Allmuth Lenz moves between photography and painting in her work. She is looking for a combination of both, playing with the possibilities of painting with the camera in order to approach her inner images of atmospheric landscapes.
This is how she discovered the possibilities of the pinhole camera, also called camera obscura, with its own charm of blurriness. The pinhole camera is the oldest form of photography. The image is created exclusively by the incidence of light through a small hole onto a light-sensitive medium. Allmuth Lenz creates the deliberate blurriness of the photographs by shooting freehand without a tripod and using very long exposure times.
Allmuth Lenz was born in Hamburg in 1958.
During her studies of human medicine, she occupied herself with artistic black-and-white photography. After her studies, she discovered colour photography for herself.
Since 1995, she has also devoted herself to painting in addition to photography.
Since 2002, her photographs have increasingly been taken with the camera obscura. She combines analogue and digital photography with painting in an experimental way.
Numerous group exhibitions and solo exhibitions since 2001.
2019 Gallery Flow Fine Art, Hitdorf (G)
2018 Workshop Gallery Tam Ueckermann Cologne (G)
2016 Gallery Flow Fine Art, Hitdorf (G)
2014 Kunstdepot Bruehl (G)
2013 Exhibition Wasserturm Bruehl (E)
2012 100 for 100 Cuba, Nettersheim (G)/ Street gallery Lindenthal, Cologne (G)
2011 Gallery Flow Fine Art, Hitdorf (G)/ artprojekt in Cologne/ music school Auftakt in Hürth (G)/ Street gallery Lindenthal, Cologne (G)
2010 Longing – Landscapes of Silence and Expanse in Cuba Nettersheim (G)/ Street gallery Lindenthal, Cologne (G)
2009 “Oh my goodness” in Nettersheim (G)/ Eifel Studio Days (G)
2008 Street gallery Lindenthal, Cologne (G)/ Eifel Studio Days (G)
2007 “My Queen” in Nettersheim (G)
2006 Unik:te Atelierhaus Pesch /Nettersheim (E)/ Practice Dr. Wenning Bonn (E)
