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Hamburg, June 2025: A Time of Living in Between
The four-channel installation “A Time of Living in Between” was shown at June 2025 at ASA Open Studios, hosted by HfbK Hamburg (Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts) and Alfred Töpfer Foundation. A collaboration between Rafael Kuhn and Leonard Maassen, A Time of Living in Between explores how memories of conflict are distributed in architectural, environmental, and…
Requiem for a Glacier Hollow
“Requiem for a Glacier Hollow” was written for World Day for Glaciers 2025, an international event introduced as part of the United Nations International Year for Glaciers’ Preservation. The poem is accompanied by M E L T, a soundscape presenting sounds collected in ice caves under the Morteratsch Glacier during the 2023 summer ice melt.…
militarisation, polarisation and environmental leadership
In the past months, we have seen an unfolding tendency towards militarization and unhemmed geopolitical aggression. Increased defense spending is diverting resources from environmental initiatives and numerous large corporates have followed Trump’s lead to abandon those hard-won climate agreements and targets that intend to collectively steer humanity towards a more prosperous future. A near-term future…
Take Me To Space – Watch Now
In a surreal and symbolic animated world conjured with the assistance of generative AI, Take Me To Space explores the cyclical experience of losing oneself in the chaos of modern life, and finding a way to become grounded once again. These themes recur throughout Leonard Maassen’s upcoming album, ‘Inside Cycles’. The music video features an…
Fragile Ecologies – London School of Economics (26/02/24)
Organised by Marie Petersmann (LSE Law School) and Maria Christina Achilleoude (LSE LLM student), in the presence of curator María Montero Sierra (Head of Program at TBA21–Academy) and artist Leonard Maassen. How do we come to terms, and how can we make sense, of fragile, fluid, and vanishing ecologies? How can aesthetical representations and performances…
Reflections on “Colours”
Colours expresses the feeling of having to let go of somebody who you love in order for both of you to grow. It’s about meeting them again one day far in the future, when both of you are older and wiser, able to experience the beauty of the past with less attachment. I wanted to…
Gigi Williams – Oh Nina Release
The first single I produced for Gigi Williams was released on 24th November 2023. Support from Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2 and Soho Radio. More to follow in 2024. Watch below:
MUSE Digital Art Awards – Finalist
Out of more than 200 artists from 44 countries, I was selected as one of 20 finalists for the MUSE Digital Art Award 2023. Curated by Julia Rajacic, Ilaria Bonacossa, Domenico Quaranta and Gabriela Galati, MUSE awards “contemporary artists who imagine a better future for the world of tomorrow and inspire us in our transformational…
Heart of a Glacier at The Crypt Gallery, London
An early version of the installation Heart of a Glacier will be shown at The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras as part of Polyphonic, curated by Juice Shuting and Lilyan Cheng. 📍165 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BA Crypt Gallery Polyphonic is a site-specific exhibition using the acoustics of The Crypt Gallery to create an interacting soundscape…
Sound of the Year Awards 2022
‘Guide Me Across the Street’ was one of three recordings nominated for the category ‘Best Sound Innovation in Everyday Life’ at the international Sound of the Year Awards 2022. The judging panel is chaired by composer Matthew Herbert, and includes, among others, Dr. Linda O’Keefe, Kate Parr, Prof. Trevor Cox, Emekah Ogboh. The winner will…
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