Ghislaine Leung’s works often utilise their surrounding structures – exhibition space, temporal durational, regional location or organisational partners – as limits deployed through sets of conditions for each institution to perform the work. In her ongoing Questions talks, the artist takes the structure, and demand, of the artist talk to task, stipulating the requirement for no presentation to be given but there instead only be questions asked, to which Leung will respond accordingly.

Ghislaine Leung is a British conceptual artist. Her work uses score-based instructions to radically redistribute and constitute the terms of artistic production. For Leung, limitations, felt as personal, institutional, structural or systemic to the parameters of industry, are engaged in as means to institute differently. Born in Stockholm, Sweden to a father from Hong Kong and a mother from London, she was raised first in Reims, France and then in London, England. She received a BA Fine Art in Context at the University of the West of England in 2002 and a Masters in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University in 2009. Between 2004 and 2014 she worked at Tate and LUX, London.

Leung has had solo exhibitions, among others, at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA; Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark; Ordet, Milan, Italy; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany; Chisenhale, London, UK; Cell Project Space, London, UK and WIELS, Brussels, Belgium. Her work has been exhibited in various international group exhibitions, among others HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria; CAPC, Bordeaux, France; By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China; Museion, Bolzano, Italy; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK. Leung’s first book was Partners (Cell Project Space, 2018) with her second book Bosses published in 2023 with Divided. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2023 and lives in London, UK.

Photo Credit: Ghislaine Leung, Holdings, detail, 2024. Score: An object that is no longer an artwork. Photo by Bob. Courtesy of the Artist, Maxwell Graham, New York and Cabinet, London