Alejandro Leonhardt

Alejandro Leonhardt (Puerto Varas, Chile, 1985) is an artist whose research explores the waste that humans leave behind. Material vestiges with which he develops proposals that move between sculpture and installation. He studied Fine Arts at the Universidad ARCIS (2009) and a Master in Visual Arts at the Universidad de Chile (2015).

His work has been exhibited individually and collectively both in Chile and abroad, including: “Flotación y destrucción”, _unespacio (Chile, 2021); “Líquida superficie sólida”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Chile, 2021), both curated by Carolina Castro Jorquera; “Alguien, nadie, cualquiera”, L21 Gallery (Spain, 2021); “The missing link: part 1 (the object)”, Platform 6ª (Belgium, 2020), curated by Phillipe Van Cauteren; “Unidad mínima”, Espacio El Dorado (Colombia, 2018); “Leer un rayo”, Galería Patricia Ready (Chile, 2018); “Los cimientos, los pilares y el firmamento”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Chile, 2017), Curated by Àngels Miralda Tena; and “Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA”, LAXART (U.S.A., 2017).

He has been awarded with the “Fondo Nacional de las Artes 2021” granted by the Government of Chile. He has been selected in the “Convocatoria Nacional de Adquisición de Obras de Artes Visuales 2020” by the Government of Chile and has received an honourable mention in the “IV Concurso Artespacio Joven BBVA”, in 2018. Together with L21 Gallery he has been awarded the “Ron Barceló Imperial / ARCO Madrid prize (Spain, 2015). He has won the “Visioni Future” award at SWAB Art Fair (Spain, 2014).

Leonhardt has participated in the residency programmes L21 Residency (Spain, 2023); Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (Uruguay, 2018); Sagrada Mercancía (Chile, 2016); FLORA Ars+Natura (Colombia, 2015) and at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa (Spain, 2015).

“Black Repose of the Water”, 2024
Disused fishing nets and ropes from the aquaculture industry in southern Chile
Installation view Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile Foto / Photo: Felipe Ugalde

“UNBOXING #4: Antiallergic and Chocolate Cereal“, 2023
Poliurethane lacquer and UV inkject print on aluminium composite panels

280 x 199,1 x 3 cm

L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Foto / Photo: Juan David Cortés

“Liquid Solid Surface”, 2023
Shelving A: metal objects transformed by fire, metal shelf

260 x 200 x 30 cm

L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Foto / Photo: Juan David Cortés

“Liquid Solid Surface”, 2021
Installation view
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Santiago, Chile Foto / Photo: Teresa Fischer

“Liquid Solid Surface”, 2021
Cabinet C: melted metals and plastics, aluminum, glass, mirror and wheels

150 x 150 x 50 cm

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Santiago, Chile Foto / Photo: Teresa Fischer

“Flotation and Destruction”, 2021
Installation view: buoys from the salmon aquaculture industry of the Chiloé archipelago, Chile

_un espacio. Santiago, Chile Foto / Photo: Teresa Fischer

“Neighborhood Meeting #10”, 2021
266 pieces of wall fragments taken from the facades of houses and shops of Santiago (Chile), adhesive paste

965 x 350 cm

L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Foto / Photo: Lúa Oliver

“O.K.”, 2018
Discarded windshield models collected from companies of the automobile sector in the city of Santiago, Chile

430 x 257 x 109 cm

Galería Patricia Ready. Santiago, Chile
Foto / Photo: Teresa Fischer

“Indeterminate Order #2: Vague”, 2016
Cables, rubber, cut and burst tires found in San Felipe Neighbourhood (Bogota, Colombia) and 10 de Julio Huamachuco Avenue (Santiago, Chile)

Medidas variables / Variable dimensions Galería Gabriela Mistral. Santiago, Chile Foto / Photo: Teresa Fischer