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Jac Leirner

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b. 1961, Brazil

The works of Jac Leirner are often created from mundane or formally unremarkable materials such as bank notes, blankets, cigarette paper, or water levels. Her large-scale installations recall the formal stricture of minimalist seriality and the evocative use of found materials characteristic of Arte Povera, while at the same time offering commentary on social codes.

Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Jac Leirner, Us Horizon at Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany Closed 12 March–14 April 2022 Jac Leirner Us Horizon
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, PS81E at Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany Closed 16 June–26 July 2020 Group Exhibition PS81E
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, Afinidades Eletivas at Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany Closed 2 February–3 March 2018 Group Exhibition Afinidades Eletivas

Recent Artworks

Drugs and Religion by Jac Leirner contemporary artwork sculpture
Jac Leirner Drugs and Religion, 1985–2022 Set of 8 plastic bags
110 x 135 cm
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Superstar Marlon by Jac Leirner contemporary artwork works on paper
Jac Leirner Superstar Marlon, 2020 Paper collage
30 x 23 cm
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Alma by Jac Leirner contemporary artwork installation
Jac Leirner Alma, 1989 Plastic bag, polyester foam
51 x 25 cm
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Us Artists by Jac Leirner contemporary artwork installation
Jac Leirner Us Artists, 1985–2022 Set of 9 plastic bags
182 x 182 cm
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Prisms by Jac Leirner contemporary artwork sculpture, installation
Jac Leirner Prisms, 2022 64 pouches (vinyl, magnets, styrofoam), 5 I-beams (IPE 300)
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Us Horizon by Jac Leirner contemporary artwork sculpture
Jac Leirner Us Horizon, 1985–2022 220 plastic bags (106 top row, 114 bottom row)
Esther Schipper Contact Gallery
Metal Wood Black by Jac Leirner contemporary artwork sculpture
Jac Leirner Metal Wood Black, 2017 Wood, metal and plastic
102 x 347 x 1 cm
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Skin (Juicy Jay‘s Watermelon King Size Slim) by Jac Leirner contemporary artwork sculpture
Jac Leirner Skin (Juicy Jay‘s Watermelon King Size Slim), 2013 Cigarette rolling papers (680 units)
200 x 200 x 1.5 cm
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Jac Leirner In Ocula Magazine

Jac Leirner at White Cube Mason's Yard, London Ocula Insight Jac Leirner at White Cube Mason's Yard, London By Stephanie Bailey

Never attach the word ‘art’ to other words such as gender, globalisation, crime, technology, sex, economy or movement. Leave these subjects to people that know them better than you. Stick to art and only art.

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Jac Leirner In Related Press

8 Must-See Exhibitions This Week, From Toronto to São Paulo and Beyond Related Press 8 Must-See Exhibitions This Week, From Toronto to São Paulo and Beyond 3 February 2020, Surface

Construção When: Feb. 6–Mar. 21 Where: Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo What: Though this exhibition takes its name from Brazilian singer Chico Buarque’s storied 1971 song, which tells the tale of a cons

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Junkie: Jac Leirner at White Cube, Mason's Yard Related Press Junkie: Jac Leirner at White Cube, Mason's Yard 11 May 2016, Aesthetica

The subject of drugs in art is a longstanding tradition. In the nineteenth century, London’s dens of iniquity would go on to inspire several works of literature, poetry and art, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ode to opium dreams, Kubla Khan. In 1821, Thomas de Quincey’s serialised Confessions of an English Opium Eater first...

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