ABOUT
Ines Lechleitner (*1978 in Vienna) is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer and chef based in Berlin. She is currently focusing on photographic women portraits, bespoke scent experiences and creative scent workshops see current website.
In her installations, performances and artist books Ines Lechleitner combines media such as photography, drawing, sound, film, cooking and scent. She researches non-verbal and multispecies communication and creates situations of dialogue with artists and scientists.
Ines Lechleitner has held various teaching positions and is active as a freelance photographer, chef and facilitator of bespoke scent experiences. She currently works at glow, Berlin.
She is a member of SALOON, a professional network of women in the arts, and FLUSS – Society for the promotion of photographic and media arts, AT. Until 2019 she was a member of Errant Sound project space.
#ArtPhotography #WomenPortraits #FoodArt #ScentArt #Multispecies #Etho-Ethnography #StrongWomen #SoundArt
#HumanAnimal #Multisensory #Performance #FoodPerformance
Studies
2007-2008
Jan van Eyck Academie, post-graduate institute for research and production, Maastricht, NL
1998-2003
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), diplôme national supérieur d’arts plastiques, Dezember 2003 (DNSAP/BA/MA), FR
2002
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Halifax, CA
1997
San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA
Solo shows
2021
Fluss Frauen Farben, in-situ, Drosendorf, AT
2020
Pourparler, with Hans-Jörg Mayer, after the butcher, Berlin, DE (Mar 07- Apr 05, 2020)
2016
Das Rhein Rauschen, Villa Renata, Basel, CH
Walverwandtschaft, Galerie kunstbuero, Wien, AT
2013
Platzwechsel, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Reisebürogalerie, Köln, DE
Imagine Two Rivers 2, Freie Flusszone Station der Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, DE
Imagine Two Rivers 3, L40-Verein für Kunst und Kultur um den Rosa-Luxemburg- Platz, Berlin, DE
2012
Objets Reposés, M_Museum, Leuven, BE
The Imagines, Metro Galerie, Berlin, DE
2011
Table of Contents – First Activations, "Sense/Correspondance 1", Saprophyt, Wien, AT
The Hum, with Chloë Brown, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield, GB
2010
Chloë Brown and Ines Lechleitner, LOBE, Berlin, DE
How to open a box, Pro Choice, Vienna, AT
Spatial Puzzle 1, Atelier Bagnolet, FR
Public Listening and Projections- A space of translation, L40-Verein für Kunst und Kultur um den Rosa-Luxemburg- Platz, Berlin, DE
2004
Phrases, Station 21, Zürich, CH
2003
It’s not geography that is structuring, with Raphaël Grisey, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE
2002
Whale, and a..., Khyber Center for the Arts, Halifax, CA
Group shows
2023
Blooming Brief, Scuplobe at Lobe Block, Berlin, DE
2019
Technocare, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien, AT (April)
Where are we now? 30 Jahre Fluss, Schloss Wolkersdorf, AT (Sept)
2018
Dystopie, sound art festival Berlin-Istanbul, Meinblau, Berlin, DE
Tier-Bild-Ton, Errant Sound, Berlin, DE
Sonntags Kunst Matinée #01, private villa, Berlin-Charlottenburg, DE
2017
Color Correspondence, "Berlin Food Art Week", Musikbrauerei, DE
In the Sound Field, Errant Sound, Berlin, DE
Anima_l, Schloss Wolkersdorf, AT
Im Fluss, Fotoforum Innsbruck, AT
2016
Animal Lovers, nGbK, Berlin, DE
