Calendar

Participating artists:
Ion Grigorescu, Sanja Iveković, Zbigniew Libera, Martha Rosler, Aykan Safoğlu, Jo Spence & Terry Dennett, Gabriele Stötzer & Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt
Kuratiert durch  Magdalena Stöger, Leon Hösl

Venue:
D21 Kunstraum
Demmeringstraße 21
04177 Leipzig

he prologue exhibition to the 10th f/stop — Festival for Photography Leipzig at Kunstraum D21 primarily brings together historical artistic practices that use the camera as a means of subliminal resistance and utilise the photographic and filmic image to create communities. The works from the 1970s to the present day create (counter)publics and subvert representational norms. They form reference points for the f/stop festival course, which opens on 31 May 2024.

The exhibition title Flucht in die Öffentlichkeit (escape into the public sphere) refers to an artistic strategy, which both Gabriele Stötzer and the Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt used to counter the continuous decomposition (Zersetzung) of critical communities by the Stasi in the 1980s. Instead of limiting themselves to working in secret, exhibitions and events were advertised and organized in public, so that state repression was exposed just as much as the art itself. From a state perspective, the association of people of similar convictions was perceived as a threat—which confirmed the feeling that a community had more freedom of action than the sum of its individuals.

Following the group of artists and Gabriele Stötzer’s practice, “Flucht in die Öffentlichkeit—Festival Prologue” relates moments in which artistic actions use the camera to unfold an emancipatory potential and develop specific forms of publicity. Social inter-actions and forms of solidarity play just as important a part as the artistic result itself, even if they mostly take place outside the images. With a focus on the 1970s and 1980s, the exhibition focuses on a period in which photography and film were closely interwoven with actionist art, which attempted to locate the human (and collective) body in its social context, to break with body norms and to open up spaces for divergence. The exhibition focuses on political power structures and situations in which these become fragile.

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opening hours:
Saturday 4pm-7pm

Venue:
SLUG
Eisenbahnstraße 5
04315 Leipzig

Partner:
funded by Kulturamt Leipzig

“a bolt of pure aliveness like entering the water / on a still morning with the world empty in every direc / tion to the sky. That first entry. Crossing the border of con / sciousness into, into what?” Anne Carson

Oh! floating mane explores the dream state through myth, storytelling and animal omens.
A new collaborative endeavour by artists Tobia Konig and Eva Gräbeldinger whose practices and interests exhibit numerous overlaps, similarities, and associations, will juxtapose paintings and drawings of various formats, ceramic sculptures and lithographs in relation to each other, all integrated into the spatial installation. Our goal is to create a place that promises beautiful and perhaps mysterious experiences. The space will be animated through a series of readings and performances, as we dive further into this mystical and dreamlike realm.

Dates
5th of April 7pm: Vernissage/Opening
April 20th 7 pm: Special Event with special reading (German+English mixed)

opening hours:
Monday-Sunday 10am-5pm

Venue:
KunstForum Hannah Höch Gotha
Querstraße 13-15
99867 Gotha

On April 5, 2024, the double exhibition of the state scholarship holders of the Free State of Thuringia will open its doors at the Kunstforum Hannah Höch Gotha. Sebastian Pütz and Thomas Taube will be presenting the results of their work from the one-year scholarship awarded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia together with SV SparkassenVersicherung.

The double exhibition in Gotha is curated by Bianka Voigt and Konstantin Bayer. In addition to the catalog presentation on 25 April at 5 p.m., an accompanying program with guided tours and an artist talk will be offered.

Sebastian Pütz (*1975 in Erfurt) works at the interface between the techniques and materials of analog and digital photography. He studied from 2002 at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig under Timm Rautert and Christopher Muller and graduated in 2010 with a diploma in Fine Arts. His most recent publication was the catalog for the 2018/19 exhibition "Vor einem Bild" exhibition at the Kunsthalle Erfurt.

Thomas Taube (*1984 in Munich) is a video artist and director. He studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst and graduated in 2017 as a master student of Clemens von Wedemeyer. His work has already been shown at numerous festivals and has won several awards.
Among others, he received the Marion Ermer Prize in 2016.

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Venue:
Schaubühne Lindenfels
Karl-Heine-Straße 50
04229 Leipzig
www.schaubuehne.com

Bernhard Bormann (Meisterschüler of Prof. Christin Lahr) will be showing his new experimental short film DER REIGEN UNSERES WARUM followed by an artist talk as part of the Experimental Film competition.

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Maybe urgency is inviting us to slow down,
to listen.
To see who is there
with us,
to consult,......
(Bayo Akomolafe)

This workshops go into awareness and self-exploration.
We, in relation and alone, are our investigation tool and object of investigation at the same time.
We generate knowledge and experience about and through contemplation, sensing, listening.
We are supported in this investigation by guided meditations, reflection practises, dialogue, music, pen and paper.
And a great deal of slowing down and silence.

