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Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.34

In the lecture series "Positions", the professors present their artistic / design practice every Monday from 17:00–19:00. The lectures are open to members of the HGB. We cordially invite to the "Positions" lecture of Prof. Christian Weihrauch.

Venue:
Belvedere 21
Arsenalstraße 1
1030 Wien

Feminist Futures Forever features works by artists ranging from the feminist avant-garde to the current generation. The point of departure is the exhibition Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn: Internationale Ausstellung aktueller Kunst von Frauen (Art with a Mind of Its Own: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Women), which was held in 1985 at what is now Belvedere 21.

Feminist movements are characterized by continuity; they began long before the 1980s, continue into our present, and have lost none of their relevance. They have been diverse from the very beginning. This polyphony will be expressed through different artistic positions, media, themes, and generations.

The focus is on artworks that address sociopolitical, gender-specific, and ecological issues, with the systematic expansion of the Belvedere’s collection playing a crucial role here. The works on display critically examine the past, navigate our present, and make loud demands for a shared future.

In this sense, the title of the exhibition can also be understood as a plea for possible new perspectives: Feminist Futures Forever!

Further information...

Participating artists:
Jessica Arseneau, Len Bay, Joachim Blank, Sofia Egorova, Marie Charlotte Elsner, Carlos C. Fernandes, Naomi Frank, Anina Goepel, Li Huhn, Laila Kamil, Alexander Klaubert, Niklas Kleemann, Heather Koen, Samuel Kok, Franziska Kühn, Clemens Körner, Kaya Pilsner, Sophie Charlotte von Rintelen, Pascal Schiffers, Marie Seelen, Emma Toschka, Einav Zeichner, Siyan Zhang, Yana Zschiedrich

Venue:
Universal Cube Berlin
Straßburger Straße 53
10405 Berlin

As if something has shifted. Not suddenly, but gradually; it seeps beneath the surface of things: into the way we understand what a body is, what a system is, what it means to live in a world that does not stand still, that moves at a timeless speed.

The boundaries we once trusted, which we thought we knew, are becoming porous: technology moves like an organism. Nature carries data. The self extends beyond one’s own skin and returns altered. Time unfolds like an opaque construct that does not match the velocity of all things. Scales of measurement are falling apart – the cosmos and the cell, the infinite and the intimate, press against one another, dissolve, decay and drift apart.

We are no longer at the centre of the picture. Something else has stepped into the middle of the stage, and we are still learning how to look at it, how to talk about it, how to relate to it without claiming to comprehend it.

What can endure this uncertainty without having to resolve it?

What can dwell within this contradiction and find it fruitful?

What can pose a question and allow that question to breathe?

The works in this exhibition do not all agree with one another. Nor do they need to. They span the entire spectrum of what it means to be human, and beyond: into the digital, the organic, the uncanny, the cosmic, the terrestrial, and the collective heritage. They transmit and receive, remember and transform, shatter and preserve. The space they inhabit is not neutral. It never has been. It is shaped by everything placed within it; by presence, by absence, by the weight of what came before, and by the uncertainty of what is to come. What remains constant when everything changes? Perhaps the question itself.

Further information about the programme

Venue:
Krupa Art Foundation
Rynek 27/28
50-0 Wrocław / Poland

HGB artists Len Bay, Hyerin Eom and Anna Raczynska are among the finalists for this year’s Young Art Prize organised by the Krupa Art Foundation. Congratulations! Len Bay graduated from the HGB in 2025 from Prof. Joachim Blank’s class in Installation and Space. Hyerin Eom is studying in the Expanded Cinema class under Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer and is the winner of the 2025/26 Student Prize awarded by the Friends of the HGB and Sparkasse Leipzig. Anna Raczyńska completed her Master’s programme at the HGB Leipzig and is currently working as an artistic assistant in the Media Art Department.

Following an assessment of the numerous submissions, the jury has selected 32 projects to be presented as part of the KAF Young Art Prize final exhibition. Three prize-winners will be announced at the exhibition opening, each receiving prize money of 12,000 euros.

The KAF Young Prize is an international competition for emerging artists from across Europe. Following the success of the first edition, which attracted over 1,600 entries, the competition has been expanded and now encompasses a broader spectrum of artistic practices. For the 2026 edition, artists were invited to apply in three categories: painting, digital art, and sculpture and installation.