Dämmerschlaf, Galerie km0, Innsbruck, AT
Offene Ateliertage NÖ, Atelier Barbara Krobath, Hart bei Geras, AT
Sound Matters, Errant Bodies Space, Berlin, DE
2015
I have always imagined that paradise would be some kind of library, Friends with Books, Hamburger Bahnhof- Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, DE
Play Eat!, Entretempo Kitchen Gallery, Berlin, DE
Animal Turn- Die Hinwendung zum Tier, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, DE
Saloon, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin, DE
The Inner Acoustic, Errant Bodies Space, Berlin, DE
2014
Per/Form- How to do things with(out) words, CA2M - Centro de Arte de Dos de Mayo, Madrid, ES
Closer to Gaza, benefit auction and group show at Kühlhaus Berlin, DE
2013
Rival Brain, Silberkuppe, Berlin, DE
Körper-Medien-Sinnlichkeit, MBody, E-Werk Freiburg, DE
2012
At Home/Zu Hause, LOBE, Berlin, DE
Die letzte Metro, Galerie Metro, Berlin, DE
Le Son des Mots, Revue, Fondation Cartier, Paris, FR
Aneignungen, Kunstverein Langenhagen, DE
Peripherie VII, Galerie für Landschaftskunst/Sachsenwald, Hamburg, DE
2011
Y Project, "Public Art Project at the Yamuna Riverbank", Golden Jubilee Park, Delhi, India
Yamuna, Galerie für Landschaftskunst/Freie Flusszone, Hamburg, DE
Ränder hereingebrochen Mitte zerstört, Metro Galerie, Berlin, DE
Mostra Arte Natureza, Mathila Cultural, Sao Paulo, BR
Convivio, Centre d’art Contemporain La Micro‘Onde, Vélizy - Paris, FR
2010
Jewlery, Samsa, Berlin, DE Texture, Metro Galerie, Berlin, DE
Habitat, Twenty First/Twenty First Gallery, New York, USA
The Reading Room, Berlin, DE
2008
Die Lucky Bush, MUHKA, Antwerpen, BE
Plattform, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
2007
Wouah, Eikones NFS Bildkritik, Basel, CH
Parcours interdit, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, DE
Video as urban condition, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AT
Sound-bites to go, Privatware, Berlin, DE
2006
Urban Appearances, Rosa-Luxemburg-strasse/Videoparcours, Berlin, DE
2005
Je partage votre point de vue, La galerie de la Générale, Paris, FR
Kontakte, Projektraum im WUK, Vienna, AT
2002
L’Exposition-atelier, Fondation Icar pour l’image, Paris, FR
2001
Des Territoires, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FR
Performances / Performance lectures / Screenings
2019
Four to Two Feet - Chapter 3, performance with Alice Chauchat during the opening of the exhibition Technocare, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien, AT
On imprints and cross-species tracings, performance lecture during "How to not be a stuffed animal" by Susanne Schmidt and Laurie Young, Uferstudios Berlin, DE
2018
Tracing Dystopian Dialogues, dinner-performance and public listening of radio feature for Kunstradio OE1 at Schillerpalais, Berlin, DE
The Cuckoo's Cooking, sound-cooking-performance during "Tier-Bild-Ton", Errant Sound, Berlin, DE
2017
Color Correspondence, performance during exhibition "Berlin Food Art Week", Musikbrauerei, DE
2016
Four to Two Feet - Chapter 2, performance with Alice Chauchat, as part of exhibition Animal Lovers, nGbK, Berlin, DE
Orakel der Namen, performance with Alessandra Eramo during the exhibition Sound Matters,
Errant Sound, Berlin, DE
Wissenskulturen im Dialog 3, installation during symposium at University of music and performing arts, Vienna, AT
