"Like magic, art is an act of transformation, which sometimes means simply creating coincidences."
Glenda León

The OK Linz is showing the first solo exhibition and major retrospective of the work of the Cuban artist Glenda León in the German-speaking region.

Glenda León works in drawing, video, installation, sculpture/object and photography. Whether with hair, flowers, cassettes or records, text or sound, her works are a constant evocation of human existence, its hopes and fears, its excesses and emptiness, its insecurity and transcendence.

The artist is interested in the spaces between the visible and the invisible, between sound and silence, between the ephemeral and the eternal.

Glenda León's works continually challenge our perception of the world by making natural laws visible, demanding the act of listening and pausing, or addressing the divine dimension of being human. The renunciation of everything superfluous and the fusion of natural and artificial elements testify to the artist's preference for processes.

Curator: Genoveva Rückert

Glenda León, born in 1976 in Havana, Cuba, lives and works in Madrid and Havana. Drawing on a multidisciplinary background and spiritual explorations, her practice spans various media and challenges our perception of the world using unconventional materials and techniques. Her work has been widely exhibited and is included in major public exhibitions worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). She was part of the Cuban Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013; Italy).