Participating artists:
Michelle Baumann, Adam Civin, Diren Demir, Walter Grunt, Moritz Jekat, Luba Kondratieva, Inga Kruse, Tobias Kurpat, Hyeyun Lee, Alaina Nugnis, Langga Petz, Vico Rosenberg, Carol Roz, Alyona Shapovalova, Barbora Svobodová, Simon Winkler, Ziteng Ye, Sasha Zubritskaya and others
Curatorial support: Prof. Christin Lahr, Sven Bergelt, Moritz Jekat
Coordination / Organization: Moritz Jekat

Period (opening hours):
Thu–Sat 2.00 pm–6.00 pm

Venue:
Villa Heike Kunstverein
Freienwalder Strasse 17
13055 Berlin

Transformation is neither an exception nor an isolated event, but rather the fundamental condition of the presents, pasts and futures that both connect and divide us. Nothing exists in isolation or forever. Places, ideas, images, bodies, institutions and their relationships are constantly changing – depending on the respective standpoints, perspectives and ways of looking at things. Everything is interwoven with one another in space and time.

Against a backdrop of technological, political and social upheavals, the question arises as to how realities are constituted and how they (must) be continually renegotiated. The participating artists have developed perspectives and lines of inquiry into (im)possible pasts, changes and futures. The exhibition is not the end, but a moment of limbo within a (still) open process of collective action and research.

An exhibition project by Class Artistic Action and Research at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, in cooperation with the Villa Heike Kunstverein, Berlin.

Sund 08.11., 2:30–6:00 pm
Workshop: „hard care – soft core“
Skate workshop for beginners & discussion with Inga Kruse and members of the queer and female skate community.

Venue:
HGB Leipzig - Trufanowstraße
Trufanowstraße 6
04105 Leipzig

Period (opening hours):
2:30 - 6 pm

Venue:
Villa Heike Kunstverein
Freienwalder Strasse 17
13055 Berlin


Beginners´ Skate Workshop & group discussion with Inga Kruse and members of the queer and female skate community.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.34

>>> More information about Prof Ondřej Báchor

In the lecture series "Positions", the professors present their artistic / design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to members of the HGB.

Venue:
Frauenkultur Leipzig e.V.
Windscheidstr. 51
04277 Leipzig

This lecture focuses on a chapter of the university’s history that has received little attention to date. In the space of just a few years, the internationally renowned academy was reduced to an institution of little significance. Influential academics such as Hugo Steiner-Prag and Hans Alexander Müller were expelled, Jewish students were marginalised, and former students – who had enriched Leipzig’s cultural and artistic life – were persecuted and murdered. The magazine Wächterstraße 11, published by the National Socialist Students’ Union, became a reflection of the prevailing ideology and a record of everyday life at the university. In this lecture, quotations, visual examples and biographical insights will supplement the fragmentary records in the archives and place them in the context of the cultural policy of the city of Leipzig at that time.

JULIA BLUME taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, until 2025; she also headed the Institute for Book Art and the HGB Archive there.

Admission: by voluntary contribution

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


Mira Mann is an artist based in Berlin who works with performance, music, installation and text. Her practice frequently combines voice, language, sound and theatricality, creating situations in which the boundaries between high culture and subculture become fluid. Her radically personal works are characterised by an interest in transformation and the charged space between intimacy and socio-political action. During the 2026/27 season, she will be staging experimental event formats at the Volksbühne Berlin and the Kammerspiele Munich. Her performances and exhibitions are presented internationally.

Mira Mann was invited by Véra Deubner to take part in the Escape_Practice project at the HGB Gallery.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.34

>>> More information about Prof. Ivana de Vivanco

In the lecture series "Positions", the professors present their artistic / design practice every Monday from 17:00–19:00. The lectures are open to members of the HGB.

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


Workshop: 14:00 – 17:00 Uhr
Performance: 17:30 Uhr

In this intensive on-site workshop, we will explore the relationship between the body, the unamplified voice, and both the architectural and natural environments. The focus is on how, through attentive listening and physical experience, we can engage with and respond to our immediate surroundings. The voice becomes an instrument for perceiving spatial qualities, exploring resonances and experiencing new relationships between the body, architecture and landscape. How does the sound of a place change depending on where I sing and where I listen? How can we engage with our immediate surroundings through voice, movement and presence?

