Leda Bourgogne
Leda Bourgogne (1989 in Vienna; lives and works in Berlin). Bourgogne's work investigates desire, intimacy, and social conditioning as forces shaping language, image-making, and artistic production itself.
Drawing on literary, philosophical, and autobiographical sources, Bourgogne often works through dramaturgical and spatial constellations in which objects, images, and texts function as interdependent elements.
Central to the practice is an understanding of desire as both generative and destabilising-an erotic, imaginative force that links reading, writing, and artistic labour. Motifs of triangulation, obstruction, and encrypted access recur throughout the work, alongside an interest in the body as a site of projection, vulnerability, and political inscription.
Bourgogne frequently stages tensions between intimacy and bureaucracy, private address and institutional language, dissolving boundaries between personal and public space while foregrounding the political dimensions of affect, gendered experience and queer embodiment.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Safekeep, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria; Emotional Terrains of Change, Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025) ; The Professor’s Body – Academic Affect and Habitus, Kunstraum Leuphana, Lüneburg, Germany (2024); Mêlée, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany; Prefrontal Vortex, BQ, Berlin, Germany (2023); Undercurrent, LoggiaLoggia, Munich, Germany; Tyranny of Tenderness, Fragile, Berlin, Germany (2022); Minor Assault, QBBQs – BQs Project Space, Berlin, Germany (2021); DEAD HEAT, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany (2020); In the Feelings of My Shadow, Gallery Jiří Švestka, Prague, Czech Republic (2019).
Drawing on literary, philosophical, and autobiographical sources, Bourgogne often works through dramaturgical and spatial constellations in which objects, images, and texts function as interdependent elements.
Central to the practice is an understanding of desire as both generative and destabilising-an erotic, imaginative force that links reading, writing, and artistic labour. Motifs of triangulation, obstruction, and encrypted access recur throughout the work, alongside an interest in the body as a site of projection, vulnerability, and political inscription.
Bourgogne frequently stages tensions between intimacy and bureaucracy, private address and institutional language, dissolving boundaries between personal and public space while foregrounding the political dimensions of affect, gendered experience and queer embodiment.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Safekeep, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria; Emotional Terrains of Change, Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025) ; The Professor’s Body – Academic Affect and Habitus, Kunstraum Leuphana, Lüneburg, Germany (2024); Mêlée, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany; Prefrontal Vortex, BQ, Berlin, Germany (2023); Undercurrent, LoggiaLoggia, Munich, Germany; Tyranny of Tenderness, Fragile, Berlin, Germany (2022); Minor Assault, QBBQs – BQs Project Space, Berlin, Germany (2021); DEAD HEAT, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany (2020); In the Feelings of My Shadow, Gallery Jiří Švestka, Prague, Czech Republic (2019).
Leda Bourgogne (1989 in Vienna; lives and works in Berlin). Bourgogne's work investigates desire, intimacy, and social conditioning as forces shaping language, image-making, and artistic production itself.
Drawing on literary, philosophical, and autobiographical sources, Bourgogne often works through dramaturgical and spatial constellations in which objects, images, and texts function as interdependent elements.
Central to the practice is an understanding of desire as both generative and destabilising-an erotic, imaginative force that links reading, writing, and artistic labour. Motifs of triangulation, obstruction, and encrypted access recur throughout the work, alongside an interest in the body as a site of projection, vulnerability, and political inscription.
Bourgogne frequently stages tensions between intimacy and bureaucracy, private address and institutional language, dissolving boundaries between personal and public space while foregrounding the political dimensions of affect, gendered experience and queer embodiment.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Safekeep, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria; Emotional Terrains of Change, Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025) ; The Professor’s Body – Academic Affect and Habitus, Kunstraum Leuphana, Lüneburg, Germany (2024); Mêlée, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany; Prefrontal Vortex, BQ, Berlin, Germany (2023); Undercurrent, LoggiaLoggia, Munich, Germany; Tyranny of Tenderness, Fragile, Berlin, Germany (2022); Minor Assault, QBBQs – BQs Project Space, Berlin, Germany (2021); DEAD HEAT, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany (2020); In the Feelings of My Shadow, Gallery Jiří Švestka, Prague, Czech Republic (2019).
Drawing on literary, philosophical, and autobiographical sources, Bourgogne often works through dramaturgical and spatial constellations in which objects, images, and texts function as interdependent elements.
Central to the practice is an understanding of desire as both generative and destabilising-an erotic, imaginative force that links reading, writing, and artistic labour. Motifs of triangulation, obstruction, and encrypted access recur throughout the work, alongside an interest in the body as a site of projection, vulnerability, and political inscription.
Bourgogne frequently stages tensions between intimacy and bureaucracy, private address and institutional language, dissolving boundaries between personal and public space while foregrounding the political dimensions of affect, gendered experience and queer embodiment.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Safekeep, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria; Emotional Terrains of Change, Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025) ; The Professor’s Body – Academic Affect and Habitus, Kunstraum Leuphana, Lüneburg, Germany (2024); Mêlée, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany; Prefrontal Vortex, BQ, Berlin, Germany (2023); Undercurrent, LoggiaLoggia, Munich, Germany; Tyranny of Tenderness, Fragile, Berlin, Germany (2022); Minor Assault, QBBQs – BQs Project Space, Berlin, Germany (2021); DEAD HEAT, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany (2020); In the Feelings of My Shadow, Gallery Jiří Švestka, Prague, Czech Republic (2019).
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