Elena Kaufmann, born in 1992, is working on a multimedia approach to poetry and lives in Berlin.
contact: elenakaufmann@posteo.de
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14.08. – 26.08.2023 VALLI ART LAB – Museo della Carta, Toscolano Maderno, Italia
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LONGINGS I–V
Acrylic on paper, 2023.
The series of text paintings is a playful research on collective longings,
interlacing patterns of advertisement, diagnosis and desire.
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RESONANCE AS READING AS RESONANCE
Poetic Walking Meditation
15.08.2023 16h
Reading a poem or reading a Tuesday – the focus of the performance will be resonance as praxis, one in and for which we are bodies before anything else – breathing, listening, and yes, one body among other bodies. The participative piece is the attempt to build a collective moment of sensitized perception.
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23.11. – 24.11.2023 BERLINER MANUSKRIPTE 2023 – Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus Berlin
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Poetry Reading
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15./ 16./ 17.03.2024 DANIEL'S DESTRUCTION – Akademie der Künste Berlin
Theatre project together with Yannik Böhmer and Nicolaas van Diepen
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__starting December 2022 there's a second edition of the artist's book Dear world you have made the persons slow.
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__working grant Literature of the city of Berlin 2023
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
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„[…] 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)