Lens Kühleitner

A person sits on the floor in an empty room. They are wearing a dark pinstripe suit, with one leg crossed, looking calmly at the camera.

Lens Kühleitner lives in Vienna. As a performance artist and musician, they work with sound, composition and movement in theatre, dance and performance. In addition to completing residencies with Olivia Hild at Im_flieger, Dansverkstæðið Reykjavík and ImPulsTanz (TURBO Research Residencies), they worked with Mzamo Nondlwana, Lau Lukkarila & Luca Bonamore, Oneka von Schrader, Sunggu Hong & So Young Park, Shabnam Chamani, Claire Lefèvre and Veza Fernández at Tanzquartier Wien, ImPulsTanz, Kosmos Theater, Schauspielhaus Wien, the Slovak National Theatre, brut Wien, Köttinspektionen Dans and Tdk Zurich. As Lan Rex, Lens Kühleitner has published three EPs at Tender Matter and an album with Manu Mayr as TEARING (Ventil Records). Lens Kühleitner is part of Pink Noise and was a member of the PARASOL Dance Company in 2023.

Works at brut:

trace my layers, thrust your guts (with Olivia Hild, 2025)