Calendar

Participating artists:
Sooyeoun Baek, Lillian Ball, Leon Billerbeck, Caroline Breidenbach, Jan Colomer, Anna-Magdalena Di- manski, Monika Dorniak, Julian Feitsma, Theresa Maria Forthaus, FREYAS Connective, Felix Frankowiak, Gionata Girardi, Paulina Grebenstein, Michael Hindelang, Xaver Hirsch, Jakob Köchert, Tamara Knapp, Jakob Kukula, Darko Lagunas, Alina Mann, Leonie Schatter, Symbiotic Spaces, Sinah Ariann Schwarz, Adrian Staude, Ella Valter

Venue:
Paul-Lincke-Ufer 44 A, 10999 Berlin
1st Backyard 1st & 2nd Floor

Partner:
Sponsored by ECO-SIA, promoted by Stadt.raum.kultur and supported by WaterGenics and UPLAB.

Around the theme of water, this interdisciplinary exhibition brings together twenty different contributions from art, design, architecture and science together. The works explore how water makes us rethink and how the river could transform the city. As part of the three-week programme (01.09-17.09), the SpreeBerlin initiative of Symbiotic Lab invites the citizens of Berlin to reflect on the social-ecological relationships of the river, as well as its diverse relationships to the city and its human and non-human inhabitants.

To stimulate a rich dialogue, there will be a diverse, free accompanying programme, with readings, performances, a survey, guided tours and city walks. The starting point of the exhibition is the urban design SpreeVision - Osthafen. With the help of an AR experience, the design shows the scenario of a socially and ecologically upgraded Spree in the section of the Osthafen basin. The project, which is sponsored by Ecosia (All in for Berlin), is based on an extensive study and the long-standing commitment of several Berlin actors who are committed to a healthy Spree and a liveable Berlin. It
was initiated by Jakob Kukula, Jan Colomer & Ralf Steeg.

The non-profit project is based at NetzwerkStadtRaumKultur e.V. and is developed by Symbiotic Lab.

The exhibition is curated by Symbiotic Lab and german artist Leon Billerbeck.

DATEN • DATES

01.09 - 03.09.
Vernissage
FRI - SpreeVision Panel Discussion & Open Dialogue
Stephanie Natho (Uni Potsdam)
Lisa Junghans (KWB), Jakob Kukula (SL)
SAT - SpreeVision Riverwalk & Sound Installation, Monika Dorniak
SUN - Open Exhibition & Exhibition Tour

08.09 - 10.09.  
FRI - SpreeVision Expert*innen-Workshop & Plan-B Panel
SAT - SpreeVision River Walk & Summerfestival
SUN - Open Exhibition

14.09 - 17.09.
Finissage
THU - Exhibition Tour & Aquatic Sound Journey
FRI - Artists Presentations & Performance
SAT - River Walk, Panel discussion “A City for Art”, Performance & Finnisage

Detailed Program Info & Registrations

Venue:
PAX Jugendkirche
Kirchplatz 1
04155 Leipzig

The vertical movement has always been part of our language and our thinking. Growing" or "developing" often implies a vertical movement.
is often thought of as well. We increase in size, grow in height, ascend.

The vertical movement also has a central meaning in Christianity. God has always been located in heaven, in an above, whereas we are here below, on earth. The Ascension symbolizes an upward movement towards God; from this world to the hereafter, from below to above. Also the biblical story of "The Tower of Babel" also tells of the human attempt to build a tower into the infinity in order to become like God. The tower as a visualization of the vertical straight line upwards.

From the sole to the crown and beyond – the first year of Painting / Printmaking at the HGB is working its way up three meters this summer and artistically examining the vertical format and the painterly movement in the vertical. The results of this work will be presented on September 2 at the Night of Art in the PAX youth church to be seen.

The exhibition is accompanied by the cooking event "Taste the painting" from 16 clock: Food will be juxtaposed with paintings inspired by traditional Syrian dishes and folk stories. As a kind of cultural exchange, the visitors will be able to try out all the dishes on the opening evening.

Starting 7 pm there will be live music by students of the HMT Leipzig:
Hakim Azmi (piano)
Tino Ribeiro (double bass)
Anton Mück (percussion)
Markus Rehberg (saxophone)

opening hours:
Im Rahmen des Rundgangs der SpinnereiGalerien: 02.09. 11:00 - 19:00 Uhr und 03.09. 11:00 - 16:00 Uhr / Freitag und Samstag 11:00 - 17:00 Uhr + nach Vereinbarung

Venue:
Galerie Laetitia Gorsy, She BAM!
Spinnereistr. 7, Halle 18. H
04179 Leipzig

"REQUITAL" allows for a contemplation in which the themes of compensation, self-reward, and equalization are particularly emphasized. The exhibition invites the viewer to explore and put into perspective the fluid transitions between opposites as reality and imagination merge. Galamb Thorday ́s work presents subtle contrasts that gain significance in a continuously transforming world.

"In another painting, two people raise their glass once again to touch each other like Michelangelo's Adam. But the lens is cracked. No one believes anymore that two gods meet here, rather disenchanted people who want to drink and enjoy one more time before the sun separates and the waterfall pounces on them." Text excerpt from: Moritz Rudolph

Venue:
Colditz

Bus stops as places of transit, but also of waiting and meeting become exhibition sites in the villages and the city of Colditz. 5 invited artists work in relation to the video work "the train" by Olga Chernysheva and thus open a further dialogue into the urban society.

Dates and program:

03 September 2023
2 p.m. Opening of the exhibition Aussteigen / Einsteigen on the Colditz market square. 2 p.m. Joint trip by bus along the bus stops.

3 p.m. Meeting point Ebbies Haus am Berg.

18 o'clock meeting point Colditzer marketplace joint ride along the bus stops.

