Lena Ash
Challenging norms, stitching feminist narratives into identity.
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Stitching Nudes • 5 artworks
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“Stitching Nudes” is a series of small-scale embroidered sketches that explore intimacy, vulnerability, [...]
“Stitching Nudes” is a series of small-scale embroidered sketches that explore intimacy, vulnerability, and embodiment through thread on canvas. Each work captures a quiet gesture — a line of skin, a touch, a curve — rendered with the slowness of stitching. These minimal forms reclaim the nude as a site of personal presence rather than provocation. The body, in this series, is not a spectacle but a surface of memory, softness, and quiet being. Presented in soft colours and framed in simple passe-partout, the works invite the viewer into a moment of closeness and tactility.
Flowers • 5 artworks
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“Flowers”, as a part of the project “Made in the Kitchen”, explores domestic rituals, embodied memory, [...]
“Flowers”, as a part of the project “Made in the Kitchen”, explores domestic rituals, embodied memory, and gendered labour. Created with natural materials like spices, olive oil, and pigments on raw canvas, these works reflect on how the kitchen, often seen as a space of routine, becomes a site of personal archaeology and feminist resistance.
“Flowers” focuses on the symbolism of botanical reproduction, confronting the contradictions between cultural stereotypes and biological self-sufficiency. Many flowers carry both male and female organs — a quiet defiance of binary gender expectations. Their exposed pistils appear vulnerable, yet assert a resilient strength.
Each canvas is a sensorial document: textured, fragrant, and marked by care, heat, and time.
“Flowers” focuses on the symbolism of botanical reproduction, confronting the contradictions between cultural stereotypes and biological self-sufficiency. Many flowers carry both male and female organs — a quiet defiance of binary gender expectations. Their exposed pistils appear vulnerable, yet assert a resilient strength.
Each canvas is a sensorial document: textured, fragrant, and marked by care, heat, and time.
Stitched Gendertypes • 12 artworks
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"Stitched Gendertypes" explores the complex intersections between gender identity, cultural narratives, [...]
"Stitched Gendertypes" explores the complex intersections between gender identity, cultural narratives, and societal expectations.
Created with hand-stitched interventions, layered textiles, and carefully selected fragments from glossy magazines, Lena Ash constructs tactile compositions that question how identities are shaped, categorized, and constrained by invisible cultural forces.
The deliberate use of traditional "domestic" materials — thread, fabric, and household patterns — becomes both an homage and a critique, highlighting how deeply ingrained stereotypes silently govern personal experience.
Influenced by the spirit of pop art, with vibrant compositions and ironic undertones, the series reclaims and subverts the visual language of mass media.
Through minimalist yet emotionally charged surfaces, each collage offers a quiet but powerful resistance, creating a space for nuance, ambiguity, and reimagined selfhood.
Created with hand-stitched interventions, layered textiles, and carefully selected fragments from glossy magazines, Lena Ash constructs tactile compositions that question how identities are shaped, categorized, and constrained by invisible cultural forces.
The deliberate use of traditional "domestic" materials — thread, fabric, and household patterns — becomes both an homage and a critique, highlighting how deeply ingrained stereotypes silently govern personal experience.
Influenced by the spirit of pop art, with vibrant compositions and ironic undertones, the series reclaims and subverts the visual language of mass media.
Through minimalist yet emotionally charged surfaces, each collage offers a quiet but powerful resistance, creating a space for nuance, ambiguity, and reimagined selfhood.
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Biography
Lena Ash is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist and independent curator, working across mixed media, textiles, and conceptual practices.
Through the lens of feminist critique, Lena’s work explores themes of gender stereotypes, cultural narratives, and personal identity. Using experimental materiality, she creates layered and tactile compositions that challenge established social structures while celebrating resilience and transformation.
Following her deep personal calling, Lena shifted her focus entirely to the arts after building a successful career in the aerospace industry. She graduated from the British Higher School of Art and Design and further pursued curatorial studies at the NODE Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin.
Lena Ash is also the founder of 2chairs artspace, an independent virtual and nomadic project space, supporting artists with unconventional creative journeys. Her works have been exhibited internationally and are part of private collections across Europe.
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Nationality:
GERMANY
- Date of birth : 1984
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary German Artists
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Influences
Education
2020 - 2021
International Curatorial Program, The Node Center for Curatorial Studies,
Berlin,
Germany,
Germany
2017 - 2019
Contemporary Art , British High School of Art and Design
Moscow,
Russia
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Achievements
Prizes and Awards
2021
Awards Programme For Artistic Project Spaces And Initiatives 2021, Senate Department For Culture And Europe
Berlin,
Germany,
Germany
2021
Neustart Kultur Scholarship Program
Berlin,
Germany,
Germany
Collective Expositions
2024
Kometa, Art Fair
Burgdorf,
Switzerland
2024
Fairness, Kunstfabrik Hb55
Berlin,
Germany,
Germany
2023
Chair-2-Chair, Culterim Gallery
Berlin,
Germany,
Germany
2023
Rückgabe Des Names, Installation Am Steinplatz, Memorial
Berlin,
Germany,
Germany
2023
Performing Gender, Chromart Gallery
Berlin,
Germany,
Germany
2022
27. Art Fair For Female Artists 2022, Frauenmuseum
Bonn,
Germany
2022
Sandarmokh – Where The Trees Have Faces, The Trade Fair Palace
Prague,
Czechia
2022
Artidote, Erstererster Gallery
Berlin,
Germany
2021
Reunification, U-Contemporary Space, Winzavod Center Of Contemporary Art
Moscow,
Russia
2021
26. Art Fair For Female Artists 2021, Frauenmuseum
Bonn,
Germany
2020
Assemblage Points, Gallery On Peschanaya
Moscow,
Russia
2020
Feminine / Masculine, Ph21 Gallery
Budapest,
Hungary
2019
Obsession, Cube.moscow
Moscow,
Russia
2019
V Biennale Of Contemporary Photography, Russian Museum
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
2019
Squares 2019, Cica Museum
Gimpo-si,
South Korea
Permanent Collections
2019
Russian Museum
Saint Petersburg,
Russia
Publications & Press
Residencies
2020
Berlin Art Institute
Berlin,
Germany,
Germany
Solo Expositions
2021
Made In The Kitchen
Berlin,
Germany,
Germany
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