
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
Founding Artist Peer Coach
Artistic assistance Renate Bertlmann
Mitglied Saloon Vienna (AT)
Chairmanship and lecturing activities at the ÖH-Akbild
Founding member of the artist group baer
Studied art in public spaces with Mona | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Sculpture with Wilhelm Mundt | Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (DE)
Art History and Education | HU and FU Berlin (DE)
Audiovisual media training | Titelbild GmbH & Prounen Film | Berlin
Exhibitions (selection)
Stripes and Stories! | ID:I Galleri | Stockholm (Solo) (SE)
X Frames per Space | West | Vienna (Group) (AT)
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)
Leerstellen verdichten | Basement, Sternstudio | Vienna (Solo) (AT)
Show Show | Gomo | Copenhagen (Group) (DK)
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)
Tombola IV | New Jörg | Vienna (Group) (AT)
Companion | Dream Estate Seestadt | Vienna (Group) (AT)
TALKING TEXTURES | art association Eisenstadt | Eisenstadt (Group) (DE)
FRAMES | Stable Gallery | Vienna (Solo) (AT)
Remote Access | Hafen42 | Hofstetten (Group) (DE)
We are more than two | Gallery STŌL | Vienna (Group) (AT)
Parallel verschieben | Kaeshmaesh | Vienna (Solo) (AT)
Artists for Future | Global 3000 | Berlin (Group) (DE)
Koexistenz der Habitate | Galerie am Kietz | Schwedt (Group) (DE)
Textiles | Festung Hohensalzburg | Salzburg (Solo) (AT)
Satellit:Traktorfabrik | Vienna Art Week | Vienna (Group) (AT)
Nothing Less! | VBKÖ | Vienna (Group) (AT)
Eingang ist bei der Tür | Residenzplatz | Salzburg (baer, Group) (AT)
Kollektive Absichten | Galerie Hollenstein | Lustenau (baer, Group) (AT)
SMALL | Kunstraum Super | Vienna (Group) (AT)
O.T. (Crochet diploma) | Akademie der bildenden Künste | Vienna (Group) (AT)
BaerBarBau | 16. Mediterrane Biennale | Ancona (baer, Group) (IT)
NachbarInnen-Initiative | Schillerplatz | Vienna (baer, Group) (AT)
Scholarships
Project funding | Austrian Embassy Stockholm (SE)
Project funding | Bildrecht Vienna (AT)
Project funding | Bildrecht Vienna (AT)
ArtStart_Studio | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Studio grant from the City of Vienna (AT)
Residencies
Slipvillan | Stockholm (SE)
Libken | Gerswalde (DE)
Koexistenz der Habitate | Galerie am Kietz | Schwedt (DE)
Exchange Saloon Hamburg (DE)
Exchange Saloon Berlin (DE)
Competitions
Paternoster | BIG | Vienna (AT)
Leonie-Rysanek-Park | Art in public spaces | Vienna (AT)












