ABOUT

Ines Lechleitner (*1978 in Vienna), a multidisciplinary visual artist, specializes in interdisciplinary dialogues and multisensory storytelling through scent, photography, performance and food art.
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Studies

2007-2008

Jan van Eyck Academie, post-graduate institute for research and production, Maastricht, NL

1998-2003

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), diplôme national supérieur d’arts plastiques, Dezember 2003 (DNSAP/BA/MA), FR

2002

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Halifax, CA

1997
San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA

Teaching & Workshops

2026

Transition Scent - Abschied, multidisciplinary scent workshop, ahorn space, Berlin

Perfume Atelier, multidisciplinary scent workshop, Primavera Duftshop Berlin

2025

Imagine A Scent, multidisciplinary scent workshop, glow Berlin, DE

Scent Teen, scent workshop, glow Berlin

Die Duftapotheke, multidisciplinary scent workshop, Alte Apotheke, Munich, DE

New Start, private scent workshop, London, GB

Imagine A Scent, multidisciplinary scent workshop, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin

Dein Parfum, scent workshop, ESBM school, Berlin

Imaginer un parfum, multidisciplinary scent workshop, Sinestasia, Paris, FR

Transition Scent, multidisciplinary scent workshop, Lisbeth Kultur, Berlin

2024

Dein Parfum, scent workshop, ESBM school, Berlin

Mirroring Weaving Dragons, scent and photography with Fourthland, Mount of Oaks, PT

Architecture through Scent, scent workshop, "Blue Paths" summer academy of the Universities of Stuttgart, Nurenberg and Palermo, Bad-Museum in Baden and the communities of Petralia Sottana und Sclafani, Sicily, IT

Duftworkshop, scent workshop, Bad zum Raben Bad-Museum, Baden, CH

Imagine A Scent, multidisciplinary scent workshop, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin

2023

Analog, analogue photography workshop, Studio IL, Berlin

Food Color Fun, drawing and cooking workshop, ESBM school, Berlin

Imagine A Scent, multidisciplinary scent workshop, Studio IL, Berlin

Fabrics of Friendships, , natural dye fabric workshop and installation, Jagow Lofts, Uckermark, DE

Mirroring the Hearth, scent and photography with Fourthland, Sue's Farm, ES

2020

Mentoring of Master students at DAS Choreography-Labs, Amsterdam, NL

2019

Photography and food art workshop, Schule für künslerische Fotografie Friedl Kubelka, Vienna, AT

2018

Analogue photography and multispecies art workshop, Summer academy and exhibition, FLUSS photography weeks, Schloss Wolkersdorf, AT

Art and Scent, workshop ParisXBerlin, studierendenWERK Berlin

2017

Guest lecturer, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, DE

2016

Guest lecturer, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel

Zwischenräume - on interdisciplinary working methods workshop at the University of music and performing arts, Vienna

Translations, artist talk with Joachim Schmid as part of the summer school Picture Berlin

Un_Universität, Akademie für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

2015

Guest professor with Errant Bodies at the Hochschule für für Gestaltung (HFG), Karlsruhe, DE
Noise and Animal Voices, workshop with Brandon LaBelle, HFG, Karlsruhe
Tast Ding Ton, workshop with Gilles Aubry, Errant Bodies, Berlin

ArtScienceSlam, lecture performance for Picture Berlin and Satelite Salon, ZK/U Berlin

2014

Developing methodes, workshop with Marion Mangelsdorf and Mónica Alarcón at the University of music and performing arts, Vienna

2012

Guest lecturer at the University Freiburg, DE

2011

On Working Methods, workshop with art students at the Sheffield Institute of Arts, GB

Vogel-Konstrukte, workshop for Vienna Children University, AT

Solo Shows & Performances

2026

Fertility of Stone Scent Dinner, multidisciplinary performance with Alba Balmaseda Dominguez, Miriam Jakob, Felix Claßen and Dr. H.S.Davies, Lisbeth Kultur, Berlin (March 2026)

Bathing Segesta – Bathing Vulcano, part 1, research performance with Kathrin Doppler and Alba Balmaseda Domiguez, Wushu STUDIO, Tripani, IT (April 2026)