Exploring what is there to listen.
What is there to feel, to digest, to reflect.
Boredom will arise. Fear.
Storm. Realization. Pain. Calm.
We - will - listen.

Workshop Series

Listening to your self
6. - 7. April 2024 / 10 Uhr bis 17 Uhr

Listening to the space between us
20. - 21. April 2024 / 10 Uhr bis 17 Uhr

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Venue:
Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG)
Schlossstraße 31
63165 Offenbach


Bettina Francke, Head of the Lithography Workshop at the HGB, is a speaker at the 2nd Lithography Colloquium "QUO VADIS SAXA LOQUUNTUR" which takes place from 4.-6. April. The programme of the network meeting organised by the International Senefelder Foundation includes specialist lectures, presentations of activities in workshops, research and teaching, discussions on future prospects, demonstrations and practical exchanges in the new printing workshop.

>>> Programme flyer

Participating artists:
Nina E. Schönefeld, Jinseok Lee, Sophie Constanze Polheim, Polina Shcherbyna, Sofiia Yesakova; kuratiert von Sofiia Yesakova

opening hours:
Tue-Fr 2pm-6pm

Venue:
Mittenwalder Str. 6, 10961 Berlin

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Participating artists:
Luise von Cossart, Hannah Eckinger, Lore Elstermann, Vanessa Hartmann, Mattis Heilscher, Nina Hopf, Inseok Hwang, Luca Japkinas, Annika Kausch & Wiebke Lendewig, Hyesun Kim, David Kind, Julia Klenovsky, Johanna Koepe, Johann Kogge, Samuel Kok in Zusammenarbeit mit Jens Schabbach, Mingren Li, Leon Meschede & Seoyeon Ha, Louisa Pieper, Ruth Pietschmann, Kai Ruhland, Josefine T. Schmidt, Gesa Wagner, Joanna Zvonar, Raisan Hameed (Leipzig)

opening hours:
Daily 2pm-7pm

Venue:
BURG Galerie im Volkspark
Schleifweg 8a 06114
Halle

To conclude the ABC series, the Burg Galerie is devoting itself to the theme of F for foreign(-). The aim is to question the perception and construction of what we perceive and describe as foreign on various levels.

Venue:
HGB gallery
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig
www.hgb-leipzig.de/galerie
instagram.com/hgbgallery

Public seminar as starting point
10.04. - 10.05.2024

>>> further information on the website of the hgb gallery

In various excursions we talk to curators, producer galleries and gallery owners about their curatorial practice. How does the GfZK select its artists? How are exhibitions in Halle 14 curated? In the expert talks, art students gain an insight into the curatorial practice of important art institutions. How can I establish myself as an artist on the art market, what strategies and tips can gallery owners and curators give? All entries are free! You can register for one or all days.

registration/ Anmeldung: ina@hgb-leipzig.de

Dates 2024:

G2 - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig
When? 11.04.2024
Time: 11:00 bis 12:30
Meeting Point: 10:30 HGB Lichthof
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Adress: G2 Kunsthalle, Dittrichring 13, 04109 Leipzig

a&o Kunsthalle Leipzig
When? 12.04.2024
Time: 14:00 – 15:30
Meeting Point: 13:40 Central Station Leipzig, Main Entrance East side
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Adress: Brandenburger Straße 2 Leipzig, 04103 (next to central station)

Galerie KUB
When? 18.04.2024
Time: 16:00 – 17:30 (Vernissage afterwards)
Meetingpoint: 15:30 HGB Lichthof
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Adress: Kantstraße 18, 04275 Leipzig

Participating artists:
Shirin Abedi, Cihan Çakmak, Hannah Darabi, Raisan Hameed und Aslı Özdemir

Venue:
Kunstverein Hildesheim / Kehrwiederturm
Am Kehrwieder 2
31134 Hildesheim

With sensitive artistic expressiveness, the artists work on (auto)documentary fragments
(auto-)documentary fragments and use individual and diverse perspectives to negotiate
perspectives to negotiate the turbulent world events characterized by contradictions.
The boundaries between personal and global pasts, which extend into the present, are
which extend into the present, become permeable and fluid in the artists'
permeable and fluid and find their way into reflections on family biographies and identity constructions. The processual and recurring element of resistance and the resistance, as well as the diversity of its inherent expressive possibilities, and narrative voices can be found in the selected artistic positions.

The exhibition title "Which photo is looking at you?" refers to Katja Petrovskaya's book "Das Foto schaute mich an" (2022). In her writing about Petrovskaya combines memories, her own stories and historical contextualization and thus shows the connection between individual and collective memory. Petrovskaya gives readers an insight into her own engagement with photographs. The Kunstverein adopts this method and asks visitors directly "Which photo is looking at you?". The title becomes becomes a guide to action and encourages visitors to engage with the artworks in a personal to engage with the artworks in a personal way. The exhibition examines the question on different levels, with direct glances from self-portraits, with artistic- documentary insights into places and situations, or with staged retrospectives in family archives. But there are also coded, abstract and not directly visible views from the photographs await visitors. The initial question raises further questions, it leads to the question of content: What is it about the photo that stops me?

