Leander Djønne
The work consists of 12 zip-locked bags containing ashes. The individual titles are as following:
1: The Ashes of British Petroleum
2: The Ashes of Burma
3: The Ashes of USSR
4: The Ashes of Nazi-Germany
5: The Ashes of Illuminati
6: The Ashes of USA
7: The Ashes of Friedman/Schwartz
8: The Ashes of UN
9: The Ashes of Desmund Tutu
10: The Ashes of Israel
11: The Ashes of Statoil Hydro
12: The Ashes of 2012
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Leander Djønne
Born, 1981, in Odda, NorwayLives and works in Oslo, NorwayArtistic expression: Mixed Media
Artist statementLeander Djønne (1981) was born in Odda, Norway. He was educated at the Art Academy in Oslo, Bergen, Staedelschüle, Frankfurt am Main and Malmö where he graduated in 2007 (MFA).
Djønne has had solo exhibitions at UKS, Oslo and Gallery Rekord in Oslo. He has participated in several group shows a.o. at Kunstnerforbundet, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Projekt 0047, Bonnier Konsthall, Documenta 12 Magazines, Generali Foundation Vienna, Gallery F15 og Hannover Kunstverein.
During the last couple of years Leander Djønne has been engaged in an art practice that moves between multiple mediums–film, video, text, performance, installation, photography and teaching. This in an ongoing artistic investigation into the relations of politics, history, perception and the process of individual and collective production of knowledge.
To this aim, he employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed from artistic and academic practices such as film, poetry, theater, linguistics, and journalism. Leander Djønne is also involved with the artist group The Parallel Action together with Anders Dahl Monsen, and the artist run intiative Dortmund Bodega, Oslo.