19 o'clock opening ceremony Abbiss Haus am Berg.

17 September 2023
3 pm concert Izabela Kaldunska, LDF ( Lucas Dürr) Ebbies Haus am Berg

tba: January/February opening of the exhibition for the publication about the project Get off / Get on in the gallery of the Colditz town hall.

Participating artists:
Mit Beiträgen von: Constanza Carvajal, Daniel Theiler & Angelika Waniek, Jens Franke, Anna Jermolaewa, Susanne Kim, Isa Rosenberger, Siegbert Schefke & Aram Radomski, Alina Schmuch, Clara Winter

Kuratiert von Tuan Do Duc und Martha Schwindling (Teilnehmende des Masterstudiengangs „Kulturen des Kuratorischen“) gemeinsam mit Marlene Oeken.

opening hours:
täglich 10-20 Uhr, freier Eintrit

Venue:
Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz
04109 Leipzig

Next year, the artistic competition for a new monument commemorating the Peaceful Revolution of 1989 in Leipzig will be announced.

The future Freedom and Unity Monument offers room for a variety of opinions, perspectives, ideas and debates. But how does one discuss a memorial that does not yet exist?

Eight film works portray places in the regional and supra-regional remembrance landscape, illuminate their backgrounds and the discussions surrounding them. These different places and practices of remembrance serve as "interlocutors" for the future Freedom and Unity Monument and explore the role it could play in our society.

An informative part of the exhibition deals with the ongoing developments in the monument process. A supporting and mediation program with talks, workshops and dialogical guided tours invites all visitors to participate in the discussion about the Freedom and Unity Monument.

Venue:
Ars Electronica
Ars-Electronica-Straße 1
4040 Linz

"The Effect of Guns on Thunderclouds" (experimental documentary, 30 min, 2017) and the installation "HIC SVNT DRACONES" (2023) by Juliane Jaschnow and Stefanie Schroeder will be on view from 6 to 10. September in the thematic exhibition "(Co)Owning More-than-Truth" at Ars Electronica 2023.

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Participating artists:
Julia Brodauf anna onno gatjal Hannah Doughrety Niki Elbe Felix Müller Anja Nolte

opening hours:
Donnerstag – Samstag, 16 – 19 Uhr

Venue:
Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867
Eisenacher Straße 118, 10777 Berlin

Participating artists:
With Lennard Bernd Becker, Olga Mathilde Gärtner, Sebastian Haaf, Gala Alica Ostan Ožbolt, Carlotta Lösch-Will, Jonathan Paul Pielmeier.

opening hours:
saturday & sunday 2-6 pm & by appointment

Venue:
Bistro 21
Hermann-Liebmann-Straße 88
04315 Leipzig
www.bistro21.org/

The group exhibition ‘I never sleep because sleep is the cousin of death’ shows different installations that explore the bed as an object and the topic of sleeping.

Venue:
Alte Handelsschule
Gießerstraße 75
04229 Leipzig

Venue:
Mars
Ginnheimer Landstr. 35
60487 Frankfurt am Main

For the first time MARS Frankfurt shows the three founders and operators of the platform in a joint exhibition. Anna Nero, Robert Schittko and Marcel Walldorf work in the fields of sculpture, painting and photography.

Venue:
Studio Michael Riedel
Niddastr. 84 (Hinterhaus)
60329 Frankfurt am Main

A highlight of this year's season start in Frankfurt is the presentation "NEUWAGEN" by Christian Kölbl in the premises of the studio Michael Riedel. In addition to the numerous gallery exhibitions, the studio spaces of Michael Riedel are repeatedly a special exhibition venue, which this year will be imposingly played by the artist Christian Kölbl.

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Venue:
Galerie Leuenroth
Fahrgasse 15
60311 Frankfurt am Main

For this year's start of the season, Galerie Leuenroth shows for the first time the artist Beate Höing together with Jan Dörre, who has already been represented by the gallery since 2006, in the double exhibition BYE BYE BLACKBIRD.

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Venue:
Galerie-Peter-Sillem
Dreieichstraße 2
60594 Frankfurt am Main

From early childhood on, the forest has been a place of longing for Frank Mädler, a place that combines being at home with the uncanny, a place where one can lose oneself. But with which formal possibilities can the forest be artistically represented, especially in times when it is directly threatened by destruction?

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Venue:
Jacky Strenz
Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 2
60311 Frankfurt am Main

Matthias Hoch's photographs were taken between 2009 and 2011, directly after the eviction and before the renovation of the building. In the Tower's abandoned state, Hoch conducts a research of the empty space, looking for the legacies of the liquidated Dresdner Bank: an empty safe, leather armchairs shortly before removal, prints on the carpet, non-functioning cables, the bank's logo on a window pane. Silver Tower is about the process of disappearance and provides insights into a closed system that has expired.

Accompanying the exhibition, a new publication with an essay by Niklas Maak will be published by Spector Books, Leipzig.

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Participating artists:
Paula Gehrmann, Ella Grzesiak, Michael Grzesiak, Michael Hahn, Bea Meyer, Juliana Ortiz, Steven Solbrig

Venue:
gfzk - Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Karl–Tauchnitz–Str. 9-11
04107 Leipzig
gfzk.de

einfach machen relies on the interest of people who want to get to know different perceptions of the world and different needs in dealing with each other. The exhibition project is created in a collective process in which people with and without disabilities participate. In addition to artistic works, it also includes the results from the inclusion seminar of the illustration class at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Areas of activity and recreation will be set up in the exhibition space. In a studio space within the exhibition, those interested can learn about artistic techniques and materials, try them out, and refine their skills. The space is equipped with workstations for a variety of physical needs. This collaborative and publicly accessible studio space is intended to persist permanently at the GfZK.

