Fatima Naqvi (Yale University), 2023
Lena Knilli’s works are exercises in spiritual architectonics. She begins from the sites of our most intimate experiences—homes, churches, clothes—and overlays their floor plans with the “architecture” of our bodies—faces, hands, skulls. Knilli is interested in the way in which spaces shelter us and how they become meaningful. read more …
Julienne Franke, 2022
Ich freue mich, einen so großen Personenkreis von so vielen unterschiedliche Institutionen zu begrüßen, aber vor allem freue ich mich, hier in Lehrte eine Ausstellung zeigen zu können, für die sich vier Künstlerinnen aus drei Ländern zusammengeschlossen haben. Jede der Künstlerinnen hat sich unabhängig voneinander mit Aspekten zum Thema „Vergessen und Erinnern“ befasst, ohne Auftrag, ohne die Gewissheit, dass die Werke je ausgestellt werden. read more …
Charlotta Kotik, 2010
… Die Wahrnehmung der nie enden wollenden Veränderung in der kindlichen Entwicklung und die Beachtung von Parallelen zur botanischen Welt sind wesentliche Elemente in der Arbeit der österreichischen Künstlerin Lena Knilli. read more …
Lena Knilli, Wien, June 2010
Dowry. vĕno (2009/2010, 70cm x 100 cm and 100 cm 140 cm) are works in mixed techniques – painting/acrylic paint on cardboard, and drawing/industrial painter, lacquer pen and water color on tracing and regular paper, all assembled and created as a collage. read more …
Lena Knilli, 2008 – 2009
In this self-portrait I am concerned with the ‘points of departure’ for my individual development. One point of departure is presented by my body. My body develops according to a set programme, which I myself can influence only to a certain extend. read more …
Lizzy Le Quesne, August 30, 2006
The work in Lena Knilli's solo exhibition In Den Häusern/In These Houses at Hunt Kastner Artworks has a tangible buoyancy — both physical and spiritual. Knilli, a Viennese artist who lived in Prague in the 1990s, describes her recent paintings as portraits of objects, “not of the outer appearance, but of the area that they take up. ... I am showing not the surface, or material, but more of the imprint of the object in space”. read more …
press release exhibition in Gallery Hunt Kastner 2006
“… the drawings and pictures inside give evidence of personal space, of private space, of a necessary space, of a space for thinking and thoughts. The door to a well-known room is wide open, a house has a window and a door, a sleeping person levitates above a table …” read more …
Themenheft Mutter Unser des Kunstmagazins Kunst und Kirche
Johannes Rauchenberger, Roman Grabner
Das Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten in Graz widmet sich in seinem Schwerpunkt im Herbst 2010 dem Thema MUTTER in Kunst und Literatur. read more …
Fatima Naqvi (Yale University), 2023
Lena Knilli’s works are exercises in spiritual architectonics. She begins from the sites of our most intimate experiences—homes, churches, clothes—and overlays their floor plans with the “architecture” of our bodies—faces, hands, skulls. Knilli is interested in the way in which spaces shelter us and how they become meaningful. read more …
Julienne Franke, 2022
Ich freue mich, einen so großen Personenkreis von so vielen unterschiedliche Institutionen zu begrüßen, aber vor allem freue ich mich, hier in Lehrte eine Ausstellung zeigen zu können, für die sich vier Künstlerinnen aus drei Ländern zusammengeschlossen haben. Jede der Künstlerinnen hat sich unabhängig voneinander mit Aspekten zum Thema „Vergessen und Erinnern“ befasst, ohne Auftrag, ohne die Gewissheit, dass die Werke je ausgestellt werden. read more …
Charlotta Kotik, 2010
… Die Wahrnehmung der nie enden wollenden Veränderung in der kindlichen Entwicklung und die Beachtung von Parallelen zur botanischen Welt sind wesentliche Elemente in der Arbeit der österreichischen Künstlerin Lena Knilli. read more …
Lena Knilli, Wien, June 2010
Dowry. vĕno (2009/2010, 70cm x 100 cm and 100 cm 140 cm) are works in mixed techniques – painting/acrylic paint on cardboard, and drawing/industrial painter, lacquer pen and water color on tracing and regular paper, all assembled and created as a collage. read more …
Lena Knilli, 2008 – 2009
In this self-portrait I am concerned with the ‘points of departure’ for my individual development. One point of departure is presented by my body. My body develops according to a set programme, which I myself can influence only to a certain extend. read more …
Lizzy Le Quesne, August 30, 2006
The work in Lena Knilli's solo exhibition In Den Häusern/In These Houses at Hunt Kastner Artworks has a tangible buoyancy — both physical and spiritual. Knilli, a Viennese artist who lived in Prague in the 1990s, describes her recent paintings as portraits of objects, “not of the outer appearance, but of the area that they take up. ... I am showing not the surface, or material, but more of the imprint of the object in space”. read more …
press release exhibition in Gallery Hunt Kastner 2006
“… the drawings and pictures inside give evidence of personal space, of private space, of a necessary space, of a space for thinking and thoughts. The door to a well-known room is wide open, a house has a window and a door, a sleeping person levitates above a table …” read more …
Themenheft Mutter Unser des Kunstmagazins Kunst und Kirche
Johannes Rauchenberger, Roman Grabner
Das Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten in Graz widmet sich in seinem Schwerpunkt im Herbst 2010 dem Thema MUTTER in Kunst und Literatur. read more …
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