Marko Lehanka

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Marko Lehanka (born September 12, 1961 in Herborn ) is a German sculptor.

Life

Marko Lehanka was born as the son of the trained tailor Ute Lehanka, b. Hoffmann and the technical employee Josef Lehanka born in Herborn. He spent his first year in Uckersdorf near Herborn before the family moved to Lollar near Gießen . After the elementary and middle school in Lollar, he attended the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule in Gießen- Wieseck , in order to finally pass the Abitur in 1982 at the Liebigschule Gießen with the major subjects mathematics and social studies. After community service in the disabled workshop (today: Limes workshop) in Pohlheim , he studied art and music education for two semesters at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen in 1984 . After several unsuccessful applications, etc. a. at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and the Kunsthochschule Kassel , Marko Lehanka was finally admitted to the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . There he completed general undergraduate studies with Thomas Bayrle , switched to Michael Croissant's plastic class for four semesters, and completed his studies in Thomas Bayrle's class. From 1991 to 1992 Marko Lehanka worked as an artistic assistant at the newly founded Institute for New Media in Frankfurt (founding director Peter Weibel ).

Since 2006 he has been professor of fine arts (sculpture) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

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Marko Lehanka works in an interdisciplinary manner, with a wide variety of materials and methods, from individual objects to installations and art in public spaces. Everyday culture plays a decisive role in this. In 1994 visit Liebscher -Lehanka for ten days Langenhagen and lead formalized discussions with citizens with a same old questions.

Lehanka won a competition for a fountain on the Main Plaza in Frankfurt in 1999 , but it was never realized. He planned to fill a typical German telephone booth with water until it overflows, the water then flowed through manhole covers into an underground chamber and should be pumped back into the house from there. The working model of the fountain is now in the collection of the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt am Main. Lehanka's design for an installation (model of an oversized tram stop) in front of the Literaturhaus in Frankfurt am Main, which took first place in an artist competition in 2009, has not yet been implemented.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1994 Karaoke (Soccer World Cup) , Portikus , Frankfurt am Main (group exhibition)
  • 1999 Museum for Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2000 “Today: Spicesbreadscompetitioneating” or “Don't call me, I'll call you” , Leo Koenig, New York (Martin Kippenberger / Marko Lehanka)
  • 2000 Mixing Memories & Desires , Neues Kunstmuseum, Lucerne (group exhibition)
  • 2001 49th Venice Biennale
  • 2001 Frankfurter Kreuz , Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt , Frankfurt am Main (group exhibition)
  • 2002 Bus stop Nürnberg-Feucht , Sprengel Museum , Hanover
  • 2002 Overbeck Society , Lübeck
  • 2003 SPOT , Ute Parduhn Gallery, Düsseldorf (group exhibition)
  • 2004 9th Small Sculpture Triennial , Fellbach
  • 2004 Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2005 Gallery carlier | gebauer, Berlin (Aernout Mik / Marko Lehanka)
  • 2005 Lido , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (group exhibition)
  • 2005 An arcadia of modernity: Villa Romana , Neues Museum Weimar (group exhibition)
  • 2005 Bidibidobidiboo , Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (group exhibition)
  • 2005 Checkout please! , Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen (group exhibition)
  • 2006 Collection / Selection , ESSO Gallery, New York
  • 2006 Art Attitude Hervé Bize Gallery, Nancy
  • 2007 sculpture projects münster 07 , Münster
  • 2007 Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2009 FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux
  • 2011 Gallery carlier | gebauer, Berlin
  • 2011 Before the Law Museum Ludwig , Cologne (group exhibition)
  • 2014 Noah's Ark , Museum Ostwall, D - Dortmund
  • 2014 Mark 53 , Galerie Goldstein, D - Frankfurt am Main
  • 2016 ouverture pour inventaire 2 , FRAC des Pays da la Loire, F - Carquefou
  • 2017 In a sloop , Flying Buildings, D - Berlin

Public collections

Germany:

  • Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
  • Museum for Communication, Frankfurt am Main
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne

France:

Awards (selection)

  • 1992 travel grant, Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden
  • 1993 Villa Romana Prize , I - Florence
  • 1999 Prize of the 1822 Foundation, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2019 Marielies Hess Prize, Frankfurt am Main

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personal data
SURNAME Lehanka, Marko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Herborn