Mark Leckey: Enter Thru Medieval Wounds

›Enter Thru Medieval Wounds‹ combines key video works from the Julia Stoschek Collection dating from 1999—2010 with more recent works, offering a comprehensive insight into Leckey’s artistic practice.

Drawing on seminal works from the collection such as ›Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore‹ (1999), Leckey’s now-iconic portrait of British rave culture, and ›Cinema-in-the-Round‹ (2006—08), for which he received the prestigious Turner Prize in 2008, ›Enter Thru Medieval Wounds‹ explores the intersections of pop and youth culture, social class, and technology from the 1970s to the present. For nearly three decades, Leckey has examined how media shapes perception, memory, and desire, illuminating these complex, shifting processes.

The exhibition’s title, ›Enter Thru Medieval Wounds‹, reflects Leckey’s fascination with medieval iconography and the function of images beyond mere representation. Turning to familiar objects and environments—bus terminals, motorway bridges, and other urban signifiers—Leckey explores how the physical world merges with imagination and memory, and how digital imagery circulates, fractures, and returns in altered forms.

With a multifaceted practice situated at the intersection of contemporary art, music, pop culture, and technology, Leckey has shaped a visual language that remains deeply influential for a new generation of media artists.