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![Dames Jeannes]( "Dames Jeannes")
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![Dames Jeannes]( "Dames Jeannes")
infoMaking wine in Grottole, Italy, in September 2024. Observing gestures, objects, expressions, landscapes, arrangements
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![Unecessary Details]( "Unecessary Details")
infoThe French expression, “enfiler des perles” means “to put beads on a thread.” This phrase describes the act of doing something that seems futile or useless. It was first used by the writer François Rabelais in his novels “Gargantua and Pantagruel” back in 1534. In the story, a group of men watch women threading beads and debate the pointlessness of the activity. Creating shapes out of beads, shaping my drawings, shaping my work. An artist life of unecessary details. Finding purpose in uselessness.
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![Unecessary Details]( "Unecessary Details")
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![Vinous Landscapes #3 Wijnbergen]( "Vinous Landscapes #3 Wijnbergen")
infoRetracing the history, tradition and the social and environmental realities of the Limburg wine-growing landscape. This performance as well delved into the role the Dutch had in the development of the French wine landscape. Using classic wine-tasting techniques, the public is invited to taste four wines. The artist will juxtapose these tastings with readings, masks and poems. This performance was developped as part of the Jan Naaijkens Price with Kunstpodium T, Tilburg. Supported by Stroom Den Haag.
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![Vinous Landscapes #3 Wijnbergen]( "Vinous Landscapes #3 Wijnbergen")
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![Vinous Landscapes #3 Wijnbergen]( "Vinous Landscapes #3 Wijnbergen")
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![Vinous Landscapes #3 Wijnbergen]( "Vinous Landscapes #3 Wijnbergen")
infoAn installation in resonance with the performance (see previous slide). Drawings inspired by wanderings in Dutch vine fields and the taste of those wines. This installation was developped as part of the Jan Naaijkens Price with Kunstpodium T, Tilburg. Supported by Stroom Den Haag.
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![Vinous Landscapes #2 The Land is a coat of mail]( "Vinous Landscapes #2 The Land is a coat of mail")
infoCourtesy of Galerie Hors-Cadre
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![Maxi Carte du futur de Saint-Florentin]( "Maxi Carte du futur de Saint-Florentin")
infoCollaborative work made with 16 pupils from the Pommier Janson Primary school in Saint Florentin, France.
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![St-Flo-Les Vignes]( "St-Flo-Les Vignes")
infoCollaborative work made with 16 pupils from the Pommier Janson Primary school in Saint Florentin, France.
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![St-Flo-Les Vignes]( "St-Flo-Les Vignes")
infoAs part of my residency with "Création en Cours".
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![Main raisin]( "Main raisin")
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![Sunny Side Up]( "Sunny Side Up")
infoExhbition view. Part of Springboard Art Fair
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![An Economy of Inactivity]( "An Economy of Inactivity")
infoPart of Springboard Art Fair
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![handknives]( "handknives")
infoPart of Sprinboard Art Fair
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![C'est grâce à mon vocabulaire que je parle, bien que je ne sois pas toujours d'accord avec lui]( "C'est grâce à mon vocabulaire que je parle, bien que je ne sois pas toujours d'accord avec lui")
infocredits: Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
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![Vinous Landscapes #2 The Land is a coat of mail]( "Vinous Landscapes #2 The Land is a coat of mail")
infoCourtesy of Galerie Hors-Cadre
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![Vinous Landscapes #1 Cooperatives]( "Vinous Landscapes #1 Cooperatives")
infoThis piece is focused on the roles of winegrowers cooperatives within their landscapes, considering their social, economical and geographical impacts. Parallels are drawn between this system and artists’ collaboration and collectives, proposing a wider reflection on notions of heritage, tradition and consumption in both wine and art worlds. This is the first iteration of a series of performances.
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![Vinous Landscapes #1 Cooperatives]( "Vinous Landscapes #1 Cooperatives")
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![Vinous Landscapes #1 Cooperatives]( "Vinous Landscapes #1 Cooperatives")
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![Peinture Masque]( "Peinture Masque")
infoThe “Peintures-masques” are inspired by two details found on a painting and a photograph representing female figures (Triptych of Crucifixion, detail, Rogier van der Weyden, 1440-1445. Museum of Art History, Vienna. Woman with a Flag, Tina Modotti, 1st of May 1928). These paintings-with-a-hole are considered as a displacement. It is an invitation to change position, to wear a mask and become another, where saints and revolutionaries meet. With the paintings, some small mirrors enable the audience to see themselves.
