Kirsten Leenaars

De Oversteek podcast: being a Dutch artist in Chicago

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...

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?

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

Review Newcity Art: A Lion for Every House

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

MSU Broad Art Museum prioritizes inclusion and equity in 2021 acquisitions

Join us for the screening of Kirsten Leenaars’ work (Re)Housing the American Dream: Freedom Principles (2018) followed by an artist’s talk.

in this interview we talk with Leenaars and Craig and revisit their amazing, collaborative video 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.

The MCA's latest exhibit preaches equity, but behind the scenes artists and former museum employees are demanding real change.

Film 50 2020: Chicago’s Screen Gems

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

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

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

(Re)imagining Tomorrow, 2018, documentary 22:32 min A group of middle schoolers living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, talk about what it means...

"For video artist Kirsten Leenaars, “envisioning justice” is about building strong communities even in the face of incarceration."

Interview with Kirsten Leenaars about documentary project: (Re)Housing the American Dream.

New City, April 17, 2008 Kirsten Leenaars’ Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer is a fragile and vulnerable video installation now showing...

Review by Lorix Waxman (Chicago Tribune) EAM Biennial Chicago Statements, Elmhurst Art Museum. Review: https://www.elmhurstartmuseum.org/...

Women in Art Today Introduction: Everyday Resistance in the Art Space by Jeffreen M. Hayes Art is one of the few spaces where the...

Listen to the interview: http://badatsports.com/2018/episode-636-haller-baggesen-and-leenaars/ Lise Haller Baggesen and Kirsten Leenaars...

Listen to the interview about the artist’s practice and process, inspiration and the show (Re)Housing the American Dream up at York...

Guest post by Lise Haller Baggesen for Bad at Sports The Doris Salcedo show, recently on view at the MCA, was a hard one to watch. Not...

EXHIBITION/CURATORIAL STATEMENT “I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to...

Kirsten Leenaars choreographs visual and sound narratives through directing persons and place to create fictionalized realities. The COMP...

Spinning Hula Hoops with My Dad, and Other Ways to Make Happiness By Lori Waxman Art historians don’t usually write about happiness. It...

KIRSTEN LEENAARS’S OPERATIC COORDINATIONS Kirsten is a Dutch artist whose minimal and open studio is found within her home on the north...

Critical Inquiry http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/info/, “Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?”by Amy M. Mooney, Ph.D.,...

Amy Moony and Neysa Page Lieberman, curators of RISK: Empathy, Art And Social Practice talk about the show on Bad At Sports LISTEN...

– POSTED BY MATT ROBINSON ON FEBRUARY 13, 2014 – I had the pleasure of conversing with artist Kirsten Leenaars. We talked social...

Kirsten Leenaars in conversation with Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the MCA, October 16, 2012. Listen here. In 2011,...

Sounding out Useful Pictures, 2013 , a conversation about love, care and making. Kirsten Leenaars in conversation with artist Adelheid...

BAD AT SPORTS, September 7, 2011 Several months ago, I was invited to share a blog with a stranger. On that blog, I was asked to write...