Bathing Segesta – Bathing Vulcano, part 2, research performance with Kathrin Doppler and Alba Balmaseda Domiguez, Vulcanic Attitudes Festival, IT (tbc)

Bathing Segesta – Bathing Vulcano, part 3, lecture performance with Kathrin Doppler and Alba Balmaseda Domiguez, Bad zum Raben Bad-Museum, Baden, CH (November 2026)

2025

Fertility of Stone, solo show, Lisbeth Kultur, Berlin

Air Of Woods, multidisciplinary performacne dinner with Inès Lauber, Studio Inès Lauber, Beelitz, DE

Foundling Artemesia, scent performance and concert with founling, Morphine Records, Berlin

Waves and Roots, scent performance, Villa Zatezalo, Herceg Novi, Montenegro

A Scent Activation, performance with Claudia della Torre, “ABC Chop”, Acre Studios, Berlin

Florent-Ine Dinner, scent dinner performance, Bos-Cha, CH

Florent-Ine, scent performance, Brockenhaus Zurich, CH

Scent of Freedom, multidisciplinary performance with Lisa Witter, Better Politics Foundation, Berlin

Übergänge & Abschied, scent performance, ahorn space, Berlin

2024

Sclafani Baden, solo show Casual Corridor, WirWir Berlin

Ethereal Feast, multidisciplinary performance mit Lisa Witter, Lecche, IT

Tectonic Brösel, lecture performance with Dr. H. S. Davies, part of “Geteilte Echos”, Uferstudios, Berlin

Duftdinner, scnet dinner performance, Bad zum Raben Bad-Museum, Baden, CH

Sclafani Baden Floating, site specific photo fabric installation, Bad zum Raben Bad-Museum, Baden

2023

Ethereal Feast, multidisziplinäre performance mit Lisa Witter, Berlin

Mittsommer, scent performance, DE

2021

Fluss Frauen Farben, solo show, Drosendorf, AT

2020

Pourparler, solo show with Hans-Jörg Mayer, after the butcher, Berlin

2019

Four to Two Feet - Chapter 3, performance with Alice Chauchat during the opening of the exhibition Technocare, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

On imprints and cross-species tracings, performance lecture during "How to not be a stuffed animal" by Susanne Schmidt and Laurie Young, Uferstudios Berlin

2018

The Cuckoo's Cooking, sound cooking performance during "Tier-Bild-Ton", curatey by Antje Vowinkel and Ines Lechleitner, Errant Sound, Berlin

2017

Color Correspondence, scent and food performance developed with perfumer Ugo Charron,Berlin Food Art Week, Musikbrauerei, Berlin

2016

Das Rhein Rauschen, solo show, Villa Renata, Basel, CH

Walverwandtschaft, solo show, Galerie kunstbuero, Vienna

Four to Two Feet - Chapter 2, performance with Alice Chauchat, as part of exhibition Animal Lovers, nGbK, Berlin

Orakel der Namen, performance with Alessandra Eramo during the exhibition Sound Matters, Errant Sound, Berlin

Wissenskulturen im Dialog 3, installation and performance, University of music and performing arts, Vienna

A Travers le Savon, performance lecture as part of Pirate/ Public, Errant Bodies, Berlin

Eat the Film!, experimental dinner performance during “Play! Eat", Entretempo Kitchen Gallery, Berlin

Performance Walk, scent performance with perfumer Andreas Wilhelm during "Das Rhein Rauschen", Villa Renata, Basel, CH

2015

Four to Two Feet, performance with Alice Chauchat, as part of "I have always imagined that paradise would be some kind of library", Friends with Books, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Drawing a Line of Attention: Vocalization Notes - Whale Episode 1, performance during the exhibition "The Inner Acoustic", Errant Bodies, Berlin

2014

2 Lions in 3 Steps, in-situ performance as part of "Per/Form- How to do things with(out) words", CA2M - Centro de Arte de Dos de Mayo, Madrid, ES

2013

Platzwechsel, solo show, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Reisebürogalerie, Köln, DE