The exhibition "Which photo is looking at you?" takes place in cooperation with the
Literaturhaus St. Jakobi and the KUNSTRAUM53.

Curated by Carla Henne, Noa Lohrmann and Justine Wiesner.

Venue:
Die Rampe e.V. (RAMPE)
Filderstraße 47
70180 Stuttgart

A multimedia exploration of lost connections
By Angelika Waniek, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Frederike Moormann
Live between Windhoek and Stuttgart

Satellites fly. Transmitting masts. Horns call. This evening opens up a transcultural dialog between Namibia and Germany - about stories of telecommunications.
The universe. Radio links. Invocation.
"And if we don't take care to preserve these narratives, we won't know what happened. We won't have recordings of her voice to tell us about it. What times were like in colonial Namibia, in apartheid Namibia. When they die, they go with their stories, with their narratives." (Tuli Mekondjo)

Music, stories on stage and an audio walk in the urban space draw connections - from techniques of communication with ancestors to the involvement of major German companies in the genocide in Namibia from 1904 to 1908 and current satellite technology.

The double premiere SPACE HAS BECOME A CROWDED PLACE takes place simultaneously in Namibia and Germany. Internet and radio technology create a connection between the two performance venues. Let's get moving. From Windhoek (Namibia) to Stuttgart (Germany) and back.

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Participating artists:
Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk, Elza Gubanova & Leon Seidel, Fritz Lord

opening hours:
Fri 4 - 7 pm, Sat 1 - 4 pm

Join us for the opening of 'In Search for Traces' on April 13th at 5pm at AS/EM, presented in collaboration with Óstov, a platform dedicated to contemporary art and culture with a focus on Eastern European perspectives. The exhibition showcases works of three artistic positions from Ukraine and Germany, examining traces of history and the metaphysical processes of occurrence and recollection to open up a space for dialogue and thought on topics such as the interpretability of history and political events, the relevance of evidence in a post-factual era or the phenomenon of historical amnesia.

13/04 - 17:00 Vernissage
20/04 - 16:00 artist talk and curatorial tour
27/04 - 19:00 Finissage

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Venue:
Plast
Stannebeinplatz 7
04347 Leipzig
www.plast.space

Partner:
Kult Books, Swedish Arts Council, Stiftung Horizonte

We cordially invite you to the release of the publication "The Perfect Crime: Concerning the Murder of Reality" at Plast e.V.. There will also be a small exhibition of the work on the premises for the release of the book.

Based on the overrepresentation of fictional murder crimes on German television, the work deals with the effect of crime series on our perception and behavior. It deals with the use of imaging techniques in police work and the epistemic implications that determine their use, as well as the question of how fictional stories create material and immaterial images that change our perception of reality.

Participating artists:
Fredster, Roxana Rios, Stefan Gunnesch, Paula Biesenthal, Luke Carter, Simon Adam Peter, Kevin Heather Koen, Viyan, Zacker

opening hours:
Thursday to Sunday: 2pm-6pm

Venue:
Galerie KUB
Kantstr. 18
04275 Leipzig

Partner:
Kuratiert von Franziska Eißner & Zacker
Gefördert durch das Kulturamt der Stadt Leipzig

The exhibition explicitly focuses on the positions of queer artists. Formally, themes of physicality, identity and society are negotiated across genres ranging from classical painting to video. Sometimes unerringly, sometimes tentatively, questions of classification and categorization, of individual dissolution of boundaries and external limitation are posed. 'WHATEVER I AM IS FOR TODAY' focuses on a metamorphosing social approach and rejects a static 'mono' culture. A pluralistic approach that could claim social universality.

It is about celebrating and empowering queer identities and normalizing queer realities - the gallery as an embracing safe space where artistic visions are shared with like-minded people and allies. Speaking up together at a time when silence is becoming increasingly dangerous and queer people must fear for their safety in public spaces.

As part of the vernissage and official opening of the 'Queer Music Festival', there will be a music performance by drag artist Babe Blade.

opening hours:
Tue.-Sat. 12am-6pm

Venue:
Zwinger Galerie
Mansteinstraße 5
10783 Berlin


Tritone, the half octave, the devils interval - "I am the devil, says my mother". This is a quote from Kerstin Drechsel's text collages, which she applies in red cross-stitch writing on a white background. These are not embroideries on linen, the large-format text images are not beguine: screen prints on white primed wooden panels, which at best imitate the craft technique (traditionally carried out by women). The texts, consisting of incomplete sentences, catchwords, fragments of thoughts and memories, are arranged like interwoven stanzas.

