In 1999, she fled to Germany, moving her studies to the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel and then further to the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where she worked with Tony Cragg, and from which she graduated in 2009. Since then, she has received several awards and has been included in a number of group exhibitions at institutions including The National Gallery of Kosovo (2017), Philara Stiftung (2015), Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (2015), Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven (2015), Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (2014/15), and Kunstraum Düsseldorf (2012). Salihu’s first noteworthy solo exhibitions were in 2011/12 at the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg and recently at Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden in Wuppertal (2021), Philara Stiftung (2020), and at the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (2017). Leunora Salihu lives and works in Düsseldorf.