Talk

Ghislaine Leung / Questions

Leung’s works often utilise their surrounding structures - exhibition space, temporal durational, regional location or organisational partners – as limits deployed through sets of conditions for each institution to perform the work.

Questions talks, the artist takes the structure, and demand, of the artist talk to task, stipulating the requirement for no presentation to be given but there instead only be questions asked, to which Leung will respond accordingly.

Ghislaine Leung is a British conceptual artist. Her work uses score-based instructions toradically redistribute and constitute the terms of artistic production. For Leung, limitations,felt as personal, institutional, structural or systemic to the parameters of industry, areengaged in as means to institute differently. Born in Stockholm, Sweden to a father fromHong Kong and a mother from London, she was raised first in Reims, France and then inLondon, England. She received a BA Fine Art in Context at the University of the West ofEngland in 2002 and a Masters in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Centre for Research inModern European Philosophy at Middlesex University in 2009. Between 2004 and 2014she worked at Tate and LUX, London. Leung has had solo exhibitions at Kunstahlle Basel,Renaissance Society, Chicago, Simian, Copenhagen, Maxwell Graham, New York; Ordet,Milan, Italy; Museum Abteiberg, M.nchengladbach, Germany; Cabinet, London, UK;Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany; Chisenhale, London, UK;Reading International, Reading, UK; Cell Project Space, London, UK and WIELS,Brussels, Belgium. Her work has previously been in group exhibitions at A Tale of a Tub,Rotterdam, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL;British Art Show 9, CAPC, Bordeaux, France; Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark; Geneva Biennale, Geneva, Switzerland; GoldsmithsCCA, London, UK; Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande undWestfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China; Museion, Bolzano,Italy; KW Institute , Berlin, Germany; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK;WIELS, Brussels, Belgium; Camden Art Centre, London, UK; FRAC Lorraine, Metz,France; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; Fri Art, Kunsthalle Friborg, Friborg,Switzerland and elsewhere. Leung’s first book was Partners (Cell Project Space, 2018)with her second book Bosses published in 2023 with Divided. She was nominated for theTurner Prize in 2023 and lives in London, UK.

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