Kirsten Leenaars

De Oversteek podcast: being a Dutch artist in Chicago

The Practices in Proximity: Learning and Unlearning from Pedagogical Experiences opening Friday 09-27-24

Online Panel Discussion: Documentary as Social Practice

Opening: Let the real world in, Richmond Art Gallery

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...

Screening 'Interlude' Eye Film Museum Amsterdam, November 28

PANEL Thu Oct 18: Reflections on Collaboration: 10 Years of the Lit & Luz Festival

REENCOUNTERS/ REENCUENTROS Opening night: Friday, October 13, 2023, 6:00 PM 10:00 PM

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

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

Dec 16: Screening Documentary A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home"

December 9: Premiere Documentary A Letter to the City: "jail is not my home"

Can you see me? Opening: October 14, 5-7pm Weinberg/Newton Gallery 688 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago Exhibition run: Oct 14 - Dec 17

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

Review Newcity Art: A Lion for Every House

Water Music on the Beach Boulevard Dreamers Saturday, June 25 from 4-7 PM Lane Beach, 5915 N Sheridan Rd Join us this Saturday for Water...

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

A Lion for Every House opens on Saturday, June 11th, at the Art Institute Chicago. The opening is from 11am-2pm at the museum. Michigan...

A Letter to the City: “jail is not my home”, the second project of collaborators artist Kirsten Leenaars and restorative justice...

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Opening: Friday, April 15th, 6pm – 9pm. Open hours Saturday, April 16th, 10am – 5pm. Design Museum of...

Kirsten Leenaars & Whitney Bradshaw: Embodiments in Time Public (Virtual) Lecture, Tuesday, January 25th: Zoom webinar. When: Jan 25,...

Moreau Art Galleries at Saint Mary's College present: Body, Mind, Spirit: Embodiments in Time -- a collaborative project and gallery...

Filming this week our documentary, funded by the DCASE Artist Response Grant A Letter to the City: “Jail is not my home” Circles &...

Chicago API Artists United is raising money to support @advancingjusticechicago

MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions

"The Broadcast" video project acquired by Broad Museum of Art MSU.

Join Lit & Luz Wednesdays, May 12, at 7:30PM CT as we revisit the amazing, collaborative videos created for last fall's Lit & Luz Festival.

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.

Kirsten Leenaars awarded Artist Response Grant ($100,000) by the City of Chicago.

Who gets to imagine what? The act of imagining itself is not a fair, objective, thing. What happens when you follow 24 young people?

Against the backdrop of a global pandemic and a renewed reckoning over racial justice and inequality, trough the eyes of 70 local artists.

Artist talk: The Politics of Imagination with Kirsten Leenaars

Luminocity returns this fall for its fourth biennial iteration. A week-long video art exhibition

Film 50 2020: Chicago’s Screen Gems

The annual edition of the Lit & Luz Festival culminates in a world premiere of the festival’s first virtual Live Magazine Show.

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

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

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

join us via Lumpen Radio's twitch stream to celebrate the official release of "The World's Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia."

This new documentary project by artist Kirsten Leenaars, structured as a series of video portraits across the US, traces stories of belongin

Join Leenaars to as she discusses her artistic practice and the latest evolution in her video-based work The Broadcast in conversation with

THE FRANKLIN is proud to present artists and friends in action. Over 20 Chicago artists will be connecting LIVE for a 14-hour Instagram LIVE

Watch new episodes of The Broadcast every other day: https://www.instagram.com/kirstenleenaars_thebroadcas

The Broadcast Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University November 10, 2019–April 5, 2020

Exhibition In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration

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

Opening: The Broadcast at the Broad Museum of Art MSU.

Living Architecture invites viewers to consider the ongoing impact and influence that immigrants have on art, design, labor and innovation.

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