Leonor Antunes

Leonor Antunes is a Portuguese artist based in Berlin. Her work begins with measurement—an act of observation that becomes translation. What begins as notation becomes sculpture: a record of tension, gravity, and restraint. She studies the dimensions of spaces, furniture, and architectural details, reconfiguring them into suspended forms that fall between structure and ornament. In New York, she is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery and has exhibited widely, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, and the Tate, London. Antunes often engages with the legacies of women who expanded the language of modernism, including Anni Albers (1899–1994), Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), and Lygia Clark (1920–1988). By remeasuring their drawings, textiles, and designs, she translates their methods of structure, tactility, and repetition into her own sculptural vocabulary. Materials such as leather, rope, brass, and wood embody both strength and fatigue; they twist, sag, and find equilibrium over time. For Side Hustle, Antunes presents discrepancies with S and T (2017/2025), a suspended sculpture composed of leather, nylon and hemp rope, brass, and wooden beads. The work hangs from the ceiling like a fragment of architecture—structured yet pliant, defined by gravity and the tension of its own making. It extends her signature dialogue, in which she renders space through the simplest means: repetition, weight, and line.