Leni Hoffmann
Born in Bad Pyrmont in 1962, Helene (Leni) Hoffmann creates site-specific work that dialogues with architecture through time-based projects.
Leni Hoffmann graduated as „Meisterschüler" in fine arts from the class of Georg Karl Pfahler at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Since 2002, Leni Hoffmann has held a chair in painting and graphic arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. She works mainly site-specifically and emancipates painting: away from the canvas, towards real space and objects of everyday life. She realizes her radical work both in museum—and in public space—or as direct interventions in the production process of daily newspapers.
Leni Hoffmann’s colorful work is characterized by phenomena such as transformation, time, movement, and contemplation. She works across various media. Her work negotiates the complex terrain between autonomous art and relinquished authorship. Leni Hoffmann’s three- and two-dimensional interventions ask for a co-creative viewer. She sees the viewer as a crucial, incalculable potential of her work.
EDUCATION
Academy of Fine Arts
Nuremberg, Germany
JURY
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