Leonore
Leitner

Leonore Leitner (b. 1996, Austrian, lives and works between Vienna and London) blends real-life references with pop-cultural elements for her work, often merging familiar iconography with motifs of transience. Her paintings capture the pulse of the present while playing with aesthetic tensions – between past and present, commerce and individuality, reality and pop.

In Leitner’s wry visual universe, mortality, anxiety and the absurd seep into the everyday, almost unnoticed – until they grip us. 

Leonore picks up the Zeitgeist and plays with contemporary topics, often displaying a bit of satire. 

Leonore started exhibiting her work in 2025 and she enjoys the creative freedom that painting offers in contrast to her otherwise commercial work – her contemporary visual language is inspired, among other things, by her background in advertising. Studying at the renowned University of Applied Arts Vienna, as well as previously at the School of Communication Arts in London, Leonore combines classical techniques with modern narratives.