Lilli Elsner

Born in 1993, Lilli Elsner works with a range of different materials and media. In addition to her expansive installations, which are repeatedly based on socio-political and overall social moments, she draws and paints on paper and on canvas. In her unique pictorial worlds, humans and animals often stand directly opposite each other, sharing the space immanent in the picture. Culturally charged creatures such as frogs and deer find their way into the mystical-looking pictorial worlds in which the same human figure invariably appears: the artist herself, the self-portrait. "Art does not repeat itself, it is unique in every picture," says the artist herself, who dropped out of her studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2012 after five semesters "without gaining any knowledge".  Lilli Elsner works in her studio in Wachow, which she independently rebuilt into a workspace over the course of several years.

Lilli Elsner

Exhibitions

Available works

    Nobody has ever seen the bridges - Lilli Elsner

    'Nobody has ever seen the bridges' - the consumer society we live in is essentially based on the permanent promise of happiness. This is tied to the body, above all in fixed ideals. It includes a massive cult of health and beauty.

    Our consumer society is so commercialized, digitalized and globalized that bridges to scope for action, design and participation are often overlooked. Consumption and ever-new mobility needs are thus intensified.
    each other.

    Artistic rule violations in this all-dominating technophile
    I see future orientation, in which distribution power becomes the overarching authority, as an opportunity for art to challenge controversial debates. In the installation ›Constellations – nameless‹, the most primal energy storage devices are linked to form a multi-perspective force field.

    Constellations – nameless as physical cognition.

    Nobody has ever seen the bridges – as a means of enhancing perception.
    A utopia becomes a desired goal.

    December 2023
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    Impressions

    Lilli Elsner Galerie Lachenmann Art
    Lilli Elsner Galerie Lachenmann Art
    Lilli Elsner Galerie Lachenmann Art
    Lilli Elsner Galerie Lachenmann Art
    Lilli Elsner Galerie Lachenmann Art
    Lilli Elsner Galerie Lachenmann Art

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    • Behind the scenes - Meet Lilli Elsner

      What do you do first thing in the morning?
      Coffee

      If you had a superpower, what would it be?
      Always this optimization madness… :)

      What motivates you to create?
      For me, working with different materials is important.
      Ideas emerge and a long process begins in which I organize my thoughts and ideas become more concrete. Read more...
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