Imagine Two Rivers 2, solo show, Freie Flusszone Station der Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, DE

Imagine Two Rivers 3, solo show, L40-Verein für Kunst und Kultur um den Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin

Imagine Two Rivers 4, performance lecture, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, DE

Versuchsanordnungen 1 - H like Horses, performance lecture with Marion Mangelsdorf for "Wissenschaftskulturen im Dialog", University of the performing arts, Vienna

Walk the Elbe-Yamuna Perfume, scent performance with Yogesh Kumar, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg

2012

Objets Reposés, solo show, M_Museum, Leuven, BE

The Imagines, solo show, Metro Galerie, Berlin

On the practice of smell, one-on-one performance during "At Home/Zu Hause", LOBE Berlin

Activations Français, performance lecture and screening for "Le Son de Mots", Fondation Cartier, Paris

Position and Trace, performance with dancer Annegreet Sleurs during "Objets Reposés", M_Museum, Leuven

Under Water Food Signs, performance with Klara Hobza during "The Imagines", Galerie Metro, Berlin

2011

Table of Contents – First Activations, solo show, Saprophyt, Vienna, AT

The Hum, solo show with Chloë Brown, Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery, Sheffield, GB

Free River Associations 2, performance during "Y Project", Delhi, India

Free River Associations 1, performance during "Yamuna", Freie Flusszone, Hamburg

Traces of Nonverbal Communication, performance lecture during "Animals and Aestetics Conference", UDK, Berlin

Un fruit pour la main droite – Part III, performance with Élodie Boutry, Centre d’art Contemporain Micro‘Onde, Vélizy, FR

2010

Chloë Brown and Ines Lechleitner, solo show with Chloe Brown, LOBE Berlin

Salon Zoo, performance lecture, Satelite Salon, LOBE Berlin, DE

2008

Untranslation, performance lecture during "Instances of translation" organised by Pages, Teheran, Iran

Between an image and a sound, performance lecture, Jan van Eyck Academie, NL

2004

Phrases, solo show, Station 21, Zürich, CH

Grundstück- a dialogue between a typewriter and a bass according to Moby Dick, performance with cellist Bernhard Göttert, Station 21, Zürich, CH

2003

It’s not geography that is structuring, solo show with Raphaël Grisey, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE

Blue whales can communicate between the north and the south pole, performance lecture with Kathleen Rahn, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg

2002

Whale, and a..., solo show, Khyber Center for the Arts, Halifax, CA

Seismic testing, sound-performance, The Khyber Center for the Art, Halifax, CA

Group shows

2026

ATB4ever – Practices of Solidarity, after the butcher, Berlin (March 2026)

Family Crinkles, Lobe Block, Berlin (May 2026)

2025

ABC Chop, Artists‘ Books Cooperative, Acre Studios, Berlin

2024

Blue Paths, Bad zum Raben Bad-Museum, Baden, CH

2023

Blooming Brief, Scuplobe at Lobe Block, Berlin

2019

Technocare, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

All In, The White, Tokyo, Japan

Where are we now? 30 Jahre Fluss, Schloss Wolkersdorf, AT

Great Circle Distance Mail Art, The Satelite, Picture Berlin

2018

Dystopie, sound art festival Berlin-Istanbul, Meinblau, Berlin

Tier-Bild-Ton, Errant Sound, Berlin

Sonntags Kunst Matinêe, private villa, Berlin

2017

Color Correspondence, "Berlin Food Art Week", Musikbrauerei, Berlin

In the Sound Field, Errant Sound, Berlin

Anima_l, Schloss Wolkersdorf, AT

Im Fluss, Fotoforum Innsbruck, AT

2016

Animal Lovers, nGbK, Berlin

Dämmerschlaf, Galerie km0, Innsbruck

Offene Ateliertage NÖ, Atelier Barbara Krobath, Hart bei Geras, AT

Sound Matters, Errant Bodies Space, Berlin

2015

I have always imagined that paradise would be some kind of library, Friends with Books, Hamburger Bahnhof- Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Play Eat!, Entretempo Kitchen Gallery, Berlin
Animal Turn- Die Hinwendung zum Tier, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, DE
Saloon, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin

