Miriam Lenk

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Yolanda (2006) in front of the Investitionsbank Berlin
Janusfee (2015) in the Drei Herren winery , Rainer Beck collection

Miriam Lenk (* 1975 in Konstanz ) is a German sculptor .

Live and act

Miriam Lenk studied fine arts at the Dresden University of Fine Arts from 2000 to 2007 with Eberhard Bosslet and Ralf Kerbach . Since 2009 she lives and works in Berlin and Bodman .

At the center of her work is a female archetype: large and magnificent, expansive and dominant. This is supposed to be a figurehead for all women who feel too fat, too loud or too different in society.

She created works in public space with Yolanda , in bronze, in front of the Investitionsbank Berlin and in epoxy resin in front of a lake hotel in Ludwigshafen ; Molch and Strauss in the upper suburb in Albstadt-Ebingen and Janusfee in the Drei Herren winery in the Rainer Beck collection .

In contrast to her father Peter Lenk , who processes current and historical politics in his “stone theater pieces”, she draws from another source: the élan vital , the inner urge to live. The term was coined by the French philosopher Henri Bergson and has already fascinated the surrealists . In her current group of works, ELAN VITAL , in particular, consisting of columns, plaster collages and drawings, the focus is increasingly on accumulation as a sculptural process.

Web links

Commons : Miriam Lenk  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yolanda's crossing in 2016
  2. ↑ Karina Eyrich: When Claudia Roth goes swimming. Schwarzwälder Bote , November 30, 2011, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Photo: Miriam Lenk's “Janusfee” on the wine and art hiking trail in Hermannsberg. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Beate Erler: Lush in the vineyard. Sächsische Zeitung , July 11, 2016, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ https://www.tripadvisor.fr/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g679037-d11758367-i257369849-Weingut_DREI_HERREN-Radebeul_Saxony.html
  6. ^ Georg Becker: A column in Berlin. Südkurier , January 13, 2017, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ dkne: The Toni-Merz-Museum in Sasbach shows the powerful women of Miriam Lenk. bz-ticket.de, September 21, 2018, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
  8. ↑ [1]
personal data
SURNAME Lenk, Miriam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy