Emmélie Lempert
Felicitas Goltz
same changes
2026
Acrylic and oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
The works of Emmélie Lempert occupy a crepuscular space between sculpture, installation, archival gesture, and ritualism. Working mainly with textiles, particularly fabrics associated with intimate proximity to the body, the gendered self serves as Lempert’s primary support. Yet gender takes on a highly surrealistic dimension. Held in abeyance, like entomological specimens sealed between panes of limpid glass, Lempert’s draped yet rigid fabrics flout the structures they outwardly assume. Emerging instead is a more open, nuanced unfolding of what a body can become: a sort of sheathed efflorescence bursting toward something without any specific gender assigned to it.
Lempert’s emphasis on the materiality of fabrics renders them haptic as much as visual. Her works are often site-specific, pushing against the architectural precedents of a surrounding space. A restrained formalism, shaped by soft, muted color palettes, often alludes to a sense of vulnerability ensnared by darker, more instinctual elements. Her textiles become physically activated through ritualistic performances that occur offsite. Although they appear vintage, found, or thrifted, Lempert’s garments and textile forms are entirely her own. Her works—marked by recurring motifs such as elongated fingers and stylized breasts, arms and hands—ultimately dissolve the readymade binaries of clothes and body, ritual and performance, sculpture and installation.
Works
Felicitas Goltz
on my own again
2025
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 cm
Felicitas Goltz
whatever Ruby Woo says
2025
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
Felicitas Goltz
trying my best (not to burn down the house)
2026
Acrylic and oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
Felicitas Goltz
maybe she‘s born with it
2025
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 cm
Felicitas Goltz
this is what makes us girls
2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm
Felicitas Goltz
splash
2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
Exhibitions
TELEVISION, 2026, Blech. Raum für Kunst, Halle (Saale), Germany
Someone is in my House, 2025, Galerie Lætitia Gorsy, Leipzig, Germany
BOOBS Now №1, 2024, POV contemporary x Galerie Philipp Anders, Leipzig, Germany
felt cute might delete later, 2024, Galerie Lætitia Gorsy, Leipzig, Germany
CV
Emmélie Lempert
b. 1998 in Bonn, Germany
Lives and works in Bonn and Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2024
Academy diploma as Meisterschülerin of Prof. Peter Piller
2018-2024
Studies at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, fine arts
AWARDS & GRANTS
2026
(Shortlisted) Young Generation Art Award, Degussa Goldhandel X Monopol Magazine
2025
NRW Förderpreis for artists (visual arts)
(Shortlisted) August Macke Förderpreis, Hochsauerlandkreis Cultural Office
2024
(Shortlisted) 78th International Bergischer Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Solingen
2022-2023
Deutschlandstipendium (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
(upcoming) Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, MUR BRUT 39, Dusseldorf, Germany
Sammlung Froehlich, ,Kost-Probe‘, Stuttgart, Germany
2025
GOODBANK, ‚dear empty apex‘, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nails Projectroom e. V., ‘escape, evolve, escape’, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galerie Alex Serra, ‘run, birdie, run’, Cologne, Germany
2024
Graduation show Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, ‘hide, seek, hide’, Dusseldorf, Germany
2023
NODEPRESSIONROOM, ‘stretch me if you can’ (Duo), Munich, Germany
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, vocal performance ‘Und ich wandre sonder Massen, Ohne Ruh’, und suche Ruh‘.’, Dusseldorf, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
(upcoming) Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, NOCH NICHT: UTOPIE IM ENTSTEHEN, Ludwigshafen, Germany
(upcoming) Frauenmuseum Bonn, ,Damals, Heute, Morgen.‘, Bonn, Germany
Galerie 3AP x POV contemporary, in between‘, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2025
Young Generation Art Award, Monopol Magazin x Degussa Gold, Nominiertenausstellung, Berlin, Germany
JVDW Gallery x suzusan, ,Bridge‘, Dusseldorf, Germany
POV contemporary, ‚Salon‘, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunstpalast Dusseldorf, ‘DIE GROSSE 2025’, Dusseldorf, Germany
2024
Galerie Philipp Anders x POV contemporary, ‘BOOBS Now Nº1’, Leipzig, Germany
Solingen Kunstmuseum 78. Internationale Bergische Kunstausstellung, Solingen, Germany
Sotheby‘s Cologne, Group Show during DC-Open, Cologne, Germany
BBK Kunst Forum, ‘fresh positions 2024’, Dusseldorf, Germany
2023
Rotterdamer Str. 63, Dusseldorf, 18/1 Billboard, presentation of the work ‘tops titched’ as part of the project „Hope this finds you well”, Dusseldorf, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
2024
„Zweitausenddreiundzwanzig - Eine Anleitung zum vergleichenden Sehen“ Kunstakademie Dusseldorf (ed.), Kettler Verlag, Bönen/Wesfalen, Germany
2023
Sample r, Helene Kuschnarew and Franziska Schmitz (eds.)
2021
Humming in Circles, Klasse Peter Piller (ed.), for DIE GROSSE 2021, Kunstpalast Dusseldorf
Press
"Aus Textilien kreiert die Rheinländerin Emmélie Lempert poetische Bildobjekte, die den weiblichen Körper als Schnittstelle von Kontrolle und Widerstand inszenieren. Jetzt ist sie für den Young Generation Art Award nominiert."
– Silke Hohmann, Monopol Magazin
"Emmélie Lempert’s mixed-media pieces vertically reconstruct a world riddled with holes. The textiles situated between planes of glass function as artifacts, implicating the body as both an objective fact and an opening in the felt reality of experience. This collapse of public and private space – an ambiguous vulnerability caught between transparency and translucency – is mirrored in the untitled works of Toni Meyer’s Sofa Series. Here, the luminosity of the prints reveals ever-new planar gaps, new points of entry into the surface of the real. Creating a topography out of the folds of a plush velvet cover, shadows are recast as reflections, and reflectiveness itself becomes labyrinthine."
– Whitehot Magazine
"Vergangenes Jahr hat Emmélie Lempert ihren Abschluss an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf gemacht. Ihre Kunst entsteht an der Nähmaschine und unterstützt Performances ohne Publikum."
– Laura Dresch, WDR3
Submission, KUBAPARIS
"Die 27 Jahre junge deutsch-tschechische Emmélie Lempert verarbeitet Textilien aus Baumwolle, beispielsweise Korsagen, und presst sie auf Kunststoffglas."
– Rheinische Post
"There are stockings, bras, socks, corsets, and pantaloons. And although they come with signs of wear and tear, it’s hard to imagine how you’re supposed to put on the dear empty apex (2025) bodysuit, for example: Left arm’s missing, right arm’s sewed to the hip, and you better don’t have a right calf, otherwise, it won’t fit. The bonnet is the easiest part. This is so Mrs. Bennet from Pride and Prejudice of her. For beak and hand (2024), Emmélie attached an opening to the left knee. For what? I don’t know whether the hand in between the thighs is an awkward self-covering gesture or a foreign hand groping… Emmélie’s bras and corsets don’t hold a tight shape but form long…yeah how do I put this… boob sleeves?"
– Jennifer Braun, The Gen Z Art Critic
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– Bertram Müller, Rheinische Post
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– Petra Kuiper, NRZ