Lucas Leffler BE, b. 1993
Lucas Leffler is a Belgian visual artist whose practice moves between documentary photography, experimentation and fiction. Adopting the position of an investigator, he combines research into the history of places with an exploration of photographic processes, materials and forgotten technical or scientific narratives.
His work is particularly concerned with the mineral and chemical properties of silver and with the histories embedded in photographic materials. Through experimentation and performative re-enactment, he revisits overlooked practices and figures — from August Strindberg’s celestographs to Lilly Kolisko’s experiments with silver nitrate — questioning how history is written, transmitted and reassessed in the present.
Education
Lucas Leffler graduated with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent in 2019. From 2022 to 2024, he completed a Post-Master programme at Le Fresnoy – Studio National in Tourcoing, France.
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
- What a nice day for a revolution!, Lee-Bauwens Gallery, Brussels, 2026
- Constellation of Nitrate, Lee-Bauwens Gallery, Brussels, 2024
- Sludge, Steel & Silver, Contretype, Brussels, 2022
- Paris Photo, Curiosa sector, with Intervalle Gallery, Paris, 2021
- approche, Intervalle Gallery, Paris, 2021
Historituals, Plagiarama, Brussels, 2021
Group Exhibitions (selected)
- Paris Photo, main sector, with Intervalle Gallery, Paris, 2025
- Extroverted Images, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria, 2025
- Triennale Art Public, Bouillon, Belgium, 2025
- Paris Photo, main sector, with Intervalle Gallery, Paris, 2024
- Matière Critique, ISELP, Brussels, 2024
- Épreuve de la matière, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 2023
- Atlas chimérique, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, 2023
- Biennale de l’Image Tangible, Paris, 2021
- .tiff #09, FOMU, Antwerp, 2021
Awards & Residencies
In 2022, Lucas Leffler was a laureate of Picto Lab and a finalist for C/O Berlin. He was selected for the FOMU .tiff programme in 2020 and received an editorial grant from the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles in 2019.
His residencies include the Musée Nicéphore Niépce in Chalon-sur-Saône in 2023, the Cité internationale des Arts / Picto Lab in Paris in 2022, and Contretype in Brussels in 2020.
Collections
His work is held in collections including the New York Public Library, FOMU – Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Photo Elysée in Lausanne, the Boghossian Foundation, Cloud Seven / Frédéric de Goldschmidt and Contretype in Brussels.
Publications
- Reversal Factory, RVB Books, 2026
- Zilverbeek (The Silver Creek), The Eriskay Connection, 2019