opening hours:
Mi. - Sa: 15–18 Uhr, Do: 19–21 Uhr

Venue:
Rundgænger by Schierke Seinecke
Bahnhofsviertel
Niddastr. 63
60329 Frankfurt am Main


Artist Tiziana Jill Beck's first solo exhibition in Frankfurt features new works on paper and cyanotypes on the theme of water. Tiziana Jill Beck explores the mythology of the swimming pool in visual culture, where this motif has been present as a place of longing and a status symbol for over 100 years. In drawing, painting, and object, she links personal memories and fragments of everyday life with references from art and film history.

opening hours:
freitags und samstags jeweils 15–18 Uhr

Venue:
Galerie poiesis
Rathausstraße 69
04416 Markleeberg

Participating artists:
Bernd Cramer, Gerhard Gäbler, Peter Franke, Stefan Hoyer, Esther Hoyer, Harald Kirschner, Katia Klose, Bertram Kober, Olaf Martens, Arne Reimer, Hans-Christian Schink, Alexander Schmidt, Erasmus Schröter, Wolfgang G. Schröter, Albrecht Tübke und Wolfgang Zeyen

opening hours:
Dienstag–Sonntag, Feiertage 10–18 Uhr

Venue:
Stadtgeschichtliches Museum
Haus Böttchergäßchen, Böttchergäßchen 3
04109 Leipzig
www.stadtmuseum-leipzig.de


The Stadtgeschichtliches Museum and the photographers of the Leipzig photo agency Punctum look back together on 33 years of agency history and inseparably connected with it on transformation time and city change. A time of the first shrinking, then growing and ever changing city of Leipzig as well as its multifaceted actors. Special insights are provided by the variety of freelance and commissioned works that have made up the agency since 1990. Its founding was initially a quick reaction of East German creative professionals to the new market conditions after the fall of communism.

The name Punctum also reflects a claim that goes far beyond the requirements of pure service. It describes the individual-artistic view of each photographer.

In multi-part series and very concise individual works, the view falls on Leipzig's structural change, formative persons of the urban society as well as major events inscribed in the collective memory.

Venue:
Burren College of Art
Newtown Castle, Newtown, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, H91 H299
Irland

Partner:
The Burren Annual is supported by funding from the Arts Office at Clare County Council.

Burren Annual Exhibition 2023
September 14 – October 13 2023

Burren Annual Symposium 2023
Wednesday, September 13, 2.00 – 5.00pm
Lecture Hall | Burren College of Art campus in person and virtually on Zoom

Hostile Territory is an exhibition that looks at windows. With photography, research and writing, it tracks the thin, slit-shaped windows of modern prisons to their architectural antecedents, considering their relationship to pre-modern structures of defence, battle and worship, and the thresholds that are drawn between bodies, shaping their regulation, subjectivity, collectivity and vision. Complicating the narratives that place the birth of the prison within modernity, as one of the enlightenment institutions of governance and civic life, Hostile Territory looks instead to their emergence from spaces of warfare and the ideological production of enemies and outsides.

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opening hours:
Freitag 10–18 Uhr, Samstag 12 – 18 Uhr

Venue:
Ketterer Kunst
Joseph-Wild-Straße 18
81829 München

After the first round of the jury, we present artworks by 33 master students of the graduating class of 2023 from German art academies, each represented by three original works from the media of painting, sculpture, video art and installation.

On the opening day, you will have the opportunity to talk with the artists. The artworks are for sale.

From the HGB Leipzig, works by Kyu Sang Lee (master student with Prof. Christin Lahr), Annika Stoll (master student with Prof. Isabel Lewis) and Geeske Janssen (diploma 2019 with Prof. Tina Bara) are on display.

Participating artists:
Laurence Bonvin, Seiichi Furuya, Lisa Holzer, Erich Lázár, Flo Maak, Sophie Meuresch, Georg Petermichl, Stefanie Seufert, Niklas Taleb, Manfred Willmann.
Kuratiert von Anna Voswinckel

opening hours:
Di – So und an Feiertagen 10:00 – 18:00

Venue:
Camera Austria
Lendkai 1
8020 Graz

The group exhibition Exposure marks the beginning of the curatorial project Fields of Focus, which investigates photographic practices in contemporary art in their respective social and political contexts. The concepts of exposure, reproduction, and transfer serve as a starting point, which, in addition to their technical significance within photography, open up certain currently relevant fields of discourse, such as disputes over visibility and vulnerability, the (contested) field of reproductive labor, or questions of knowledge production and transfer in visual culture.

Venue:
PUTTE – Projektraum für aktuelle Kunst
Brückenstrasse 2
89231 Neu-Ulm

The exhibition BROKEN PATHS brings together four works by Raisan Hameed in which he shows fragments of his own history, thus opening up a view of complex geopolitical contexts.

Participating artists:
Jana Bauch, Marc Botschen, Ramona Schacht, Dudu Quintanilha

opening hours:
Di, Mi 10–18 Uhr Do, Fr 10– 20 Uhr Sa, So 10–18 Uhr Mo geschlossen

Venue:
Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1
45128 Essen

Together with the Museum Folkwang, the Wüstenrot Foundation has awarded four prizes for documentary photography. One of the four winners is Ramona Schacht, who is currently studying for her master's degree at the HGB Leipzig.

With My covered (fem) history, Ramona Schacht explores archival collections of the textile industry and makes visible the relationship of women to labor activity. Her artistic intervention focuses on bodies, gestures, sensations and experiences. Schacht sees her work as a new form of feminist manifesto that explores female socialization and its history.

On September 23 there will be an artist talk with Ramona Schacht, Dudu Quintanilha and Mathias Gründig.

Venue:
Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1
45128 Essen

In the context of the exhibition of the Wüstenrot Foundation's Documentary Photography Award 14, we cordially invite you to an open artist talk with the award winners Ramona Schacht and Dudu Quintanilha and the curator Matthias Gründig.

