LENA VIOLETTA LEITNER
Lena Violetta Leitner's works move between fiction and fact, humor and seriousness, subtlety and conspicuousness. They are usually created in intensive research and in close exchange with artists, designers and scientists. This results in participatory installations, but also performances with plants, electronics and text. Plants and their socio-political dimension fascinate her, especially the connections between science (often biology), language and society.
As the artist duo Kollektiv OutSight, Leitner works together with Steffi Baron-Neuhuber with sound, text, and language. With the ecofeminist and socio-artistic Danube Transformation Agency for Agency (DTAFA), she uses hybrid practices between visual art, design and science to advocate for a livable future for the Danube. She is the founder of IZMP (Integration Center for Migrated Plants) and PPS (Para/rt/sitic Protection Society).
Lena Violetta Leitner completed her studies in Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. She lives and works in Vienna and Graz, Austria. Her works are part of the collections at Neue Galerie Graz, the Werner Fenz Collection (with DTAFA), and the Pöllau Art Machine. Among other awards, she received the Start Scholarship for Media Art by the Federal Chancellery of Austria (2022), as well as the Acquisition Award (2023) and a working grant (2019) from the Province of Styria, as part of the “Promotion Prize of the Province of Styria for Contemporary Fine Arts". With her collective DTAFA she received an "Ö1 – Fixing the Future" award in 2022.
Selected solo/group shows and presentations:
Künstlerhaus, 2025 (AT); STEIERMARK SCHAU, 2025 (AT/SI); steirischer herbst, 2024 (AT); Forum Stadtpark, 2024 (AT); Austrian Cultural Forum Cairo, 2024 (EG); Nationalmuseum Sarajevo, 2024 (BA); Schauraum MuseumsQuartier Wien, 2023 (AT); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, 2023 (AT); Mz* Baltazar's Lab, 2022 (AT); The Danube Sea-European Capital of Culture Novi Sad, 2022 (RS); State of Concept Athens, 2022 (GR); VBKÖ, 2022 (AT); Neue Galerie Graz, 2019, 2022, 2023 (AT); Museum Ulm, 2021 (DE); Ars Electronica, 2021 (AT); Gallery U10, 2017 (RS); das weisse haus, 2013, 2014 (AT); Venice Biennale Sessions, 2013 (IT);
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