Leon Kahane

Leon Kahane Exhibition view „gedenken unserer durch die Tat!“ Dieselkraftwerg, Cottbus 2023 Photo: Marlies Kross

Leon Kahane Exhibition view „gedenken unserer durch die Tat!“ Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin 2022 Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „Verteidiger“, 2022 Fine Art Print on Alu-Dibond 200 x 135 cm Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „Ribbentrop 1“, 2022 Fine Art Print on Alu-Dibond 200 x 135 cm Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „30. November 1945“, 2022 Fine Art Print on Alu-Dibond 200 x 135 cm Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „29. April 1946“, 2022 Fine Art Print on Alu-Dibond 200 x 135 cm Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „20. November 1945“, 2022 Fine Art Print on Alu-Dibond 200 x 135 cm Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „16. und 17. Dezember 1945“, 2022 Fine Art Print on Alu-Dibond 200 x 135 cm Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „10. und 12. Dezember 1945“, 2022 Fine Art Print on Alu-Dibond 200 x 135 cm Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „8. und 9. Mai 1946“, 2022 Fine Art Print on Alu-Dibond 200 x 135 cm Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „7. und 8. Januar 1946“, 2022 Fine Art Print on Alu-Dibond 200 x 135 cm Photo: Sascha Herrmann

Leon Kahane „Jüdisch oder arabisch, Nahariya bleibt deutsch“, 2021 Inkjet Print (3 parts) 177 x 125 cm each

Leon Kahane Exhibition view „Les Dranceés“ Traklhaus, Salzburg 2021

Leon Kahane „Frontex, Jacket“, 2009 analog C-Print (of 4×5 inch negative) 126 x 100 cm

Leon Kahane Exhibition view „Sag Schibbolet! Von sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Grenzen“ Jüdisches Museum Hohenems, München 2020

Leon Kahane Exhibition view „For Official Use Only“ Artprize Future of Europe 2016 Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig 2016

Leon Kahane Exhibition view „Dejima. Konzepte von Ein- und Ausschluss“ GAK, Bremen 2017 Photo: Franziska von den Driesch

Leon Kahane Exhibition view „The Future of Memory“ Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2015 Photo: Jorit Aust

Leon Kahane „Xerox / Flowers“ from the series „FRONTEX“, 2009. Exhibition view „The Future of Memory“ Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2015 Photo: Jorit Aust

Biography

LEON KAHANE

geboren/born 1985 in Berlin
lebt und arbeitet in/ lives and works in Berlin

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2007–10 photographic studies at Ostkreuzschule in Berlin
since 2008. work and research about FRONTEX and european border policies
since 2013 “Lampedusa” workgroup with Armin Linke and spector books Leipzig
since 2010 student at the University of Arts (Universität der Künste) faculty visual Arts
2010 assistant to Wolfgang Tillmans
2011–14 assistant to Hito Steyerl
2014 six months residency in Hong Kong
2018 founding of the forum democratic culture comtemporary art

AUSZEICHNUNGEN & RESIDENZEN / AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2017 “Fogo Island Arts”, Residency Fogo Island, Newfoundland
2016 “ars viva 2017” art prize, Bund Deutscher Industrieller
2015 “Kunstpreis Europäische Zukunft”, GFZK, Leipzig

EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN / SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
"gedenken unserer durch die Tat!" Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst / Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, Germany

2022
"gedenken unserer durch die Tat!", Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany
"Walhalla to Birkenau" with Fabian Bechtle as Forum DCCA, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany

2021
"Les Dranceés", Traklhaus, Salzburg, Germany

2020
"JERRICANS TO CAN JERRY", Leipzigerstraße 61, Berlin, Germany

2016
"For Official Use Only", GFZK, Leipzig, Germany

GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN / GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
"SURVIVAL IN THE 21st CENTURY", Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"Kyiv Perennial", nGbk, Berlin, Germany
"asking for a friend", Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, Germany

2023
"in situ", Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
"Ein Anderes Land – Jüdisch in der DDR", Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

2019
“Sag Shibbolet”, Jewish Museum Munich, Munich, Germany
“Tell me about yesterday tomorrow”, NS-Doumentationszentrum Munich, Munich, Germany

2018
“Sag Shibbolet”, Jewish Museum Hohenems, Hohenems, Austria
“Brauchen wie einen linken Populismus”, ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin, Germany
“Der Wert der Freiheit”, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria

2017
“ars viva 2017” Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
“How to live together” Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
“Conditions of Political Choreography”, NBK, Berlin, Germany
“Dejima”, GAK, Bremen, Germany
“Belonging to a Place”, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2016
“L’exposition Imaginaire”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
“ars viva 2017”, kunstmuseum kloster unser lieben frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
“Pas de Deux”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2015
“Republic of Boxes”, uqbar, transmediale, Berlin, Germany
“The Future of Memory”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
“How to Live Together”, 6th Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia

2014
“Disappearing Things”, 55th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia

2013
“The World Is Stable Now”, Gallery Alexander Levy, Berlin, Germany
“ Idiopolis”, ReMap 04, Athens, Greece
“Seen By”, Museum für Photographie, Berlin, Germany

2012
“The History of Now”, F-Stop Festival for Photographie, Leipzig, Germany
“Desertmed”, NGBK, Berlin, Germany

2011
“Exit Strategies” with Fabian Bechtle, Artitude Art Association, Berlin, Germany
“Melanchotopia” , Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2010
final degree exhibition of Ostkreuz School for Photographie
“Glaube Liebe Hoffnung”, Palais of c/o Berlin

Leon Kahane

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