Inspired by the work of composer Pauline Oliveros, as well as somatic movement exercises from Qi Gong and an approach to the classical North Indian Dhrupad vocal tradition, we shift our explorations outdoors and develop performative interventions in public spaces, cultivating a form of collective perception in which individual experiences and reactions to the environment intertwine. The workshop culminates in a joint public evening performance that emerges from this process.

Janneke van der Putten (b. 1985, Amsterdam) is a visual artist and experimental vocalist based in Rotterdam. In her artistic practice, drawing on specific locations, local contexts and personal experiences, she explores human reactions to the immediate surroundings and their relationship to natural phenomena and temporal transitions, using her voice as her primary instrument to guide her through physical and sonic explorations of diverse landscapes and spaces.

Janneke van der Putten has been invited by Robin Becker.

>>> Further information on Janneke van der Putten

Participating artists:
Abdullah Al Hajali / Franziska Dathe / Aya Ganor / Toni Gerhardt / Bente Heyer / Selma Kan / Jette Kleindienst / Mathilda Koehler / Else Kosch / Fox Kynast / Jorinde Monroe / Anna Polláková / Gisou Rosenthal / Klara Schöll / Sonia Shono / Matthias Sterff / Luise Tschakert / Anali Vakili / Lou Vinter / Robert Schmiedel / Marthe Lallemand

Period (opening hours):
Monday – Friday: 1.00 pm – 5.00 pm (On Tuesdays and Thursdays, please report to the Zella-Mehlis Tourist Information Centre first!) Saturday: 09:00 – 13:00 (Please check in at the Zella-Mehlis Tourist

Venue:
Galerie im Bürgerhaus
Louis-Anschütz-Straße 28
98544 Zella-Mehlis

Partner:
Rhön-Rennsteig-Sparkasse / Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen / insüdthüringen.de / Architekturbüro Projektscheune Lönnecker / Freistaat Thüringen / Staatskanzlei / Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Thüringen / WTA GmbH

Printed graphics enter a space that is already speaking. Layers and overlays, juxtapositions — on paper and in multiples — are not only a constitutive principle of printmaking, but also traces of an engagement that takes time. Can the architectural space, with its history, itself enter into this practice — from container to content, from frame to representation?

What language do we wish to develop that sets itself apart from spatial structures or transforms them? In collaboration with Marthe Lallemand and Robert Schmiedel, head of the etching workshop, the class is developing works that explore printmaking as a form of spatial thinking. From copperplate engravings to woodcuts, from framed works to site-specific concepts, both site-specific and non-site-specific works are on display.

The gallery in the community centre, with its print workshop, becomes a dialogue partner in its own right.

Period (opening hours):
Monday to Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm

Venue:
Große Kunstschau Worpswede
Lindenallee 5
27726 Worpswede
www.worpswede-museen.de/index.html

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) played a major part in Worpswede being regarded today as one of Europe’s most important artists’ villages. Within just a few years, she created an extensive body of work that was artistically unique, though it was not recognised until decades after her untimely death. Today, the painter is regarded as a pioneer of modern art.

The Paula Modersohn-Becker Art Prize is a living, creatively evolving tribute to this extraordinary artist. The district of Osterholz has been awarding the prize every two years since 2010. The exhibitions accompanying the art prize are held simultaneously at the Große Kunstschau Worpswede and the Barkenhoff.

Three prizes are awarded: the main prize, open to entrants from across Germany; a special prize for artists from Bremen and the district of Osterholz; and the Young Artists’ Prize for emerging artists aged 32 and under. The award ceremony will take place as part of the exhibition opening on 21 November.

Venue:
Westbad
Odermannstraße 15
04177 Leipzig


Holy Shit Shopping offers creative Christmas shopping away from the mainstream. If you’re already on the hunt for unique Christmas gifts, you might just find what you’re looking for here. A variety of artists, small labels, independent designers, and artisans invite you to browse. Several students from the HGB are also represented at this year’s market.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.34

>>> More information about Prof. Marion Kliesch

In the lecture series "Positions", the professors present their artistic / design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to members of the HGB.

Spaces for Orientation: Who gets to learn*teach art*design?

