LEO ELIA
born 1998 in Berlin
leo_elia.studio@icloud.com
• Recent exhibitions include KUPFER GALLERY, London (2024), GRUPPE MOTTO, Hamburg (2024), PALAZZO SAN GIUSEPPE, Polignano a Mare (2024), A&DT CHONNAI UNIVERSITY, Gwangju (2024), SARA’S, New York City (2023), LOCKER ROOM GALLERY, New York City (2023), ICAT, Hamburg (2023), LOBE BLOCK, Berlin (2023) and RL16, Berlin (2022).
• Past publications include Kunstforum International and D.N.R.
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Charging Mammoth, 2023
2,5m x 2m x 2m
cardboard, shipping crates, stanchions, spray paint
Trade Secret Live Drop, 2024
1m x 1,13m x 75cm
presswood, plexiglas, incubator, Club Cola bottles, document written with milk, print, blue foam
US DMV Speciality License Plate Landscape Imagery: Florida, 2023
Print on thermoformed polystyrene
Whole Earth Plaques, 2023
Print on thermoformed polystyrene
Silicon Veins, 2023
21cmx142cmx56cm
CNC-milled Microsoft Surface, Surface packaging, carved packaging foam, 19th century table, wood, plexiglas, plastic miniature gold bars, gravure print on A4 paper
“All Super Bowl Ad Slogans Since The End Of History: The best moments in life come with a few aches and pains“, paint on thermoformed plastic“, 2023
“The Living Diamonds of Yakutia“ at HFBK, Hamburg
Pleistocene Park Patreon Tier Badge Display, 2023
80cm x 120cm x 143cm
metal pipes, furniture wheels, euro pallets, print on synthetic banners, stickers, cardboard, acrylic artifact stands, plexiglas
Map of Colossal Pleistocene Park Yamal, 2023
200cm x 50cm x 100cm
print on metal sheets, hinges, padlocks
Charging Mammoth, 2023
2m x 1,6m x 1,5m
cardboard, officially licensed Wall Street Bull figurine, table tops, rubber mat, metal pipe
Gazprom Biogas Plant Model Display, 2023
2m x 1,6m x 1,5m
wooden frame, plexiglass, cable ties, print on camping table, stickers, walnut wood plates, model of a biogas plant made from ethically sourced tusk ivory
“The Living Diamonds of Yakutia“, 2022, ESSAY with Jae August, D.N.R., New York
The 2022 Whole Earth Catalog Shop Front Display, with Jae August, for RL16, Berlin (DE)