KIRSTEN LEENAARS

De Oversteek podcast: being a Dutch artist in Chicago

Essay by Luis Felipe Fabre: A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home"

A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home,” 2021 Three-channel video / Video en tres canales, 1:04:05 EN: Last night I set about reading...

Best Chicago art exhibitions of 2022

Best Chicago art exhibitions of 2022: ‘Tea, Torture & Reparations’ at DePaul, an outdoor ‘Flourish’ and a big year for the Cultural...

A Review: What does freedom look like?

Chicago Reader Review: A Review: What does freedom look like?

AIC Blog: An Exercise in Empathy and Trust: Collaborating with Lions

AIC Blog: Kirsten Leenaars and Joan Podkul: An Exercise in Empathy and Trust: Collaborating with Lions

Review Newcity Art: A Lion for Every House

Boulevard Dreamers on WBEZ: A weird, wonderful variety show pays tribute to Chicago culture

You’ll find a little bit of everything in Water Music on the Beach: Boulevard Dreamers, where every performer gets equal pay and stage...

MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions

Artist Talk: The Politics of Imagination

Join us for the screening of Kirsten Leenaars’ work (Re)Housing the American Dream: Freedom Principles (2018) followed by an artist’s talk.

Interviews with the Artists, Round One

in this interview we talk with Leenaars and Craig and revisit their amazing, collaborative video created for last fall's Lit & Luz Festival.

Five Artists Rewarded Artist Response Grant

Artist Response Program is going to five individual artists and artist teams in project-related grants

Five Chicago artists and artistic teams have been awarded $100,000 grants from DCASE.

‘The Long Dream’ and a labor nightmare

The MCA's latest exhibit preaches equity, but behind the scenes artists and former museum employees are demanding real change.

Newcity Film 50, 2020: Chicago's Screen Gems

Film 50 2020: Chicago’s Screen Gems

60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC Review: The Broadcast

The Broadcast proposes that the youth of this country have voices that badly need to be heard amidst the noise and chaos of our media landsc

Watch the recording of the MCA Virtual Studio Visit: in conversation with Kirsten Leenaars

Chicago artist Kirsten Leenaars uses collaborative techniques to create artworks that investigate our media landscape and encourage critical

Cleve Carney Museum of Art: Stuck in the Studio: Kirsten Leenaars

As part of Cleve Carney Museum of Art Create's ongoing series 'Stuck in the Studio' CCMA curator Justin Witte talks with Chicago-based video

The State News: New Broad Art exhibit features multimedia and local students

Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will be previewing their new multimedia exhibit titled “The Broadcast."

ARTSY: 6 Artists Imagine What a World without Prisons Looks Like

Over the past two years, Chicago artists and locals have turned to art to consider criminal justice reform.

(Re)imagining Tomorrow: a documentary

(Re)imagining Tomorrow, 2018, documentary 22:32 min A group of middle schoolers living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, talk about what it means...