Mark Leckey: Enter Thru Medieval Wounds

The Julia Stoschek Foundation is pleased to present one of the most extensive solo exhibitions by British artist Mark Leckey (b. 1964, Birkenhead, Great Britain) to date, featuring more than 40 works and opening September 10, 2025 in Berlin. Enter Thru Medieval Wounds combines key video works from the Julia Stoschek Collection dating from 1999 to 2010 with more recent works, offering a comprehensive insight into Leckey’s artistic practice.

Drawing on seminal works from the collection such as Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), Leckey’s now-iconic portrait of British rave culture, and Cinema-in-the-Round (2006–08), for which he received the prestigious Turner Prize in 2008, Enter Thru Medieval Wounds traces the intersections between pop and youth culture, social class, and the evolution of technology from the 1970s to the present. For nearly three decades, Leckey has examined how media shapes perception, memory, and desire, illuminating these complex, shifting processes.

The exhibition’s title, Enter Thru Medieval Wounds, reflects Leckey’s fascination with medieval iconography and the function of images beyond mere representation. In his works—primarily video, sculpture and sound—Leckey draws on familiar objects and environments rooted in his own biography, such as bus terminals, motorway bridges, and other urban signifiers. Leckey explores how the physical world merges with imagination and memory, and how digital imagery circulates, fractures, and returns in altered forms.

With multifaceted practice situated at the intersection of contemporary art, music, pop culture, and evolving technologies, Leckey has shaped a visual language that remains deeply influential for a new generation of media artists.

About the Julia Stoschek Foundation
The Julia Stoschek Foundation is a nonprofit arts and culture organization dedicated to the public presentation, advancement, conservation, and scholarship of time-based art. Across two publicly accessible exhibition spaces in Berlin and Düsseldorf, the Julia Stoschek Foundation presents pioneering media and performance art in large-scale exhibitions and discursive events. The foundation also manages the Julia Stoschek Collection, one of the world’s most comprehensive private collections of time-based art.

With over 900 artworks by 300 artists from the 1960s to today, the collection spans video, film, single- and multichannel moving-image installation, multimedia environments, performance, sound, and virtual reality. Photography, sculpture, and painting supplement its time-based emphasis.