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

Finissage: Mirrored - Perspectives on contemporary etching featuring Eileen Helm, Miriam Jehle and Robert Schmiedel

Photography and Moving Image Class: Leaning into trouble

Exhibition, 15.08.–25.09.2026

Cinema on the Move: Strandfestkino

Film screening and talk, 14.08.2026

"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

Performative Arts Class: The State of Listening - Manifestations and Spaces of Relationship

Performance, 06.09.2026

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

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

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Audiovisual Workshops

Painting/Printmaking class, Kerstin Drechsel

Franziska Dathe

Spill the tea

Oil on canvas

In the forest, two people are opening arms and fronting each other with distance. They are wearing white clothes and have black hair.

System Design class, Maureen Mooren

Hello

Move hello to your people freely.
Quarantine Project supervised by Maureen Mooren and Malin Gewinner

the joy of falling asleep and waking up again

Illustration class, Thomas Matthaeus Müller

Ursina Adler

the joy of falling asleep and waking up again

zine printed in riso

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

Photography and Media class by Dr. Ines Schaber

Lynn Elis

layers/stories

table work, collage of different materials and media

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

Foundational Course Photography

Black Horse

Klasse für Painting/printmaking by Franziska Reinbothe

Rasool Abu Saab

A casual school day (Part)

Oil on canvas 130x100cm

Installation and Space class, Joachim Blank

Naomi Frank

keep my smaller selves

Photography in the Field of Contemp. Art, Anna Ehrenstein

Max Grund

Antikörper

Class Artistic Action and Research by Christin Lahr

Tobias Bertz

Untitled (teddys)

2024
29,7cm x 21cm
graphite on paper

Ein rot-weiß-grünes Buch und Besteck auf einem Teller

Foundational Course Book Design/Graphic Design

Bettina Wija-Stein
Robyn Ceclich

Spaghetti al Pomodoro

Alternate cover for the non-fiction book by Massimo Montanari