Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst/ Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB)

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Viktoria Binschtok, Harald Kirschner and Jay Ritchie receive the BMW Photo Award Leipzig 2026

"Upload DDR" by Merlin Rainer available in the ARD media library

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Project launch of "gespiegelt – Perspectives on contemporary etching"

Supra-regional travelling exhibition with students, graduates and teachers from Braunschweig, Leipzig and Berlin planned for 2026

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Workshop for Artistic Offset Printing

A laptop is looking us straight right. There are two eyes on the red back grounded screen.

System Design class, Maureen Mooren

Saving Our Screens While Losing Our Minds

Our screens currently function as our window to the world. Since the pandemic, most of our social interactions happen through the surfaces of our devices via various video-call programs, where the counterpart invades our privacy and vice versa. This work is an exhibition of our screensavers showcased on your screens throughout the world. Install our work on your own device, bringing the video installation normally experienced in an exhibition context, in the comfort of our own homes.
Initiated by Eva Dumoulin, Sohyeon Lee with participation from Majd Amer, Julie Högner, Sohyeon Lee, Bastian Moosburger, Leen Murad, Supervised by Maureen Mooren and Malin Gewinner.

$if ever, a fraction$

Foundational Course Photography

Naomi Frank

if ever, a fraction

Painting and Printmaking class, Kerstin Drechsel

Lou Vinter

glowing faces

Linocut, 2025

Photography class, Heidi Specker

Lam Funke

Untitled, 2024

46.5 x 74.0 cm, Silkscreen print on wooden panels

Photography and Moving Image class, Tina Bara

Carla Maruscha Fellenz

Fanni

from the series "AlpTraum", 2020

Foundational Course Book Design/Graphic Design

Prof. Marion Kliesch
Elmo van der Poel
Ondrej Báchor, Andrej Loll

The Unauthorized Repair Of The World – Typespecimen

Ever again, something in need of repair? By reclaiming discarded, broken, leftover, or found materials, we reimagine their potential, using them to create initial compositions through experimental offset printing. From these freeform experiments, we discover how shapes tell stories, fit together, and define the character of a typeface. This hands-on exploration of cutting, layering, recomposing and repairing shapes creates new letterforms with the potential to evolve into functional typefaces.