In her works, Ramona Schacht examines archive recordings of female textile workers in Leipzig and Kiev. She uses aesthetic means to question ways of representing historical realities, specific working conditions, and solidarity. Dudu Quintanilha uses means from theater, therapy, and video art to examine abstract group dynamics. A group of actors play out their own experienced stories, straining the boundary between reality and reenactment.

Partly in English. Participation free of charge. Tickets available at the box office on the day of the event. Limited number of participants.

Venue:
Berggut Oschatz
Am Berggut 3
04758 Altoschatz

Opening of the solo exhibition with welcome and musical accompaniment by Andreas Hurtig (piano) and Jörg Petermann (double bass).

Steven Black studied painting with Arno Rink at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts (HGB), where he now teaches painting himself. In his paintings, the Australian artist works on recurring motifs: space and people in space. While architecture usually remains in the background in Black's works, hinted at with only a few lines, it takes center stage for the first time in his exhibition "Treppenhausbilder." In his large-scale oil paintings, Black examines a place that no longer exists in this way. The pictorial space is opened up in the play of light and shadow, which underscores the artist's subjective perspective. It is a tribute to the shape of a building with its history and to the remembering and disappearance of space in time.

Venue:
Museum Morsbroich
Gustav-Heinemann-Str. 80
51377 Leverkusen

How can we give shape to the vulnerable and fragile? How much do we show of our self, what do we hide? How does cultural and biological heritage affect our identity and relationship to ourselves and others?

In her works, Cihan Çakmak, who grew up near Worpswede as the daughter of Kurdish immigrants from Turkey, often plays with the ambivalence of closeness and distance as well as showing and hiding (oneself). With a self-confident gaze, her photographs deal with questions of identity, self-assertion, culturally inherited values, and interpersonal relationships.

We talk to Cihan Çakmak, who is currently represented in the exhibition yours truly with her photograph em fractal (2021), about her work, the meaning of the symbols, props and postures she uses, and what it is like to assert yourself as a woman in the art world.

Cihan Çakmak (born 1993 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck) lives and works in Leipzig. She studied photography in Dortmund and Lisbon and did advanced training in New York City. She then studied photography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, where she earned her diploma and Meisterschüler:innen title with Prof. Tina Bara. Cihan Cakmak is, among other things, the winner of the Paula Modersohn-Becker Young Artist Award (2020) and the Rössing Award for Photography (2021).

Participating artists:
Hartmut Meiler, Jan Käpernick, Martin Zellerhoff

Venue:
HGB Raum 3.04 und online

Partner:
Support-Büro


For the last time for now:
Septemberakademie Existenzgründung September 25 - 28, 2023 - a toolbox.
The Business Start-Up Week is the Support Office's compact seminar on all aspects of money and paperwork: What does it mean to be freelance and self-employed?
What comes after graduation? Within this week you can acquire the basic knowledge that will enable you to build up an independent existence. This applies to both freelance and applied forms of art and design. We will talk about everyday life as a self-employed person, all the terms and authorities you need to know, how it actually works with taxes and insurances and a solid project and cost planning.
I will actively accompany all events and have time for consultations before / after, should there still be questions. The language of instruction is German, of course we will try to bridge language barriers.
Please register for the respective events or for all of them at brodauf @hgb-leipzig.de - The block seminar Basiswissen Selbständigkeit Teil 1-3 is a three-part event.
Monday 25.9. 10:00 Hartmut Meiler: Basic knowledge self-employment part 1:
In this seminar you will learn everything you need to know to work independently. Your own planning will be worked through. Current questions and plans can be brought in.
Personal requirements for self-employment: Which skills are (still) needed? / Forms of self-employment (freelance, GmbH, trade...) / Obligations and allies: tax office, social security, chambers: Who else do I have to deal with? 
Good planning: pricing, calculation, business plan: What are revenues, what are expenses? What are the costs? What needs to be covered? / Step by step to a good cost planning.
With two breaks until approx. 15:30 hrs.Tuesday 26.9. 10:00 Hartmut Meiler: Basic knowledge self-employment part 2
Deepening Good Planning: Income and Expenses, Project Management / Business Start-Up Funding, Start-up Capital: What are the Options? Writing invoices, sales tax, income tax 
With two breaks until approx. 15:30 hrs
Tue, 26.9. 17:00 Martin Zellerhoff - Lecture: VG Bild-Kunst & Publications ONLINEWednesday 10:00 Hartmut Meiler / Julia Brodauf: Basic knowledge self-employment part 3          
Repetition of the most important terms, open questions, practical example: What does an exhibition cost me? Cooperation with exhibition makers: What do I have to consider? Contracts / copyright - why are these important topics?
With two breaks until approx. 15:30 hrs
Thursday 13:00  Jan Käpernick: Workshop artists' social insurance and insurancesAbout the people:
Julia Brodauf is the head of the support office - she got into this position, among other things, because she herself has various experiences in the world of self-employment: Freelance as an artist and author, with a trade in a small publishing house, as project manager in a festival, in between employment, office and parenthood. 
Hartmut Meiler has a degree in business administration and has a wealth of experience as an entrepreneur, coach and project manager. As a lecturer, he teaches at various universities in the field of business start-ups and project management.

Participating artists:
Martin Zellerhoff

Venue:
Online

Partner:
Support-Büro

The VG Bild Kunst distributes money to image creators. It takes fees from libraries and museums and other exhibition venues and image users and distributes them to all image producers registered with it. In other words, creators registered with VG Bild-Kunst receive royalties for exhibitions, websites, publications in print and media - those not registered with VG Bild-Kunst do not.

How you can claim these funds, you will learn here in compact form.

The seminar corresponds to the current allocation situation, afterwards there is the possibility for personal advice.

