Leonard von Brenndorff (he/him, b. 1994) is a spatial practitioner based in Germany. His practice engages with landscapes and sites shaped by infrastructural intervention and reads them as spaces where memory and belonging are produced, contested, and displaced. With a background in carpentry, his relation to materiality unfolds through an ongoing unlearning of industrialized modes of extraction and production. Through narrative, historical inquiry, and technical analysis, he examines how forms of control are sedimented in spaces. Grounded in embodied experiences of collective inhabitation and close proximity to the sites he investigates, his work asks how to hold on to those places marked by damage, proclaimed inevitability, and unsettled responsibilities.
Leonard is currently studying at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam with the department Studio for Immediate Spaces. Trained as a professional carpenter in Bavaria, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cologne in 2022. His work has been showcased in venues such as MAKK (Museum of Applied Arts Cologne), San Gimignano Lichtenberg for CONCEPTUAL Biennale Berlin and at REWIRE Festival 2026, The Hague.
Exhibitions
2026 REWIRE, Context Programme – Under the clouds, Former American Embassy, The Hague
2026 SIS (play on Swedish Institute for Standards) Open Day Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
2025 CONCEPTUAL Biennale Berlin, San Gimignano Lichtenberg
2025 ONE First Year Show, Studio for Immediate Spaces, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam