DIDI LEHNHAUSEN

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22 GOSPELS
Installation 2025
22 paintings of between 140x200cm and 285x246cm
Twenty-two paintings based on the embroidery work of Chris Enthoven (1907) in a garden in Northern Italy. 

ANGELS AT RADIO KOOTWIJK 
Installation 2021 
Window painting installation at Radio Kootwijk. This installation spans fourteen 7-meter-high windows and one 14-meter-high central window.
The seven windows on one side mirror seven opposite windows, creating a dialogue between them. Drawing inspiration from religious stained glass and spiritual practices, the installation explores the idea of uniting opposites within a single whole. The windows facing each other are painted as inverted images—if they were to overlap, they would form one unified color.

WE DON’T WEAR LONG DRESSES WHEN WE WORK
  • Exhibition 2020
Solo exhibition with an installation of Batik paintings, ceramics and the film Tempat Kerja at Project Space PLAN B. 
ELEVEN SPELLS
Installation 2020

An installation of eleven batik pieces, inspired by the origins of batik, where symbols and colors represent the dreams or powers of the wearer. The method, developed in a batik workshop, parallels darkroom printing but unfolds at a slower pace. Colors develop in (sun)light, and once revealed and fixed, cannot be altered. Working “in the dark” requires reliance on multiple senses, with weather playing a significant role—sunlight intensity affects color strength, while rain influences drying time and work rhythm.

PAPER SPIRITS / SOIL MATES 
Exhibition 2019
 A duo exhibition at Nieuw Dakota in Amsterdam with Suzanne Bernhardt. Working with archives, collections and mouth-to-mouth information, fragments of history revealed themselves in different forms. Encountering history before through appropriated “artifacts” and “photographic evidence” within institutes in the Netherlands the artists were now confronted with the physical knowledge of the  countries. Re-thinking history through materials, pictures and techniques that are adapted and sometimes lost in progress. 

SIX LUCID SENSIBILITIES
Exhibition 2019
 Prospects&Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Netherlands 

TEN METERS OF EVIDENCE
Exhibition 2018
Light senstive paper (ilford RC), 127x1000cm
 A ten-meter-long darkroom painting created during a live performance. Three rolls of 10-meter-long light-sensitive paper were exposed to a choreography involving video projections, bodies, objects, and photographic negatives. The negatives originated from photographs taken in Central Java at locations known for being “haunted” by their colonial histories. This piece is a personal exploration of spirits connected to my own colonial heritage. Set to contemporary Indo-rock music, the darkroom choreography merges projections with my movements and ceremonial objects used to honor spirits and ward off evil.

A presentation of the ten-meter long darkroomprint and video-work at the NEU/NOW presentation at Art Basel.

FOR REASONS YET UNKOWN 
Residency 2018
 Installation of seven cyano prints (100x200cm) and a series of small silver gelatine prints. Made during an artist in residence in Itoshima, Japan. In the printing process found materials, brought to the shores by the ocean near the studio, were gathered and used in ritual acts in the studio. 


ERNSTIG GESCHIKT at STUDIO OMSTAND
Exhibition 2016
Baryta paper 210x127cm
 Looking for someone who keeps the roosters alive installed at the best graduates exhibition “Ernstig Geschikt” at Studio Omstand in Arnhem.

LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO KEEPS THE ROOSTERS ALIVE 
Graduation 2016
Baryta paper 127x210cm, 127x100cm
Installation of 6 silver gelatin prints, presented in wooden frames. Didi Lehnhausen graduated from Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy with this work and won the Fine Arts prize. Thereafter the work was exhibited in Studio Omstand in Arnhem and the Lumen Travo Gallery in Amsterdam.