BENEDIKT LEONHARDT GERMANY, b. 1984
Biography
The materiality and radiance of color fields become central, while the painterly process remains deliberately enigmatic.
Benedikt Leonhardt lives and works in Leipzig. He studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB Leipzig) and completed his Meisterschüler under Prof. Astrid Klein.
Leonhardt’s work explores the tension between figurative memory and painterly abstraction, creating layered compositions of oil, acrylic, and industrial pigments where fragments of images dissolve into luminous fields of color. His paintings transform digital references and fleeting moments into tactile, atmospheric surfaces.
His work has been presented in exhibitions such as “Perlin Noise” (Berlin), “Pale Blue Dot” (Leipzig), and “OTO” (Berlin). Leonhardt is the recipient of the LVZ Art Prize and a Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn grant, and his works are held in public and private collections across Europe.
Works
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Benedikt LeonhardtUntitled (FT-NYR-CR-CCB-VD), 202547,2 x 35,2 cm -
Benedikt LeonhardtUntitled (CBL-QM-TC), 2024140 x 100 cm
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Benedikt LeonhardtUntitled (CBL-QM-TC-NG5), 2024180 x 124 cm
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Benedikt LeonhardtUntitled (BG1-LRX-CO-MCB), 202355,7 x 44,8 cm
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Benedikt LeonhardtUntitled (CYD-CB-BO/CO-QV), 2023200 x 150 cm
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Benedikt LeonhardtUntitled (FT-CBL-NYL-TO), 2023221 x 152 cm
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Benedikt LeonhardtUntitled (TRV-TO-CLG), 2023180 x 133 cm
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Benedikt LeonhardtUntitled (TW/ZW-Y-QM-B-3), 202264,7 x 46,8 cm
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Benedikt LeonhardtUntitled (BO-CR-ACH-BV), 2021200 x 158 cm
Overview
“Benedikt Leonhardt builds his paintings from figurative impulses, superimposed by complex layers of lines, tape and glazes of colour.”
Benedikt Leonhardt transforms digital-inspired imagery into tactile, layered paintings. Using oil, acrylic, vinyl paint, tape and fillers, he constructs surfaces that blur the boundaries between photographic fragments, abstraction and painterly materiality.
Bibliography
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Education: HGB Leipzig — Painting (2007–2014) + Postgraduate studies (2014–2016). Erasmus semester at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2012).
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Awards and Grants: LVZ Art Prize (2017); Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn grant (2021); Cusanuswerk scholarship (2009–2016).
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Solo exhibitions (selection): 2025 — “OTO”, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin; 2022 — “Pale Blue Dot”, ASPN, Leipzig; 2020 — “Perlin Noise”, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin.
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Public/Private Collections: e.g. Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig; Kunsthalle Bremen; Museum Wiesbaden; Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz; Fundatie Zwolle (NL).