Katrin von Lehmann – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Katrin von Lehmann

Visual art, drawing

Artist in residence at the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS)
October 2021 – September 2024

Last Update: 08.11.2024

Curriculum Vitae

With a work grant obtained in 2009 from the Lindenberg Weather Museum in Brandenburg, von Lehmann’s fascination for sequences of action and how they are recorded led her to build the core of her practice around collaborations with scientific institutes. She has hence focused on epistemological research in science and art. In 2010, von Lehmann received the second prize in the art award of the Berliner Wirtschaftsgespräche e.V. In 2012, she was artist-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. From 2014 to 2015, she developed the Bergen-Horta project in collaboration with the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway, and the Department of Oceanography and Fisheries of the University of the Azores in Horta. In 2017, she presented her work at the Boğaziçi University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, as part of a BVBK Brandenburg Istanbul fellowship. In 2019, von Lehmann realized an interdisciplinary project at the Science-Art-Philosophy Lab (SAP Lab) at the University of Lisbon. In 2020, she was invited to participate in the art-in-building limited competition in the context of the relocation of the Kriminalwissenschaftliches und -technisches Institut in Dresden. In 2021, at the invitation of the Young Academy of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, she participated in the interdisciplinary workshop Leben mit Vermessung. Zukünfte im Jetzt [Living with Measurability. Futures Today]. In 2022, she is featured in the exhibition Code of Life at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden.

Selected Publications

YAS Project

Significance of routines in artistic and scientific practises. Developing artistic practices on paper in dialogue with scientific
researches.

In my artistic work I am concerned with whether the method of working with instructions for action and sets of rules will produce something new/something different. In my long-term project Leerstelle des Unbekannten/Nichts stimmt mehr (2015 – ongoing) I work with a set of rules I have established, the proxy drawing technique. Motivated by the result of the Human Genome Project 2003, in which the previous state of knowledge had to be put to the test against all expectations in order to arrive at new insights, I subjected my drawing activity to an experiment. Namely, to work with a set of rules over a longer period of time to see if something new/different would emerge in the process. With this technique and the craft expertise in the luggage I want to go to the new encounters and situations on the subject of sustainability.