**Lena Niehusen** works across portrait, fashion, and documentary photography. At the core of her practice is the exploration of how personal identity becomes visible within the context of social structures. Her work is characterized by careful observation and an interplay between intimacy and distance.
Recurring themes in her artistic practice include identity, transience, and the human body. In one photographic series, she explored her grandmother’s experience with cancer, while for her graduation project she traveled to India to examine the subject of death from different cultural and personal perspectives. She is currently focusing on body image, identity, and self-perception in her ongoing artistic practice.
Biography
Lena Niehusen, born in Schwerin in 1998, studied communication design with a focus on photography at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She completed her bachelor’s degree there from 2019 to 2023 and successfully completed her master’s degree in April 2025. She lives and works in Schwerin and Hamburg.
Exhibitions:
13 December 2025 – 11 January 2026
Bookie – Studying Photobooks
Group exhibition, Cultural Centre, Poznań, Poland
27–30 March 2025
Endlichkeit (Finites)
Solo exhibition, Pop-up Space, Kreativ Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany
30 November – 15 December 2024
Print Is Not That – International Poster Festival
Group exhibition, Kultur&Gut, Hamburg, Germany
23–26 May 2024
Alles, was wir haben (All We Have)
Group exhibition, Jupiter, Hamburg, Germany
27 April – 7 May 2023
Darmstadt Days of Photography – Of Stones and Glass Houses
Photography group exhibition, Department of Design, Darmstadt, Germany
2–5 June 2022
Triennial of Photography Hamburg – Making Space for Age
Partner exhibition, TONALI Hall, Hamburg, Germany