Helena Sanders (NL/US) is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Vienna, AT. Her practice takes form as painting and drawing, installations, writing, audio and live performance.

If language limits whom and how we are able to narrate our stories and history, can color provide a tool through which we can sing ourselves back into the world? Throughout her work, Helena traces the ways in which materiality of color (production, trade, and use of organic and synthetic pigments, dyes, paints, etc) narrate complex histories of Place, expose desire, and shape beliefs.  She is particularly interested in sites of resource extraction such as ochre and coal mines, where folklore, science, culture and economics overlap in the creation of color. 

Helena earned an MA in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague (2019) and a Bachelors of Science from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2005) with concentrations in painting and textiles.

Helena is also involved in the production of artist-run events and workshops, and has wrote and performed music solo, with Amsterdam-based performance collective Cold in Church, and with experimental outfit Dagora, among other projects.