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Per-Oskar Leu
is an artist based in Oslo. In 2013, he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. He has exhibited at Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt; Johan Berggren Gallery and Malmö Art Museum, Malmö; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; EVA International Biennial, Limerick; and 1/9 Unosunove, Rome, where he showed his most recent collaborative project, “Benjamin Tiven c/o Per-Oskar Leu—an alternate correspondence.”
"A Forcing of Barriers" was first presented as a performance at Appartement, in Berlin, on July 16, 2010, with the actor Daniel Schrader as Arno Breker and Georg Springer as Otto Freundlich. The performance was presented as part of "
Sender, Carrier, Receiver," a series of public programs in Paris, Berlin, and Sarajevo, organized by Triple Canopy with Nine Eglantine Yamamoto-Masson. It was commissioned by Triple Canopy as part of its
Internet as Material project area, with support provided by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston.