Perceptive, strong-willed and inventive, Lena moves between exhibitions, writing, painting and community work — a sustained practice across arts and culture, grounded in a cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary background.
Her research and her work on exhibitions share one position: art is not the isolated act of a lone genius. How art is made, and how its history is told, are both shaped by environment and by institutions.
That is what draws her to curating: the strategic work of collecting and presenting art — mediating meaning by choosing what to include and what to leave out, and so shaping the stories a culture tells about its art.
