Christiane Lenz

Christiane Lenz: Her training has been a work in progress with many detours. BFF Bern, Zurich School of Design, drawing with Ueli Schwarz in Bern, and an internship with paper-maker Daniel Oberholzer. She has undertaken working residencies in France, Corsica and Ticino (Switzerland).

Objects and installations exploring themes such as drought, hunger, displacement, power, transience and slowness. The nature and origin of the material are key elements of her work. She mostly works with materials such as waste paper, scrap, earth, plants and used textiles. All materials that already carry a story within them, relics of our time, of our society,
The second focus of her work is pencil drawings. The restriction to so little material serves as an existential stimulus. She draws the small, the familiar, the inconspicuous: her own footsteps, the cracks and scuffs in the tarmac, moss and fractures on stone, patterns left by animals, erosion, melting snow. Traces of movement in space and time.

Since 1986, she has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Biel and elsewhere. She has also regularly collaborated on joint projects with musicians and dancers.

Selection of exhibitions

Public acquisitions

Centre de télécommunication, Neuchâtel
Matthäus Parish Hall, Bern
Biel Art Commission