news – STEPHANE LEONARD

Dearest friends,

my next solo show opens on November 4th, 2022 at the This Is Not True gallery in Bremen, Germany.

The show is called Pause and it will run until November 25th, 2022.

In addition to many small works on paper and some canvases, I am presenting 2 new silkscreen editions, which are also sold directly through the gallery.

(We are currently still working on an online shop so that we will be able to send the prints all over the world.)

Find me and the gallery right here: thisisnottruegallery.com

From September 7th, 2022 to October 1st, 2022, the third edition of the great exhibition series Drawing Wow will take place in Vienna, Austria at Minuseins. Drawing Wow 3 combines a variety of contemporary and classic drawing positions. I am represented with a large work on canvas from 2020.

drawingwow.de
www.minusoffspace.com/about

A show titled Move Along will be held at the Center for Digital Art in Holon, Israel, until the end of September 2022. The film Five Studies, which was created in collaboration with the Israeli choreographer May Zarhy and the animation artist Tal Kantor, will be shown there. I was not only involved in the concept, camera, and editing work but was able to create the soundtrack for the film.

www.mayzarhy.com/fivestudies

From June 18th, until August 24th, 2022 you can visit the Anonyme Zeichner group exhibition at the Galerie im Körnerpark in Berlin, Germany.
An excellent exhibition concept in which I have already been able to take part a few times and where you can see and search (because it is all anonymous) for small works by many great colleagues and me.

www.anonyme-zeichner.de/aktuell.html

From July 10th, 2022 to August 21, 2022, the group exhibition of the finalists of this year’s Brandenburg Art Prize will take place in the Castle Neuhardenberg in Neuhardenberg, Germany. I am represented with one work and I particularly recommend visiting the award ceremony on August 14, 2022, at 12 p.m.

www.schlossneuhardenberg.de

Towards the end of the german lockdown the choreographer Meg Stuart asked me to join her on the roof of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin to work on a very special set of performances. The roof is famous for its curved shape and is also known as the “pregnant oyster”.
The roof of the HKW couldn´t have been a better setting for the last days of the lockdown. Up there, vis-à-vis the chancellery, the Reichstag, and the Goldelse statue, with a 360-degree view towards Potsdamer Platz, Tiergarten, Charité hospital, Berlin central station, and our new upper westside, time was standing still for one last moment before the city picked itself up again. During the daytime, the empty tourist boats floated down the river Spree, while empty travel busses honked for their bare survival in the distance. (only one of many protests)
At the end of the day, after we finished filming and when the sun was low and a small breeze pushed the hot summer day aside, it felt so peaceful up there, almost as if Berlin was forever caught in a deep sleep.

The 4 videos we created can be watched right this way: HKW Meg Stuart

My solo exhibition KOji II will be open from August 29th, 2020 until October 25th, 2020. Due to the current covid situation, we are not having a party and keep it very small and simple instead.
If you choose to travel to Woltersdorf, I´ll be delighted to see you, but I can totally understand if you´d rather stay at home.

Alte Schule in Woltersdorf
Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 27
15569 Woltersdorf

The world has come to a standstill, at least for now.
Most of my shows for 2020 and 2021 have been postponed or canceled.
If you are interested in new work, I am inviting you individually to visit me in my studio in Woltersdorf, Germany in the suburbs of Berlin.
Please get in touch – you can use my contact page – and we sort out the details.
In the meantime, I hope everyone is doing well and I will keep you posted about future shows as soon as possible.

Below is a full-page text I wrote for the german newspaper MOZ. It´s only in german for now.

Stephane

past news

I would love to invite you to my solo show “locus terribilis” at the okazi Gallery in Berlin Rummelsburg!
Opening > Friday > September 6th 2019 > 6 – 12 PM
Exhibition > September 6th 2019 – October 11th 2019

> okazi gallery
> Türrschmidtstraße 18, 10317 Berlin
> S-Bahnhof Ostkreuz, S-Bahnhof Nöldnerplatz, TRAM 21 Marktstraße

The exhibition takes place on the occasion of the Lange Nacht der Bilder (Long Night of Pictures) in Berlin Lichtenberg and the upcoming Berlin Art Week.

“The locus terribilis was the antithesis to the locus amoenus, a lovely place in literature and art from the Roman Empire to the sixteenth century. It was usually portrayed as a barren, dead area like a mountain, the desert, the wilderness in general. with gorges and rocks, desaturated, cold and dangerous, a place of lamentation, secularization or melancholy. Stephane Leonard’s exhibition at the okazi Gallery takes up some of these motifs in a mix of drawings and video art, combining them into one expansive installation.”

On view will be video works, as well as current drawings.

Stephane has won the “Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis” – the Art Prize of Brandenburg, Germany. The award ceremony and an exhibition and the publication of a catalog will take place at the Schloß Neuhardenberg on june 23rd 2019.

For more information you can check out this article from the newspaper – picture on the right (in german only).
And there was a report on national TV – here is a link to the Mediathek.

