Lera Kelemen b. 1994
Based in London, UK




Lera Kelemen’s installation practice reflects on notions of femininity, confinement, body structure, vulnerability & equilibrium. Analysing the limitations of bodies in space, she uses her own body to model and enliven matter. Her works result in conceptually immersive settings where shapes, surfaces and armatures blend together to define new entities. 

In the past two years, she developed a new body of work inspired by anatomical anomalies, encasings and their extension into physical space. Oscillating between familiar and uncanny, the installations ignite an eerie sense of claustrophobia that comes across where matter is trapped within its own shape. Her post-humanist approach stems from an interest in technology and its transmutation into organic matter, an interest which she solidified during her studies in Information Experience Design.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES

Corporeus, thirsty, Solo Show at Feelium Gallery, London (2024)
Absent Without Official Leave
, Group Show at Sculpture Sculpture CazarmaU, Timisoara (2023)
Skin of Trees, CADAF Fair, New York (2022)
Enclosures
, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art Graduation Show, London (2022)
Blemish Chamber, WiP Show, Royal College of Art, London (2022)
Mark the Ground, Staycation, Group Show at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest (2021)
If Anything Else Survives, Group Show at Potential Project, Athens (2021)
Uncanny Reading Station, Between the Lines Group Show at Atelier 35, Bucharest (2021)
Green Skin / Crevice, Solo Show at Borderline Art Space, Iasi (2021)
Green Skin / Affective Interatice, I feel something, don’t know what, Group Show at Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw (2021)
Leave No Trace, Group Show at Iklectik, London (2021)
37.5665° N, 126.9780° E to 51.5074° N 0.1278° W, Group Show at Hoxton Gallery, London (2021)
Green Skin / Affective Interstice, Group Show at Art Encounters Foundation, Timisoara (2021)
Tender Technology, Presentation at IRCAM Forum, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021)
Pop-up Device for Experimenting Margins, Public Space Installation with TM2023, Timisoara (2020)
Double Decker, Group Project at Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest (2020)
Memonnade, Solo Showcase at Niki, Zinnober, Hanover (2020)
Niki Residency, Artist in Residence, Hanover (2020)
Salon des Refuses, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh (2020)
Kinaesthetic Cabin, Seeing Time Group Show at Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara (2019)


EDUCATION

Royal College of Art, MA Information Experience Design, London (2022)
Awarded Distinction & Lumen Prize Shortlisted

New College Lanarkshire, Foundation Course in Sound Technology, Glasgow (2020)

University of Arts & Design, Timisoara (2018)
Awarded Art Encounters Graduation Award


PRESS

PAI_32 Artist of the Month (2024)
Saliva Live (2023)
Kuba Paris (2022)
New Genres (2021)
Revista Arta (2020)


Currently represented on Gertrude platform.