The Inner Acoustic, Errant Bodies Space, Berlin

2014

Per/Form- How to do things with(out) words, CA2M - Centro de Arte de Dos de Mayo, Madrid

Closer to Gaza, benefit auction and group show at Kühlhaus Berlin

2013

Rival Brain, Silberkuppe, Berlin

Körper-Medien-Sinnlichkeit, MBody, E-Werk Freiburg

2012

At Home/Zu Hause, LOBE, Berlin

Die letzte Metro, Galerie Metro, Berlin

Le Son des Mots, Revue, Fondation Cartier, Paris

Aneignungen, Kunstverein Langenhagen, DE

Peripherie VII, Galerie für Landschaftskunst/Sachsenwald, Hamburg

2011

Y Project, "Public Art Project at the Yamuna Riverbank", Golden Jubilee Park, Delhi, India

Yamuna, Galerie für Landschaftskunst/Freie Flusszone, Hamburg

Ränder hereingebrochen Mitte zerstört, Metro Galerie, Berlin

Mostra Arte Natureza, Mathila Cultural, Sao Paulo, BR

Convivio, Centre d’art Contemporain La Micro‘Onde, Vélizy - Paris

2010

Jewlery, Samsa, Berlin Texture, Metro Galerie, Berlin

Habitat, Twenty First/Twenty First Gallery, New York, USA

The Reading Room, Berlin

2008

Die Lucky Bush, MUHKA, Antwerpen, BE

Plattform, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH

2007

Wouah, Eikones NFS Bildkritik, Basel, CH

Parcours interdit, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, DE

Video as urban condition, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AT

Sound-bites to go, Privatware, Berlin

2006

Urban Appearances, Rosa-Luxemburg-strasse/Videoparcours, Berlin

2005

Je partage votre point de vue, La galerie de la Générale, Paris

Kontakte, Projektraum im WUK, Vienna

2002

L’Exposition-atelier, Fondation Icar pour l’image, Paris

2001

Des Territoires, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Publications, Art Editions & Radio Features

2026

Sclafani Bagni - Exploring Thermalism, part of article by Dr.Alba Balmadseda Dominguez, La Revista di Engramma, IT

2025

A Whiff, artist edition with Claudia della Torre, “ABC Chop”, Acre Studios, Berlin

Companion Scents Calender, scent training edition in collaboration with ahorn space, Berlin

2024

Sclafani Baden, winter edition for Kunstverein für Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin

Interspecies Performance, part of contribution by Max Haas, Performance Philosophy books, NL

2023

Non Endless Space, Questions and Architechture, AT

Encounters in Performance Philosophy, Performance Philosophy books, NL

2021

Fluss Frauen Farben, artist book and catalogue, AT

2020

Die ersten 30 Jahre Fotografie, Schule Friedl Kubelka, published by fotohof edition, AT
Animals, Humans and their Nature, online publication by Questions and Architechture, AT

2019

Zitronen-Wal-Seife, artist book with backbonebooks, Berlin

Technocare, catalogue, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna

2018

Tracing Dystopian Dialogues, radio feature for Kunstradio OE1, AT

Dystopie, sound art festival, catalogue, Berlin

Tracing Dystopian Dialogues, dinner-performance and public listening Kunstradio OE1 at Schillerpalais, Berlin

2017

Wissenskulturen im Dialog – Experimentalräume zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst, Transcript Verlag, DE

Friends with Books, art book fair, Hamburger Bahnhof- Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

2016

Das Rhein Rauschen, artist edition and perfume, backbonebooks, Berlin

Animal Lovers, catalogue, nGbK, Berlin

Dämmerschlaf, catalogue, Galerie km0, Innsbruck, AT

Friends with Books, art book fair, Hamburger Bahnhof- Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

2015

Animal Turn - Die Hinwendung zum Tier, catalogue, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, DE

The Imagines Dialogue 1, conversation with Doris Ingrisch, MUMOK, Vienna

Friends with Books, art book fair, Hamburger Bahnhof- Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