Venue:
Harvard University
LUDICS SEMINAR/Mahindra Humanities Center

Through the act of crafting, artists transform real incidents into the forms of performance, composition, film or computational arts. The act of crafting records these real incidents, but at the same time it also manipulates them according to the inner logics of these aesthetic forms. This gathering assembles differently situated practices of crafting from different artistic disciplines and from across different geographical places. By so doing, it seeks to explore which protocols inform practices of crafting and which scenarios of learning (and unlearning) of craftsmanship artists (and their audiences) have to undergo. Who owns the standards of craftsmanship? How does crafting the real game with our understanding of past, present and future? How could (and should) one game with the very idea of craftsmanship itself? Why is the dilettante not automatically a revolutionary?

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Venue:
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung - Bundesstiftung Berlin
Schumannstr. 8
10117 Berlin

We cordially invite you to our networking evening and concert on the topic of "AI for all - gender policy perspectives on artificial intelligence". The evening promises to be an inspiring dialog between political decision-makers, a diverse civil society and the interested public about the gender-political and social dimensions of digital technologies and how they shape our future.

How does artificial intelligence (AI) reproduce gender inequality and gender stereotypes? What ways are there to give greater consideration to gender equality and gender issues in AI development? Can AI also be feminist and queer and if so, what does that do to our society? How can AI be designed in the future so that all people can participate in the added value of digital technologies? These questions require an examination of the diverse dimensions of social coexistence and, in particular, gender-political perspectives. Our networking evening with concert offers the opportunity for a constructive exchange between political decision-makers, critical civil society and the interested public on the future of artificial intelligence.

Clash Clash Bang Bang provide the background music with their unique and changeable style. With their fascinating and futuristic performance, Clash Clash Bang Bang integrate queer content and artificial intelligence themes into their sound.

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Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Venue:
Vortragssaal, Bibliotheca Albertina
Beethovenstraße 6
04107 Leipzig

Modern anti-Semitism - also known as "the rumor about the Jews", as it requires neither a concrete experience nor a real existing Jew - has a long tradition. Even after the Shoah, it never completely disappeared, but always found new ways of communicating itself and knew how to hide. But despite all the adaptability in expression, the core of the rumors can often be traced back to old conspiracy texts, some of which have been and continue to be updated. One of these is the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".

These were constructed from various texts around 1900 and have since developed into one of the world's best-known conspiracy texts. This gave them the nickname "Bible of the anti-Semites". The lecture includes an introduction to the origins, popularity and content of the "Protocols", based on the current state of research. The main focus is on the worldwide dissemination since the turn of the last century as well as the reception in various cultural, religious and political groups.

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

Yvonne Schürer, head of the HGB library, has worked with Anna Lena von Helldorff to design a showcase exhibition as a prelude to the 150th anniversary year of the HGB library.

More information on the 150th birthday of the HGB Library...

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

"A library exists for people to take hold of the books and use them"

When long-time MoMA Library director and artist book historian Clive Phillpot began working at London's Chelsea School of Art in 1970, the library was not a particularly popular place for many students at the art school: "[The] library was sometimes viewed as part of a coercive apparatus, and therefore acquired negative vibes for some students," Phillpot recalls in his 2013 anthology Booktrek (Phillpot 2013, 12). Over time, he began to notice unusual small pamphlets and other publications coming into the Chelsea School of Art Library via a standing subscription from North America. These small conceptual publications, such as a stack of 60 loose sheets, each with a different photograph of a pile ("A Portfolio of Piles", 1968, by N.E. Thing Co), could not be clearly classified as exhibition catalogs or books in library terms. Rather, they were works of art themselves and thus "artists' books".  Instead of isolating them as artists' books from the rest of the holdings and relegating them to the stacks, where they would only have been accessible on request, Phillpot decided to deal with these strange publications differently and display them as part of the open stacks."[One] should not regard artists' books as seperate from other books. […] A library exists for people to take hold of the books and use them. … [They] really should be available, and have an equal status with other publications, instead of requiring that user go to a special area devoted to 'the art of the book', for example" (ebd., 5, 15). Dabei ging es ihm darum, in der Konfrontation mit den "odd pamphlets" Überraschungen zu schaffen und Momente der Verwunderung: "People using any part of the library could then become mystified or be given surprises by coming across puzzling artists' books that have been dispersed or sercreted through the collection... wonderful moments of not understanding" (ebd., 15).

These "wonderful moments of incomprehension", which can arise in direct confrontation with artists' publications, were our starting point for the idea of presenting the "hidden treasures" in the HGB library's holdings on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. For the "Hidden Treasures" exhibition series from April 2024, publications will be taken out of the library's stacks in changing presentations and, as far as possible from a conservation point of view, presented among the rest of the holdings. Often, only a subtly placed color-coded bookmark and/or a colored carpet pad indicates that it is the exhibit of the respective exhibition. To kick off, Julia Blume will make a selection of hidden treasures from the HGB library.

