We are Pat Lemos (Spain) and Lukas Lehmann (Germany), visual artists based in the countryside of Iceland, a territory that has deeply shaped our cosmology over the years.

Our practice originates in situated creation and fieldwork, often linked to culture, spirituality and ecology. It is infused by an ongoing dialogue with Japan, an animist understanding of nature, and Zen principles of beauty, emptiness and impermanence.

We create works, installations and site-specific events that open new ways of sensing and being in the world, often unfolding through relational and participatory processes. We move across multiple media, including photography, sound, sculpture and living ecosystems.

Lemos + Lehmann have exhibited internationally at venues including Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània (Valencia, Spain), Casa das Artes (Vigo, Spain), CAAA (Guimarães, Portugal), CICA Museum (Gimpo, South Korea), and Kiyomizu-dera Temple (Kyoto, Japan), as well as in Opening by Allianz, the curated section of ARCOmadrid (Madrid, Spain).

Supported by the Icelandic Visual Arts Fund, our current research explores bio-based materials and possibilities of creation in and with the more-than-human worlds. This investigation has also been nourished by programs such as Sound Ecologies at the Institute for Postnatural Studies and Multispecies Spaces Lab at the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.

At the moment, we’re immersed in the preparation of our upcoming solo exhibition, Who is moving this hand of mine?, at LÁ Art Museum (Hveragerði, Iceland). On view from February to June 2027, this show marks a new chapter in our journey.

In 2020, we founded BONFIRE, a platform dedicated to accompanying and sustaining contemporary artistic practices, which has since become an integral part of the Lemos + Lehmann multiverse.