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