Lauryn Youden

 

Lauryn Youden (Vancouver, Canada, 1989) currently works in Berlin, Germany. She is a performance and installation artist and poet. Her practice derives from her research and navigation of modern Western medicine, the medical-industrial complex, ‘alternative’ healing practices and traditional medicine for the treatment of her chronic illnesses and invisible disabilities. By publicly presenting her personal experiences and re-evaluations of the history of medicine through a feminist, Crip queer lens, her work illuminates and advocates for repressed, marginalized and forgotten practices of care and knowledge. 

She has performed and exhibited internationally at institutions including (selection): Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH), Shedhalle, Zurich (CH), 11th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL), Frye Art Museum, Seattle (US), Volksbühne, Berlin (DE), Manifesta 12, Palermo (IT), Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (DE). 

In 2016 Youden was awarded the Berlin Art Prize. She has since been awarded a residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE) in 2020, Rupert, Vilnius in 2021 and has an upcoming residency at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (UK) with Sickness Affinity Group in 2021. Youden is a current participant in Ariana Reines’z Invisible College and is a founding co-director of the artist-run centre Ashley Berlin (DE).