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Country: Germany
Webpage: https://nagel-draxler.de/artist/leon-kahane/
Leon Kahane, born 1985 in Berlin, first completed a photography education at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin, before studying fine arts at Universität der Künste, Berlin. Kahane currently lives and works in Berlin. He creates conceptual video works, photographs and installations that centre on themes of migration, identity and coming to terms with majorities and minorities in a globalised society. His interest frequently focuses on geopolitical and social changes of the recent past. Time and again he calls attention to events and institutions that express the contradictions inherent in history. They reflect historical, political, economic and biographical aspects, which he takes up and explores in his works. Especially the socio-cultural situatedness of current political debates and dynamics is central to his artistic approach, which is a form of cultural critique. Most recently, his works were shown at the NS-Dokumentationszentrum in Munich, the Kunsthalle Wien and at the 6th Moscow Biennial. In 2017, he received the ars viva art award.
The film tells the story of the ideological representation of the GDR as an antifascist...
