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 engagement, while helping make room for a life beyond art.

This publication grows out of Leung’s exhibition Holdings at the Renaissance Society in 2024, which debuted a set of new scores, but ultimately it looks far beyond it. Holdings (2015–2025) offers an ample but knowingly provisional introduction to Leung’s work, while exploring the fundamental mutability and non-fixity of her scores. The book features essays by Hettie Judah, Mike Sperlinger, Eleanor Ivory Weber, and Renaissance Society curator Karsten Lund, as well as an in-depth conversation between Bruce Hainley, Karsten Lund, Ramaya Tegegne, and Helena Vilalta. 

Ghislaine Leung (*1980 in Stockholm, lives in London) has presented her work in numerous solo exhibitions, including: Kunsthalle Basel; The Renaissance Society, Chicago (both 2024); Simian, Copenhagen (2023); Ordet, Milan; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (both 2021); Netwerk, Aalst / Belgium; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (both 2019); WIELS, Brussels (2016). In 2018, she published her book Partners (Cell Project Space), followed by Bosses (Divided) in 2023. In 2023 she was nominated for the Turner Prize.

Karsten Lund is Senior Curator at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois. He has recently curated or co-curated solo exhibitions by Ximena Garrido-Lecca (2025), Ghislaine Leung (2024), Isabelle Frances McGuire (2024–2025), Lydia Ourahmane & Alex Ayed (2021–2022) und Jill Magid (2021), among many others, and organized a number of speculative group exhibitions including Fear of Property (2022), Nine Lives (2020), and Unthought Environments (2018). In 2017, he launched Intermissions at the Ren, an ongoing performance series staged in the gallery space twice a year in between exhibitions. Lund has previously worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA) and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP).

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