Translations, artist talk and conversation with Joachim Schmid, Picture Berlin, DE
ArtScienceSlam, Picture Berlin and Satelite Salon, ZK/U Berlin, DE
A Travers le Savon, performance lecture as part of Pirate/ Public, Errant Bodies, Berlin, DE
Un_Universität, screeening, Akademie für angewandte Kunst, Wien, AT
Eat the Film!, experimental dinner performance, Entretempo Kitchen Gallery, Berlin, DE
2015
Four to Two Feet, performance with Alice Chauchat, as part of I have always imagined that paradise would be some kind of library, Friends with Books, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
ArtScienceSlam, Picture Berlin and Satelite Salon, ZK/U Berlin, DE
Drawing a Line of Attention : Vocalization Notes- Whale Episode 1, performance during the exhibition The Inner Acoustic, Errant Bodies, Berlin, DE
2014
2 Lions in 3 Steps, in-situ performance, Per/Form- How to do things with(out) words, CA2M - Centro de Arte de Dos de Mayo, Madrid, ES
The Imagines Dialogue 1, conversation with Doris Ingrisch, MUMOK, Vienna
The Imagines Dialogue 2, conversation with Ana Teixeira Pinto, Friends of Books, Cafe Moskau, Berlin
2013
Imagine Two Rivers 4, performance lecture, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, DE
Walk the Elbe-Yamuna Perfume, performance with Yogesh Kumar, Hamburg, DE
Imagine Two Rivers 1: launch of the artist edition and the Elbe-Yamuna Perfume, MAK Designshop, Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna, AT
Versuchsanordnungen 1- H like Horses, screening with Marion Mangelsdorf, Symposium Wissenschaftskulturen im Dialog, University of the performing arts, Vienna, AT
2012
On the practice of smell, one-on-one performance, At Home/Zu Hause, LOBE, Berlin, DE
Activations Français, performance lecture and screening, Le Son de Mots, Fondation Cartier, Paris, FR Position and Trace, performance with Annegreet Sleurs, Objets Reposés, M_Museum, Leuven, BE
Under Water Foodsigns, performance with Klara Hobza, The Imagines, Galerie Metro, Berlin, DE 2011
2011
Free River Associations 2, performance during Y Project, Delhi, India
Free River Associations 1, performance during Yamuna, Freie Flusszone, Hamburg, DE
Traces of Nonverbal Communication, Animals and Aestetics Conference, UDK, Berlin, DE
Un fruit pour la main droite – Part III, performance with Élodie Boutry, Centre d’art Contemporain Micro‘Onde, Vélizy, FR
Salon Zoo, performance lecture, LOBE, Berlin, DE
2008
Untranslation, ‘Instances of translation’ performance lecture during workshop organised by Pages, Teheran, Iran
Between an image and a sound, video-talk at Jan van Eyck Academie, NL
2004
Grundstück- a dialogue between a typewriter and a bass according to Moby Dick, performance with cellist Bernhard Göttert, Station 21, Zürich, CH
2003
Blue whales can communicate between the north and the south pole- performance lecture with Kathleen Rahn, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, DE
2002
Seismic testing, sound-performance, The Khyber Center for the Art, Halifax, CA
Awards / Teaching / Work
2021
Co-Manager at Lobe Block, Berlin, DE
2020
Project grant for The Embodied Circle by Bm:ukk und NOE-Kultur, AT
2019
Workshop at Schule für künslerische Fotografie Friedl Kubelka, Vienna, AT
2018
Project grant for "Tier-Bild-Ton" for Errant Sound by the initiative neue musik berlin (inm) and the Bezirksamt Pankow Berlin.
