Exhibition
Born in 1988.
Studied biology and philosophy at Freie University in Germany and majored in fine arts at Berlin University of the Arts. She then went to SVA in New York to study fine arts and returned to Berlin University of the Arts where she earned her Meisterschüler degree.
Lucia Kempkes is interested in the concept of landscape, mobility, and the materials and objects that humans invented to move and reach places. The video artwork <Parallax: Ebene> (2015) films the scenery she encountered while traveling. “Ebene” means ‘plain’ in German, which can be meant as ‘normal’ and ‘usual’ as well as ‘fields’ and ‘valley.’ The video refers to the common view from a car rushing by the Landscape that we all know. It allows the spectators to dive into memories of youth, travel, remembrances of hometown, and the uncertainties of sceneries that essentially do not exist perpetually. The freely flowing view outside of the window expresses various perspectives on scenes that we may easily overlook or that we still dream and think about.