Ralph Leeten (b. 1999, Antwerp, BE) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in painting. He graduated from LUCA School of Arts in 2022, where his work evolved through sustained observation of local landscapes, arboreal structures, and the shifting relationship between humans and their immediate environment.

Leeten’s practice reflects on the contemporary condition of the Anthropocene through acts of observation and selection rather than research or narration. His paintings are constructed from found imagery that is deliberately juxtaposed, generating a feverish coherence through visual and conceptual friction between themes. During the painting process, Leeten builds extensive structures of thought, which are gradually reduced, leaving the painted work as an artifact — a residue of thinking materialized in paint. Emphasizing spatial depth and layered composition, his form of painting exposes simultaneity in both image and thought.