LEUNG, Ghislaine; LUND, Karsten (eds.)
Holdings (2015-2025)

Holdings (2015-2025) offers a more expansive view of Ghislaine Leung’s work – with a comprehensive list of her scores, plus the non-score works that have punctuated her exhibitions.

Central to Leung’s practice are concise “scores,” written descriptions that outline the materials and implementation of work, which an institution then interprets and performs. An extensive image section in the book documents many of the scores’ iterations as they have been repeated in different places. In these pages, Leung also shares what she calls her “sub-scores,” a set of personal self-instructions or protocols that have never been published before. These terms, conceived solely for the artists herself, guide her work and her terms of engagement, while helping make room for a life beyond art.

Growing out of Leung’s exhibition Holdings at the Renaissance Society in 2024, this book offers an ample but knowingly provisional introduction to Leung’s work, while exploring the fundamental mutability and non-fixity of her scores. There is still plenty to see and read, including new writings by a number of people who know her and her work well. The book features essays by Hettie Judah, Mike Sperlinger, Eleanor Ivory Weber, and Renaissance Society curator Karsten Lund, as well as a lively conversation between Bruce Hainley, Karsten Lund, Ramaya Tegegne, and Helena Vilalta.

[publishers’ words]

Published by The Renaissance Society, 2025
Design by Petra Hollenbach
Monographs / Conceptual Art