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Lucy McKenzie. Orchestrion: Artist Talk & Opening
Thu, 5/6/2025, 5:30 PM
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Lucy McKenzie, Anonymous Youth, Donatello John the Baptist 1.1, Donatello John the Baptist 1.2, Donatello John the Baptist 2. Installation view Z33, Hasselt (BE) 2024. Courtesy: the artist, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; Cabinet Gallery, London. Photo: Useful Art Services -
In her interdisciplinary work, which encompasses painting, sculpture, architecture, fashion, and design, Lucy McKenzie explores art and culture as media-based expressions of socio-political conditions. She is particularly interested in areas such as public space, advertising graphics, consumer culture, and political propaganda. A central question in her artistic practice is how these fields influence the representation of women, and thus gender-specific power relations.
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Lucy McKenzie. Orchestrion, cultural journalist Nina Schedlmayer engages in a conversation with the artist.
Lucy McKenzie lives and works in Brussels. She studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee and at the Institut Van Der Kelen-Logelain in Brussels, where she learned traditional techniques such as trompe-l’œil and wood imitation. Since 2011, she has collaborated with Beca Lipscombe in the interdisciplinary fashion label Atelier E.B, which combines fashion, art, and exhibition. Their joint exhibition Passer-By was shown from 2018 to 2020 at the following institutions: Serpentine Galleries, London; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; Garage Museum, Moscow.McKenzie has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and MoMA, New York. Her retrospective Prime Suspect was presented in 2020/21 at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich and Tate Liverpool. In 2024, Z33 in Belgium dedicated a major solo exhibition to her.
Nina Schedlmayer studied art history in Vienna and Hamburg. She works as a cultural journalist for numerous media outlets such as Weltkunst, Handelsblatt, and Parnass. She is the editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine morgen. She published a biography of the artist Margot Pilz and has curated exhibitions, most recently “Auf den Schultern von Riesinnen” (On the Shoulders of Giantesses) at the Künstlerhaus Wien. She writes about art and feminism on artemisia.blog. Her book “Hitlers queere Künstlerin. Stephanie Hollenstein – Malerin und Soldat” (Hitler's Queer Artist: Stephanie Hollenstein – Painter and Soldier) will be published by Zsolnay Verlag in fall 2025. In 2017, she received the Austrian State Prize for Art Criticism.
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Lucy McKenzie. Orchestrion, cultural journalist Nina Schedlmayer engages in a conversation with the artist.
Lucy McKenzie lives and works in Brussels. She studied at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee and at the Institut Van Der Kelen-Logelain in Brussels, where she learned traditional techniques such as trompe-l’œil and wood imitation. Since 2011, she has collaborated with Beca Lipscombe in the interdisciplinary fashion label Atelier E.B, which combines fashion, art, and exhibition. Their joint exhibition Passer-By was shown from 2018 to 2020 at the following institutions: Serpentine Galleries, London; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; Garage Museum, Moscow.McKenzie has had numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and MoMA, New York. Her retrospective Prime Suspect was presented in 2020/21 at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich and Tate Liverpool. In 2024, Z33 in Belgium dedicated a major solo exhibition to her.
Nina Schedlmayer studied art history in Vienna and Hamburg. She works as a cultural journalist for numerous media outlets such as Weltkunst, Handelsblatt, and Parnass. She is the editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine morgen. She published a biography of the artist Margot Pilz and has curated exhibitions, most recently “Auf den Schultern von Riesinnen” (On the Shoulders of Giantesses) at the Künstlerhaus Wien. She writes about art and feminism on artemisia.blog. Her book “Hitlers queere Künstlerin. Stephanie Hollenstein – Malerin und Soldat” (Hitler's Queer Artist: Stephanie Hollenstein – Painter and Soldier) will be published by Zsolnay Verlag in fall 2025. In 2017, she received the Austrian State Prize for Art Criticism.