about Lena Weisbek
Lena Weisbek lives and works in Germany near Munich. She creates atmospheric and minimalist depictions of landscapes and natural motifs. Lena Weisbek studied Art and Communication Design, worked as a designer and art director before deciding to follow her passion - Photography.
Today, Lena Weisbek works in the gernre of Art Photography, creates various series and developes concepts on themes that captivate her deep interest. She cultivates and refines thereby her own abstract and minimalist style. Lena's "slow" photographs with their subtle moods and details leave the viewer room for his own perception of a world behind the image, for contemplation and for the retreat from a hectic world.
Her work has been exhibited and is represented by galleries all over the world.
"I want to reveal the soul of a landscape or an object, not by capturing a specific moment, but by showing its nature, its unique beauty, by exploring and showing its poetry and its mystical mood.“
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Lena Weisbek
VITA
Born in Kasachstan, living in Munich, Germany
1978-1981 Study at School of Art, Design, Film & Theatre
1982-1985 Gymnasium Alzey, High school Diploma
1985-1989 Study Communications Design at Fachhochschule Augsburg /Germany
1989 Graduate Diploma of Visual Communications Design
1990-1997 Art Direktor in the Advertising Industry
1997-2013 Freelance designer, Art Direktor
2010 Founded the Online Gallery Artefactum
2013-2018 CEO Gallery Artefactum Fine Art (International)
Since 2006 Independent Artist and Fine Art Photographer
Artist at Galleries (selection):
R Photo Art Museum - Beijing
Prints: Noir Gallery - New York
Memberships
Member at DVF - German Photography Association
Member at Photoclub Blende 1, Munich
Awards / Features
The International Minimalist Award 2019, SILVER in the Category Fine Art
IPA - The International Photo Awards 2019, 3. Place in the Category Fine Art / Minimalism
Featured on Behance Gallery: Dreamscapes, December 2019
WPE - International Photographers Awards | Second Half 2020 - SILVER in the Category Landscape
The International Minimalist Awards 2020, Honorable Mention in the Category ABSTRACT
Exhibitions
Group Exhibition "Heimat", Munich, 2019
Minimalist Photography Awards' 19. Best of Show Exhibition, Tehran, 2019
Solo Exhibition, Rigoletto, Munich, 2013
Solo Exhibition "Malen mit Licht“, Augsburg, 2012
Group Exhibition, ECKE Gallery, Augsburg, 2012
"Solo artist show“ SoiJe, Redbubble, 2010
Solo Exhibition, Town Hall Schwabhausen, 2008