Leon Eckard is a Germany-based media artist, composer and musician. His artistic field develops between installative, interactive and generative art and music, as well as performances with self-developed systems. In his works, Leon Eckard deals playfully with the ideas of perception, consciousness and emergence, while exploring new ways of creating and improvising sound. Leon Eckard’s works and performances have been shown at various exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Tehran International Electronic Music Festival, New Now Festival, CTM Vorspiel, NIME and xCoAx Conference.
Performances and Exhibitions (selection)
2024
Exhibition of „What Is It (not) Like to Be a Bat?“ at NIME 2024 in Utrecht, Netherlands
Performance of „Transmutation: Für Holz und Silizium“ at xCoAx 2024 in Treviso, Italy
Exhibition of „Der Bewusstseinsautomat – ein Dialog zwischen Maschinen“ at Silent Green
2023
Exhibition of „Der Bewusstseinsautomat – ein Dialog zwischen Maschinen“ at LTK4, Cologne
Performance at listen listening at SOMA art Berlin
Exhibition and publication of the work „Der Bewusstseinsautomat – ein Dialog zwischen Maschinen“ at xCoAx conference in Weimar
Exhibition of the work „What Is It (not) Like to Be a Bat?“ at NEW NOW Festival at Zeche Zollverein, Essen
Performance at Mahalla in “When , if not now?” as part of the CTM Vorspiel, Berlin
Exhbition of “Der Bewusstseinautomat – ein Dialog zwischen Maschinen” at Vilém Flusser Archive as part of CTM Vorspiel, Berlin
2022
Exhibition of the work “Toter Winkel” at the Festival “Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin”, in Paris and Berlin
Screening of the work “Mise En Abyme” at “5h Teheran International Electronic Music Festival” (TIEMF)
2021
Exhibition of the video installation „Mise En Abyme” in the context of the exhibition „Mind over Matter” at Technische Sammlung Dresden
Exhibition of the audio installation “Das Habitat” at artspace, Bremerhaven
Premiere of the audio work “Das Laufwerk” at C-Klang at Centre Court Festival, Cologne
Exhibition of the site-specific work “Metamorphosen – topology of the capital”, Mülheim an der Ruhr
2020
Exhibition of the work „Toter Winkel” im Kunstpalast in the context of „Palastrauschen”, Düsseldorf
Online screening of the video work „Mise En Abyme” in the context of „Seeing Sound Festival“
2019
Exhibition of the VR-Work „Shepard Room” at „Technische Probleme”, Düsseldorf
Concept and installation of the multimedia performance „Homocordia Dissapiens“, Düsseldorf
2018
Exhibition of the work „Relativity” at „Von Fremden Ländern in eigenen Städten“, Düsseldorf
Scholarships
German Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) 2024/25
Residence at pIAR (perfoCrazy International Artist Residency) in Kumasi, Ghana, 2022
German Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) 2020/21
Teil des interdisziplinären Jahresprojekt in Montepulciano in Zusammenarbeit mit sieben Kunst-, Musik- und Tanzhochschule in NRW, 2019
5-month residency at Onomato Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, 2018
Education
2024 – 2025
Student of Prof. Akihiro Kubota in the Media Art Department at Tama Art University, Tokyo
2022 – 2025
Student of Prof. Alberto de Campo in the Generative Art Class at University of the Arts Berlin
2019 – 2020
Student of Visual Communication at Universitat de Barcelona
2015 – 2021
Bachelor of Music in Music in Media at Robert-Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf