Clara-Lane Lens

Clara-Lane Lens is a Belgian painter, so far particularly known for focussing on portraits of androgynous personas. At the age of 17, she had a first solo exhibition in Brussels. Genderless, the theme of that expo stays the inspiration for most of her works upon today.
Astrid Verreycken in 254Forest: "Clara-Lane Lens paints using a classic imagery. Her works veers between the directness of a quick snapshot and an extensive study of the human body. All figures share something similar, beautiful but introvert. They are inward-looking, lost in thought. But there is also a kind of physical absence. She deliberately omits the characteristics that could reveal a character's gender. Spectators are regularly misled, yet precisely that's the attraction in her work. As you are left with the sense that something has eluded you."
Clara-Lane Lens currently lives and works at her atelier in Berlin.

Biography

Clara-Lane Lens was born in Brussels. She did study at Luca, School of Arts, Ghent. From 2019 on, immediately after obtaining her master's degree in the Arts, she moved to live and work in Berlin.

Cooperations

In 2006 Clara-Lane Lens was introduced to the screen as a child actress in the art film 'Love is the only master I'll serve,' world premiering at the Brooklyn Film Festival, New York
In 2015 her painting The Unknown Soldier was used as front cover for the double CD Shell Shock (opera) by Nick Cave & Nicholas Lens, Universal Music Distribution published by Mute Records, London.
Besides being mostly known as a painter, in 2020 Clara-Lane Lens performed as well as solo singer and speaker on all twelve tracks of the cd L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S, a recorded album of the trance-chamber opera written and produced by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens. The CD was released and distributed by Deutsche Grammophon and published by Mute Records, London.

Exhibitions and projects

2015 Visceral, Barcelona, group
2018 Teerling, In de Ruimte, Ghent, group
2018 SOLO EXHIBITION, Genderless, Le Lac, Brussels
2018 This thing in Aalst, Huis de Bolle, Aalst, group
2018 Exhibition Fabrik, Leuven, group
2019 Voor De Kat Zijn Viool, Nucleo Lindelei, Ghent, group
2019 Braises de Satin -Maxence, publication CL-LL
2019 New Saints, Waldburger Wouters Gallery, Brussels, group
2020 Experimental, Basement Berlin, group
2020 These Selves, Pilar, Brussels, group
2020 Watering plants, Spoiler Zone, Berlin, group
2020 SOLO EXHIBITION, They never used to talk much, 254Forest, Brussels
2020 Community Exhibition Subbacultcha Magazine, De Studio, Antwerp, group
2021 Grove Collective, London, group
2021 Nationale 8 Gallery, Brussels, Brussels GalleryWeekend duo
2021 SOLO EXHIBITION Moon in Vertigo, That's what x said, Brussels
2021 Infinite Discontinuity, SAO festival, Farrera, group
2021 Have we met? Backhaus Project, Berlin, duo
2022 Friends of Ruby, Ruby Gallery, Brussels, group
2022 SOLO EXHIBITION, Tell us we belong, Silvestri Galleria, Madrid
2023 SOLO EXHIBITION, Hiding between droplets of steam, JVDW, Düsseldorf
2024 SOLO EXHIBITION, It is cold in the cactus garden, Silvestri Galleria, Madrid

Artistic Residencies

2020 Banditto Residency, Montepulciano
2021 Can Centre d'Art i Natura, Farrera