Biography

Leonard von Brenndorff (he/him, b. 1994) is a spatial practitioner based in Germany. His practice engages with landscapes and sites shaped by infrastructural intervention and reads them as spaces where memory and belonging are produced, contested, and displaced. Through narrative, historical inquiry, and technical analysis, he examines how forms of control are sedimented in spaces. Grounded in embodied experiences of collective inhabitation and close proximity to the sites he investigates, his work asks how to hold on to those places marked by damage, proclaimed inevitability, and unsettled responsibilities. Leonard is currently studying at Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam with the department Studio for Immediate Spaces. Trained as a professional carpenter in Bavaria, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cologne in 2022. His work has been showcased in venues such as MAKK (Museum of Applied Arts Cologne), San Gimignano Lichtenberg for CONCEPTUAL Biennale Berlin and at REWIRE Festival 2026, The Hague.