Leon Filter (1988) is an artist and researcher working with performative reading, drawing, video and publishing. In his practice, he examines conditions and historical and political implications of personal narratives, often in collaborative forms. His research's practical and theoretical concern for anecdotal knowledge and the connections it allows is influenced by documentary, essayistic and performative filmic practices, specifically under the aspects of pedagogy, authorship and unfitness.
Leon's continuously accompanying practice The Listening Group (
www.listeninggroup.info) initiates communal conversations and inquiries on selected texts and films. He presented his work with, among others, Bulegoa z/b, KW Berlin, Van Abbe Museum, Sonsbeek 20
→24, August Verlag Berlin and Edition Malade, and was supported by DAAD, Mondriaan fonds, Akademie der Künste and Akademie Schloss Solitude. He studied Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute and Artistic Research and Film/Video at Merz Akademie.
Watch Leon's 20 minute presentation Farewell, doors for CONSTANT CRAVING ~ PERFORMING UNDER CONDITIONS - DAI's 3 day long performance lecture marathon at State of Concept in Athens, June 2018.
Learn more about Leon Filter's written MA thesis (DAI, 2018): Grafted Origins: Lineages of the Index
Follow Leon's "Life after DAI" via his website
Leon Filter soon returned to DAI as a member of the tutorial team of the COOP study group ~ Curating Positions(2019 - till now and onward) as well as a member of the DAI's Admissions Committee.
2024-2025 COOP study group ~ Curating Positions: Voz de Tierra
2023-2024 COOP study group ~ Curating Positions: Stream of consciousness: between collective filmmaking and anarchist thought
2022-2023 COOP study group ~ Curating Positions: A cut through the screen
2021-2022 COOP study group ~ Curating Positions: Nostalgia for the light*: Struggles’ Reverberations in Cinema
2020-2021 COOP study group ~ Curating Positions: Bodies and Antibodies in Cinema
2019-2020 COOP study group: Curating Positions: Location In Reverse- Care For a Place Through the Cinematic Lens
2018-2019 COOP study group: Curating Positions: Logics of Montage. In Between the Cinematic Apparatus and the Exhibition
