Stephane Leonard

Stephane Leonard is a versatile young artist working in the fields of drawing, painting, video, graphic design, film, installation and sound-art. In order to gain an understanding for Leonards artisitic cosmos, the signs and traces he leaves behind one has to take a close look at all the different art-forms. "In between spheric and dreamlike soundscapes up to the harsh cut up music concrete, pieces of field recordings taken from all over the globe emerge. Stephane Leonard´s music creates a unique atmosphere that immediantly draws the attention of the listener. Out of a self coded max-msp software, a microphone and a small selection of external sound sources small sensitive universes stream together. While listening they expand further into the realms of imagination and thus take precise looks at the nature of the world around us. With the perfectionists love to detail, Stephane's compositions build bridges which hold for even the most lost of characters." (text by Lars Marstaller) Stephane Leonard is actively involved in the contemporary art and music scene in Berlin and Bremen, performing with improv groups such as JuliJuni, Leo Mars Ensemble and plastic doll. He collaborates with various bands, video artists, filmmakers and solo performers (dis.playce, Seidenmatt, Marcel Türkowsky, Claudio Pfeifer). Moreover he is a member of the naivsuper artist collective that publishes and promotes modern composers, adventurous musicians and the naivsuperFilm collective which makes films, musicvideos, documentaries and video-installations. His work has been shown in exhibitions in Berlin, New York, Hamburg, Bremen, Neubrandenburg, Bergen, Vienna, Zürich, Massachusetts and Bangkok.