René Landspersky
is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and activist exploring how language shapes identity, belonging, and power.
His work focuses on the coloniality of language, questioning how words construct reality — and who gets to define it.
This experience became the foundation of a practice that investigates language not as a fixed system, but as a space of tension, transformation, and possibility.
It was something lived, negotiated, and constantly shifting.
Growing up in a multilingual environment, language was never neutral.
René expands his practice across performance, installation, sound, and interdisciplinary formats.
Working primarily with text,
Awareness of privilege
Commitment to listening over claiming authority
A continuous process of learning and unlearning
Decolonial thinking, in this context, is not a concept—but an ongoing practice.
Writing from the perspective of a white European artist, René engages his own positionality critically.
His work is guided by:
His work moves across:
Language & Power
Identity & Migration
Memory & Narrative
Social Justice & Belonging
Decolonial Thinking
René Wilhelm Landspersky
Art enables me and you to attend otherwise.
The Futures are Now !
René Landspersky is based in Germany and co-founded what remains gallery projects in 2009.
His interdisciplinary work bridges art, research, and public engagement, often collaborating with artists, educators, and communities.
Rather than providing answers, his work creates spaces for reflection, discomfort, and dialogue.
Who is allowed to speak—and who is not?
What defines belonging?
How do linguistic systems reproduce power?
What defines belonging?
How do linguistic systems reproduce power?
His work asks:
Language shapes, how we think, how we relate, who is included and who is excluded.
Language is often seen as neutral, but it is not.
This work invites a deeper awareness of these structures and opens space for more inclusive and conscious ways of understanding the world.
