CV
Len Bay | they/he
contact: lenbay(at)proton.me
*1994 in Hamburg, Germany
currently based in Leipzig, Germany
since 2025 – postgraduate Meister student at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), with Prof. Joachim Blank
2025 Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB)
2022-2025 – Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), with Prof. Joachim Blank
2019-2022 – Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle/Saale, with Prof. Andrea Zaumseil
2018-2019 – Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts Kiel
selected exhibitions, artist talks, residencies
2026
47 Kunstwerke | 47m | Leipzig
States in Transit | trio | Raw Lemon Gallery | Leipzig
stay with me | group | HGB Leipzig
2025
Wintersalon | group | Kunstverein Meißen
Running on empty | group | BCMA Berlin
Modo Saltus | duo | Kunstsammlung Halle | Leipzig
Academy POSITIONS | POSITIONS Artfair Berlin
NOI | group | BBK Ausstellung | Kulturhof Gohlis | Leipzig
Unframed/Reframed | group | Spinnerei UG 14 | Leipzig
Don‘t Break My Dezellularisiertes Schweineherz | group | Galerie KUB | Leipzig
Diploma Exhibition | duo | HGB Leipzig
Acts of Soft Defiance | group | SLUG | Leipzig
no matter what | duo | a&o Kunsthalle | Leipzig
Giving and Giving | group | HGB Leipzig
2024
This exhibition has closed now… Tomorrow | group | AS/EM | Leipzig
secret garden: a lament by SLUG | group | Spinnerei Werkschauhalle | Leipzig
no longer […] not yet | group | HGB Leipzig
2023
(glad) you made it | group | TTTT | HGB Leipzig
Lost and Found | group | GU11 | Köln
Guests, Hosts and Ghosts | group | IKZP | Petersburg
studio residency | Spinnerei Kombinat | Leipzig
membra(I)nes | group | 12th Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Association | HGB Leipzig & Volkspark Galerie Halle/Saale
Queer reading als membranisches Schwingen | artist talk with Prof. Dr. Barbara Paul, Magdalena Götz & Jun.- Prof. Dr. Jenny Schrödl | by invitation of the 12th Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Association | HGB Leipzig & Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
landing | group | HGB Leipzig
nomination | scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
2022
shortlist | scholarship by the Cusanuswerk Foundation
artist talk with Nilay Şahin | by invitation of the Institute of Art at Karlsruhe University of Education | Karlsruhe
xyz | group | Orgelfabrik | Karlsruhe
juicy things | group | Volkspark Galerie | Halle/Saale
2021
shortlist | scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
teaching
2026 – course instructor for ‘Stacking Stories – Experimental Storytelling in Relief and Form’ at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig Evening Academy
2025/26 – course instructor for ‘Material and Attitude – Composition, Connotation, Context’ at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig Evening Academy