Leonor Antunes

Leonor Antunes (Lisbon, 1972) graduated in Visual Arts – Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon in 1998 and lives in Berlin since 2005. Leonor Antunes explores the relationships between sculpture, architecture, design and the decorative arts. An attentive researcher of some of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century, the artist appropriates formal elements collected in the scope of her investigation, giving them new contexts to question the way we look at modernity and its critical reception. Measure, scale, proportion and the ductile character of materials, such as leather, rubber and various metals, are fundamental elements in the artist’s work, used to create spaces of tension between seriality and manufacture.

Leonor Antunes has represented Portugal at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Her work has been widely shown, both nationally and internationally.