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![Peinture Masque]( "Peinture Masque")
infoThe “Peintures-masques” are inspired by two details found on a painting and a photograph representing female figures (Triptych of Crucifixion, detail, Rogier van der Weyden, 1440-1445. Museum of Art History, Vienna. Woman with a Flag, Tina Modotti, 1st of May 1928). These paintings-with-a-hole are considered as a displacement. It is an invitation to change position, to wear a mask and become another, where saints and revolutionaries meet. With the paintings, some small mirrors enable the audience to see themselves.
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Inspired by the "Manifesto for the Appropriation of our Own Creativity" by Le Nemesiache.
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![Momentje Alstublieft]( "Momentje Alstublieft")
infoPip expo credits not just anione
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![Momentje Alstublieft]( "Momentje Alstublieft")
infoPip expo credits not just anione
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![Moon Spit]( "Moon Spit")
infoInstallation, sound and wishes.
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![Moon Spit]( "Moon Spit")
infoInstallation, sound and wishes.
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![Less Than 8000 A Year]( "Less Than 8000 A Year")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![Less Than 8000 A Year]( "Less Than 8000 A Year")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![Less Than 8000 A Year]( "Less Than 8000 A Year")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![Less Than 8000 A Year]( "Less Than 8000 A Year")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![Less Than 8000 A Year]( "Less Than 8000 A Year")
infocredits: Lena Longefay Thanks to Gerogie Brinkman, Leonie Brandner, Daphne Monastirioti and Johannes Equizi.
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![Already Fermenting]( "Already Fermenting")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![Fermenting Affinities]( "Fermenting Affinities")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![A Drowning Conversation]( "A Drowning Conversation")
infocredits: Jacques Martens, Performance Site
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![A Drawning Conversation]( "A Drawning Conversation")
infocredits: Jacques Martens, Performance Site
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![A Relationscape: Sauages, Balloons, Trees and Stones]( "A Relationscape: Sauages, Balloons, Trees and Stones")
infocredits: Joheko, 1646, Ruimtevaart
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![A Relationscape: Sauages, Balloons, Trees and Stones]( "A Relationscape: Sauages, Balloons, Trees and Stones")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![A Relationscape: Sauages, Balloons, Trees and Stones]( "A Relationscape: Sauages, Balloons, Trees and Stones")
infocredits: Joheko, 1646, Ruimtevaart
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![What Is That We Are Doing With Life?]( "What Is That We Are Doing With Life?")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![What Is That We Are Doing With Life?]( "What Is That We Are Doing With Life?")
infocredits: Neverland Cinema and Mama Rotterdam
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![What Is That We Are Doing With Life?]( "What Is That We Are Doing With Life?")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![The Self Defense Bar]( "The Self Defense Bar")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![C'est grâce à mon vocabulaire que je parle, bien que je ne sois pas toujours d'accord avec lui]( "C'est grâce à mon vocabulaire que je parle, bien que je ne sois pas toujours d'accord avec lui")
infocredits: Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
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credits: Lena Longefay and Hans Holbein
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![Leg Issue]( "Leg Issue")
infocredits: Nice Flaps
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![The Self Defense Bar]( "The Self Defense Bar")
infocredits: Lena Longefay
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![The Haymaking]( "The Haymaking")
infocredits: Joel Bartoloméo
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![The Haymaking]( "The Haymaking")
infocredits: Joel Bartoloméo
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Daisy Chain/Locatie Z artist studios collective. Fabas, experimental cooking duo together with Alejandra Lopez.
