Silk Oil
der Hausengel
Gare de l'Est
J35
Bald Eagle
Survival-Length
about / C.V.
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Emma Lang is a Berlin- and Vancouver-based artist whose work puts a tap to surreal, often ambivalent and anachronistic landscapes. Markers of both hyper-contemporaneity and of incantatory distant pasts are deployed throughout her attempts at sense-making on irritated narratives of personal or planetary magnitudes. Previously trained as a marine biologist, Emma’s practice retains a sensitivity to ecosystem logic and multi-scale-complexity, from the cellular to the biosphere.
Her research focuses on embodied narrativity across literary and choreographic disciplines, using poetic structures to access “second worlds” where incoherence edges into sacrality. Critically engaging with systems of legibility, identity, and meaning-making, Emma investigates the slippages between language, body, and time. Her works resist prescriptive interpretation and invites shared states of disorientation and cohabitation.
She is currently a Master’s student in the M.A. Raumstrategien program at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, led by Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Pauline Doutreluingne. Recent works have been presented at Floating U. (DE), Sumac Space (DE), and Odd Meridian (CA).
She is one half of studio lang (c.2024), a collective created with twin sister, Allison Lang as a container to expand on their artistic practice in interdisciplinary tandem. Primarily engaging in work through performance, studio lang’s debut project, Survival-Length, was presented in June 2023 (Berlin). Currently studio lang is developing Silk Oil, a performance piece initially created while in residency at Odd Meridian Arts (CA) with additional funding from The Canada Council for the Arts.
Education & Professional Development
2023 – present. M.A., Berlin Weißensee Academy of the Arts, Masters of Arts in Spatial Strategies
2014 – 2018. B.Sc., University of Victoria, Bachelor of Science in Biology, minor in Environmental Studies
2017 Jun – Sep. Interning Field Research Assistant, Alaska Whale Foundation, Sitka, Alaska
Grants & Scholarships
2025. Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2025. DAAD Graduation Scholarship, Weißensee Academy of the Arts, Berlin
Residencies
2025 Mar. Odd Meridian Arts (Morrow) Impromptu Residency, studio lang, Vancouver, Canada, March 31 – April 6, 2025
Selected Group Exhibitions, Performances and Readings
2025 Sep. (forthcoming) Not All travelers Walk Roads, Bienal de São Paulo; São Paulo, BR (Collective Invocation)
2025 Jul. Various sound-verse compositions, Strategies Radio, Lumbung Radio; digital
2025 Mar. Silk Oil, Odd Meridian Arts (Morrow); Vancouver, CA (Performance by studio lang - Allison Lang & Emma Lang)
2025 Feb. Bald Eagle Flies Back Down to Earth, Salty Water, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz; Berlin, DE (Video Installation)
2025 Jan. At Gare de l’Est I Sat Down and Wept, räumen, Braunschweig University of Art; Braunschweig, DE (Performance)
2024 Dec. At Gare de l’Est I Sat Down and Wept, Phonopoetica Workshop; Berlin, DE (Performance)
2024 Jul. J35, Swamposium, Floating University; Berlin, DE (Performance)
2024 Jul. der Hausengel of Hearth and Home, Spatial Strategies on Hope, Refuge Radio; Berlin, DE (Reading-Performance)
2024 Jul. J35, Frictions, Floating University; Berlin, DE (Performance)
2024 Jun. (sharply), Mind or Mend the Gap, Sumac Space; Berlin, DE (Sound Installation)
2024 Feb. der Hausengel of Hearth and Home, Radiant Opacity, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz; Berlin, DE (Video Installation)
2023 Oct. Lamenting in Counter Space-Time, Soft Eis Magazine Launch, 90Mil; Berlin, DE (Reading)
2023 Jun. Survival Length, 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival; Berlin, DE (Performance by studio lang - Allison Lang & Emma Lang)
Publications
2025. The Cold Magazine, Contributing Author; London, U.K., digital
2023. Collide24 Digital Platform, Contributing Author; Berlin, DE, digital
2023. Soft Eis Magazine, Issue 03; Lamenting in Counter Space-Time; Berlin, DE (Speculative Fiction)
2019. Mixed Feelings Community Zine, Co-creator and Workshop Host; Victoria, CA
Workshops
2024 Oct – Dec. PHONOPOETICA Workshop, led by Adrienne Herr; Berlin, DE
2024 Feb – Apr ERROR Poetry Workshop, led by Zoe Delano; Berlin, DE