Jan Robert Leegte
born 1973, The Netherlands, lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1995 –1999 Willem de Kooning Academy | Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art / Interaction Design
1992 –1995 Technical University Delft | Faculty of Architecture / Unfinished
Jan Robert Leegte is one of the first Dutch artists to work on and for the Internet since the 1990s. In 2002, he shifted his main focus to implementing digital materials in the context of the physical gallery space, aiming to bridge the online art world with the gallery art world, making prints, sculpture, installations, drawings, and projections, connecting to historical movements like land art, minimalism, performance art, and conceptualism.
As an artist Leegte explores the position of the new materials put forward by the (networked) computer. Photoshop selection marquees, scrollbars, Google Maps, code, and software are dissected to understand their ontological nature. The networked computer is the central muse in my work, exploring all its wonders and peculiarities. “I don't use software to make art, I make art about software”.
Selected exhibitions
2024
Selection, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE. (s)
Web as a Medium, group show, NEORT++, Tokyo, JP
Fragilia, Gallery MET, Berlin, DE
booth, Rotterdam, NL
2023
Market Makers, Berlin, DE
No Content, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (s)
Earth, AkzoNobel, Amsterdam, NL
Alt+1000, Neuchâtel, CH
Modern, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
Behind the Screens, Museum CODA, Apeldoorn, NL
2022
Repositions, Panke Gallery, Berlin, DE (s)
Analogue to Legér, Kröller Möller Museum, Otterlo, NL
Proof of Work, what’s at Stake, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Art and the Blockchain, Rozenstraat 59, Amsterdam, NL
Computing Beauty, Gallery A.dition, Seoul, KR
Inside the Outside, CODA, Apeldoorn, NL DYOR, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
More is more, Museum MORE, Gorssel, NL
2021
’Van Gogh Inspires: Jan Robert Leegte’, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL (s) Spatial Affairs, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, H
Sans Object, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Paper Art, 2021, Museum CODA, Apeldoorn, NL
2020
’Inside | Outside’, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (s)
Well Now WTF, www.wellnow.wtf, online La Nature Reconfigurée, Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, FR
Collector’s Item, Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL
2019
’Clear Obscure’, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, NL (s)
Open Codes. The Art of Coding, Goethe Institute, Mumbai, IN
*(s) solo exhibition
Curatorial, Research and Advisory (selection of recent)
2021
Cultural Matter, curatorial series, co-curator at LIMA
The Digital Weird’, guest-curator at arebyte, London
Mondrian Fund, Advisory committee member
Public Collections
His work has been exhibited internationally (Whitechapel Gallery, Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, van Gogh Museum, ZKM Karlsruhe, Centre Pompidou, Museum Ludwig Budapest).
Socials
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