The 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.