Lena Eriksson

Lena Eriksson (b. 1971, Visp) speaks drawing, video, performance. Since the beginning of her practice she has been interested in interdisciplinary collaborations with other artists, curators, scientists, chefs and authors. After her art studies she toured internationally with the project Artist on the road and the performance group GABI. At the exhibition space Kaskadenkondensator Basel, she organizes performative  formats such as Galleryplay, Gallery Helga Broll, At home a guest, Holiday and neither related nor related by marriage, on artistic practice and artists' images, and conducts research in art spaces. Collaborating with Andrea Seamann and Chris Regen, she ran the independent art space Lodypop in Basel from 2004-2009 with the motto: Performance without Pressure and Projects without Panic. She has been working as a lecturer in the Masters programme in art at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2015. She publishes for KAP, Neuland magazine and for Monday 2 Monday, a communication project with Varsha Nair. Since 2020 she is board member of existence und product, a publishing house  for artists. Web link www.lena.eriksson.ch 

Lena was a participant and instrumental in bringing the group of artists together in Basel for Womanifesto 2020: Gatherings. She is also one of the organisers of LASUEMO which Womanifesto artists are invited to join.