L E O N
E I X E N B E R G E R
Festival of Future Nows
14. - 17. 9. 2017
Hamburger Bahnhof
Rasp Your Soul
2. - 5. 11. 2017
HAU Hebbel am Ufer
አንዳንዴ ብቻ ፊና ለ ጨረር አፈር ነው ለ ጨፈረ ማንጸባረቅ ጥላ
(Sometimes, to light the soil, one has to dance upon its shadows)
Temporary pavillon
8 x 8 m.
Jan Meda Field, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
2012
Based on the method of construction of 12th century Ethiopian churches, the architecture can be used as a gathering place and for a contemplative walkthrough enabling the viewer to experience the phenomenon of the horizon.
How to World
HD Video
5’
2014
„How to world“ is based on film-footage captured on a small boat in the mediterranean. Based on the format of subtitles in film, words and fragments of sentences appear on the screen, narrating the idea of a slow transition into a subtly different world.
Samsa, Samsa, Samsa (open battery)
Honeycomb, nylon net, sodium light
35 x 90 cm
2017
The industrial mass product of the plastic fibre net, manufactured in uncountable numbers, is a network obscuring its network of production. The ethics of its coming into place -relationships in between humans - is rendered invisible. A product disintegrating fast in the heat of the sun. The object stripped of its history holds a bee swarm’s finding over the past year. In the honeycomb resides the potential for the renewal of the bee-state.
There / There
Slide projector, glass slide, glue
variable size
2015
Magnetism of an Open Hand
Quarz, wasps nest
10 x 10 x 14 cm
2016
A swarm of wasps chose a crystal in a cave to build their nest onto. Findings in the cave show a magnetic field is present there. Could it be, that a new mutated swarm was created in the cave that is released into the world from here ?
Berührung
Ice, grime
60 x 50 x 50 cm
2017
Istallation view: Garden of the Hamburger Bahnhof; as part of the Festival for Future Nows
Untitled
Wax
40 x 35 cm
2016
Produced by a meditative process of slowly dripping the wax of candles onto a water surface, each drop, an element of chance, forms an assemblage of a mass of unique beads constituting a stable yet fragile object: A bowl that is able to hold things and liquids in a world of radical individuation.
Geometric Love (Glass Opposite)
HD Video
15’
2014
Projected on the glass facade of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, two bodies move in a choreography based on a geometric function, while filming each other. They train intuitive collaboration on the problem of moving together through space and test the icon of transparency as a site of future transformation.
Not Visible Wave
Book
46p
2013 / 2016
The work consists of writing describing a series of intimate touches in which the sun merges with the surface of people’s faces, animals, plants and objects in synchronicity. The places the text references form a line around the globe.