Martin Zellerhoff is a freelance artist (with an HGB diploma), an independent publisher, and an active member of the Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst - that is, he is active in the committee work there and has thus gotten to know the institution really well.

The lecture takes place within the framework of the September Academy Existengründung of the Support-Büro and can also be attended independently of the other events.  The Existengründungswoche is the Support-Büro's compact seminar on the topic of money and paperwork: What does it mean to be freelance and self-employed?

Webex: https://hgb-leipzig.webex.com/meet/support_buero

Venue:
gfzk - Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Karl–Tauchnitz–Str. 9-11
04107 Leipzig
gfzk.de


Book launch with Anna Karpenko, Anne König, and Malin Gewinner

"When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long" edited by curator Anna Karpenko, opens up the view on the shadowy historical, political and phenomenological territory called Belarus. It highlights the interplay between an interest in tradition, the archaic and cosmology on the one hand, and a striving towards a pure form of modernist avant-garde on the other. Theoretical texts, poems, and interviews will frame twenty positions of Belarusian artists. They are reflecting various forms of resistance against repressive systems, whether they be the appropriation of ritual practices, artistic expression through amateur cosmology or the invention of a new language or a game.

The publication "When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long" is based on the group exhibition of the same name, which was shown in the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok and in the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig in 2022.

When The Sun Is Low – The Shadows Are Long
Eds: Anna Karpenko, commissioned by Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Goethe-Institut, Warsaw
Texts: Anna Karpenko, Ihar Babkou, Volha Arkhipova, Daniel Muzyczuk, Lena Prents
128 pages, Belarusian / English, ca. 60 b / w- and colour illustrations, 24 x 31 cm, softcover
28 Euros

Anna Karpenko, born 1985 in Minsk (Belarus), based in Leipzig, curator and author. In her curatorial and research practice she represents the intrinsic links between the archaic and contemporary forms of being.
She is a MA student of the Program “Cultures of the Curatorial” at HGB.

Participating artists:
Christin Lahr, Jürgen Herzing - Mayor of Aschaffenburg , Thomas Sterna and unknown collaborators

Venue:
City Hall City of Aschaffenburg
Dalbergstrasse 15
63739 Aschaffenburg
public urban space,
Aschaffenburger Kunstverein – KunstLANDing

Partner:
Jürgen Herzing , City of Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburger Kunstverein – KunstLANDing

As part of her artistic work, Christin Lahr takes over chairs from mayors, sets up her workplace in the respective city, and provides metaphorical insights into the nature of bureaucracy, economy, money, and power. Through parables, she communicates debt relationships, appreciation and value creation, economic and symbolic capital. 

She encourages the citizens of different cities to persuade their respective mayors to surrender their chair in order to take over and own it as artists for a certain period of time. Even the initial request unleashes a cascade of considerations, concerns, convictions, and value debates. Physically and legally, the city's most important chair passes a multiple change of ownership in the course of the action.

Through the FRIENDLY TAKE-OVER and the act of performative possession, Christin Lahr overwrites the chair with her artistic action and returns it after use materially intact and yet "reworked". Through unexpected attentions and care, the protagonist of her action acquires an appreciation from office furniture to art object, which cannot be seen or materially determined, but can be actually possessed.

The artistic surplus value becomes the property of the city as a donation and can be taken into account accordingly in the next inventory. Those who happen to be involved become witnesses of the added value creation as confidants, participants, or collaborators.

All the processes involved are documented by the artist and, like the performative encounters, become part of the work: MACHT GESCHENKE: THE MAKING OF CAPITAL, FRIENDLY TAKE-OVER: CHAIR #20, Aschaffenburg, 2023.

Venue:
MNAC - Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea
Rua Serpa Pinto 4
1200- Lisboa

When we talk about identity, we are referring to a complex set of individual, relational, cultural, social, and even political experiences. The five artists selected question these different concepts of identity through photo and video works that often transcend the two-dimensional frame of the image and require the viewer to engage with the artwork on a personal level.

All of these artists, nominated for the Arendt Award, develop a strong personal vision that goes beyond the usual classic clichés of identity.

Cihan Çakmak, with a more idiosyncratic approach, explores the shared memories of a fractured Kurdish identity by creating dreamlike personal situations that challenge social fragmentation and the resulting isolation experienced by the community.

Ulla Deventer’s particular aesthetics which draws both on documentary photography and contemporary art installation considers her body as an instrument of power in order to deconstruct stereotypes about prostitution.

As to Karolina Wojtas, her deconstructed self-representations and fragmentary perceptions of the body establish new narratives that challenge the conventional notions of time and space from a social and relational standpoint.

Different in style, Lívia Melzi , her deconstructed self-representations and fragmentary perceptions of the body establish new narratives that challenge the conventional notions of time and space from a social and relational standpoint.

The question of cultural identity is intertwined with autobiographical elements in the multimedia work of Jojo Gronostay (born in Germany with Ghanaian roots). Objects and images of objects and body fragments are decontextualized and presented on an unusual scale, playing on the interrelationships between colonialism and capitalism.

Generally speaking, the perspectives of all these artists convey a range of different identities, whether they be individual, familial, cultural or territorial.

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Participating artists:
Jan Käpernick

Venue:
HGB Raum 3.04


Partner:
Support-Büro

The Künstlersozialkasse (Artists' Social Insurance Fund) provides health insurance, nursing care insurance and pension insurance for artists, designers and publicists. What does that mean and how do I get in? 

Also on the subject of insurance: Occupational disability? Private old-age provision? Liability insurance? What else, please?

In addition to a lecture, Jan Käpernick will be on hand to talk to you and to answer your questions about applying to the KSK. 

Jan Käpernick is an actor and insurance salesman and thus an expert in the field of artists' social insurance and all the other insurances that one has to take care of as a self-employed person.

