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Künstler Nadine Lemke

Nadine Lemke


Nadine Lemke's work encompasses crochet installations, drawing and photography. Her work explores personal and social patterns, particularly the unconscious structures of connection and separation inscribed in the body, biography and collective memory through repetition. Using crochet as an open system, she creates an archive of shapes, knots, repetitions, and breaks, linking the historical connotations of female handicrafts with contemporary issues of self-empowerment, visibility, and materiality. Her works move between textiles, space, and sculpture, transforming fragile structures into multi-layered settings that redefine space, origin, and identity.

Artworks

Vita

Artistic Career

2019

Founding Artist Peer Coach

2017

Artistic assistance Renate Bertlmann

Mitglied Saloon Vienna (AT)

2008 – 2010

Chairmanship and lecturing activities at the ÖH-Akbild

2007

Founding member of the artist group baer

2007 – 2014

Studied art in public spaces with Mona | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)

Sculpture with Wilhelm Mundt | Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (DE)

2004 – 2007

Art History and Education | HU and FU Berlin (DE)

2000 – 2003

Audiovisual media training | Titelbild GmbH & Prounen Film | Berlin

Exhibitions (selection)

2025

Stripes and Stories! | ID:I Galleri | Stockholm (Solo) (SE)

X Frames per Space | West | Vienna (Group) (AT)

2024

Club22 #1 | LLLLLL | Vienna (Solo) (AT)

#3 | L201 | Studenzen (Group) (DE)

A Suitcase | Picture Theory Gallery | New York (Group) (US)

Statements | Art in public spaces | Vienna (Group) (AT)

2023

Leerstellen verdichten | Basement, Sternstudio | Vienna (Solo) (AT)

Show Show | Gomo | Copenhagen (Group) (DK)

2022

Challenging Orders | Vienna Art Week | Vienna (Group) (AT)

Urlaub, Urlaub in_ | Hochsommer, Hafen42 | Hofstetten (Group) (DE)

Zustand Stein | LLLLLL | Vienna (Group) (AT)

Umbruch | Nordwestbahnhof | Vienna (Group) (AT)

2021

Tombola IV | New Jörg | Vienna (Group) (AT)

Companion | Dream Estate Seestadt | Vienna (Group) (AT)

TALKING TEXTURES | art association Eisenstadt | Eisenstadt (Group) (DE)

2020

FRAMES | Stable Gallery | Vienna (Solo) (AT)

Remote Access | Hafen42 | Hofstetten (Group) (DE)

We are more than two | Gallery STŌL | Vienna (Group) (AT)

2019

Parallel verschieben | Kaeshmaesh | Vienna (Solo) (AT)

Artists for Future | Global 3000 | Berlin (Group) (DE)

Koexistenz der Habitate | Galerie am Kietz | Schwedt (Group) (DE)

2018

Textiles | Festung Hohensalzburg | Salzburg (Solo) (AT)

Satellit:Traktorfabrik | Vienna Art Week | Vienna (Group) (AT)

Nothing Less! | VBKÖ | Vienna (Group) (AT)

2017

Eingang ist bei der Tür | Residenzplatz | Salzburg (baer, Group) (AT)

2016

Kollektive Absichten | Galerie Hollenstein | Lustenau (baer, Group) (AT)

2015

SMALL | Kunstraum Super | Vienna (Group) (AT)

2014

O.T. (Crochet diploma) | Akademie der bildenden Künste | Vienna (Group) (AT)

2013

BaerBarBau | 16. Mediterrane Biennale | Ancona (baer, Group) (IT)

2009

NachbarInnen-Initiative | Schillerplatz | Vienna (baer, Group) (AT)

Scholarships

2025

Project funding | Austrian Embassy Stockholm (SE)

2024

Project funding | Bildrecht Vienna (AT)

2020

Project funding | Bildrecht Vienna (AT)

2018

ArtStart_Studio | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)

2015

Studio grant from the City of Vienna (AT)

Residencies

2025

Slipvillan | Stockholm (SE)

2024

Libken | Gerswalde (DE)

2019

Koexistenz der Habitate | Galerie am Kietz | Schwedt (DE)

Exchange Saloon Hamburg (DE)

2018

Exchange Saloon Berlin (DE)

Competitions

2021

Paternoster | BIG | Vienna (AT)

2020

Leonie-Rysanek-Park | Art in public spaces | Vienna (AT)