Alexandra Leykauf
Einzelausstellung "Prospect", Camera Austria, Graz
23 January 2024
Alexandra Leykauf arbeitet mit fotografischen Bildgebungsverfahren wie Direktbelichtungen auf fotosensitive Oberflächen, um die unmittelbare Beziehung zwischen Bild und Betrachtenden zu untersuchen. Ihre Arbeiten spielen mit dem Übergang vom Körper eines Objekts zur Oberfläche des Bildes und zurück zur räumlichen Erfahrung. Sie analysiert die vielfältigen Implikationen sich ändernder Bildkonventionen und Betrachtungsweisen, Fragen von Herkunft und Urheberschaft(en) und letztlich unsere Position gegenüber den widersprüchlichen Wahrheiten zirkulierender Bilder.
Aufbauend auf länger angelegten Bildrecherchen entwickelt Alexandra Leykauf ortsbezogene Ausstellungskonzepte, die spezifische (kunst-)historische Kontexte von Städten zum Ausgangspunkt nehmen, um Fragen des Blicks, Blickbeziehungen und ihrer körperlichen Verortung nachzugehen. Für "Prospect", ihre erste institutionelle Einzelausstellung in Österreich, greift Leykauf auf eine Recherche in den Gemäldesammlungen verschiedener Grazer Museen zurück.
Kuratiert von Anna Voswinckel
02.03.–12.05.2024
Aufbauend auf länger angelegten Bildrecherchen entwickelt Alexandra Leykauf ortsbezogene Ausstellungskonzepte, die spezifische (kunst-)historische Kontexte von Städten zum Ausgangspunkt nehmen, um Fragen des Blicks, Blickbeziehungen und ihrer körperlichen Verortung nachzugehen. Für "Prospect", ihre erste institutionelle Einzelausstellung in Österreich, greift Leykauf auf eine Recherche in den Gemäldesammlungen verschiedener Grazer Museen zurück.
Kuratiert von Anna Voswinckel
02.03.–12.05.2024
Artocène Contemporary Arts Festival in Chamonix
11 June 2023
Alexandra Leykauf participates in the third edition of Artocène, Contemporary Arts Festival in Chamonix (France).
At Musée Alpin, Leykauf realises her site specific photographic installation "Mer de Glace" (2023) with enlarged reproductions of paintings of glaciers around Chamonix composed with images from her studio.
The Artocène Festival takes place from 11. June until 23. July on various locations in Chamonix-Montblancs under the title "Horizon of the Void". On the iconic site the festival brings together architecture and contemporary art to create a dialogue with the alpine landscape, symbol of a fragile and moving nature.
At Musée Alpin, Leykauf realises her site specific photographic installation "Mer de Glace" (2023) with enlarged reproductions of paintings of glaciers around Chamonix composed with images from her studio.
The Artocène Festival takes place from 11. June until 23. July on various locations in Chamonix-Montblancs under the title "Horizon of the Void". On the iconic site the festival brings together architecture and contemporary art to create a dialogue with the alpine landscape, symbol of a fragile and moving nature.
New edition available: Stoneage Campfire (2022)
24 August 2022
For her new edition, Alexandra Leykauf arranged stones on black paper and sprayed them with white chalk spray, whose many small pigment dots resemble a printing grid. The scene was then photographed in black and white and printed on red neon paper. Background and foreground are reversed as soon as the black background is applied to the colorful paper and the previously foregrounded chalk spray appears only in its absence.
Alexandra Leykauf has also imagined personified objects in this work: Beings seated in an assembly that appears to have a fire or light bounding them in their midst, or else are illuminated from above. Imagination may create possible occasions for this gathering. In the end, Stoneage Campfire remains, through negative inversion, an image of something unprecedented in form (Text: GAK Bremen)
Alexandra Leykauf has also imagined personified objects in this work: Beings seated in an assembly that appears to have a fire or light bounding them in their midst, or else are illuminated from above. Imagination may create possible occasions for this gathering. In the end, Stoneage Campfire remains, through negative inversion, an image of something unprecedented in form (Text: GAK Bremen)
Group exhibition Mimicry–Empathy at "Friche la Belle de Mai" in Marseille
06 May 2022
Fræme is pleased to invite artist Susanne Bürner to present a group exhibition at Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille, bringing together the work of 18 international artists and designers. An evolving form of the Mimicry–Empathy project initiated in 2018 at Lajevardi Foundation in Tehran, the exhibition addresses and questions the emotionally fragile realms of mimicry as a survival strategy.
On view until 5. June 2022
On view until 5. June 2022
What We Do in the Shadows at Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
05 January 2022
From different viewpoints, Alexandra Leykauf and Dominik Styk in their two-person exhibition address perspectives and proportions while questioning the expectations and positions of the viewers. Within each artist’s practice, one grounded in photography and the other in sculpture, the eye and body become entangled. It is neither about the image nor the object itself, rather about how they can be approached, and the hierarchies, projections and desires that become revealed or shifted therein. (Excerpt from the press text)
The exhibition is curated by GAK's new director Annette Hans and runs until 15. May 2022.
The exhibition is curated by GAK's new director Annette Hans and runs until 15. May 2022.
Animus
Solo exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof
Solo exhibition at Kunstverein Springhornhof
07 July 2021
Alexandra Leykauf finds the "other" in classical landscape paintings: hidden faces, bodies, pairs of eyes, which she brings out by means of enlargements, re-colouring, rotation and perspective shifting. In nature, we encounter this perceptual phenomenon of "pareidolia" whenever we think we recognise a face in a cloud formation or a figure in a tree trunk. Our ability to recognise ourselves in other people, but also in animals and nature, is the basis for empathy. While "anthropomorphisation" is seen as unscientific and therefore something to be avoided, Leykauf would argue that the objectification of the non-human world got us into the mess we are in today. (Excerpt from the press text)
Window Shopping at Kunstverein Siegen
03 January 2021
Alexandra Leykauf's and Eva Berendes' two-person exhibition Window Shopping at Kunstverein Siegen (D), curated by Jennifer Cierlitza, is on view until July 17, 2021.