The lecture takes place within the framework of the September Academy Existengründung of the Support-Büro and can also be attended independently of the other events.  The Existengründungswoche is the Support-Büro's compact seminar on the topic of money and paperwork: What does it mean to be freelance and self-employed?

opening hours:
Besichtigung nach Absprache

Venue:
Galerie Klein
Eisenbahnstraße 108
04315 Leipzig

opening hours:
Mittwoch und Sonntag 15-18 Uhr

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

Partner:
The production of the work was made possible by a grant from Stiftung Kunstfond. The work was awarded the Karl Sczuka Research Fellowship 2023 as part of the Karl Sczuka Prize 2023 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut. Special thanks go to the City of Leipzig for the support.

In a cynical attempt to caricature the spreading categorization of the world, research-traveling taxidermist Charles Waterton stuffs a howler monkey in 1824 so that its face begins to look strangely human – as if it were the last "missing link" between ape and man. He calls him The Nondescript and places the stuffed head on a bust like a regent. A dark, cloaked face, soft, hairy shoulders. Artificially raised facial wrinkles, artificial nose, artificial cheeks, artificial lips. Artificially created attempt of an artificial border.

The work Soliloquy with Ape addresses this demarcation – between species, between human and animal, between nature and culture: A fictional conversation between the historical object and a literary character unfolds in several chapters. A text developed in response to the Nondescript, addressing and questioning it, is contrasted with fragments from the novel The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, a novel that revolves around the dissolution of the (narrative) subject itself. The sound work becomes a monologue, soliloquy and dialogue at the same time. This effect is reinforced by the spatialization of the voices: They are omnipresent, wandering through the space and disintegrating into fragments of words.

Additional noises and sounds – tearing paper or tape, pauses in speech and breathing noises, a constant humming in the background, squeaking glass sounds, a dull knocking – convey a spatiality between hospital and jungle, between vastness and narrowness, and a feeling between longing and sadness.

In collaboration with Achim Lengerer/Scriptings, a publication on the sound work has been produced, which will be presented as part of the exhibition.

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig


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Participating artists:
Christin Lahr

Venue:
KHBstudios Berlin
Nazarethkirchstr. 42, 13347 Berlin

Online: t.me/KHBopenstudios oder instagram.com/khb_studios

Partner:
KHB Kunsthalle Below | KHBstudios Berlin / Stefie Steden

Experiments with (dis)order
A series of hybrid travel-workshops on idiosyncratic bureaucratic procedures and the handling of bodies (backgrounds, techniques, administration).

Experts report from the shadow areas of their everyday practice. They give insights into personal strategies of dealing with (dis)order in private and in everyday work life, which usually remain unmentioned.

MACHT GESCHENKE: THE MAKING OF CAPITAL | Christin Lahr
Bureaucratic aberrations and exemplary systems of order

Lecture Performance

Accompanying:
AG Minimal Travel: Reading Parallel Protocols and Bread from Kunsthalle Below.
Admission free, donation very welcome

Participating artists:
Forschungsprojekt im M.A. Kunstwissenschaften, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle von Maren Schleimer & Sofia Simeth

Venue:
Salinemusem Halle
Mansfelder Straße 52
06108 Halle

Erzähl mir Material collects personal stories that connect people from the region with amber, brown coal, rhyolite/porphyry and salt. At the release event in the Future Workshop of the Saline Museum, the participating authors will read their texts.

Participating artists:
Cihan Çakmak, Clara Hausmann, Markus Heller, Alexandra Ivanciu, Lucas Kaiser, Galamb Thorday, Annika Stoll

opening hours:
Mi. – Fr.: 14 – 18 Uhr, Sa.: 14 – 17 Uhr

Venue:
UNTERGESCHOSS 14
Spinnereistraße 7
04179 Leipzig


Ceremonial farewell of the master students, awarding of the Meisterschüler*innen-Preis of the G2 Kunsthalle and opening:
Fri. 06.10.2023, 6 pm, UNTERGESCHOSS 14

The exhibition brings together works from all disciplines by graduates of the Meisterschüler*innen program who successfully passed their exams in the winter and summer semesters. The works are the result of the two-year postgraduate course at the HGB, which deepens and expands artistic-practical and artistic-scientific skills.

This year, the Meisterschüler*innen-Preis of the G2 Kunsthalle will be awarded to a graduate for the seventh time. The prize is endowed with 10,000 € and a free working space for 12 months.

Participating artists:
Felix Almes, Jorinde Becker, Leon Friederichs, Klara M. Fischer, Bernhard Bormann, Jonas Liesaus, Karl Lobo, Luke Carter, Felix Lorenz, Stephanie Marx
Leitung: Juana Anzellini, Stephanie Marx

opening hours:
Donnerstag bis Samstag 17–20 Uhr

Venue:
Raum für drastische Maßnahmen
Oderstrasse 34
10247 Berlin


In the summer of 2022 and 2023, two different groups of students and faculty at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig realized a drastic measure: the WOODCUT XXL project. This was inspired by a project in Bogotá (Colombia) entitled "Grabado sobre ruedas" (Translated: Printing on Wheels).

opening hours:
Dienstag bis Sonntag, Feiertag 11:30 bis 17 Uhr

Venue:
KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN ZWICKAU Max-Pechstein-Museum
Lessingstraße 1
08058 Zwickau

The Max Pechstein Honorary Award of the City of Zwickau 2023 goes to the artist Doris Ziegler, who was born in Weimar and works in Leipzig. She is one of the most important artists of the Leipzig School - and yet the painter is still known only to a smaller audience.

The motif of the boat is at the center of the first major retrospective of the painter Doris Ziegler. In her work it appears as an existential symbol for a permanent transition with an uncertain destination. One of the highlights of the exhibition, along with other important groups of works, is the "Passages" cycle (1988-1994), which is being shown almost in its entirety for the first time.

