In this autobiographical (?) lecture-performance, the British artist Klein navigates formative episodes of her artistic and personal life in the form of part lecture, part HBO special audition, part breakdown, part roast. Drawing upon her own work, Klein positions herself within a lineage of radical outsider artists such as Daniel Johnston and Robert Johnson: self-taught figures whose work emerged not through sanctioned channels but through sheer will, intuition, and urgency. In doing so, she challenges dominant narratives of artistic legitimacy, authorship, and memory, offering a deeply subjective archive that resists institutional framing.

In this lecture, she looks at life outside an institution, circulation, and art without permission.

Klein is an artist and composer living and working in London, whose work often blurs the lines between fact and fiction. Her music releases, sculpture work, drawings, films and performances are often informed by urban mapping, surveillance, humor, hip hop, noise, identity and beyond. Her work has been shown and/or performed at Museums, Galleries, yards, squats, and pubs, including the infamous The Old Blue Last and the New Cross Inn in London.

In addition to her lecture, we are looking forward to a concert by Klein on Wednesday, May 21, in the Lichthalle of Städelschule. Doors open at 19:00; the concert begins at 20:00. Admission is free.