Clara-Lane Lens is a Belgian painter, so far particularly known for focussing on portraits of androgynous^[1] personas.^[2] At the age of 17, she had a first solo exhibition in Brussels (BE).^[3] Genderless,^[4] the theme of that expo stays the inspiration for most of her works upon today.^[5]

Astrid Verreycken^[6] in 254Forest:^[7] "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 (DE).^[8]

Biography

Clara-Lane Lens was born in Brussels (BE). She did study at Luca, School of Arts,^[9] Ghent (BE). From 2019 on, immediately after obtaining her master's degree in the Arts,^[10] she moved to live and work in Berlin (DE).

Cooperations

• In 2006 Clara-Lane Lens was introduced to the screen as a child actress (role The Whisper Kid) in the art film^[11] 'Love is the only master I'll serve,'^[12] world premiering at the Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), New York^[13]
• In 2015 her painting The Unknown Soldier was used as front cover for the double CD Shell Shock (opera)^[14] by Nick Cave & Nicholas Lens,^[15] 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,^[16] a recorded album of the trance-chamber opera^[17] written and produced by Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens. The CD was released and distributed by Deutsche Grammophon^[18] and published by Mute Records, London.

Exhibitions and projects

• 2015 Visceral, Barcelona (ES), group^[19]
• 2018 Teerling, In de Ruimte, Ghent (BE), group
• 2018 SOLO EXHIBITION, Genderless, Le Lac, Brussels (BE)
• 2018 This thing in Aalst, Huis de Bolle, Aalst (BE), group
• 2018 Exhibition Fabrik, Leuven (BE), group
• 2019 Voor De Kat Zijn Viool, Nucleo Lindelei, Ghent (BE), group
• 2019 Braises de Satin -Maxence, publication CL-LL^[10][20]
• 2019 New Saints, Waldburger Wouters Gallery,^[21] Brussels (BE), group^[22]
• 2020 Experimental, Basement Berlin (DE), group
• 2020 These Selves, Pilar, Brussels (BE), group ^[16]
• 2020 Watering plants, Spoiler Zone, Berlin (DE), group
• 2020 SOLO EXHIBITION, They never used to talk much, 254Forest, Brussels (BE)^[23]
• 2020 Community Exhibition Subbacultcha Magazine, De Studio, Antwerp (BE), group
• 2021 Grove Collective,^[24] London (EN), group
• 2021 Nationale 8 Gallery, Brussels (BE), Brussels GalleryWeekend^[25] duo
• 2021 SOLO EXHIBITION Moon in Vertigo, That's what x said, Brussels(BE)^[26]
• 2021 Infinite Discontinuity, SAO festival, Farrera (ES), group ^[27]
• 2021 Have we met?^[24] Backhaus Project (Grove Collective), Berlin (DE), duo^[28]
• 2022 Friends of Ruby, Ruby Gallery, Brussels (BE), group^[29]
• 2022 SOLO EXHIBITION, Tell us we belong, Silvestri Galleria, Madrid (ES)^[30]

Artistic Residencies

• 2020 Banditto Residency, Montepulciano (IT)^[31]
• 2021 Can Centre d'Art i Natura, Farrera (ES)^[32]

References

External links

• Clara-Lane Lens
• Clara-Lane Lens exhibits a body of many selves at 254Forest
• Alternative Realities - Clara-Lane Lens
• An Interview with the Painter Clara-Lane Lens
• Masks off: Clara-Lane Lens reveals her take on the corona crisis
• Clara-Lane Lens - Self-portrait after a quarantine fight
• Clara-Lane Lens, de onpeilbare wereld achter een blik
• New Masters: Clara-Lane Lens - New Masters
• Nick Cave and Nicholas Lens release L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S