ABOUT === Lena Lieselotte Schuster is an artist and curator who works in the field of interspecies art and investigates aspects of agency and the creative practice of non-human animals in the art world. She is the founder of the Interspecies Art Hub (Verein für speziesübergreifende Kunst), a platform for artistic projects and discourses about human and non-human animals with a focus on post-anthropocentric collaborations. Lena Lieselotte Schuster studied New Artistic Media with Ulrike Rosenbach at the HBKsaar, Saarbrücken and Performative Art with Carola Dertnig at the Academy of fine Arts, Vienna. From 2019 to 2024 she was the head of art mediation at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna. CONTACT --- Studio / Interspecies Art Hub, Arnezhoferstraße 5/29-30, 1020 Vienna mail@interspeciesart.world, info@lenalieselotteschuster.de Instagram [click here](http://www.instagram.com/lena.lieselotte.schuster/) and [here](http://www.instagram.com/interspecies_art_hub/) PROJECTS & EXHIBITIONS === UPCOMING --- Minding Animals Germany Symposium, Nürnberg, 24. & 25.10.2025 9. Austrian Animal Rights Congress, VGT, Vienna, 27. - 30.11.2025 SELECTION --- [STAY_VANISH_BECOME](https://ooekunstverein.at/exhibition/stay_vanish_become/), with Pascal Marcel Dreier and Paris van der Thunder, curated by Victoria Windtner, OÖ Kunstverein, Linz, 2025 Pigeons, Pack and Perfume, Interspecies Art Hub with Eva Seiler, Lena Lieselotte Schuster, Lisa Jäger, Mila Superstar, Paris van der Thunder, WAF Galerie, Vienna, 2025 Sniffing Conversations 1-11, Dialogue series by the Interspecies Art Hub with Alex Bailey, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg, Samuel Camenzind, Disco Cavallo, Pascal Marcel Dreier, Ivana Filip & Lisa Jevbratt, Isa Klee, Gianna Virginia Prein, Eva Seiler & Johannes Hohenegger, and Jessica Ullrich, Vienna, 2024 /2025 (curator) Minding Animals / Animal Minds, Videoscreening, curated by Jessica Ullrich, Minding Animals Germany Symposium, University of Fine Arts Münster, 2024 Start Sniffing, Exhibition with CMUK, Benjamin Egger, Ivana Filip, Lisa Jevbratt, Hartmut Kiewert, Aidan Koch (IFIAAR), Lisa Korpos and Paris van der Thunder, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2024 (curator) FOREVER, 35 Jahre HBKsaar, HBKsaar Gallery, Saarbrücken, 2024 FOREVER extended, zfkk - Zentrum für kurze Kunst, Regensburg, 2024 Open Studio Days, VIENNA ART WEEK, Vienna, 2023 Interspecies Art Research, Interspecies Art Hub / A3null7, Vienna, 2023 Interspecies Art Research, Interspecies Art Hub, Vienna, 2022 Hunderthunde, Projektraum Flutgraben e.V., Berlin, 2022 Carlos Forever, Festival der Platane, MUME, Dr. Karl-Lueger-Platz, Vienna, 2022 Speed Dating - Meet Local Single Artists* Books, VBKÖ, Vienna, 2022 FOREVER. A virtual memorial for Carlos von den Hügeln in public space of Vienna, Saarbrücken, Kassel, Venice and New York, KÖR Vienna, 2021 Werkschau, Zfkk – Zentrum für kurze Kunst, Regensburg, 2020 STUDIO INKOGNITO - Lena Kiss and Lena Lieselotte Schuster, curated by Katharina Brandl and Daniela Brugger, sic! Raum für Kunst, Luzern, 2019 Off/line, Residency von Art as foundation for peace, Zemo Nikozi, Georgia, 2018 IV-Kunstpreis, iv-Kunst und Forum, Munich, 2018 Genius Loci, Oberwelt e. V., Stuttgart, 2017 Performance-Personality-Test during the lecture of Christiane Krejs, BONE Performance Art Festival, Bern, 2017 Butterfingers, Duo-exhibition with Reiner Maria Matysik, Galerie im Theresienstein, Hof, 2017 Aura undercover, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, 2016 (curator) The USB-Shuffle-Show, Institut für alles Mögliche/Abteilung für alles Andere, Berlin, 2016 Fiasco meets Disaster, Videoscreening, Casa del Sol, Los Angeles, 2016 (curator)

