about

Laura Leppert is an artist, filmmaker and researcher working with video, installation, text and sound.
In her works, she focuses on experimental video with fictional and documentary elements rooted in emblematic places,
anthropogenic landscapes and material cultures.
Combining research and fictioning strategies, she weaves surreal, non-linear world-containers that act as windows into
logics of thinking and feeling derived from our lived realities. She often works in longer cycles or cross-media complexes.
She is in search of environments, landscapes, documents or objects that carry a particular intensity - that emerge from
a syzygy of historical facts, paradigms of thought and material realities. These hyperobjects she tries to break open
and trace their agencies and testimonies through contemporary crises into speculative futures.
Recently, she has been working with DNA in laboratories, with AI and ergot mushrooms in Alsace, with open-pit
mines in the Ruhr area, botanical gardens, or with the haunting of tourist hotspots in climate fiction.
Often, sites show up in her works that she deems emblematic for these processes, and which she attempts to
weird from within - laboratories, collections, spaces of knowledge production or extractive architectures.
She is working towards a recognition of the non-computable, non-automatable, non-quantifiable, and favors emergent,
weird, aphasic or unreadable states as poetic hinges of her works.

Her works have been shown at Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (DE); Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven,
Wilhelmshaven (DE); Maximiliansforum, Munich (DE); Eigen+Art Lab, Berlin (DE); Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund, Dortmund (DE);
Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin (DE); European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (DE); WRO Art Center, Wrocław (PL); Les Instants Video,
Milan/Marseille (IT/FR); Künstler*innenhaus Bregenz (A); CICA Museum, Gimpo (KR); MACA Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Alicante (ES);
Šopa Gallery, Košice (SK), Centro Cultural San Martin (AR), among others.
She has received numerous grants by varying funding bodies, a. o. by Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bayrisches Ministerium für Kunst und Wissenschaft,
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Kunststiftung NRW, maecenia foundation for female* artists, Stiftung Stark. Among her awards are a
Postgraduate Scholarship by Muthesius Kunsthochschule, a Scholarship for Visual Arts of the City of Munich & a Prize for her diploma work.




selected past projects

2025
group show | Various Others Special: Too Soon To Say / The Unconference, cur. Karim Daniel Mourad & Nebyula, Bayrischer Hof, Munich, DE
group show | Contemporary Landscape, CICA Museum, Gimpo, KR
group show | Preis der Nordwestkunst, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, DE
screening | All that glitters, with Emerging Eye Network, Regenbogenkino, Berlin, DE
screening | Ethnobotanica, cur. Ringo Marquez, April 2025 Issue, Labocine
curatorial work | A window turned so dark it just reflects, as part of Interior City Day, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE
curatorial work | Off-World, Screening Program, co-curation with An Laphan, Kunstverein Wasserburg, Wasserburg a. I., DE
workshop | H?llo, ?allo, Hall?, workshop at Kunstbau am Lenbachhaus, with Raumformen e. V., Munich, DE
workshop | Streets / Storying, in cooperation with Simona Andrioletti, Färberei / KÖSK, Munich, DE
talk | Moderation of artist talk w/ Giulia Zabarella, Medusa's Ashes, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE
publication | Interior, City, Day. Sections of Living Memories, Text + image, 36 S., ISBN 978-3-00-081098-5 Contributions by Eunju Hong, Leila Fatima Keita & Hanna Hocker, An Laphan, Laura Leppert, Vanessa Amoah Opoku. Edition: 250.
open studio | 48h Neukölln, Schönstedtstraße 13, Berlin, DE
open studio | Open Studio, Mollstraße 1, Berlin, DE