Curriculum vitae
Opleidingen
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2023 - 2023WSET 2 Université du Vin
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2023 - 2023Alternative MA art and food The Gramounce
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2023 - 2022WSET 1 Université du Vin
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2022 - 2022Introduction to Jewellery TU Delft, Delft, Nederland
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2019 - 2021Master Artistic Research Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Diploma behaald
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2015 - 2018Bachelor Fine Arts Ecole supérieure d'Art et de Design Grenoble Diploma behaald
tentoonstellingen
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2024Living Apart Together Greylight Projects Herleen, Nederland Expositie Kunstpodium T: Jan Naaijkens Award winners greylightprojects.org/expositie-kunstpodium-t-jan-naaijkens-award-winners/ Groep
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2024Fabas 1646 Den Haag, Nederland For The Hague Contemporary Art Weekend, 1646 invited the artist duo, Fabas, to curate two events in their garden. 1646.nl/program/the-hague-contemporary-art-weekend-2/ Duo
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2023Sunny Side Up, Springboard Art Fair 2023 Utrecht, Frankrijk Curated by Jip Hinten. Group show together with Hannah Meijer, Antonio Decaro and Koen Kievits as part of Srpingboard Art Fair. Solo
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2023Le territoire en cotte de mailles 2023 Auxerre, Frankrijk A wine tasting performance, performed in French about the specificty of the "terroir" of Yonne, a region in Northern Burgundy. Solo
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2023Saint-Flo-Les-Vignes 2023 Saint-Florentin, Nederland A vitrine exhibition with the works produces during the residency "Création en Cours" with children from the school Pommier Janson in Saint-Florentin, France. Solo
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2023
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2022Slient meetings and loud breaks Stroom Den Haag Den Haag, Nederland Position #4 An exhibition sharing new works, wine tasting performance and the very firs Try-Out Gallery sessions. www.stroom.nl/activiteiten/kleine_presentatie.php?kt_id=6401694 Solo
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2022When the windows are open Kunstpodium T Tilburg, Nederland Part of Apprentice/Master Program. Groep
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2022Season Highlights 2022 Tilburg, Frankrijk Part of Apprentice/Master Program. kunstpodium-t.com/season-highlights/ Groep
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2022The Department od Collective Collaborations Kunstpodium T Tilburg Part of Apprentice/Master Program. Winner of the Jan Naijkens Prijs. kunstpodium-t.com/season-highlights/ Groep
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2022Le territoire en cotte de mailles 2021 Brosses, Nederland A wine tasting performance, performed in French about the specificty of the "terroir" of Yonne, a region in Northern Burgundy. Solo
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2021Fun Kissed/Fog Off 2021 The Hague, Nederland Group show organised collaboratively with the students of the master Artistic Research, KABK and curator Maike Orlando Gouwenberg. "The one hour residency" is an initiative that proposed to some of the artists part of the show anresidency of one hour together with me. During this chared hour conversations happened. The documentation of this event is a residency contract and some pictures. kabkmar.hotglue.me/ Groep
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2021Less Than 8000 A Year 2021 Den Haag, Nederland “Less than 8000 a year” is an installation merging different mediums and works. Considered as a composition, the work evolves around the “Manifesto for the Appropriation of our Own Creativity”, an archive from the Italian feminist collective Le Nemesiache written in 1977. Encountering this writing touched me deeply, some of its paragraphs felt like a description of my own practice and ideas about art making. Using this feeling of recognition and following an inclusive feminist approach, I decided to write a variation of the text, applying it to the current artistic and economical context I find myself in as a young art graduate. Thinking about the analogy of emerging artists and the not yet emerging ones led me to generate the status of submergence as a place to be and to be doing from. After that, the installation started to grow organically and many elements followed on a serpentine table. Sculptures of sand casted drawings in aluminium held by pieces of bread or braided brioche, a sound piece of voices singing together paragraphs of Le Nemesiache’s manifesto as well as a video and ceramics work reflecting on ideas of abundance, inspired by a roof details from the painting “The Netherlandish Proverbs” by Peter Bruegel the Elder. Following logics of togetherness, politics of movement, embodied and shared knowledge through feminist traditions, the work is a celebration of friendships and makings but also aims to be a reflection of economics of failure and precariousness. graduation2021.kabk.nl/students/lena-longefay Groep
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2021Freed From Desire 2 2021 Bletterans, Nederland "Moon Spits", installation with sound, focusing on a cyano-bacteria called Nostoc. freedfromdesire.cargo.site/FFD2 Groep
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2021Drawing Appretiation Day 2021 Den Haag, Nederland Initiated by the collective Hgtomi Rosa. A series of three masks and an appreciation on Jan Dirk Adams' drawing. Groep
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2021Momentje Alstublieft, I'm Lost for Words 2020 Den Haag, Nederland An invitation of Pip expo. A group show created, built and curated together with Adele Dipasquale and Struggling Art Space (Tianyi Zheng and Jessie Tam). www.instagram.com/p/CX3SnpKIEir/ Duo
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2020Performance Site De Helena Den Haag, Nederland Performance presented during event organised by Performance Site. "A Drowning Conversation". www.facebook.com/Performancesite/ Groep
