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 shows
2026
Art Raffle | 47m | Leipzig
States in Transit | group | Raw Lemon Gallery | Leipzig
stay with me | group | class for installation and space | HGB Leipzig
2025
Wintersalon | group | Kunstverein Meißen | Meißen
Running on empty | group | BcmA | Berlin
Kunstsammlungen Halle | duo | Lindenow_XIX | Leipzig
Academy POSITIONS | group | POSITIONS Artfair | Berlin
BBK Leipzig | group | 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
2024
This exhibition has closed now… Tomorrow | group | AS/EM | Leipzig
secret garden: a lament | group | Spinnerei Werkschauhalle | Leipzig
no longer […] not yet | group | class for installation and space | HGB Leipzig
2023
(glad) you made it | group | TTTT | HGB Leipzig
Lost and Found | group | GU11 | Köln
Guests, Hosts and Ghosts | group | IKZP | Petersburg
membra(I)nes | group | 12th Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Association | HGB Leipzig & Volkspark Galerie Halle/Saale
2022
xyz | group | Orgelfabrik | Karlsruhe
juicy things | group | Volkspark Galerie | Halle/Saale
awards & scholarships
2026
Krupa Art Foundation Young Art Prize | finalist
MONOM Kunstpreis | winner
2023
scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) | nomination
scholarship by the Cusanuswerk Foundation | shortlist
2022
scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation) | shortlist
lectures & workshops
2026
course instructor for ‘Stacking Stories – Experimental Storytelling in Relief and Form’ at the Evening Academy of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
2025/26
course instructor for ‘Material and Attitude’ at the Evening Academy of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
2023
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 | Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig & Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
2022
artist talk with Nilay Şahin | by invitation of the Institute of Art at Karlsruhe University of Education | Karlsruhe