Elena Kaufmann, born in 1992, is working on a multimedia approach to poetry and lives in Berlin.
contact: elenakaufmann@posteo.de
upcoming
26.10. – 22.11.2025 noises from the other room
group show at AK68, Kunstverein Wasserburg am Inn
25.10. 18:00 Uhr – Opening
01.11. 18:00 Uhr – Video-Screening
15.11. 18:00 Uhr – Poetry-Reading
22.11. 16:00 Uhr – Finissage
Voices flicker, images flood past, slogans bounce off bodies as our footsteps echo across the asphalt: public space rushes past us and through us. Between political expression and individual experience, a stream of judgements, impressions and feelings emerges – a vibrant web of echoes, reverberations and overlaps.
The exhibition noises from the other room traces the unheard, the inaudible, the too quiet and the too loud. What stories reach us? What does the subtext of our everyday life sound like? In which voices do we sense ghostly patterns of history continuing to have an effect? What happens when we carry our dreams out onto the street?
‘Dream’ means both at the same time: night-time fantasy and vision of life, collective seismograph for desires, fears, identities and memories. Following this motif, the narrative exhibition explores forms of listening. Using video, sound, text and language, the various positions address social side scenes. Together, they open up a resonance space in which voices rehearse, drift, disappear and return.
involved artists: An Laphan, Robert Lang, Sarah Lehnerer, Elena Kaufmann, Jonas Höschl, Laura Leppert, Mathias Reitz Zausinger
Ehemalige Polizeiinspektion / Kaspar-Aiblinger-Platz 5 / 83512 Wasserburg am Inn
Öffnungszeiten: Donnerstag – Sonntag 13 - 18 Uhr
15.11. 2025 noises from the other room
Poetry-Reading with Daniel Bayerstorfer, Elena Kaufmann, Leander Beil und Patty Nash
...ongoing
press statement Literaturstiftung Bayern – LITERATURUPDATE 2020 Den Tod schreiben (second prize):
"The eleven poems of the 27-year-old, born in Erlangen, are rhythmic miniatures on the fragility of life. The jury remarks that 'impressively, Kaufmann manages to write the ever-existent presence of death in its most literal sense, word by word, sound by sound."
BR2 KulturLeben, 21.10.2021 –
"Dear World..." – Mit Blackout Poetry durch die Krise. Kunstbuch der Lyrikerin Elena Kaufmann
„[…] Erst beim Zuhören fällt er so richtig auf, der persönliche Ton, der in ihren poetischen Botschaften mitschwingt: sphärisch und direkt; tastend, aber irgendwie unerschrocken.“"
(...listen to the complete feature here)