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SARAFINA MCLEOD (*1994 EUGENE, OREGON, USA) (SHE/HER/THEY/THEM) IS A SLOW LIVING BEING, A GERMAN / US-AMERICAN ARTIST AND HUMAN. MCLEOD LIVES AND WORKS IN LEIPZIG (GERMANY) TOGETHER WITH HER COLLEGUE AND COMPANION LISI CANELA, WHO IS IDENTIFIED AS A DOG. MCLEOD’S INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKS DEPICT PERFORMATIVE MOMENTS THAT EMERGE FROM A PROCESS OF UNDERSTANDING FORMS OF RESEARCH TROUGH THE BODY AND MOVEMENT. RELATING TO INTERMEDIATE AREAS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND EXISTENCE, MCLEOD UNDERSTANDS THEIR BODY, AND OTHER BODIES, AS PLACES AND POINTS OF ACTIVE FUNCTIONS IN FORMS OF RELATION TO POINTS IN SURROUNDING SPACES.
SARAFINA MCLEOD IS CURRENTLY STUDYING IN THE MEISTERSCHÜLER:INNEN PROGRAM WITH A FOCUS IN PERFORMATIVE ARTS WITH ISABEL LEWIS AT THE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS LEIPZIG (GERMANY). MCLEOD ALSO STUDIED WITH DOROTHEA SCHÜRCH AND VALERIAN MALY IN A MASTER PROGRAM WITH A FOCUS IN PERFORMANCE ART AT THE BERN ACADEMY OF THE ARTS (SWITZERLAND) AND COMPLETED A DIPLOM DEGREE IN FINE ART STUDYING WITH AURELIA MIHAI, DONNA KUKAMA, SVENJA KREH AND THOMAS RENTMEISTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS BRAUNSCHWEIG (GERMANY) AND STUDIED AT THE MALMÖ ART ACADEMY (SWEDEN).
EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWINGS
2024 WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN WITH ROXANA RIOS, GALERIE KUB, LEIPZIG
2023 TBT WELLS, CHOREGRAPHY WITH KLASSE ISABEL LEWIS AND FRIENDS, HGB LEIPZIG
2022 CANELA´S AND MCLEOD´S HOUSE (DOGHUMANHOUSE), CABANE B, BERN
CONTEMPLATING A PLACE, TAFELHALLE NÜRNBERG
CONTEMPLATING A PLACE, TANZZENTRALE FÜRTH
FINDING BALANCE, ALTE SCHREINEREI, BERN
ACT PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL, BIEL
2021 THOMAS RENTMEISTER UND MEISTERSCHÜLER*INNEN: SKULPTUR_OBJEKTKUNST_INSTALLATION, STÄDTISCHE GALLERIE EICHENMÜLLERHAUS LEMGO
GAP* THE MIND, FESTIVAL UNTER FREIEM HIMMEL, KUNSTVEREIN DIE H_LLE E.V, BRAUNSCHWEIG
HOLD HANDS RESIDENCY EXHIBITION, KUNSTVEREIN LEIPZIG
2020-2019 OCCURANCE WITH DIS-PLAY IN HANNOVER BRAUNSCHWEIG AND TIMISOARA
2019 LOOSING TOUCH, MÖNCHEHAUS MUSEUM GOSLAR
2018 ANFORDERUNG AN EINEN STUHL, KUNSTSCHAUFENSTER WOLFSBURG
INSZENIERTE WIRKLICHKEITEN, KELLER DREI, HANNOVER
INTERIORA PATENT, RITTERGUT LUCKLUM
2017 TIGHT INTERSECTION, GALLERIE DES WESTENS E. V., BREMEN
2016 ABSTAND MIT ANSTAND, KONNEKTOR FORUM FÜR KÜNSTE, HANNOVER
2015 SARAFINA MCLEOD AND ARNOLD MCLEOD, CAFÉ OMAR, ULM
2014 EMBARGO, AUSTELLUNGSRAUM EMBARGO, ULM
2022 SOMATIC ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
2021 HOLD HANDS RESIDENCY
2018-2022 SCHOLARSHIP FROM STUDIENSTIFTUNG DES DEUTSCHEN VOLKES
2013 NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC ART AWARD, USA
SCHOLASTIC ART AWARD STATE OF VERMONT, USA
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