Baum & Leahy

For the London Design Festival 2026 Baum & Leahy will be showing limited edition works at Know & Love. This London Design Festival collaboration has been an opportunity to expand on themes within recent projects and imagine how they might be reimagined as an experience within the home. A feature of many of the creations Baum & Leahy will be showing at Know & Love is the use of unused materials and offcuts from previous projects – working resourcefully with found materials and waste streams is an ongoing methodology in their practice. As a result, many of the objects being shown at Know & Love during the London Design Festival will be materially connected to their artworks, extending the projects from the gallery into the home. Baum & Leahy is an artist duo working across sculpture, visual art, installation and public engagement. Their practice brings together ecological thinking, contemporary scientific research and sensory worldmaking. Collaborating with scientists and cultural practitioners, their research-led projects, rooted in the natural and social sciences, are shaped through multisensory experience, spatial immersion and material storytelling. Guided by themes such as biophilia, multispecies coexistence and microbiopolitics, they develop projects that cultivate ecological imagination and expand sensory awareness. Working across art institutions, public space and academia, they approach collaboration as a mode of knowledge-making grounded in relation and mutual transformation. Baum & Leahy (Amanda Baum (*1991) and Rose Leahy (*1992)) work between Copenhagen and London and have exhibited internationally, including at Wellcome Collection, Modern Art Oxford, Somerset House, V&A (UK), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, The National Gallery of Denmark, Medical Museion (DK), Nieuwe Instituut, Museum Het Valkhof, MU Hybrid Art House, Into Nature Biennial (NL), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (ES), Blackwood Gallery (CA) and Art Laboratory Berlin (DE). Recent activities include a visiting arts fellowship focusing on the biosocial holobiont at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the University of Edinburgh, a public engagement project on sustainability and art-science communication (Sustain Art Sci) with Medical Museion, Danish Technical University and the University of Copenhagen, exploring art and activism with Roskilde Festival (DK), and the STARTS MUSAE residency ‘Food as Medicine’. Previously, they were selected for The Danish Arts Council’s career development grant ‘The Young Artistic Elite’, were fellows at Birmingham Open Media, commissioned artists for One Cell at a Time, a public engagement program for the Human Cell Atlas, and part of CPH:DOX Lab. They are the recipients of the MASSEE Arts Grant, Post-digital Landscapes Prize, Bio Art & Design Award and the British Library Labs Artistic Award, and were shortlisted for the Hedda Prisen, Lumen Art Prize, and The Rapoport Award for Women in Art and Tech. Since 2022 they have been working with creative producer Anna Firbank.