The solo exhibition of Leda Bourgogne is a complex installation with atmosphere spread between the gym, the theater stage and a BDSM studio. In her intricately built objects, Leda Bourgogne works with allusions of historical painting and assemblage techniques, moving between handicraft and ready made or found objects. The frame and canvas serve for her as a means of pointing out power relations and the contingency of identity constructions. In her work she thematizes the objecthood of the image, the surface and sharp edges of which are covered fetishistically with layers of torn fabrics, latex or fishnet stockings. She lovingly cares for her objects as suffering non-normative bodies, at the same time hurt by desire, the impact of social wrongdoings and the tense emotions washed out from the subconscious, what Leda Bourgogne's texts and poems also talk about.
Leda Bourgogne (born 1989 in Vienna, lives and works in Berlin) finished studying Fine Arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main as a master student of Judith Hopf. She is represented by the BQ Gallery in Berlin, where she did her solo show Skinless last year. She is currently exhibiting at a group exhibition at the Kai 10 Arthena Foundation in Düsseldorf, and this March, she made a one-night solo show at the Pogo Bar in KW Institute Berlin. In 2017, she took part in a group show in the MINI / Goethe Institut Ludlow 38 in New York, the year after she did a duo exhibition with Ida Ekblad in Kunstverein Braunschweig. She is nominated for this year’s Swiss Art Awards.

Opening :
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, from 6 pm

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