Clara-Lane Lens
Belgian painter
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Clara-Lane Lens is a Belgian painter, so far particularly known for focussing on portraits of androgynous[1] personas.[2] At the age of 17, she had a first solo exhibition in Brussels (BE).[3] Genderless,[4] the theme of that expo stays the inspiration for most of her works upon today.[5]
Astrid Verreycken[6] in 254Forest:[7] "Clara-Lane Lens paints using a classic imagery. Her works veers between the directness of a quick snapshot and an extensive study of the human body. All figures share something similar, beautiful but introvert. They are inward-looking, lost in thought. But there is also a kind of physical absence. She deliberately omits the characteristics that could reveal a character's gender. Spectators are regularly misled, yet precisely that's the attraction in her work. As you are left with the sense that something has eluded you."
Clara-Lane Lens currently lives and works at her atelier in Berlin (DE).[8]
Biography
Cooperations
- In 2006 Clara-Lane Lens was introduced to the screen as a child actress (role The Whisper Kid) in the art film[11] 'Love is the only master I'll serve,'[12] world premiering at the Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), New York[13]
- In 2015 her painting The Unknown Soldier was used as front cover for the double CD Shell Shock (opera)[14] by Nick Cave & Nicholas Lens,[15] Universal Music Distribution published by Mute Records, London.
- Besides being mostly known as a painter, in 2020 Clara-Lane Lens performed as well as solo singer and speaker on all twelve tracks of the cd L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S,[16] a recorded album of the trance-chamber opera[17] written and produced by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens. The CD was released and distributed by Deutsche Grammophon[18] and published by Mute Records, London.
Exhibitions and projects
- 2015 Visceral, Barcelona (ES), group[19]
- 2018 Teerling, In de Ruimte, Ghent (BE), group
- 2018 SOLO EXHIBITION, Genderless, Le Lac, Brussels (BE)
- 2018 This thing in Aalst, Huis de Bolle, Aalst (BE), group
- 2018 Exhibition Fabrik, Leuven (BE), group
- 2019 Voor De Kat Zijn Viool, Nucleo Lindelei, Ghent (BE), group
- 2019 Braises de Satin -Maxence, publication CL-LL[10][20]
- 2019 New Saints, Waldburger Wouters Gallery,[21] Brussels (BE), group[22]
- 2020 Experimental, Basement Berlin (DE), group
- 2020 These Selves, Pilar, Brussels (BE), group [16]
- 2020 Watering plants, Spoiler Zone, Berlin (DE), group
- 2020 SOLO EXHIBITION, They never used to talk much, 254Forest, Brussels (BE)[23]
- 2020 Community Exhibition Subbacultcha Magazine, De Studio, Antwerp (BE), group
- 2021 Grove Collective,[24] London (EN), group
- 2021 Nationale 8 Gallery, Brussels (BE), Brussels GalleryWeekend[25] duo
- 2021 SOLO EXHIBITION Moon in Vertigo, That's what x said, Brussels(BE)[26]
- 2021 Infinite Discontinuity, SAO festival, Farrera (ES), group [27]
- 2021 Have we met?[24] Backhaus Project (Grove Collective), Berlin (DE), duo[28]
- 2022 Friends of Ruby, Ruby Gallery, Brussels (BE), group[29]
- 2022 SOLO EXHIBITION, Tell us we belong, Silvestri Galleria, Madrid (ES)[30]
- 2023 SOLO EXHIBITION, Hiding between droplets of steam, JVDW, Düsseldorf (DE)[31]
- 2024 SOLO EXHIBITION, It is cold in the cactus garden, Silvestri Galleria, Madrid (ES)[32]
Artistic Residencies
- 2020 Banditto Residency, Montepulciano (IT)[33]
- 2021 Can Centre d'Art i Natura, Farrera (ES)[34]