Lene Adler Petersen
Birthday: 1944-01-13
Place of Birth: Aarhus, Denmark
Biography: Lene Adler Petersen is a Danish experimental visual artist and performer. She was born into a working-class family in the city of Aarhus. After training at the Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus (1964-1966) and Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (1968-1969), she started working in various media that spanned poetry, collage, drawing, painting, ceramics, happenings and film. Her work is characterised by a poetic and strategic elaboration of issues that deal with feminism, human rights and anti-capitalism.
Movies
The Horse Sacrifice
Broadcast to a large portion of the Danish population in January 1970, Hesteofringen ('Horse Sacrifi...
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The Expulsion from the Temple/Female Christ
Performing in the work The Female Christ, Lene Adler Petersen walks – entirely unannounced – through...
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Ophelia's Flowers
Jørgen Leth's experimental take on Ophelia's madness scene in Shakespeare's Hamlet....
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