Leandro Erlich
Biography
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1973. Lives and works in Buenos Aires
Leandro Erlich’s work explores the artifices of visuality, through sensory and perceptual games. Everyday architecture is a recurrent theme in his work, with which he creates paradoxes between what we believe and what we see, with situations of mystery and questioning. This transgression of limits destabilizes not only our absolute beliefs, but also the limits of art and the legitimizing institutions. Through installations, sculptures, photographs and videos, the artist simulates situations that dislocate our everyday experience and our understanding of the common.
He has held solo shows at many important institutions, most notably: Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, USA (2023), Palazzo Reale, Milão, Italy (2023), Perez Art Museum Miami - PAMM, Miami, USA (2022), The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA (2022), the roaming of the venues of Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - CCBB, Brazil (2021-22), Sea World Cultural Center, China (2021), Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea (2020); MALBA, Argentina (2019); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2013); Barbican Centre, London, England (2013); the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo (2009); the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2008); PS1 MoMA, New York, USA (2008); and the Museo del Barrio, New York, USA (2001). Group shows he has participated in most notably include the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León – MUSAC, Spain (2022), Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador (2016); the Singapore Biennial (2008); the Venice Biennale, Italy (2001, 2005); the Bienal de São Paulo (2004); the Busan Biennale, South Korea (2002); the Bienal de la Habana, Cuba (2000); the I Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (1997); and an exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2024, 2012). His work figures in public and private collections, such as those of the 21st Century Museum of Art Kanazawa (Japan); the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (USA); the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (France); the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Italy); the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (USA); Daros-Latinamerica (Switzerland); the Fond National d'Art Contemporain de France (France); and Tate Modern (England).
Works
Exhibitions
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Leandro Erlich | Blind Window
14 June - 13 August 2016Regina Silveira is preparing a new installation for the exhibition that will also include technical drawings of projects from the 80s and 90s. In parallel, the gallery will present a hitherto unseen installation by Leandro Erlich.Read more -
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27 November - 27 February 2015Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Maria Montero and Rafael Vogt Maia Rosa, the show is the last one presented in the space at Gomes de Carvalho street, as in 2016 the gallery will move to a house designed by Rino Levi at Jardim Europa. The selection of works includes pieces by artists such as Regina Silveira, Nelson Leirner, Marina Abramović, Geraldo de Barros, Rochelle Costi, Caio Reisewitz, Thomaz Farkas and Tiago Tebet, exhibited exactly at the same location where they where originally shown in the gallery.Read more