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2020Infusions 2020 Rotterdam, Nederland Inivted by the collective Eathouse. A buffet installation inspired on Hildegard von Bingen's writing. Created together with Alejandra Lopez Martinez. www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/engage/1115-eathouse-x-alejandra-lopez-lena-longefay Duo
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2020Other Ways Of Watching Together 2020 Rotterdam, Nederland Projection and performance festival organised over 3 weeks by the Rotterdam based collective Neverland Cinema. The performance "What Is That We Are Doing With Life?" was presented, gathering thoughts around Spinoza's concept of conatus. thisismama.nl/en/events/home-en/other-ways-of-watching-together/#1603284200-2 Groep
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2020A Simple Fizz 2020 The Hague, Nederland Group show organised collaboratively with the students of the master Artistic Research, KABK. "The Self Defense Bar" was an in-situ piece that consisted on selling beers with "self defense kits" (a mask and a small bread "pistolet"). The bar tenders were changing every hour and had to wear a balaklava. www.quartair.nl/mar-at-quartair/ Groep
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2020The Ongoing Conversation #7 2019 The Hague, Nederland Curated by 1646, the work "Relationscapes: Sausages,Balloons, Trees And Stones". Gathering a research on sausages, extending its meanings and questioning art traditional displays. 1646.nl/projects/the-ongoing-conversation-7 Groep
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2019Mozaïque des lexiques #11 2019 Aubervillers, Polen "C'est grâce à mon vocabulaire que je parle, bien que je ne sois pas toujours d'accord avec lui" is a group performance, performed once by 16 students from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art of Grenoble, on an invitation by Antoinette Ohanessiand and Benjamin Serror. This collaborative piece can be described as a brief saga of what we do with our own vocabularies. leslaboratoires.org/sites/leslaboratoires.org/files/mosaique_des_lexiques_numero_un_feuille_de_salle_web.pdf Groep
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2016Marathon Vidéo 2018 Paris, Frankrijk Video work Groep
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2016The Haymaking 2016 Grenoble, Frankrijk Bachelor diploma work, a solo performance on rural labour, bodies, traditions and spirituality. Groep
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2019
Daniela Ortiz, (Anti)Colonial Monuments Kadist Paris, Frankrijk kadist.org/program/anticolonial-monuments/ Collaborative research hosted by the research platform "Pratiques d'Hospitalité" curated by Katia Schneller and Simone Frangi. Gathering 7 students from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art of Grenoble, and the artist Daniela Ortiz. The research culminated with a short film presented at the Kadist Foundation in Paris, followed up by a discussion reflecting on the monuments of Jean-François Champollion and their institutionalised colonial heritage.
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2019
C’est Comme Si Cette Marche Comblait Le Vide Créé Par Les Musées MAC VAL Vitry sur Seine, Frankrijk www.macval.fr/Gaelle-Choisne Restitution of a workshop led by 7 students from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art of Grenoble, and the artist Gaëlle Choisne hosted by the research platform “Pratiques d'Hospitalité”. Revoicing the show “Persona non grata” organised by the National Museum of Immigration History and the MAC VAL in 2018. The research took the form of a performed walk throughout Paris' suburbs linking the two museums, questioning the institutionalisation of the French colonial history.
Internationale uitwisselingen / Artist-in-residencies
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2024Nouveau Grand Tour Grottole, Italië Wonder Grottole
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2024
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2023Freed From Desire Bletterans, Frankrijk A one week residency with young emerging artists in France. freedfromdesire.cargo.site/
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2023Ateliers Médicis Saint-Florentin, Frankrijk Residency "Création en Cours" with Ateliers Médicis www.ateliersmedicis.fr/le-reseau/projet/vineuses-26167
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2021University of Arts Poznan Poznan, Frankrijk A 6 months exchange in the art faculty of intermedia. uap.edu.pl/
publicaties
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2020Hier Aujourd'hui Demain Boek Editions Raté Lena Longefay Grenoble, Frankrijk 2020 An autobiography in a 100 pages.
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2018Fermenting Affinities: Economy, Micropolitics and Art Practices of Friendship Boek Lena Longefay Den Haag, Frankrijk 2018 This publication addresses the question of friendships as a way of becoming political. It is a collection of different thoughts, mixing anecdotal, theoretical, conversational and poetical thinking on how friendships are activated within given circumstances. The thesis is divided into four parts: “One in a rhythm several in different rhythms”, “Friendships as a relational economy”, “Micropolitics of a language beyond control” and “Prolific fermentations and cross-pollinations”.
Recensies
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2020Relationscape: Sausages, Balloons, Trees and Stones Magazine Lena Longefay for Food& Berlin, Duitsland foodand.eu/publications/foodand-gravity An article and images gathering a research that was shown in The Hague at De Helena with 1646 in June 2020. Ecompassing notions of language and meaning, the article plays aroound words definitions, trying to make sense with non-sense.
Prijzen en stipendia
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2024Artist Start Grant Mondriaan Fonds (voorheen Fonds BKVB) Nederland
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2022Jan Naijkens Prijs Kunstpodium T Tilburg, Nederland Awarded
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2022ProInvest Grant (sinds 2004) Stroom, Den Haag Den Haag, Nederland Awarded
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20215ème édition du Prix pour l’Art Contemporain du Départment de l’Isère et de la résidence Moly Sabata Moly Sabata Grenoble, Frankrijk Shortlisted
artistieke nevenactiviteiten
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2021 - --Fabas, a cooking collective. Loopt nog
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2018 - 2020The Try-Out Gallery Loopt nog