2024
curatorial work | Interior, City, Day. Sections of living memories, Curation of group show at Maximiliansforum, Munich; with An Laphan, Eunju Hong, Leila Fatima Keita, Vanessa Amoah Opoku
talk | Salon Landschaft / Landscape. Junge Akademie der Künste, Berlin, invited by Fanny Brandauer
talk | mattermorphosis, Artist talk, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, PL
group show | mattermorphosis, WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, PL
group show | Are you happy to be in Paris?, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, AT
group show | The Backrooms, International Computer, Hamburg, DE
group show | Unnamed, Promo Promo, Berlin, DE
screening | Infrastructural Beings, curated by Veronica Jacome, Labocine, NYC, USA
screening | Speculations, Hidden Institute, Berlin, DE
festival | Riga International Film Festival, Riga, LV
residency | Institute for Postnatural Studies, New Ecologies Seminar, Madrid, SP
research | Research & Project Development weatheringLandscape Engineering & Industrial Heritage, Rjukan/Oslo, NO


2023
teaching | Exhibiting Landscape, Semester End Critique, invited by Fanny Brandauer, Architecture Dept., HafenCity University Hamburg, DE
residency | re:sourcing - Folding DNA-Origami, Fraunhofer Institute ENAS in coop with Funken Academy, Chemnitz, DE
group show | Dissecting Globality, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, DE
group show | re:sourcing - Shaping the Invisible, Fraunhofer Institut, Villa Rosenberg, Chemnitz, DE
group show | Über das Neue, Belvedere21, Vienna, AT
group show | Airbound. Sensing Collective Futures, Aufbauhaus Moritzplatz, Berlin, DE
group show | Joy of Missing Out, Mom Art Space, Hamburg, DE
festival | Budapest International Film Festival, Budapest, HU
festival | Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille / Milano, FR / IT
festival | FUSE. Film Under Severe Experiment, Karlovac, HR
curatorial work | A Moving Image. Urban Myths & Folk Tales, organization of performative project, Co-curated with Giulia Zabarella, with Simona Andrioletti, Hara Shin, Iris Böhnlein, Mika Schwarz, Ismaning, DE
workshop | Futures of Air - From Control to Collaboration, collective Workshop with CollactiveMaterials and Science of Intelligence, Silent Green, Berlin, DE
publication | Bitter Drama, Zine in the context of A MOVING IMAGE. Folk tales & urban legends. Self-published and self-designed, Ismaning, DE. Edition: 40.
residency | Residency, A Moving Image, Verbindungslinien program, Wasserschlösschen Ismaning, DE


2022
solo show | Possession. An underground panorama, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE
solo show | Isn‘t it nice when things just work?, Konsumverein, Braunschweig, DE
group show | c/O in other people‘s hands. Affective Infrastructures and Working Interiors, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, DE
group show | Trigger Warning: Europe, Eigen+Art Lab, Berlin, DE
group show | Denkraum Deutschland, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
group show | Public Fictions, curated by Lisa Klosterkötter, Friedenstraße & Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
group show | Focus Europe I & II, International Artist Exchange Schafhof, Freising, DE
group show | How to begin, 101projectspace, Berlin, DE
group show | Sternenbeutel, BraunFalco Galerie, Munich, DE
talk | Possession, Artist talk, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, DE
talk | Thought space Utopia / Dystopia, Panel talk, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
talk |Schwierige Materialismen. Panel Discussion at Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE, with Beatriz Casas González, Laura-Solmaz Litschel & Corbinian Böhm
organization | Video Round Table. Initiation and Organization of monthly artists‘ moving image screenings and crit round table
curatorial work | In Matter. Tricky Metabolisms & Earthbound Materials, Screening Program, at Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE
curatorial work | c/O in other people‘s hands. Affective Infrastructures and Working Interiors, group show, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin.
curatorial work | Ver_teilen. Co-curation of Workshop program, with LobbyControl, Critical Cartography a. o., Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, DE
publication | Possession. Artist book, self-published, printing and binding by OfficeOffset/BookBook, Berlin. Edition: 50.
publication | Public Fictions. Publishers; Anna Dietz, Johanna Terhechte, Distanz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95476-494-5
workshop | Worldbuilding, Workshop with teenagers, Färberei / KÖSK, München, DE
research | Research & Project Development between the rains, Strasbourg/Colmar, FR


