is a Brussels based artist whose artistic practice consist mainly of making scenographies in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2023 she graduated from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Amsterdam and since then she has collaborated with artists like Melyn Chow, Yoko Haveman, Zephyr Bruggen, Charlotte Gillain and ashley ho+dominik naue. In her scenographies she is always looking for ways to create boundaries within spaces and how to make people or performers cross them.

Since 2024 she is part of the participatory dance organization Leon. Leon brings together communities who would normally not meet, and together with choreographer Seppe Baeyens she works as the artistic coordinater. Leon brings together communities who would normally not meet, and facilitate meetings in between these different people. She gives weekly dance ateliers in several community centers within Brussels.

Together with the other Leon artists, like Fanny van de sande, Yacine Sangara, Stef Heeren, Kristin Rogghe, Isabelle Azais, Seppe Baeyens and the Leon community, they created mariage in September 2024. A participatory dance performance where passers by are invited to cocreate the scenography, costumes, dance and music.

Currently Lena Michel is working on a social-artistic project with Guus Diepenmaat and Kirsten van der Hoorn in De Unie der Zorgelozen in Kortrijk. Together with a group of women from organsization A’kzie, they will create a performance about bureaucracy and rituals. Lena Michel will create the scenography with these women where again the process is as important as the end result.