2022, Residency, research, MIMETIC BODIES IN PUBLIC SPACE, within "what is the City, at Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich
• 2022, Diploma exhibition, MIMETIC PRACTICE, AdBK Munich
• 2021, Choreography for the piece WUNDER by Christiane Huber, Altötting
• 2021, Performance, spacial structure, book, X ways through organised space, EIGEN+ART LAB, Berlin
• 2021, Performance, spacial structure code and shadow; reverse CERAMICS (dancer: Yurika Yamamoto), PLATFORM München
• 2020, Performance, publication code and shadow; reverse TRIO (dance: Jonas Droste, Kelly Kaspar, Yurika Yamamoto), Kunstraum München
• 2019, Performance, spacial structure, book, X ways through organised space, Bundespreis für Kunststudierende, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
• 2018, Performance, code and shadow reverse, (dance: Kelly Kaspar), there is no place before arrival (Olaf Nicolai), Kunsthalle, Vienna
• 2018, Performance, spacial structure, Fünf Handlungen mit geteilter Abmachung (Spielstruktur), Jahresausstellung AdBK, Munich
• 2018, Performance, sketches: duet both sitting for flute and hands on “accumulated visions“,in collaboration with Jakob Stillmark, (performers: Leonna Wex, Ting Wei Chen) Metropol Kunstraum, Munich
• 2018, Performance, Strecke (1-7) aus Armkreis (0) für vier Personen, (dance: Kelly Kaspar, Marianne Linder, Yumi Osanai, Mareike Steffens), Berlinerstraße, Kassel
• 2018, Installation, base: e.g. a cow ]...< + accumulated (working title), in collaboration with Raphael Krome, Metropol Kunstraum, Munich
• 2017, Installation, Verlagerunssituation, Jahresausstellung AdBK, Munich
• 2017, Performance project Relatives, H4rt, Munich
• 2017, Installation Keramiken, Zur Zeit, Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
• 2017, Performance, 8 Extrakte, (dance: Martina Gambradella, Marianne Linder, Mareike Steffens), Quality Time, Kunstverein München
• 2016, Performance Kombination 2.0, Real Magic Festival, AdBK Munich
• 2016, Stage and concept Form (dance piece: by Marianne Linder and Mareike Steffens), Dock4, Kassel
• 2016, Installation, Verhältnisse zum Eigenkreis, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
• 2015, Performance project, Pepunkt, AkadmieGalerie, Munich
• 2014, Group exhibition, True Lab, EIGEN und ART Lab, Berlin