Alejandro Leonhardt (Puerto Varas, Chile, 1985) is an artist whose research explores the waste that humans leave behind. Material vestiges with which he develops proposals that move between sculpture and installation. He studied Fine Arts at the Universidad ARCIS (2009) and a Master in Visual Arts at the Universidad de Chile (2015).

His work has been exhibited individually and collectively both in Chile and abroad, including: “Flotación y destrucción”, _unespacio (Chile, 2021); “Líquida superficie sólida”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Chile, 2021), both curated by Carolina Castro Jorquera; “Alguien, nadie, cualquiera”, L21 Gallery (Spain, 2021); “The missing link: part 1 (the object)”, Platform 6ª (Belgium, 2020), curated by Phillipe Van Cauteren; “Unidad mínima”, Espacio El Dorado (Colombia, 2018); “Leer un rayo”, Galería Patricia Ready (Chile, 2018); “Los cimientos, los pilares y el firmamento”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Chile, 2017), Curated by Àngels Miralda Tena; and “Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA”, LAXART (U.S.A., 2017).

He has been awarded with the “Fondo Nacional de las Artes 2021” granted by the Government of Chile. He has been selected in the “Convocatoria Nacional de Adquisición de Obras de Artes Visuales 2020” by the Government of Chile and has received an honourable mention in the “IV Concurso Artespacio Joven BBVA”, in 2018. Together with L21 Gallery he has been awarded the “Ron Barceló Imperial / ARCO Madrid prize (Spain, 2015). He has won the “Visioni Future” award at SWAB Art Fair (Spain, 2014).

Leonhardt has participated in the residency programmes L21 Residency (Spain, 2023); Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (Uruguay, 2018); Sagrada Mercancía (Chile, 2016); FLORA Ars+Natura (Colombia, 2015) and at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa (Spain, 2015)