Kris Lemsalu
"[2] "A punk pagan trickster feminist sci-fi shaman, Kris Lemsalu gathers together both collected and crafted objects into totemic sculptures and hallucinatory environments, animated with performances by the artist and her coterie of collaborators;" her work being shown in many places, including Berlin, Copenhagen and Tokyo.
Her staged installations combine delicate porcelain sculptures cast as animal and human body parts or objects of clothing with found natural materials like fur, leather or wool.
Furthermore, her objects of choice mix sculpted ceramic parts and hand-sewn draping with all the matter in consumer society such as CDs, flowers, baskets, boots, clothes, balloons, car doors, pocket change, paint, etc.
[7] Lemsalu's ouvre is eccentric and independent, she creates abstract objects and figures to communicate inner states of mind and elaborate on the human condition in the modern, challenging world.
Lemsalu's work displays attention to color, and effects of the surface, an interest in archetypical and symbolic motives, and also an ironic and reflexive relationship to her medium, with scenographic and absurd humor.
"[12] During this time, Lemsalu worked along with group of people including "the curator Maria Arusoo, the poet Andrew Berardini, the mentor Sarah Lucas, the researcher Irene Campolmi, her friend/collaborator Tamara Luuk and performers who brought the inaugural ritual to life during the opening of the Biennale.
"[13] Source:[5] (2020) "Love Song Sing-Along" (with Kyp Malone) at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2019) "Birth V – Hi and Bye", representing Estonia in 58th Venice Biennial, Venice "Biker, Bride, Builder, Businesswoman and Baby", Tramway, Glasgow (2018) "Keys Open Doors" Secession, Vienna, Austria "4LIFE" Goldsmiths CCA, London "Mysteriously Conceived and Deeply Felt", Mavra, Berlin (2017) "The Wild Ones", Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Scotland "Going going", together with Kyp Malone, Performa 17 Biennial, curated by Esa Nickle and Maaike Gouwenberg, New York, USA CONDO collaborative exhibition, Kris Lemsalu with Koppe Astner, hosted by Southard Reid, London, UK (2016) "Beauty and the Beast" (together with Tiit Pääsuke), curated by Tamara Luuk, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia "Afternoon Tear Drinker", curated by Hemma Schmutz, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria (2015) "Blood Knot Step By Step", Bunshitu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Fine With Afterlife", Ferdinand Bauman Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (2014) "Lord, Got To Keep On Groovin", Temnikova & Kasela gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (2012) "Top Sinner", Pro Choice, Vienna, Austria "Evian Desert", Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany "Being Together" (together with Edith Karlson), Temnikova & Kasela gallery, Tallinn, Estonia Kris Lemsalu with Mads Westrup, Hinter Haus des Meeres, Vienna, Austria (2011) Schneiderei.home.studio.gallery, Vienna, Austria 2008 Gallery Window 108, Copenhagen, Denmark "Up to and Including Limits", Muzeum Susch, Zürich [5] "Body Splits", SALTS, Birsfelden [5] "Metamorphosis.
Art in Europe Now", Fondation Cartier, Paris [5] "Drawings", 650mah, Hove "Schmaltz", Guimaraes, Vienna [5] "Artishok Biennial", Baltic Station, Tallinn "100 Sculptures", Anonymous gallery, Mexico City [5] "Nothing Will Be As Before – Ten Years of Tanya Leighton", Tanya Leighton, Berlin [5] "Under the Black and Baltic Deep", Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis [5] "Further Thoughts On Earthy Materials ", GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen [5] "Survival Kit 10", Riga Circus, Riga "Disorder"?, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium [5] "Give Up the Ghost", Baltic Triennial, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn [5] "There and Back Again", Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland [5] "ESTER KRUMBACHOVÁ.
