Leo Elia (b. 1998, Berlin) is a German artist working across sculpture, video, performance, painting and installation.
Photo: Altay Tuz
Solo Exhibitions
2027 (upc.) aaaa Nordhavn, CPH, DK
2026 (upc.) Playbill Prologue, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg, DE (Performance)
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
Solo Events
2026 (upc.) The Scarecrows of Saskan Live Action Remake, London, UK (Performance)
Leo Elia & The Scarecrows of Saskan, London, UK (Performance)
Photo: Morten Underbjerg
Group Exhibitions
2025 (upc.) The Scarecrows of Saskan Barbershop Quartet at Rewild, CPH, DK (Performance)
Better Promises, Vorfluter, Berlin, DE
2025 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
Lonely Tunes at Stevenson Library, Bard College, New York (Screening)
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 Projects
2024 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 & Discography
2026 (upc.) The Scarecrows Of Saskan, Leo Elia (physical + 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 Writing
2024 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
Press
2025 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.
Education
2025 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
2024 Bard College, New York
Photo: Queenie Si