In order to make artists' publications easier for students to find in the future, the HGB library is introducing the new keyword "Artist's Book HGB" in the OPAC, which will enable a targeted search in the future and thus make the "hidden treasures" accessible to a wider public in the long term. (Text Regine Ehleiter)

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

There will be a series of donations on World Book Day to mark the start of the 150th anniversary of the HGB Library: „German for Lovers" by Prof. Stine Marie Jacobsen, Donations by the Institute of Book Design, Poster „Self Decolonization As The Basis For Decolonial Library Practice” von Anja Kaiser and Yvonne Schürer.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig


The System Design class and the Type Design Class invite Gaile Pranckunaite. Gaile Pranckunaite is a Vilnius based graphic designer, focusing on experimental typography. She graduated from the graphic design department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2013 and since then has worked on numerous commissions for artists, writers, art and film institutions, museums and universities.

Venue:
SKD: Japanisches Palais
Palaisplatz 11
01097 Dresden

The Damascus Room in Dresden is a restored 19th century Syrian reception room located in the Japanese Palace of the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony.

A group of students from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst are investigating the empty spaces in the existing museum presentation of the room.

Contemporary artistic contributions, events and discussions allow patterns to emerge as active forces that can shape and change encounters not only aesthetically, but above all socially, politically and infrastructurally.

"Unter einem Himmel – Von Mustern und anderen Wesen" is a project of the Master's program Cultures of the Curatorial at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in cooperation with the Staatlichen Ethnografischen Sammlungen Dresden. It was funded by tax revenue on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.

Participating artists:
Toni Braun, Eliane Diur, Dayoung Jung, Brigita Kasperaitė, Susanne Kontny, Tobias Kurpat, Hyunjin La, Tianxu Liu, Daria Makarova, Katharina Schreiter, David Schröder, Elisabeth Stiebritz, Sei Yasukawa
Artistic direction: Kati Liebert, Olga Vostretsova

opening hours:
25.04.: 18:00-22:00 Uhr, 26.04.+27.04.: 10:00-22:00 Uhr, 28.04.: 10:00-14:00 Uhr

Venue:
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
Augustusplatz 8
04109 Leipzig
www.gewandhausorchester.de

Students of the Academy of Fine Arts were invited by the Mendelssohn Orchestra Academy to take part in the festival "Meet the MOA. Young artists on stage" festival. The exhibition, which will be shown in the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, has been prepared by 13 art students since October 2023 especially for this event and tailored to the space of the Leo Schwarz and box office foyer.

The ideas for most of the artworks were developed in a joint exploration of the Gewandhaus, the festival's musical program and numerous encounters and conversations in the Leo Schwarz Foyer. The foyer with its window front and crystal lamps, the wine-red upholstered armchairs and glass tables, the wood-panelled walls and the beige carpet, which shows no signs of wear, forms the visual context for the exhibition. The building itself - the only concert hall built in the GDR and the third Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, which is located on the former site of the Museum der bildenden Künste - brings with it a number of additional meanings.

Artistic works that intervene in a public or institutional space not only reflect the existing meanings, but also bring further perspectives and create their own space. The exhibition negotiates the conditions of art production and viewing, the still existing separation between high and mass culture, personal positioning in the present in relation to tradition, but above all music and the places where the arts are experienced.

opening hours:
Thu-Sat 12am-6pm

Venue:
a&o Kunsthalle
Brandenburger Str. 2
04103 Leipzig

The duo exhibition Tetrachormat by Tiziana Jill Beck and Maja Behrmann brings together two artistic positions that are not initially in the same genre. Abstract and figurative. Autonomous forms and mysterious compositions meet fluttering hummingbirds and outstretched arms. What connects the two lies in what their works trigger in each other: Different perspectives.

TJB: Your rules don't have to be my rules.
MB: I don't want to convince either, but to observe what I can't differentiate in myself.
TJB: If we both have the same wing beat, we should be able to see the same thing.
MB: But if we speak the same language, that doesn't mean we understand each other. 

Participating artists:
Johanna Blank, Vanessa Amoah Opoku, Tobia König, Roxana Rios, Nathalie Valeska Schüler

opening hours:
Tue, Wed, Thu 12am-6pm

Venue:
4D Projektort des BBK LEIPZIG e.V. (Tapetenwerk Haus B)
Lützner Straße 91
04177 Leipzig

Partner:
BBK Leipzig

Under the title "peek-a-boo", Johanna Blank, Vanessa Amoah Opoku, Tobia König, Roxana Rios and Nathalie Valeska Schüler examine concepts of seeing and excluding variable felds of vision. "I see what you don't see" is interpreted as a question of visibility. In addition, the examination of whose topics are recognized as relevant or, more precisely, to whom which topics are attributed, is also a central content of the exhibiting artists' works. Who sees themselves as responsible, who holds interpretative sovereignty?

Venue:
KASKO — Projektraum für aktuelle Kunst, Performance und Vermittlung
Burgweg 7-15
CH-40 Basel

The SNIPPET Live Feature Festival takes place every two years in Basel and focuses on artistic, documentary and autofictional audio performances. The festival offers an alternative to existing discursive formats that take place on podiums, in print or online media, for example, and uses sound as its central medium.