Printing grant for the artist book Zitronen-Wal-Seife, BKA, Vienna, AT
2017
Since 2017 copywriter, chef and creative joker at glow communication, Berlin, DE
Summer academy, workshop for FLUSS photography weeks, Schloss Wolkersdorf, AT
Art and Scent, lecture workshop ParisXBerlin, studierendenWERK Berlin
Guest lecturer at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, DE
2016
Berliner Projektraumpreis mit Errant Bodies Group, DE
Guest lecturer at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, DE
Zwischenräume- on interdisciplinary working methods, workshop at the University of music and performing arts, Vienna, AT
Project grant for the exhibition series Tisser des Liens, BKA, Vienna, AT
2015
Guest professor with Errant Bodies at the Hochschule für für Gestaltung (HFG), Karlsruhe, DE
Noise and Animal Voices, workshop with Brandon LaBelle, HFG, Karlsruhe, DE
Tast Ding Ton, workshop with Gilles Aubry, Errant Bodies, Berlin, DE
2014
Developing methodes, workshop with Marion Mangelsdorf and Mónica Alarcón at the University of music and performing arts, Vienna, AT
2012
Guest lecturer at the University Freiburg, DE
Printing grant for The Imagines, Bm:ukk, AT
2011
Project grant for interdisciplinary art project, Bm:ukk, AT
On Working Methods, workshop with art students at the Sheffield Institute of Arts, GB
Vögel-Konstruktionen, workshop for Vienna Children University, AT
2010
Austrian State stipend for artistic photography, Bm:ukk, AT
Residency, LOBE, Berlin
2009
London residency, Bm:ukk, AT
2008
Printing grant for Puzzle Box, Bm:ukk, AT
Research-Stipend, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL
2007
Printing grant for Pièce de cinéma, Bm:ukk, AT
Research-Stipend, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL
2006/08
Concept and realisation for interactive exhibitions for children, Kids explore culture, AT
2005
Artist in residence in research station, Siberut Island, Indonesia
2004
Project grant Aide à la création des DRAC-Ile-de-France, FR
2002
Private stipend for study at NSCAD, Halifax, Canada
2001
Photographic commission by DIREN Île-de-France together with Ludovic Michaux, FR
Publications / Editions / Radio Features
2023
Non Endless Space, Questions and Architechture, AT
Encounters in Performance Philosophy, Performance Philosophy books
2021
Fluss Frauen Farben, artist book and catalogue, AT
2020
Die ersten 30 Jahre Fotografie, Schule Friedl Kubelka, published by fotohof edition, AT
Animals, Humans and their Nature, online publication by Questions and Architechture, AT
2019
Zitronen-Wal-Seife, artist book with backbonebooks, Berlin, DE
Technocare, catalogue, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien, AT
2018
Tracing Dystopian Dialogues, radio feature for Kunstradio OE1, AT
Dystopie, sound art festival, catalogue, Berlin, DE
2017
Wissenskulturen im Dialog – Experimentalräume zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst,
Transcript Verlag, DE
2016
Das Rhein Rauschen, artist edition and perfume, backbonebooks, Berlin, DE
Animal Lovers, catalogue, nGbK, Berlin, DE
Dämmerschlaf, catalogue, Galerie km0, Innsbruck, AT
2015
Animal Turn - Die Hinwendung zum Tier, catalogue, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, DE
2014
The Imagines, monographic / artist book, Sternberg Press, Berlin / New York
Per/Form- How to do things with (out) words, Sternberg Press/ CA2M, ES
2013
Notes on: Imagine Two Rivers- The Search for the Elbe-Yamuna Perfume, artist edition with perfumes
Imagine Two Rivers- The Elbe-Yamuna Perfume, perfume edition with Yogesh Kumar, AT
Vom Duft der Flüsse, collaboration with Kusch & Beckmann on radio feature, Deutschlandfunk, DE
Tierstudien 03/ Tierlieben, Zeofilis Verlag, Berlin, DE
2012
Nature, Text Magazin, Berlin, DE
The Imagines Show, Galerie Metro, Berlin, DE
2011
Menschen & Andere, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Akademie Verlag, DE
Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy, Site Gallery, Sheffield, GB
Convivio, Centre d’art Contemporain La Micro‘Onde, Vélizy - Paris, FR
2009
Puzzle Box, artistbook, Jan van Eyck Academie, NL
A Space of Translation, radio feature for Kunstradio OE1, AT
2007
Pièce de cinéma, artistbook, Jan van Eyck Academie, NL
2004
Lasso Magazin, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE
2001
Des Territoires en Revue 5, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR
Public Collections
2022
Landessammlung Niederösterreich, AT
2017
Food Art Museum, Berlin, DE
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Sammlung für künstlerische Fotografie des BKA, AT
2015
Städtische Sammlung Waldkraiburg, DE
2013
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Sammlung für künstlerische Fotografie des BMUKK, AT
2008
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Sammlung für künstlerische Fotografie des BMUKK, AT
2002
Musée Rodin, Collection de Photographies, Paris, FR