Stephane will be doing a sound performance with JuliJuni on september 15th 2018 at Tor 40 in Bremen. The performance is part of an event celebrating 25 years of “Videokunst Förderpreis” (video art support grant), which Stephane received in 2007.

A popup group exhibition will take place at the Art Gallery / Stone Brewery Berlin on september 12th 2018. Stephane will have a small sculptural piece in the show.

The upcoming solo exhibition “Ich sehe nicht, was du nicht siehst.” (I am not seeing, what you are not seeing.) opens next friday at the Projektraum 404 gallery in Bremen, Germany.
The exhibition will feature drawings on paper and canvas, mostly from the last 12 months.

opening:
march 30th 2018 / 7PM
Projektraum 404
Nicolaistraße 34/36
20195 Bremen
weblink

On wednesday April 4th, will be the opening of another exhibition. The group show “ECHOES II”, takes place at the ES74 gallery in Sydney, Australia.
In “ECHOES II” Stephane is showing a series of smaller drawings, as well as 2 new works from the “Überzeichnungen” (over-drawings) series, a combination of drawings and Inkjet prints.

opening:
april 4th 2018 / 6PM
ES74 Gallery
5 – 15 Epsom Road
Roseberry, Sydney
weblink

Stephane Leonard is receiving the studio grant 2018 from the State of Brandenburg.
The studio grant is a stipend that provides financial support for all studio related costs.

Stephane Leonard has some new works in a group exhibition called ECHOES in Berlin, Germany.
The opening will be on September 12th 2017 at 7pm. The exhibition is part of the Berlin Art Week, the Lange Nacht der Bilder and the Kommunale Galerien Woche (KGB).
More infos about the exhibition: Echoes
rk Galerie
Möllendorffstr. 6
10367 Berlin, Germany

A documentation of Stephane´s exhibition Inseln can be found here Inseln / documentation

A documentation of the exhibition withdrawal at the Art Service Station is now online.

The next Stephane Leonard exhibition will be a solo show at the okazi gallery in Berlin opening November 20th 2015 / 7PM.
okazi gallery
Türrschmidtstrasse 18
10317 Berlin, Germany

In September 2015 Pogobooks published a new art book by Stephane Leonard. The official book release took place at the NY Art Book Fair. For more information and to purchase the book, please follow this link.

Stephane has a drawing at the Anonyme Zeichner group show in Berlin.
Find all the information at: www.anonyme-zeichner.de
A drawing as well as a couple of publications were included in the POGO 500 5Years – 100Books – PogoBooks group shows at Kunstraum Potsdam and Sprungturm Galerie in Cologne.
More info can be found here: www.sprungturm.info and of course here: www.pogobooks.de

Documentations of the last couple of exhibitions is online:
Trauma – exhibition at Maus Habitos in Porto, Portugal
Chasing A Ghost – exhibition at Projektraum 404 in Bremen, Germany

Thanks to everyone who came to the openings!

Next opening

May 8th 2015, 7 PM
Projektraum 404 / Hegelstraße 38 / 28199 Bremen
May 9th – May 24th 2015
Th-Fr 4-7 PM / Sa+Su 2-5 PM

Open Studios Bremen-Neustadt
Kulturbuero Bremen.de
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In march and april Stephane will be at a Residency in Porto, Portugal.
A solo exhibition will open on april 18th at Maus Habitos.

On may 8th 2015 a solo show for the release of a new book will open at Projektraum 404 in Bremen, Germany.

The book will be a limited edition Risograph printed art-book called Chasing A Ghost, published by PogoBooks in Berlin.

more News and Events will be added soon

Stephane did the album art work for THOMALLA, one of Berlin´s most exciting new electronic musician.
More info here > www.xlr8r.com

Stephane is part of the official group show Brandenburgischer Kunstpreis 2014 at the Schloss Neuhardenberg. The show opens August 24th at 11am. All info can be found here > www.schlossneuhardenberg.de

On April 4th 2014 opened Stephane Leonard´s solo exhibition at the okazi gallery in Berlin. Thank you for joining us at the opening or during Gallery Weekend in May.

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Stephane was showing new large scale canvases and smaller works on paper. Pencil drawings and full colour explosions, acrylics applied with brushes and spray techniques, geometric shapes and organic lines.

Stephane has made a new music video. The video is a collaboration with the artist and musician Mariechen Danz and it was created for her band UNMAP.
Watch it right here.

(for past news please follow this link > past)

Hello Friends,

the world has come to a standstill, at least for now.
All of my shows for 2020 have been postponed or canceled.
Since we are allowed to meet people again, I am inviting you individually to visit me in my studio in Woltersdorf, Germany in the suburbs of Berlin.
Please get in touch – you can use my contact page – and we sort out the details.
In the meantime, I hope everyone is doing good and I will keep you posted about future shows as soon as possible.

On the right is a full-page text I wrote for the german newspaper MOZ. It´s only in german for now.