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

HGB Magazine #3 awarded "The Best German Book Design"

Fragments, Blank Spaces, Blind Spots. Right-wing continuities at art academies and the Leipzig Academy under National Socialism

"AI and Magic" by Michael Klipphahn-Karge is due to be published this autumn by Edition Metzel

M26: Festival der Meisterschüler*innen

>>> save the date, 25.09.–08.10.2026

Foto von der Rektorin und der Preisträgerin

Yelyzaveta Protopopova awarded the 2026 DAAD Prize for International Students

Changed opening hours during the lecture-free period

Heidi Specker: DAMENZIMMER HERRENSCHNITT. A homage to Aenne Biermann

Exhibition, 04.09.2026–10.01.2027

Len Bay receives the MONOM Art Prize for his sculptural series toy boy

Fedele Maura Friede: Über den Rand des Blickfeldes

Exhibition, 22.08.–06.09.2026

So dreams are a defense against darkness

Exhibition, 24.07.–01.08.2026

Mirrored - Perspectives on contemporary etching featuring Leon Friederichs, Lukas Gerbaulet und Maria Ondrej

Artist Talk, 16.08.2026

For HGB students: Re-enrolment for the winter semester 26/27 until 31 July

Mirrored - Perspectives on contemporary etching

Exhibition, 19.06.–30.08.2026

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Audiovisual Workshops

I RELATE SO MUCH TO YOU BUT I DON'T WANNA BE YOU"

Photography in the Field of Contemp. Art, Anna Ehrenstein

Jonna Baumann

I RELATE SO MUCH TO YOU BUT I DON'T WANNA BE YOU"

Jonna Baumann, Max Grund

Ansicht von oben auf die Öffnung eines Rucksacks, aus dem mehrere blaue Bücher aufgefächert herausschauen.

Foundational Course Book Design/Graphic Design

Prof. Marion Kliesch
Robyn Ceclich

Dust jackets allaphbed

Alternative dust jackets for the book series allaphbed of the Institut für Buchkunst

Installation and Space class, Joachim Blank

Marie Charlotte Elsner

first impressions, snooze part 1+2

Installation, Object

Photography class, Heidi Specker

Lam Funke

Untitled (1)

36.0 x 27.0 cm, From the work series "Szenario (Risiko)" (2025), Glass, Tape, Laser Print, Inkjet print

Klasse für Painting/printmaking by Franziska Reinbothe

Leon Lippe

Blick nach draußen

Oil on canvas, 40x50cm

System Design class, Maureen Mooren

Longnametour

Archive Project2—Research

Illustration class, Thomas Matthaeus Müller

Julia Süß

Trinkets of Overflowing Emptiness

Mischtechnik — A0

Photography and Media class by Dr. Ines Schaber

Lynn Elis

what is natural?

Foundational Course Photography

Okezi Iteire

Wut macht satt (2)

Let this dead photograph remind you of me alive IV

Photography and Moving Image class, Tina Bara

Natalia Kepesz

Let this dead photograph remind you of me alive IV

Medium format, black and white, post-coloured

Class Artistic Action and Research by Christin Lahr

Tobias Bertz

animal (feeling)

2023
29,7cm x 21cm
graphite on paper

Painting/Printmaking class, Kerstin Drechsel

Linda Göhrs

untitled