Lena Melis Koneberg is an artist of German and Turkish descent. She studied in Italy (Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia) and Germany (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden), where she earned a master’s degree (Meisterschülerin) in Fine Arts in 2026. Since 2024, she has been a member of zolforosso venezia, a studio space run by local artists. Her works have been exhibited in Venice (2026, 2025, and 2021), Paris (2022), and Chemnitz (2026), as well as in other cities.In 2023–2024, she spent seven months working in a glassworkshop in Murano, where she began to incorporate blown glass into her artistic practice. In fall 2024, she was awarded with the “Lindenau Stipendium” for emerging young artists. This spring (2026) she won the “Place of Wonders” fellowship, allowing her to learn techniques of venetian flameworking.
At the heart of her artistic practice lies a keen sensitivity towards material and craftmansship as well as a very attentive awareness of her surroundings. Throughout the work, she constantly negotiates the relationship between material and perception. In addition to painting, drawing, ceramics, and her work with glass, the archiving of ‘trinkets’ (cards, fruit, glassfragments or else) is an integral part of her creative process.
Portrait Ph.: Maria Anita Pozzi
Detail Ph.: Selin Acarbas
selected Exhibitions & awards
2026, September
Soffi di Meraviglia
Londra Palace, Venice (IT)
2026, May – July
WIN WIN
Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz (DE)
2026, march
LA DODICESIMA CASA curated BY Szonja Szurop
In collaboration WIth SMAG, Venezia (IT)
2026, January – April
MEISTERSCHÜLERAUSSTELLUNG
Oktogon, HfBK Dresden, Dresden (DE)
2025, september
FRUIT THIEF
With Caterina Casellato, Elisa Raso And Guido Ravanelli
Laboratorio del Ghetto – ImagoArs, Venezia (IT)
2024, aUgust – October
BERNHARD AUGUST VON LINDENAU FÖRDERPREIS (award)
Prinzenpalais des Residenzschlosses, Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg (DE)
2024, may – June
ALLES LIEBE, DEIne
Galerie 3, DresdEn (DE)
2023, June – September
DIPLOMAUSSTELLUNG
HfBK Dresden, Dresden (DE)
2022, september
ATELIER F – NELLE SELVE NON PIÙ BELVE, curatEd By Daniele Capra, Nico Covre, Nebosja Despotovic And Atelier F
In collaboraTion with Vulcano Agency, Venezia Marghera (IT)
2022, february
SPEED DATING
In Collaboration with École des Beaux-Arts
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)
2020, october
PROSPEKTIVE
in collaboration with Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Oktogon, HfBK Dresden, Dresden (DE)
