Agnes Lammert Germany, b. 1984

Agnes Lammert was born in 1984 in Dresden, Germany, and lives and works in Leipzig. She studied painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig under Professor Neo Rauch and Professor Heribert C. Ottersbach, before moving to the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule für Kunst und Design in Halle, where she completed her Meisterschüler degree under Professor Bruno Raetsch in 2017. Since 2018 she has taught continuously, including at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle. She is also the founder of the sculptor collective [materialistin] and the communal housing project OurHaus eG in Leipzig.

Lammert's practice centres on sculpture and drawing, with a sustained inquiry into the aesthetic and material consequences of the sculptural process. She works primarily by modelling in clay and casting in concrete, wax, plaster, plastics, and bronze, with particular attention to the negative space produced in the mould: the cavities, hollows, and in-between forms that arise in the casting process and that she treats as subjects in their own right. Her freely hanging sculptures give form to a vulnerable corporeality, evoking the draped weight of fabric against an implied body, and oscillating between apparent heaviness and pretended lightness. In their gentle movement, they address questions of transience, concealment, and the fragility of physical existence. Her drawings extend this inquiry into two dimensions, exploring the sculptural quality of line and surface.

Lammert has received sustained institutional recognition. Her work has been acquired by the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden and the Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, two of Germany's most significant public collections. She has been supported by the Stiftung Kunstfonds with both a Neustart Kultur grant and a working grant, and by the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen with a Denkzeit scholarship and a working grant. She was also awarded the Kunstpreis "junger westen" at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, and received exhibition support from Arts Council Tokyo for her 2018 presentation at HIGURE 17-15 cas in Tokyo.

Her exhibition history includes presentations at the Kunstverein Jena, the Galerie der Moderne im Kaisertrutz Görlitz, HALLE 14 Leipzig, Forum Kunst Rottweil, and the 25th Leipziger Jahresausstellung, as well as an international presentation in Tokyo supported by Arts Council Tokyo. Her work has been shown across Germany and internationally in Japan.

KORNFELD Galerie Berlin presented Agnes Lammert in the duo exhibition Distant Belongings with Sebastian Maas at 68projects by KORNFELD in 2023, and at Positions Berlin in 2021 and Untitled Art, Miami Beach in 2023. Her work continues to evolve through an ongoing investigation of material, form, and the hidden interior life of objects and bodies.