2014

The Imagines, monographic / artist book, Sternberg Press, Berlin / New York

Per/Form- How to do things with (out) words, Sternberg Press/ CA2M, ES

The Imagines Dialogue 2, conversation with Ana Teixeira Pinto, Friends of Books, Cafe Moskau, Berlin

2013

Notes on: Imagine Two Rivers- The Search for the Elbe-Yamuna Perfume, artist edition with perfumes

Imagine Two Rivers- The Elbe-Yamuna Perfume, perfume edition with Yogesh Kumar, AT

Vom Duft der Flüsse, collaboration with Kusch & Beckmann on radio feature, Deutschlandfunk, DE

Tierstudien 03/ Tierlieben, Zeofilis Verlag, Berlin, DE

Imagine Two Rivers 1: launch of the artist edition and the Elbe-Yamuna Perfume, MAK Designshop, Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna

2012

Nature, Text Magazin, Berlin,

The Imagines Show, Galerie Metro, Berlin

2011

Menschen & Andere, Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Akademie Verlag, DE

Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy, Site Gallery, Sheffield, GB

Convivio, Centre d’art Contemporain La Micro‘Onde, Vélizy - Paris

2010

How to open a box, book presentation, Pro Choice, Vienna

Spatial Puzzle 1, book presentation, Atelier Bagnolet, FR

Public Listening and Projections - A space of translation, L40-Verein für Kunst und Kultur um den Rosa-Luxemburg- Platz, Berlin

2009

Puzzle Box, artistbook, Jan van Eyck Academie, NL

A Space of Translation, radio feature for Kunstradio OE1, AT

2007

Pièce de cinéma, artistbook, Jan van Eyck Academie, NL

2004

Lasso Magazin, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE

2001

Des Territoires en Revue 5, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Paris

Awards, Grants & Employment

2026

Gender Roots, artistic residency with Kathrin Doppler and Alba Balmaseda Domiguez, Wushu STUDIO, Tripani, IT (April/May 2026)

Since 2017 copywriter, chef and office manager at glow communications, Berlin

Regular scent workshops for Primavera Duftshop, Berlin

2022

2021 -2022 Co-Manager at Lobe Block, Berlin

2020

Project grant for The Embodied Circle by Bm:ukk and NOE-Kultur, AT

Digitalförderung, Kulturförderung Niederösterreich, AT

2018

Project grants for Tier-Bild-Ton at Errant Sound by the initiative neue musik berlin (inm) and the Bezirksamt Pankow, Berlin

Printing grant for the artist book Zitronen-Wal-Seife, BKA, Vienna

2016

Berliner Projektraumpreis with Errant Bodies Group, Berlin

Project grant for the exhibition series Tisser des Liens, BKA, Vienna

2012

Printing grant for The Imagines, Bm:ukk, AT

Nomination for the German art price Ars Viva, DE

2011

Project grant for interdisciplinary art project, Bm:ukk, AT

2010

Austrian State stipend for artistic photography, Bm:ukk, AT

Artistic Residency, LOBE Berlin

Nomination for the German art price Ars Viva, DE

2009

London artistic residency, Bm:ukk, AT

2008

Printing grant for Puzzle Box, Bm:ukk, AT

Research-Stipend, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL

2007

Printing grant for Pièce de cinéma, Bm:ukk, AT

Research-Stipend, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht

2006/08

Concept and realisation for interactive exhibitions for children, Kids explore culture, AT

2005

Artist in residence in research station Pungut, Siberut Island, Indonesia

2004

Project grant Aide à la création des DRAC-Ile-de-France, FR

2002

Private stipend for study at NSCAD, Halifax, Canada

2001

Photographic commission by DIREN Île-de-France together with Ludovic Michaux, FR

Public Collections

2022

Landessammlung Niederösterreich, AT

2017

Food Art Museum, Berlin, DE
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Sammlung für künstlerische Fotografie des BKA, AT

2015       
Städtische Sammlung Waldkraiburg, DE
2013

Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Sammlung für künstlerische Fotografie des BMUKK, AT

2008

Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Sammlung für künstlerische Fotografie des BMUKK, AT

2002

Musée Rodin, Collection de Photographies, Paris