Lara Nelke is an artist and designer based in Berlin. Until her graduation in 2020, she studied spatial design and scenography at Universität der Künste Berlin and Musashino Art University Tokyo. Her work is based around the infrastructures of the Anthropocene. Through performance, sculptures, and site-specific installations she outlines the invisible everyday infrastructures that shape our surrounding contemporary environment in cities and in the peripheries. Sites, things, and topics that seem banal or omnipresent are subversively appropriated to dream and manifest an alternative present.
Since 2018 she is part of the editor's collective of Uncanny Issues, which was founded by a group of researchers, artists, and designers at the Berlin University of the Arts as a transdisciplinary platform offering an open space for artists, theorists, scientists, writers, and activists to explore the potentials of current discontent.
Publications
Since 2018 Editor and designer of the publication project Un Series, together with Konstantin Haensch, Matthias Planitzer and Caroline Ballegaard
2022 Un Series Volume 2: Uncanny Entrepreneurship, Textem Verlag Hamburg
2021 It’s Really Good Bad, artist publication together with Linda Franken, Nina Barret-Mémy and Anna Osterberg, Stockholm University
2019 Un Series Volume 1: Uncanny Interfaces, Textem Verlag Hamburg
Exhibitions
2022 Uncanny Entrepreneurship, TRUST, Berlin
2022 POLYETHERNET 2.0, Fluid Festival, Berlin
2022 In Search of Overwhelming Banality: The Status Quo of Public Spaces, One Minute Space, Athens
2020 What Is My Life Now That I Am Never Bored?, Rundgang.io (Online
2019 Sampling, MAU Gallery, Tokyo
2019 KKJ#2, Erratum Gallery, Berlin
2019 Vorspiel transmediale: Spaces of Communication, designtransfer, Berlin
2015 Der Zerstörte Ort, Johanneskirche, Düsseldorf
Lectures and workshops
2022 RHIZOM, Formfeld Festival, Workshop
2020 Performativität und öffentlicher Raum, ZHdK Zürich, Master Dramaturgie, Lecture
2020 What Is My Life Now That I Am Never Bored?, Klasse Klima, Universität der Künste Berlin, Lecture
