{"id":171,"date":"2024-10-27T11:44:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T11:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:11:24","slug":"ueber-mich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/en\/ueber-mich\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lea Ebeling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ethnographer (M.A.), illustrator, writer, mural and comic artist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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My work combines artistic practices with social science and ethnographic research methods. As a social anthropologist critical of epistemological hierarchies, I place great importance on understanding socio-political topics in all their complexity and diversity. My artistic work is therefore characterized by meticulous attention to detail and thorough background research on the specific topic, location, or story I wish to visualize.

Contrary to modern reductionist aesthetics, I collect multiple visible and invisible, real and fictional elements and reassemble them into landscapes, cities, worlds, and stories in which the eye can embark on a journey of discovery. Chaotic at first glance, the conglomeration of recognisable and unexpected elements reveals the multiplicity of life, queering reality while not taking refuge in the abstract. Thus, it is a non-elitist invitation to all kinds of audiences to discover the complexity of the known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While my artistic process is often tedious, it also explores the possibilities of very simple materials, like one pen on a wall or a piece of paper. This is rooted in my own experiences coming from a lower class background and it is also why it is personally important to me to make science and art more widely accessible. With a focus on science communication for adults, I have so far realised projects on feminism, classism, environment and nature conservation, social justice, decolonization, and mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first (ethno)graphic novel, \u2018Hope in Times of World-Weariness: An Ethnographic Comic about Decolonial and Anti-Capitalist Futures,\u2019 will be published by Unrast Verlag in March 2026. It is the comic version of my master's thesis, in which I collected decolonial and anti-capitalist future imaginaires with activists from different fields of struggle and explored drawing as a critical, collaborative research method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Academic Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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M. A. Modern South and Southeast Asian Studies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Humboldt-University Berlin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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B. A. European Ethnology and Asian-African Studies<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Humboldt-University Berlin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Hoffen, wenn die Welt schmerzt – Ein ethnografischer Comic \u00fcber dekoloniale und antikapitalistische Zuk\u00fcnfte<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Unrast Verlag<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publication date: March 15, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Weltschmerz \u2013 Political Emotions in the Neoliberal Age<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Affect and Colonialism Web Lab<\/p>\n\n\n\n

01\/2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Klassenfahrt. 63 pers\u00f6nliche Geschichten zu Klassismus und feinen Unterschieden.<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Frede Macioszek and Julian Knop. Edition Assemblage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

02\/2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Services<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Illustration<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Science Communication<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comic and Graphic Novel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wall Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hidden Object Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Residencies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Xarkis Festival<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Artist in Residence, Agros, Cyprus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

07\/2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mural City Festival<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Artist in Residence, Scheibbs, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06\/2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibitions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Book Launch and Vernissage<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Hoffen, wenn die Welt schmerzt. Ein Comic \u00fcber dekoloniale und antikapitalistische Zuk\u00fcnfte<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 26, 2026, 5-10 pm
Ausstellung bis zum 23.05.2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Museum des Kapitalismus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

K\u00f6penicker Str. 172, Berlin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ALTER-NATIVE<\/a> : The Three Flames: Disruption, Transformation Revolution<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Live painting and group exhibition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organised by Tendermesh and Sawa Creatives <\/p>\n\n\n\n

90mil, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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ALTER-NATIVE<\/a> : A Multi-Disciplinary Solidarity Exhibition<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Part of the group exhibition with my master thesis project 'Decolonial and Anti-Capitalist Future Imaginaries'<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organised by Tendermesh and Sawa Creatives <\/p>\n\n\n\n

90mil, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

01\/2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition \u201cDecolonial and Anti-Capitalist Future Imaginaries in and Beyond the Antropocene\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sudanese Peace Action Day, MOOS, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12\/2023<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Group exhibition \u201eWie Kiez Dir?\u201c<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Atelier Cocon Color\u00e9, Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

03\/2022<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lea Ebeling Ethnolog_in (M.A.), Illustrator_in, Wandbildk\u00fcnstler_in, Comiczeichner_in, Autor_in In meiner Arbeit verbinde ich meine k\u00fcnstlerische Praxis mit ethnografischen Forschungsmethoden und sozialwissenschaftlicher Expertise. Als Wissenschaftler_in habe ich einen kritischen Blick auf soziopolitische Themen und lege gro\u00dfen Wert darauf, sie in ihrer ganzen Komplexit\u00e4t und Diversit\u00e4t zu verstehen. Meine k\u00fcnstlerische Arbeit ist daher gepr\u00e4gt von sorgf\u00e4ltigen Hintergrundrecherchen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":81,"href":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leaebeling.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}