STATEMENT:

With her sculptures and objects Daphne Ahlers draws on elements and symbols of apparently firmly anchored patriarchal images and discourses and then takes these into alternative forms of expression. Her ideas and formal solutions alike address a space of thinking and action that separates the genders. She mainly works with textiles and other soft materials like latex, foam and casting resins for their inherent quality of pliability and adaptability, which in her view can represent its own kind of resistance. These handcrafted objects are often supported by industrially manufactured structures. Ahlers uses elements of comedy and "cuteness" as strategies of self-assertion and to navigate aspects of objectification and ornamentality. 

Daphne Ahlers is also a member of the band “Lonely Boys” together with Rosa Rendl and collaborates with artist Lily Thiessen with whom she co-founded HULFE - an accessory line that creates objects and wearables that relate to the human body.

CV:

DAPHNE AHLERS

born 1986 in Hamburg, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin

2008 - 2017 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Vienna
2008 - 2014 Bachelor Philosophy, University of Vienna

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2023
Dream School, Sundy, London (September 2023)

2022
Spineless, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany
Liste Art Fair Basel presentation with Sundy, London
Die Würflerin, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland

2020
Depressions, Sundy, London, UK
Puppvisit, Gabi Plus, Vienna, Austria

2019
HULFE, with Lili Thiessen, Mavra, Berlin, Germany
Bloomers, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Germany
Die Langstreckensängerin, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Germany

2018
Rinnen, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, Germany
Vilgefortis, with Battle Ax, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain
Wombies, with Claudia Lemke, Jo Brand, Glasgow, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023
Interiors Acts, Clages, Cologne

2022
Zum schönen Knie I, Doom Spa City West, Berlin
Daphne Ahlers, Leda Bourgogne, Evelyn Plaschg and Puppies Puppies, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven

2021
Rattling the Dags, April April, New York
non-player character, Kunstverein Schwerin, Germany
Core, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany

2020
The Vapours, group show, curated by Kate Mackeson, Kunstverein Bamberg, Germany

2019
A House Is Not A Home, Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
Beyond Seduction, Come Over Chez Malik's, Hamburg, Germany.

2018
Dream’n Wild, Alaska Projects, Sydney, Australia
Here, here - das ich und alles andere, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Braunsfelder Collection, Cologne, Germany

2017 
Accept Baby, curated by Nicolas Brulhart and Sylvain Menetrey at Forde, Geneva, Switzerland
In Awe, curated by Melanie Ohnemus at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria 
Dollhouse of a poem, curated by Ninuka Sakandelidze, Vienna, Austria
Authentizität. Das authentisch Unauthentische, curated by Stefanie Kleefeld, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
Solo Cose Belle, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Galleria Acappella, Napoli, Italy

2016
F-holes, Humble Habits Domestic Monuments at HHDM, NYC

2015
X is Y, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany
New Needs, group show, Haus Wittmann von Johannes Spalt, Etsdorf/Kamp

2014
Pcnc_Bay XII: mixtape, group exhibition at Ve.sch, Vienna, Austria

STATEMENT:

With her sculptures and objects Daphne Ahlers draws on elements and symbols of apparently firmly anchored patriarchal images and discourses and then takes these into alternative forms of expression. Her ideas and formal solutions alike address a space of thinking and action that separates the genders. She mainly works with textiles and other soft materials like latex, foam and casting resins for their inherent quality of pliability and adaptability, which in her view can represent its own kind of resistance. These handcrafted objects are often supported by industrially manufactured structures. Ahlers uses elements of comedy and "cuteness" as strategies of self-assertion and to navigate aspects of objectification and ornamentality. 

Daphne Ahlers is also a member of the band “Lonely Boys” together with Rosa Rendl and collaborates with artist Lily Thiessen with whom she co-founded HULFE - an accessory line that creates objects and wearables that relate to the human body.

CV:

DAPHNE AHLERS

born 1986 in Hamburg, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin

2008 - 2017 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Vienna
2008 - 2014 Bachelor Philosophy, University of Vienna

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

2023
Dream School, Sundy, London (September 2023)

2022
Spineless, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany
Liste Art Fair Basel presentation with Sundy, London
Die Würflerin, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland

2020
Depressions, Sundy, London, UK
Puppvisit, Gabi Plus, Vienna, Austria

2019
HULFE, with Lili Thiessen, Mavra, Berlin, Germany
Bloomers, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Germany
Die Langstreckensängerin, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Germany

2018
Rinnen, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, Germany
Vilgefortis, with Battle Ax, Cordova, Barcelona, Spain
Wombies, with Claudia Lemke, Jo Brand, Glasgow, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2023
Interiors Acts, Clages, Cologne

2022
Zum schönen Knie I, Doom Spa City West, Berlin
Daphne Ahlers, Leda Bourgogne, Evelyn Plaschg and Puppies Puppies, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven

2021
Rattling the Dags, April April, New York
non-player character, Kunstverein Schwerin, Germany
Core, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany

2020
The Vapours, group show, curated by Kate Mackeson, Kunstverein Bamberg, Germany

2019
A House Is Not A Home, Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
Beyond Seduction, Come Over Chez Malik's, Hamburg, Germany.

2018
Dream’n Wild, Alaska Projects, Sydney, Australia
Here, here - das ich und alles andere, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Braunsfelder Collection, Cologne, Germany

2017 
Accept Baby, curated by Nicolas Brulhart and Sylvain Menetrey at Forde, Geneva, Switzerland
In Awe, curated by Melanie Ohnemus at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria 
Dollhouse of a poem, curated by Ninuka Sakandelidze, Vienna, Austria
Authentizität. Das authentisch Unauthentische, curated by Stefanie Kleefeld, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
Solo Cose Belle, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Galleria Acappella, Napoli, Italy

2016
F-holes, Humble Habits Domestic Monuments at HHDM, NYC

2015
X is Y, Sandy Brown, Berlin, Germany
New Needs, group show, Haus Wittmann von Johannes Spalt, Etsdorf/Kamp

2014
Pcnc_Bay XII: mixtape, group exhibition at Ve.sch, Vienna, Austria