Leon De Bruijne

The Netherlands, b. 1992

Leon de Bruijne (The Netherlands, 1992) is an Amsterdam based artist who makes kinetic installations and performances. By using mechanics ordinary objects are set in motion creating strange and absurd situations. The works present a playful encounter with objects in daily life. Yet easy to comprehend, the installations’ second layer ask for further investigation. His machines vary from being very explosive and destructive to being rather repetitive to ones that seem to run patiently into eternity. As an effect ‘time’ has automatically become an important theme, next to erosion, slapstick and absurdism. De Bruijne studied at the Amsterdam University of Arts (2009-2014), and got a Master in Fine Arts at KASK, Ghent (2017-2019). Since 2014 de Bruijne’s work has been shown at Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven. He worked in commission for Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (2015) and Het Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen (2017) and joined group exhibitions at W139, Amsterdam (2016), The Urban Campsite, Amsterdam (2017), Nightshift Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2018) and Antwerp (2019). A large collection of work was shown during solo exhibition Modus in Kasseler Kunstverein (2019-2020). De Bruijne has been working as a (guest) teacher at the Breitner Academy (2017, 2019) and the Academy for Architecture (2017), Amsterdam. His self initiated project ‘Het Kerstboomkanon’ (2018), a performative work in which used christmas trees are being shot with a self made canon, has been shown on different locations throughout the Netherlands and Germany.

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