Lilli Elsner, born in 1993, works with a range of different materials and media. In addition to her expansive installations, which are repeatedly based on socio-political and societal moments, she draws and paints on paper and canvas. In her extraordinary visual worlds, people and animals are often directly opposite each other and share the space inherent in the image. Creatures charged with cultural history, such as frogs and deer, find their way into the mystical visual worlds in which the same human figure always appears: the artist herself, the self-portrait. “Art does not repeat itself, it is unique in every picture,” says the artist herself, who dropped out of her studies at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2012 after five semesters “without gaining any knowledge.” Lilli Elsner works in her studio in Wachow, which she independently converted into a workshop over several years.
