LeonieKennedy

art historian & curator at SENDER

Berlin

In her words

Seagrass swaying in water, caressing ankles, tickling skin.
Pressing and devouring, rising and expanding, questioning and hurting, sensing and sweating, tasting and spitting out, never complete.
Bodies appear as permeable states continuously re-forming through contact.

— Leonie Kennedy, excerpts from her text for Bone to Skin to Body to Touch, SENDER, Hamburg, 2026.Full text: auraroig.com, simonekarl.de

Upcoming

Raiko Sánchez

ON EDGE

23 October – 1 November 2026

Opening Friday 23 October, 19:00

SENDER, Billhorner Deich 126, Hamburg

Curated by Leonie Kennedy

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A white room with a low, beamed ceiling and fluorescent tubes. Two long sculptures of stuffed textile forms, beads and cord hang from the ceiling in the foreground. A small painting of a mouth is cut off at the left edge, a blue wall piece hangs on the back wall, and a thin chain-like piece hangs on the right wall. — The room at SENDER, Hamburg, 2026. Works by Simone Karl, Theresa Weber and Aura Roig.

June 2026

Bone to Skin to Body to Touch

With Simone Karl, Theresa Weber, Aura Roig

SENDER, Hamburg

Curated by Leonie Kennedy, with her exhibition text in English.

Read the text: auraroig.com, simonekarl.de

2–9 March 2025

SEXED POWER | 8Solidarity. Tolerance. Reverse.

MOM Art Space, Hamburg

Co-curated by Leonie Kennedy and Dagmar Rauwald

Artists included Julia Autz, Candice Breitz, Cordula Ditz, Anna Sophie Knobloch, Lenner Kemmler and Cheng Jen Pei, alongside a film by Cindy Sherman and a poem by Zoe Leonard.

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Writeto Leo

Write to her, or reach her through SENDER in Hamburg.