Leo Elia (b. 1998, Berlin); [email protected]

Photo: Morten Underbjerg

Solo Exhibitions2027 (upc.) aaaa Nordhavn, CPH, DK
2026 (upc.) The Scarecrows of Saskan: Live Action Remake, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg, DE
2025 Leo Elia: The Scarecrows of Saskan, aaaa Nordhavn, CPH, DK
Leo Elia: Cold Draft, It’s Been Nice, London, UK
2023 Sell The Farm, Leo Elia / Rachel Rosheger, SARA’S, New York, US

Photo: Morten Underbjerg

Group Exhibitions2025 Better Promises To Come, I Promise, Vorfluter, Berlin, DE
Supergames, Dummy, Copenhagen, DK
2024 Checkpoints, Kupfer Gallery, London, UK
Contrapposto, UBS Exhibition Center, Red Hook, New York, US
Undue, UBS Exhibition Center, Red Hook, New York, US
Turn the Corner, UBS Exhibition Center, Red Hook, New York, US
School of Survival, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE
Motto Sport, Gruppe Motto, Hamburg, DE
Over Yonder, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
2023 Other AI, Lobe Block, Berlin, DE
Imagining Health, ICAT, Hamburg, DE
BYOusB, Locker Room Gallery (curated by Rhizome), New York, US

Photo: Morten Underbjerg

Curatorial Projects2024 Arid Places, with K. S. Tehara, Investment Manuals, New York
The Leisure Class, with Estefania Morales, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2023 The Secret Third Thing, as Spillway Torrent, Frappant, Hamburg

Photo: SARA'S, NYC

Bibliography & Discography2026 (upc.) The Scarecrows Of Saskan, Leo Elia (digital)
2025 D.N.R. Catalog 2024 (catalog launch hosted by Rhizome at WSA, NYC)
Imagining Health, Hamburg University, Exhibition Catalog
2024 Sell The Farm, D.N.R. New York
2023 D.N.R. Catalog 22-23 (catalog launch at Dunkunsthalle, NYC)

Photo: Ad Ceto

Published Writing2024 Press Release for K.S. Tehara's Arid Places at INVESTMENT MANUALS, NYC
Press Release for Arthur Marie's and Cooper Jacoby's Onsen Confidential at KAYOKOYUKI, Toyko (via Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris)
2023 Europacity (with Jae August), von hundert magazine, Berlin
2022 The Living Diamonds of Yakutia (with Jae August), D.N.R, New York

Photo: SARA'S, NYC

Press2025 e-flux, “Graduate projects now online“, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK), Oct. 2025.
2023 Kunstforum International, “Von Hundert“, Judith Elisabeth Weiss, April 23.
KAT’S INFERNO, “Mass-Produced Mammoths”, Kat Kitay, Oct. 2023.

Education2025 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
2024 Bard College, New York

Photo: Queenie Si