The term live feature refers to the radio feature genre. This genre was established in the 1950s from a fusion of elements of radio drama, documentary and reportage within the experimental programs of European radio stations. At the SNIPPET Festival, audio pieces are performed live in front of an audience - with voice, laptop and midi controllers, synthesizers and other instruments. Visitors to the festival actively and sensually experience the creation of the feature, which not only allows them to participate, but also gives them a direct insight into the production process.

The complete program will be published shortly.

Venue:
Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig
Nonnenstraße 38
04229 Leipzig
www.druckkunst-museum.de/de/

A small * can make a significant difference. It is rare that a typographic symbol becomes the subject of cultural debates. Nowadays there is a growing awareness in society about the influence of typography; how typography can reproduce, change or create ways of thinking and behaviour.

Therefore, the 29th Leipzig Typotage will address the question of how gender, social and ethnic stereotypes have been and still are visually translated into typographic forms.
Can typography be free from cultural stereotypes? Which role does typography play in promoting diversity and inclusivity?

Registration& Information about the program: www.typotage.de

Venue:
Spinnerei, Halle 14, Studio12

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Venue:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Germanistisches Institut
Gebäude GB 4, Universitätsstr. 150
44780 Bochum

Venue:
Vortragssaal, Bibliotheca Albertina
Beethovenstraße 6
04107 Leipzig

Following the atrocities committed by Hamas on and after October 7 and Israel's subsequent war against Hamas in Gaza, questions about the connection between misogyny and anti-Semitism are being raised with renewed vehemence. In intersectional feminist debates in particular, however, this connection is largely ignored. The lecture addresses this intersectional void and problematizes the fact that Israelis and Jews:Jewish women are often excluded from intersectional global solidarity. In contrast, the mutual entanglements of anti-Semitism, racism and sexism are addressed in a new draft of intersectional ideology critique.

Participating artists:
Alicia Franzke, Viti-Ko Schell, Sarafina McLeod

Venue:
Plast
Stannebeinplatz 7
04347 Leipzig
www.plast.space

Participating artists:
Alan Biehlig, Nele Hendrikje Sandner, Katharina Schreiter, Teresa Szepes, Clara Pötsch

opening hours:
Mo-Thu 9am-12am, Sa, Sun 3pm-6pm and by appointment

Venue:
ars avanti - Alte Handelsschule Leipzig
Gießerstraße 75
04229 Leipzig


The exhibition con.tain focuses on the reuse of "waste", the process of finding and transforming what has been left behind. Objects of various kinds are collected, categorized, transformed and placed in new contexts in terms of content and form in the form of photography, painting, collage, printmaking and installation. Alan Biehlig, Nele Hendrikje Sandner, Katharina Schreiter, Teresa Szepes and Clara Pötsch are showing five artistic positions that deal with issues such as diversity, identity, myths, bodies and organisms alongside the aspect of sustainability. In doing so, they question the nature of things, their content and their function and open up new spaces for thought.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Participating artists:
Anais Goupy, Christian Holze, Anna Raczynska

opening hours:
by appointment

Venue:
Kunstraum Ortloff
Jahnallee 73
04177 Leipzig
www.ortloff.org

At a time when money rules the world, Goods & Services could be the umpteenth exhibition by post-digital artists that confronts us with what is still authentic in a hyper-digital, capitalist world. But not least, Anna, Christian and Anaïs get things right and don't beat about the bush. They swim in delirium, plunging into the dizziness of neoliberal structures and social network trends. In doing so, they try to escape unscathed. They offer you an exhibition with panache and sophistication, but one that doesn't pretend. If you don't go home with a work of art, you might go home with another treat.

Participating artists:
Ariane Andereggen und Ted Gaier (Regisseur*innen)

Venue:
Cinémathèque Leipzig in der naTo
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 46
04275 Leipzig
www.cinematheque-leipzig.de

In Ermatingen, a Swiss village on Lake Constance, once an industrial and migrant-dominated region, many people believe that hard work and politeness are the most important preconditions for social advancement. Is that really the case? Is it still the case? Was it ever like that? Ariane Andereggen, artist, actor and film director, returns to her small hometown and questions the self-perceptions of those who grew up in Ermatingen between the 1970s and 1990s - her classmates, family, former teachers. With the help of archive footage in Super 8 format, VHS snippets, computer-generated images and fragments of her own performances, Andereggen examines social affiliations in her film essay and attempts to counter social judgments with a different, more solidary narrative. (Swiss-German with German subtitles)

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film director.

The event is a cooperation with the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. It is part of the project "Work, Origin, Change, Image" of the "Klasse Klasse" in the photography department and is supervised by Prof. Dr. Ines Schaber and Susanne Keichel.

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Participating artists:
Episode I: Felix Melia, Arne Schmitt & Andrzej Steinbach sowie Felix Dreesen & Stephan Thierbach.

