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Sarafina McLeod in the project TIME SMUGGLER with Klasse Lewis and friends at European Culture Center in Venice. Image Credits: ECC Venice
SARAFINA MCLEOD (*1994 EUGENE, OREGON, USA) (THEY/SHE) IS A SLOW LIVING BEING, A GERMAN / US-AMERICAN ARTIST AND HUMAN. MCLEOD LIVES AND WORKS IN LEIPZIG (GERMANY) TOGETHER WITH THEIR 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 HAS STUDIED WITH ISABEL LEWIS IN A POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM (MEISTERSCHÜLER:INNEN ABSCHLUSS) 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).
SARAFINA MCLEOD ALSO WORKS AS A PERFORMER, IN VOICE, TRANSLATION AND IN EDUCATION. THEY ARE A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE COLLECTIVE INTANGIBLE ARCHIVES.
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PUBLIC ACTIVITY / EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWINGS
2025
– BIRTH OF STONES
SHOWINGS AT BISTRO 21, WERKSCHAUHALLE (SPINNEREI LEIPZIG) AND PUBLIC SPACE LOCATIONS IN LEIPZIG
2024
– WITH INTANGIBLE ARCHIVES: NOTES ON ROTATING, WATCH ME WORK #3, YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED, LEIPZIG
– WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN WITH ROXANA RIOS, GALERIE KUB, LEIPZIG
2023
– TBT WELLS CHOREOGRAPHY 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
2024
– FOUNDING OF THE COLLECTIVE “INTANGIBLE ARCHIVES” WITH LISSY WILLBERG
2022
– SOMATIC ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
2021
– HOLD HANDS RESIDENCY
2018-2022
– SCHOLARSHIP FROM STUDIENSTIFTUNG DES DEUTSCHEN VOLKES
2013
– NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC ART AWARD AND SCHOLASTIC ART AWARD STATE OF VERMONT, USA