LECTURES & WORKSHOPS === Sniffing Conversation 10: dogs x pigs, Pascal Marcel Dreier & Lena Lieselotte Schuster, Interspecies Art Hub in cooperation with OÖ Kunstverein, Linz, 2025 Multispecies Walk & Urban Encounters, Interspecies Art Hub with students of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies / University of Applied Arts Vienna (seminar: Multispecies Living and Dying in the Anthropocene, Pouya Sepehr), 2025 M-I-A-U-SEUMSREIF, Animal-sensitive art mediation, Collaboration with Verein Moment and AgidS - The Academy Goes to School, Kleine Stadtfarm Vienna, 2025 M-I-A-U-SEUMSREIF, Art for two and four-legged friends, Animal-sensitive art mediation, Workshop with AgidS - The Academy Goes to School, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2024 Ever made a biting stick? Carving class on Carlos' Stick Collection, Open Studio Days, VIENNA ART WEEK, Vienna, 2023 KÜNSTLERINNEN, Podcast von Gitti - das Grätzlradio aus dem 20. , Radio Orange 94.0, 2022 Bewährungsprobe #34, with Laura Wagner, Depot, Vienna, 2020 Artist Dogs – Can dogs be artists? Workshop with Friederike Zenker, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, 2019 Als Tarnung studierte sie einfach weiter, LINK - Series of Lectures, HBKsaar, Saarbrücken, 2017 FOREVER WALKS --- Ruhm und Ehr …erst hinterher! 5th anniversary of death of Carlos von den Hügeln, Vienna, 2022 Tanja Schult (art historian, Stockholm University/guest researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna) and Lena Lieselotte Schuster (Interspecies Art Hub), Vienna, 2022 Art history festival kunst.wollen (students of Department of History of Art, University Vienna/VöKK), Vienna, 2022 Augmented Reality - The Mobile Phone as a Portal from the earthly with Barbara Herold, Vienna, 2021 Untouchable - A philosophical obituary to Carlos von den Hügeln with Samuel Camenzind, Vienna, 2021 Carlos von den Hügeln - Pioneer of Interspecies Art, Vienna, 2021 Opening with Martina Taig (KÖR) and Lena Lieselotte Schuster (Interspecies Art Hub), Vienna, 2021 PUBLICATIONS === WUK Magazine Nr. 40, Lena Lieselotte Schuster: Hände hoch! Applaus, Applaus. Mit tierlicher Kunst und Silent Clapping Richtung Multispeziesgesellschaft, 2024 Revue Prostor No. 121, Anna Luňáková: Čtyřnohý sochař. Ohlédnutí za Carlosem von den Hügelnem (Der vierbeinige Bildhauer. Rückblick auf Carlos von den Hügeln), Kampus Hybernská, Prag, 2024 Tierstudien 25. Personen und Persönlichkeit, Lena Lieselotte Schuster: Carlos von den Hügeln – little c or big C?, Hrsg. Jessica Ullrich, Neofelis Verlag, 2024 Interspecies Art Research, Interspecies Art Hub, Eigenverlag, Edition 100, 2023 오스트리아의 공공예술, Austrian Public Art, Hrsg. Sun Min Lee, 2022 FOREVER. Ein virtuelles Denkmal für Carlos von den Hügeln, Eigenverlag, Edition 150, 2021 meanwhile…, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Hrsg. Christiane Krejs, Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2016 De.fragmentation Pixxelpoint, Intermedia MFA Program, University of Maine, 2015 COLLECTIONS === Interspecies Library, New York AAP Archive Artist Publications, Munich Austrian Federal Collection, Artothek des Bundes MEMBERSHIPS === Interspecies Art Hub (Founder & Curator) Minding Animals Germany VBKÖ Austrian Association of Woman Artists