Furthermore during the next episodes: Felix Amerbacher, Lotti Brockmann, Ben Busch, Felix Dreesen & Stephan Thierbach, Florian Hüttner, Mara Jenny, Julia Kielmann, Felix Melia, Olga Monina, Sophie Pape, Reinigungsgesellschaft, Ute Richter, Arne Schmitt & Andrzej Steinbach, Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch, Liu Tianxu u.a.

Artist of Skulpturenpark: Mirsini Artakianou, Julia Boswank, Max Brück, Evgenij Gottfried, Tobi Keck, Layla Nabi, Ronny Szillo, Philipp Zöhrer

opening hours:
Wed. + Sun. 3pm-6pm

Venue:
IDEAL art space
Schulze-Delitzsch-Straße 27
04315 Leipzig
idealartspace.de

In three episodes at IDEAL and in urban space, the exhibition project The Stories We Inhabit takes a look at forms of self-organization in public space. The project illuminates motifs of resistant recoding and informal continuations of urban infrastructure, examines porous, provisional dramaturgies and follows trails in urban space. The starting point of the project is the necessary relocation of the self-organized sculpture park Neustadt on a wasteland in the neighbourhood of the IDEAL due to urban construction projects. An exhibition architecture was created in the garden of the IDEAL to store the objects. In this setting, a growing network of artistic interventions is formed, which continuously create new references and overwritings. The three episodes will focus on different themes. The project will be on display at IDEAL until October.

Further information at idealartspace.de or on Instagram: @ideal_artspace

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Participating artists:
Micha Wille, Sophia Süssmilch, Theresa Rothe and U.S. Buchart

opening hours:
Exhibition: 30.-31. May 2024 11am-4pm, Open Workshop 31. May 11am-4pm

Venue:
westpol.space
Weißenfelser Str. 16
04229 Leipzig

Open workshop: May 31, 2024, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

The exhibition and workshop aim to present humor in the visual arts as a contemporary tool. By using humor as a critical tool, social norms and power structures are questioned. The free workshop will be led by artist Theresa Rothe, is open to all interested parties and requires no prior registration or special knowledge. All you need is an interest and a desire to try things out.

Web: westpol.space
Instagram: instagram.com/westpol.space
Mail: westpol.space@gmail.com

Participating artists:
Carla Maruscha Fellenz, Rebecca Korb, Melanie Schindler, Katharina Schreiter

opening hours:
Wed-Sat 2pm-6pm

Venue:
charter-Projektgalerie
Merseburgerstraße 37
04177 Leipzig

While in many religions paradise is portrayed as a place of perfection and spiritual fulfillment, in the secular sense it is often referred to as the paradisiacal state of a perfect society or a utopian world in which peace, justice and harmony prevail. What they all have in common is the definition of paradise as a state or place of unadulterated happiness. The artists in the exhibition approach the concept through its roots, which lie in the garden, the wall, the fenced-in piece of land. Between metaphor and real place of refuge, they negotiate idyll and nightmare, utopia and dystopia and the garden as an inner place of self-determination.

Participating artists:
Leon Friederichs, Felix Lorenz, Marla Vita Gehrt, Gustav Körnig, Jonas Liesaus, Leon von der Lipppe, Alexandra Preußer, Gemma Wilson

opening hours:
Tue-Fri 2-6pm, Sat 12am-5pm and by appointment

Venue:
hochdruckpartner
Lützner Strasse 85
04177 Leipzig


www.hochdruckpartner.com

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Venue:
Online

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In the practice of Saxony's building administration, art in architecture as art in public space has both building-cultural and discursive potential - in the artistic reference to urban planning and functional contexts. In recent years, expanded art forms and conceptual orientations have increasingly led to the activation of art in architecture in decidedly site- and context-specific forms and orientations.

In this workshop, we will use an art-in-architecture project realized by the Saxon State Enterprise for Real Estate and Construction Management (SIB) as an introduction to the design development and selection process. Sophie Uchman (visual artist, sculptor) will present the genesis of her art project for the TU Dresden - Institute of Energy Technology and describe the necessities and procedures for practical implementation.

Together with representatives of the awarding authority, Dr.-Ing. Marcus van Reimersdahl (SMWK) and Ingo Fischer (SIB Leipzig branch), we will talk about the basics, conditions and requirements of art in building practice and about desirable changes.

Participants will receive tips for participating in art in architecture competitions and for realization practice. The second half of the workshop will be open to questions from participants.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.41
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

In the lecture series "Positions", professors present their artistic/design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

In this workshop we will work on the basis of body-based research. We will explore how multisensory input affects our readings. We will discuss our various body realities and feel, hear, see, taste and smell text materials. In the process, we will develop a performative situation which will be presented as part of the anniversary program.

www.lissywillberg.info

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

"A library exists for people to take hold of the books and use them"