Venue:
SKD: Japanisches Palais & ONLINE
Palaisplatz 11
01097 Dresden

A hybrid panel discussion hosted by Cultures of the Curatorial (HGB Leipzig) in cooperation with the MA Program Curating and Art History (American University of Beirut) and Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden

Angry art? Furious exhibitions? The structures, mindsets and consequences of current Orientalism(s) evoke different kinds of emotions especially in people who are directly and continuously exposed to Orientalism(s). One of them is Wut/غضب/fury. Whereas the “furious Oriental male” still is a central and negative trope of Orientalism(s), Wut/غضب/fury might also be a fruitful and thriving force to defy exactly these Orientalism(s) by deconstructing them, emancipating ourselves from them and crafting new narratives.

Together with our guests Cihan Çakmak, Mina Jawad and Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, our moderator Beatrice von Bismarck will discuss these and other thoughts and questions. We will explore ways of dealing with still existent orientalizing structures surrounding us in the arts, in museum collections as well as in broader political, social and cultural spheres. You are cordially invited to be part of this exploration!

We kindly ask you to register for participation (online as well as on-site) via the following email address: kdk@hgb-leipzig.de until 3 October 2023. Thank you!

The event will be held in English.

Cihan Çakmak
Cihan Çakmak is a photographer and multimedia artist who lives in Leipzig. She studied photography at the University of Applied Arts and Science Dortmund, the IADE in Lisbon as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. For her studies, she received a scholarship from Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. In 2020, she received the Paula Modersohn-Becker newcomer artprice. In her work, she traces questions of identity, emancipation and self-determination.

Mina Jawad
Mina Jawad, an independent writer, employs a deconstructivist approach to explore issues related to space and gender. She engages with, among other topics, postcolonial analysis in art and culture. Her (un-)published works challenge and transcend the conventional boundaries of academic, journalistic, and artistic constraints.

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç
Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç is a political scientist and author based in Berlin. He teaches and researches, among other things, on (anti-Muslim) Racism, Antisemitism, Orientalism as well as memory and critical art and cultural production. His widely acclaimed book ’Muslimaniac. The career of an enemy image’ recently got published in a revised new edition by Verbrecher Verlag.

Beatrice von Bismarck
Beatrice von Bismarck teaches art history, visual culture and cultures of the curatorial at the Academy of Fine Arts (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst) Leipzig. She worked as a curator of the department of 20th-century art at Städel Museum, Frankfurt, was co-founder and co-director of the Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg, initiator of the M.A. Program Cultures of the Curatorial and co-directed the itinerant TRANScuratorial Academy (Berlin, Mumbai, Phnom Penh 2017-2018). Her monograph "The Curatorial Condition" came out in 2022 (Sternberg Press).

Being angry, being furious is curated by Nushin Atmaca as part of the collaboration of  the MA program Cultures of the Curatorial (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig) with  the MA Art History and Curating program at the American University of Beirut funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) with funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA).

In cooperation with Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden.

Venue:
HGB, Bibliotheksflur
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

Partner:
Archiv und Bibliothek der HGB, Julia Blume, Vincent Klotzsche, Yvonne Schürer
Grafische Werkstätten: Johannes Oestringer, Sebastian Cewe

The exhibition shows prints from the course "Typography and Hand Typesetting" under the direction of Aurelia Markwalder.

Finissage: 15.03.24, 6pm

Participating artists:
Carlo Wrangel, Ingmar Stange, Johann Bärenklau, Katharina Bayer, Ksenia Bashmakova, Leila Brinkmann, Lucia-Charlotte Ott, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Marta Sundmann, Natalia Zaitseva, Sijo Choi Kim, Simón Jaramillo Vallejo, Valério de Araújo Silva, Su Yu Hsin, Yunseon Jeong.

Venue:
SKD: Japanisches Palais
Palaisplatz 11
01097 Dresden

Museums revolve around constant core tasks: collecting, preserving, exhibiting and communicating - and also research. But what of this is visible in a museum world that invites visitors to show objects? Students of the expanded cinema class at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) investigate this question and capture what is invisible at first glance. Film and photography are the central media for the analytical examination of works at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), which usually recede behind museum glass.

Participating artists:
u.a. Christin Lahr, Franziska Weinberger, Silvia Eiblmayr, Roel Arkesteijn, Markus Heltschl

Venue:
Kunsthaus Dresden
Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst
Rähnitzgasse 8, D-01097 Dresden
T +49 351 488 8971
kunsthaus@museen-dresden.de

Partner:
The event program takes place in cooperation with the DESIGN CAMPUS Summer School of the Museum of Decorative Arts, Dresden State Art Collections in the context of the exhibition "Plant Fever. Botany, Man, Design".

Christin Lahr: „REALITY CHECK: Wild Cube and Ground Control“, Lecture and Panel. Themenwochenende „Von Gärten und Gebieten“ anlässlich der Sonderausstellung LOIS WEINBERGER: „Relatives“ (22.09.-26.11.2023) im Kunsthaus Dresden.

Lois Weinberger (* 1947 in Stams, Tyrol, † 2020 Vienna) counts as a visionary and pioneer of an artistic practice and ecology that incorporates plants and visualizes living processes. On September 21, the Kunsthaus Dresden will open the first retrospective in Germany of the work of the Austrian artist Lois Weinberger, who died in Vienna in the spring of 2020, with the exhibition „Relatives.“

Based on an archive that the artist compiled with his partner Franziska Weinberger and which will be presented in its entirety for the first time in Dresden, the exhibition “Relatives” provides crucial insights into the artistic work of Lois Weinberger.

