Book Launch with Ghislaine Leung and Karsten Lund (Senior Curator, The Renaissance Society, Chicago) 

Based on a strictly conceptual yet deeply personal approach, Ghislaine Leung creates works that make the social, institutional and individual conditions of artistic production palpable. Since 2015, Leung’s practice has been predominantly based on scores – written descriptions whose implementation is interpreted by the art institution and its employees.

The new publication Ghislaine Leung: Holdings (2015-2025) reflects on ten years of Leung’s work. For the first time in one place, Leung offers a comprehensive list of her scores, plus the non-score works that have punctuated her exhibitions. An extensive image section documents many of the scores’ iterations as they have been repeated in different places. In these pages, Leung also shares what she calls her “sub-scores,” a set of personal instructions or self-imposed conditions that have never been published before. These terms, conceived solely for the artists herself, guide her work and her terms of […]