MONOCHROME, SERIES OF PAINTINGS

Ongoing project started in 2023.
Media: Painting.

Bold, visceral, and primal. The restrained palette of the MONOCHROME series forms distinct contrasts, emphasizing the tension between presence and absence. These elements evoke the dualities that define our contemporary world — strength and vulnerability, light and darkness, chaos and order.

The painting process is rooted in bodily movement and rhythm, resulting in gestural and performative works with calligraphy-like qualities. The specific marks repeating in these paintings accumulate into a cryptic visual language — an unknown script that feels both ancient and futuristic, intuitive as well as encoded. Together, they form a fragmented yet cohesive archive. The predominantly black visuality reinforces the sense of a coded alphabet, one that transcends verbal meaning and speaks directly to something primal and subconscious. Like an artifact from an undiscovered culture or a language awaiting decryption, the MONOCHROME series invites you to engage in the act of interpretation, to seek patterns within the tension of the dual aspects of our world and existence itself.

THE ELEMENT (2023) — Acrylic on cotton canvas, LED tube light, hardware. 170 x 240 cm diptych.

MOMENTUM OF BECOMING (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 110 x 95 cm.

KINETIC BALANCE (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 120 x 100 cm.

Autonomous Flying Complex (2025) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 160 x 130 cm.

Autonomous Flying Complex (2025) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 160 x 130 cm.

FRAGMENT oF THE RESONANCE (2025) — acrylic, led tube, hardware, COTTON canvas. DIPTYCH: 110 x 140 cm.

unspoken (2025) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 100 x 100 cm diptych.

PAINTINGS FROM MONOCHROME series. OPEN STUDIOS AT GLOGAUAIR ART RESIDENCY, BERLIN (2023).

FEEL (2023) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

CHAOS AND ORDER (2023) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

HOPE (2023) — mixed media on cotton canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

HOPE - DETAIL (2023) — mixed media on cotton canvas, 100 x 100 cm.

NOVA (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

NOVA - DETAIL (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

THE POWER OF TWO (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm. LENA ZAK' SOLO EXHIBITION AT SPÄTIBROS, BERLIN (2024).

THE POWER OF TWO - DETAIL (2024) — acrylic on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

AS LIGHT AS AN INSTINCT (2024). 'LENA ZAK' SOLO EXHIBITION AT SPÄTIBROS, BERLIN (2024).

AS LIGHT AS AN INSTINCT (2024) — acrylic, SPRAY PAINT, LED LIGHT TUBE on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

AS LIGHT AS AN INSTINCT (2024) — acrylic, SPRAY PAINT, LED LIGHT TUBE on COTTON canvas, 180 x 80 cm.

PAINTINGS FROM MONOCHROME SERIES, 'AUTUMN SELECTION' EXHIBITION AT PANDORA GALLERY kreuzberg, BERLIN (2024).

PAINTINGS FROM MONOCHROME SERIES, 'AUTUMN SELECTION' EXHIBITION AT PANDORA GALLERY kreuzberg, BERLIN (2024).

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Lena Zak © 2025 All Rights Reserved

Follow my work on Instagram. 
For inquiries mail to lenazakart@gmail.com.

Lena Zak © 2025 All Rights Reserved

Follow my work on Instagram. 
For inquiries mail to lenazakart@gmail.com.

Lena Zak © 2025 All Rights Reserved