When long-time MoMA Library director and artist book historian Clive Phillpot began working at London's Chelsea School of Art in 1970, the library was not a particularly popular place for many students at the art school: "[The] library was sometimes viewed as part of a coercive apparatus, and therefore acquired negative vibes for some students," Phillpot recalls in his 2013 anthology Booktrek (Phillpot 2013, 12). Over time, he began to notice unusual small pamphlets and other publications coming into the Chelsea School of Art Library via a standing subscription from North America. These small conceptual publications, such as a stack of 60 loose sheets, each with a different photograph of a pile ("A Portfolio of Piles", 1968, by N.E. Thing Co), could not be clearly classified as exhibition catalogs or books in library terms. Rather, they were works of art themselves and thus "artists' books".  Instead of isolating them as artists' books from the rest of the holdings and relegating them to the stacks, where they would only have been accessible on request, Phillpot decided to deal with these strange publications differently and display them as part of the open stacks."[One] should not regard artists' books as seperate from other books. […] A library exists for people to take hold of the books and use them. … [They] really should be available, and have an equal status with other publications, instead of requiring that user go to a special area devoted to 'the art of the book', for example" (ebd., 5, 15). Dabei ging es ihm darum, in der Konfrontation mit den "odd pamphlets" Überraschungen zu schaffen und Momente der Verwunderung: "People using any part of the library could then become mystified or be given surprises by coming across puzzling artists' books that have been dispersed or sercreted through the collection... wonderful moments of not understanding" (ebd., 15).

These "wonderful moments of incomprehension", which can arise in direct confrontation with artists' publications, were our starting point for the idea of presenting the "hidden treasures" in the HGB library's holdings on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. For the "Hidden Treasures" exhibition series from April 2024, publications will be taken out of the library's stacks in changing presentations and, as far as possible from a conservation point of view, presented among the rest of the holdings. Often, only a subtly placed color-coded bookmark and/or a colored carpet pad indicates that it is the exhibit of the respective exhibition. To kick off, Julia Blume will make a selection of hidden treasures from the HGB library.

In order to make artists' publications easier for students to find in the future, the HGB library is introducing the new keyword "Artist's Book HGB" in the OPAC, which will enable a targeted search in the future and thus make the "hidden treasures" accessible to a wider public in the long term. (Text Regine Ehleiter)

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

Every year since 1995, "Library Day" has been held throughout Germany on October 24. It was initiated by the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker.

Every year, the day draws attention to the more than 9,000 libraries in Germany and arouses curiosity about their extensive range of services. Since the introduction of the Day of Libraries, many libraries have held a variety of events to draw attention to the various services provided by libraries as indispensable cultural and educational institutions.

On Libraries Day, the German Library Association, together with the Telekom Foundation, awards the "Library of the Year" prize and, since 2020, the "Library of the Year in Small Municipalities and Regions".

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

"A library exists for people to take hold of the books and use them"

When long-time MoMA Library director and artist book historian Clive Phillpot began working at London's Chelsea School of Art in 1970, the library was not a particularly popular place for many students at the art school: "[The] library was sometimes viewed as part of a coercive apparatus, and therefore acquired negative vibes for some students," Phillpot recalls in his 2013 anthology Booktrek (Phillpot 2013, 12). Over time, he began to notice unusual small pamphlets and other publications coming into the Chelsea School of Art Library via a standing subscription from North America. These small conceptual publications, such as a stack of 60 loose sheets, each with a different photograph of a pile ("A Portfolio of Piles", 1968, by N.E. Thing Co), could not be clearly classified as exhibition catalogs or books in library terms. Rather, they were works of art themselves and thus "artists' books".  Instead of isolating them as artists' books from the rest of the holdings and relegating them to the stacks, where they would only have been accessible on request, Phillpot decided to deal with these strange publications differently and display them as part of the open stacks."[One] should not regard artists' books as seperate from other books. […] A library exists for people to take hold of the books and use them. … [They] really should be available, and have an equal status with other publications, instead of requiring that user go to a special area devoted to 'the art of the book', for example" (ebd., 5, 15). Dabei ging es ihm darum, in der Konfrontation mit den "odd pamphlets" Überraschungen zu schaffen und Momente der Verwunderung: "People using any part of the library could then become mystified or be given surprises by coming across puzzling artists' books that have been dispersed or sercreted through the collection... wonderful moments of not understanding" (ebd., 15).

These "wonderful moments of incomprehension", which can arise in direct confrontation with artists' publications, were our starting point for the idea of presenting the "hidden treasures" in the HGB library's holdings on the occasion of its 150th anniversary. For the "Hidden Treasures" exhibition series from April 2024, publications will be taken out of the library's stacks in changing presentations and, as far as possible from a conservation point of view, presented among the rest of the holdings. Often, only a subtly placed color-coded bookmark and/or a colored carpet pad indicates that it is the exhibit of the respective exhibition. To kick off, Julia Blume will make a selection of hidden treasures from the HGB library.

In order to make artists' publications easier for students to find in the future, the HGB library is introducing the new keyword "Artist's Book HGB" in the OPAC, which will enable a targeted search in the future and thus make the "hidden treasures" accessible to a wider public in the long term. (Text Regine Ehleiter)