2021
solo show | How Long Is Now, Solo show with Book Launch, Goldberg Galerie, Munich, DE
festival | POSSESSED - 34. European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE - How Long Is Now running in competition / section OUT OF ORDER
group show | Taking my thoughts for a walk, Dortmund, initiated by Kunstverein Dortmund and URBANE KÜNSTE RUHR
group show | Futur3Festival, Kiel, DE
group show | Debütant*innen, Prize Awardees‘ Exhibition, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
group show | Engine, hia festival für kunst und forschung, Munich, DE
residency | RUHR DING, Residency Zu Gast bei URBANE KÜNSTE RUHR, Dortmund, DE
talk | INPUT / Focus Europe, Artist Talk, European Artist Exchange, Schafhof Freising, DE
talk | Possession, Artist talk, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, DE
talk | Online Artist Talk for 34. EMAF, hosted by Mason Leaver-Yap and Katrin Mundt, with Zachary Epcar and Grace Mitchell
publication | Politics of Emotions / Power of Affect. Publishers: Susanne Witzgall, Marietta Kesting, Diaphanes Verlag, ISBN: 3035804192
publication | Inner Saboteurs. Artist book, self-published, Print: Sportflieger Berlin, Edition: 200. ISBN 978-3-00-068793-8


2020
solo show | Sure We Can Sell Beef, It‘s Peanuts, EFES42 Sculpture Association, Linz, A
solo show | Harder Better Faster Fragile, with Artist Talk, Sopa Gallery, Košice, SVK
solo show | Forecast, Diploma exhibition, AdBK, Munich, DE
group show | Causal Loops and Squiggles, Publication Launch, Ordet, Mailand, IT
group show | La Fange du Macadam, Josephspitaler Str./ in public space, Munich, DE
group show | Stay at Home, invited by Marco Hompes, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, DE
group show | invited by Merlinda Rañi, Pabellón de las Bellas Artes, UCA, Buenos Aires, ARG
residency | KAIR, Košice, SK, in coop with Goethe Inst. Slovakia & European Artist Exchange Schafhof Oberbayern
residency | Summer Academy Salzburg, Festung Hohensalzburg, AT, with Eli Cortiñas
festival | ALC Video Art Festival, MACA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, ES
festival | Košice International Film Festival, Košice, SK
talk | Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr, Interview with Urbane Künste Ruhr, Dortmund, DE
talk | Video Portrait | Scholarship for Fine Arts of the City of Munich 2020, Munich, DE
publication | Crude Oil Acts. Artist book, self-published, Edition: 50.
publication | Sick Building / Elevator Pitch. Artist book, self-published, Edition: 40.


2019
solo show | Steal the Surroundings, Goldberg Gallery, Munich, DE
group show | Crossroads as win-win situation, co-curated with Giulia Zabarella, Tatzelwurm Highway Overpass, public space, Munich, DE
group show | Aperto, CSAV Artist‘s Laboratory, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota, Como, IT
group show | Night Sweats, organized together with Johanna K Michel, Frederike de Graft, Sabrina Schuppelius, Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, DE
group show / nomination | Videodox Förderpreis, Biennial for Video Art, curated by Dunja Bialas, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich, DE
group show / nomination | Karl&Faber Prize, Auction House Karl&Faber, Luitpoldblock, Munich, DE
group show | Tacker / Preselection, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich, DE
group show | Of Gardens, 29. Kurzfilmtage Bamberg,, Morph, Bamberg, DE
screening | Screening, invited by Carolina di Palma, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, ARG
residency | CSAV Artist‘s Laboratory, Causal Loops & Time Squiggles, Fondazione Ratti, Como, IT
publication | TURNY. Crossroads as Win-Win Situation. Artist book, self-published, Edition: 200.


