Jakob Lena Knebl und die Sammlungen des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt
Jakob Lena Knebl creates spectacular installations between art and design. She combines fashion, painting, sculpture and popular culture with great pleasure and creates a low-threshold introduction for visitors to her complex work centred around questions of identity and physicality. She calls her scenographies spaces of desire.
Knebl sees herself as a trickster and wants to create spaces of longing and joy. Her love of 70s culture, design and fairy tales is unmistakable. She is interested in cultural history in the broadest sense and creates astonishing short circuits with relish. The aim is a democratisation of the display that makes new stowage possible. The forgotten comes into focus just as much as style icons or consumer objects. Her works refer to historical artists as well as current trends, literature or music.
Knebl's presentations combine aspects of high and low culture, criticism and humour. In Darmstadt, Knebl will stage an environment with her own works and objects from the Landesmuseum's universal collections. Through this combination and her subjective curatorial approach as an artist, Knebl breaks with the usual notions of a permanent exhibition.
Knebl will begin her research in the transdisciplinary collections of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt together with multi-talented Markus Pires Mata in the collections of painting and sculpture, as well as in the depots of arts and crafts and zoology.
For further information see Jakob Lena Knebl und die Sammlungen des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt – Hessische Landesmuseum Darmstadt (hlmd.de)