 

Theme Weekend "Of Gardens and Territories":

On this occasion, various experts have been invited, with whom we would like to engage in conversation on Friday and Sunday: among others, Roel Arkesteijn (Kalmthout), Silvia Eiblmayr (Vienna), Christin Lahr (Berlin). In addition, on Saturday, for the first time, excerpts from a film by director Markus Heltschl about Lois Weinberger, who was a long-time friend of the artist, will be shown.

A workshop on making edibles from nettles and a special guided tour of the exhibition "Plant Fever. Botany, Man, Design" at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Pillnitz are further special offers during this weekend.

 

Friday 13 October 2023: „White Cube versus Wild Cube“

17:00-18:30 Guided tour by Franziska Weinberger


19:00-19:30 Impulse lecture by Christin Lahr: „REALITY CHECK: Wild Cube and Ground Control“


19:30-21:00 panel discussion between Christin Lahr, Franziska Weinberger & Lena Geuer

 

Saturday October 14, 2023: "What is a Garden?"


*11:00 Champagne reception at the opening of the Pavilion Show Lois Weinberger in Plot 3.

11:00-14:00 "Weaving Nettle Tales - Nettles as all-rounders": workshop with ERBA (Philipp Kolmann and Suzanne Bernhardt) on nettles and co-creation with microbes in cooperation with the DESIGN CAMPUS Summer School of the Museum of Decorative Arts, Dresden State Art Collections in the context of the exhibition "Plant Fever. Botany, Man, Design" (only with registration-autumn holiday program).

*Please note: for both dates Treff Kleingartenverein "Flora I" e. V., Bergmannstraße 39, 01309 Dresden-Striesen

16:00 Impulse by Silvia Eiblmeyer: Zur Laubreise (53rd Venice Biennale, 2009)


16:30 Panel discussion between Silvia Eiblmeyer, Philipp Kolmann & Andreas Kempe


17:30-19:00 Tasting of the results of the workshop


19:00-20:00 Lecture by Roel Arkesteijn: "IM WORT IST DIE PFLANZE / IN THE WORD IS THE PLANT: Lois Weinberger's artist writings and interviews".


20:15 Preview of the film portrait about Lois Weinberger by Markus Heltschl with drinks . Closing with Q&A session


 


Sunday 15 October 2023: Excursions Pillnitz and Garden Concerts

11:00 Guided tour of the exhibition "Plant Fever. Botany, Man, Design" (only with registration), Location: Pillnitz Museum of Decorative Arts, August-Böckstiegel-Straße 2, 01326 Dresden

from 15:00 Garden concerts "Music for plants and people",
Place: KGV "Flora I" e. V., Bergmannstraße 39, 01309 Dresden





For our planning we are pleased about pre-registrations under kunsthaus@museen-dresden.de.


For the vacation course please register centrally via the visitor service T +49 351 488-7272 or -7264 | F +49 351 488-7263 | service@museen-dresden.de

Participating artists:
Mit Achim Mohné, Künstler / Uta Kopp, Designerin, Köln | REMOTE WORDS | https://www.remotewords.net

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

The multi-part workshop REMOTE WORDS provided a deeper insight before and behind the scenes (making of) of the interdisciplinary long-term project at the interface of art, literature, design, internet culture and navigation technologies. In cooperation with institutions from the field of art and culture, suitable messages were found that will be permanently installed on the respective roofs. The capital letters applied with paint form semantic units with the respective location and surroundings. After a certain time, they become visible by means of satellite photography and the view from space and are disseminated worldwide via virtual globes such as Google Earth or Bing Maps. In the course of the winter semester 2022/23, a collaborative process was conducted to find suitable words that are able to represent the identity of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst also over a longer period of time via the view from space. The collaborative conceptualization and decision-making, the application process, and the collaborative implementation are an essential part of the project and are now being implemented by the class.

The workshop was part of the public event series EXPANDED SUSTAINABILITY of the class Artistic Action and Research of Prof. Christin Lahr with guests in the winter semester 2022/23.

opening hours:
Performances, 22./25./29.10.23 (mit Anmeldung)

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

The exhibition and the performance of the same name If only they had written a score (2023) is dedicated to the attempt to relive a past moment. Installed in the space: a "recomposition of remains." (Schneider 2012)

The project draws attention to the reconstruction of relationality, in a spatial intervention initiated by sound and movement artist Lissy Willberg.

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


180 No3 Strategies collects artistic contributions by Karlotta Bohacz, Max Brittner, Lorin Brockhaus, Olga Liva Bruun, Jb Burquet, Nicole Collignon, Olga Corcilius, Eli Elis, Hanako Emden, Rahel Fügener, Aaron Gaab, Lucie Gallas, Juri Groß, Inka Hilsenbek, Matthias Holznagel, Eva Hubich, Cyril Hübscher, Raphael Jörger, Hanne Kaunicnik, Max Keller, Richard Klippfeld, Heinrich Kühtreiber, Sohyeon Lee, Clara Lehmann, Sophie Lindt, Frederic Maier, Lucas Manser, Lydia Marx, Lion Mayer, Felicia Nguyen, Gala Alicia Ostan Oźbolt, Matthias Pichl, Silke Ries, Sören Sandbothe, Valentin Sautier, Helene von Schirach, Milad Shamoradi, Emilia Sladek, Magda Standke, Pol Summer und Iris Vermeule

opening hours:
11–17 Uhr

Venue:
Ketterer Kunst
Gertrudenstraße 24 – 2
50667 Köln

At the opening ceremony, the winner of the
Ketterer Kunst Masterclass Prize for Young Art 2023 will be announced.

From the HGB Leipzig, works by Kyu Sang Lee (master student with Prof. Christin Lahr), Annika Stoll (master student with Prof. Isabel Lewis) and Geeske Janssen (diploma 2019 with Prof. Tina Bara) will be on display.

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