2018
group show | Class Languages (with Collective Infofiction), organized by Jenny Nachtigall, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
group show | Territory of ready, Maximiliansforum, Munich, DE
festival | +CODE Festival of Electronic Arts, Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires, ARG
group show | START, Goldberg Galerie, Munich, DE
group show | Face of the Earth, curated by Merlinda Rañi, Espacio Pla, Buenos Aires, ARG
group show | The weight of it all, CX Project class, curated by Cécile B. Evans, Munich, DE
group show | At a distance, curated by A.P. Vague, Harvester Arts, Wichita, US
group show | If your phone doesn’t ring, it’s me, Metropol Kunstraum, Sammlung Michalke, Munich, DE
residency | Performing Arts Forum, St. Erme, FR with Bojana Cvejic, Jonathan Burrows, Tristan García


2017
solo show | Pathfinder, Goldberg Galerie, Munich, DE
duo show | Speed Ritual (with Raphael Krome), Weltraum, Munich, DE
group show | Quality Time, curated by Chris Fitzpatrick and Post Brothers, Kunstverein Munich, DE, with eponymous publication
group show | Class Languages (with Collective Infofiction), organized by Jenny Nachtigall, DISTRICT Berlin, DE
group show | Mal wieder nichts geschossen, Innere Wiener Straße, Munich, DE
group show | Schwarze Piste #5 (C), Halle B Hawerkamp, Münster, during SkulpturProjekte Münster, DE
group show | you are as beautiful as a million burning ballerinas in the sunset, ADAC-HQ, Munich, DE



2016
solo show | Change of the guard, Bachelor exhibition, Detail, Kiel, DE
group show | Muthesius Prize for Arts and Design 2016, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, DE
group show | 6. Raumformen, Titanickhalle, Münster, DE
group show | Schwarze Piste #4, Interventions in public space, Vienna, A
residency | The Clinicality of the present, Montepulciano, IT, with Ulf Aminde, Felix Ensslin & Julia Oschatz




EDUCATION

2020      MFA Visual Arts (as Meisterschülerin, with Diploma Prize)
2016-20 Academy of Arts Munich, DE, Sculpture / Prof. Olaf Nicolai
2018      Project Class with Cécile B. Evans, CX Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, AdBK Munich, DE
2017      Project Class with with Simon Starling, CX Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
2016      BFA Visual Arts (with honors)
2012-16 Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, Sculpture / Prof. Elisabeth Wagner, Florian Hüttner
2014      Sculpture / Transmedial Space, Kunstuniversität Linz, A / Prof. Eva Grubinger




FUNDING / SCHOLARSHIPS / PRIZES

2025      Preis der Nordwestkunst (nomination)
2025      Project Grant Connecting Lines by Artists‘ Association Bavaria
2024      Project Grant Stiftung Stark für Gegenwartskunst
2024      Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant / Goethe Inst. Brussels
2024      Exhibition Funding, Cultural Department Munich
2023      Project Grant Connecting Lines by Artists‘ Association Bavaria
2023      12-months Production Grant by Social Impact EU
2022      Project Funding Bavaria Innovative, Young Art & New Ways
2022      Project Funding by maecenia Foundation for female* artists
2022      Project Grant NRW Kunststiftung Young Art Scene
2022      Scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds for Freelance Artists
2022      Shortlist Karl-Schmitt-Rottluff-Stipendium (nomination)
2021      Postgraduate Scholarship of Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel
2021      Scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds for recent Graduates
2021      EMAF Award & VdFK Award (nomination)
2020      Stiftung Kunstfonds Neustart Kultur
2020      Scholarship for Visual Arts of the City of Munich
2020      Graduation Prize of Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
2020      Project Funding Erwin-und-Gisela-Steiner-Foundation
2020      Catalogue Grant by LfA Förderbank Bayern
2020      Stipendium des Vereins der Freunde der Internationale Sommerakademie Salzburg
2015-20 Study Foundation of the German People
2019      Catalogue Grant by LfA Förderbank Bayern
2019      Videodox-Prize (Shortlist)
2019      Karl&Faber-Prize (Shortlist)
2018      Project Funding Akademieverein
2018      Project Funding Marianne-Ingenwerth-Foundation
2018      Appointment to Meisterschülerin of Olaf Nicolai
2018      Exhibition Funding by Cultural Department Munich
2018      Project Funding by Akademieverein
2016      Muthesius-Prize 2016 (Shortlist)
2014      ERASMUS+ Scholarship

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