Lene Vollhardt is an artist and researcher, currently a Research Fellow at the Law & Theory Lab, University of Westminster, and a prospective PhD candidate. Their work engages emerging technologies through moving image, performance, and choreographic practice, with an emphasis on distributed consciousness, embodiment, and the aesthetics of noise and complexity. They are co-director of The Sphere, an experimental network of artists, theorists, and technologists developing decentralized infrastructures for live art and collective value. Their practice has been supported by institutions such as Serpentine Arts Technologies, Chisenhale Dance Space, and RadicalxChange, and has been recognized through numerous awards and fellowships, including the Fokus Award (Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen), the Hong Kong Arthouse Film Award, a DanceWeb Scholarship (ImPulsTanz/Goethe-Institut), and fellowships from Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg and Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Their work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including the Royal Academy of Arts (London), Sharjah Art Foundation, and Berlin Art Week.


Vollhardt’s work explores decentralized consciousness and the instability of identity, tracing how contingent embodiments may ground alternative modes of legitimacy, governance, and self-rule beyond prescriptive legal frameworks.