Enter Thru Medieval Wounds

‘Enter Thru Medieval Wounds’ combines video works from the Julia Stoschek Collection from 1999 to 2010 with more recent works and offers a comprehensive insight into Leckey's practice.


Starting with seminal works from the collection, such as Leckey's iconic exploration of British rave culture Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Cinema-in-the-Round (2006–08), for which he won the prestigious Turner Prize in 2008, ‘Enter Thru Medieval Wounds’ explores the connections between pop and youth culture, social class and technology from the 1970s to the present day.

For almost 30 years, Leckey has been exploring how contemporary media shape our perception, memory and desire – and making these processes visible. 


The exhibition title ‘Enter Thru Medieval Wounds’ reflects Leckey's fascination with medieval iconography and the function of images beyond mere representation. In his works – primarily video, sculpture and sound – he draws on familiar objects and environments, such as bus stops, motorway bridges and other urban references. He shows how memory and imagination overlay the physical world and how digital images circulate, disintegrate and return in altered form.


With his multi-layered work at the intersection of visual art, music, pop culture and technology, Leckey has created an artistic language that is now groundbreaking for many younger media artists.

ABOUT MARK LECKEY

Mark Leckey (born 1964 in Birkenhead, Great Britain) is a British artist. He gained international recognition with his video Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), a montage of found footage paying homage to British dance subcultures from the 1970s to the 1990s. In 2008, Leckey was awarded the Turner Prize for his exhibition Industrial Light and Magic at Le Consortium in Dijon. After studying at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University), Leckey held several teaching positions, including as professor of film studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 2005 to 2009. His works have been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery in London, Lafayette Anticipations in Paris and the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Leckey's works are part of important collections, including those at Tate Britain and the Centre Pompidou. 

ABOUT THE JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION

The Julia Stoschek Foundation is a non-profit art and culture foundation dedicated to the presentation, mediation, promotion, conservation and scholarly study of time-based art. The foundation has two exhibition venues in Berlin and Düsseldorf, where groundbreaking media and performance art is made accessible to the public. It manages one of the most extensive private collections of time-based art worldwide. 



With over 900 works by more than 300 artists, the Julia Stoschek Collection includes video, film, single- and multi-channel video installations, multimedia environments, performance, sound and virtual reality works. Photography, sculpture and painting complement the time-based focus. 



 
LOCATION 
JSF Berlin
Leipziger Strasse 60, 10117 Berlin


EXHIBITION DURATION 
11 September 2025 – 3 May 2026

OPENING
10 September 2025, 18-22 hrs


Special opening hours during Berlin Art Week:
10 September (opening) 6–10 p.m. 11–14 September 12 noon–6 p.m.

After that, regular opening hours: Saturday & Sunday 12 noon–6 p.m. And every first Thursday of the month 6–10 p.m.