In 1999 Kienzle started to work in the field of
documentary photography for museums and other cultural institutions. Since 2006 he has been photographing large sculptures of the American artist
Richard Serra in public spaces worldwide. In 2008, he was commissioned by Serra to photograph the exhibition
Promenade at the
Grand Palais in
Paris for Monumenta 2008 as well as the installation piece
Promenade for the exhibition catalogue and other advertising media such as posters and press photos. In his artistic work since 2002, one focus have been the works by German novelist and poet
Theodor Fontane. In the
Tatort Fontane series he dealt with Fontane's novels, for which Kienzle took photographs at original locations from a contemporary perspective. The series was supplemented in 2019 with current works on a total of 11 novels, and shown in the exhibition
Fontanes Berlin at
Märkisches Museum. Through an exhibition project with archived photographs by Heinz Krüger, who was well known in the
GDR, his focus since 2017 has also been on Fontane's
Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg. The results of numerous photographic excursions into the Berlin area on bicycle have been included in the book
Brandenburger Notizen : Fontane - Krüger - Kienzle, published in March 2019, and an exhibition in the Museum
Falkensee as part of
Fontane.200, a program series funded by the annual culture festival ″Kulturland Brandenburg″. Further literary research deals with the work of
Alfred Döblin. Here, too, Kienzle seeks out original locations for the novels, especially in Berlin. The first results of this research can be found in the publication of the
Swedish festival O/Modernt
The Art of Borrowing: Or How One Thing Leads to Another (2016). Photographs by Lorenz Kienzle can be found in the
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the
German Museum of Technology in Berlin, The
Syrian filmmaker Omar Akahare followed Kienzle with a video camera during his work on the portrait series
Ein Jahr Heimat (One Year Home). The short documentary portrait about Lorenz Kienzle had its premiere at the opening of the exhibition
One Year Home at
Käthe Kollwitz Museum (Berlin) on February 26, 2017. Since 2017, Kienzle reviewed and digitized the photo archive of
Müllrose photographer Ursula Raschke, resulting in an online exhibition project in 2020 and in the urban space of Müllrose on his initiative. As part of Kulturland Brandenburg's theme year in 2021:
Future of the Past – Industrial Culture on the Move, Kienzle showed a first time retrospective of his work on industrial culture, spanning a work period of three decades, at the
Senftenberg Fortress and Museumsfabrik
Pritzwalk titled
Brandenburg Industrial Landscapes 1992–2021. For 2024 he received a
Villa Aurora grant for the project
Döblin in Exile. == Awards ==