Art and design schools see themselves as places where new perspectives emerge, social questions are negotiated, and existing conditions can be challenged. At the same time, they shape who gains access to art and design education, what kinds of knowledge are considered relevant, and which forms of learning and teaching are recognised. This talk is a personal reflection on these contradictions, focusing on questions of access, power, and canon.

Drawing on three initiatives – the Academy for Transcultural Exchange (AtA) at the Academy of HGB Leipzig, forms of peering, an online learning programme by the open book society, and Learning from Volkshochschule, a project at the VHS Halle (Saale) – the talk explores alternative approaches to art and design education. Each initiative addresses a different aspect: access to institutions, the collective production and sharing of knowledge, and democratic, accessible forms of learning.

Together, these initiatives reveal what becomes possible when art and design education moves beyond its established frameworks, while also making visible the contradictions and limitations that such approaches encounter. Together, these programmes ask: Who gets to learn*teach art*design? What should art*design (education) be? And by whose standards?

(This talk was developed for the symposium Spaces for Orientation, held on 12–13 May 2026 at the Braunschweig University of Art (spacesfororientation.com). It will be presented in English with a German translation.)

Participating artists:
Students and teachers of the HBK Braunschweig, the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and the HGB Leipzig

Venue:
Galerie Alte Feuerwache
Marchlewskistraße 6
10243 Berlin

In the exhibition "Mirrored - Perspectives on Contemporary Etching", students and teachers from the Braunschweig University of Art, the weißensee kunsthochschule Berlin and the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig present around 50 current positions in intaglio printing.

With the emergence of the woodcut in the early 15th century, copperplate engraving in the middle of the century and finally etching shortly before 1500, printmaking became an art genre in its own right. With personalities such as Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1400-1468), inventor of letterpress printing with movable type, and the exceptional woodcut and etching artist Albrecht Dürer (1471- 1528), Germany can look back on a centuries-old graphic tradition.

Today, it is the art academies in particular that pass on this heritage and at the same time provide new impetus. In their workshops, students receive comprehensive training in classical and experimental intaglio printing techniques - from drypoint, line etching, aquatint, vernis mou, reservage, mezzotint, shabaquatinta, but also techniques such as screen printing on printing plates or processes associated with photography such as cliché verre or photogravure through to interfaces with the digital world. The training programmes at the universities in the three participating federal states are basically the same and yet there are subtle, visible differences.

The workshop directors Maria Ondrej, Braunschweig University of Art, Pedro Boese, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and Robert Schmiedel, Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts, together with Katharina Walter, Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig, came up with the idea of launching a cross-university exhibition project. The aim is to visualise the diversity and quality of training in the field of etching and at the same time to focus on the next generation of artists. Eight to ten students from each university are invited to take part.

At the same time, the project is a first step towards strengthening similarities and cooperation between the institutions in the long term, working out differences and also providing new impetus. The co-operation is an important contribution to keeping gravure printing alive as an intangible cultural heritage.

The results of the "Mirrored - Perspectives on Contemporary Etching" exhibition will be made accessible to the public at various locations in Germany. The exhibition will kick off at the Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig.

Further exhibition venues are planned

• Municipal Gallery Wolfsburg (04.12. - 31.12.2026)
  Schloßstrasse 8, 38448 Wolfsburg

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig


More information will follow.

Venue:
Christian-Thomasius-Zimmer at Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der europäischen Aufklärung
Franckeplatz 1
06110 Halle

Marc Rölli, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Academy of Visual Arts, is giving a lecture as part of the conference ‘Visual Politics of the Enlightenment: From Visions of Progress to Digital Utopia’.

Organised and academically directed by: Maria Junker M.A. and Prof. Dr Daniel Fulda

Organisers: GRK “Politics of the Enlightenment” (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) – Cluster of Excellence “Imaginamics” (FSU Jena) Venue: IZEA, Christian-Thomasius Room

Further information here.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.34


As part of the ‘Positionen’ lecture series, professors present their artistic and design practice every Monday from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm. The lectures are open to members of the HGB.

Participating artists:
Students and teachers of the HBK Braunschweig, the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and the HGB Leipzig

Venue:
Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg
Schloßstraße 8
38448 Wolfsburg

In the exhibition "Mirrored - Perspectives on Contemporary Etching", students and teachers from the Braunschweig University of Art, the weißensee kunsthochschule Berlin and the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig present around 50 current positions in intaglio printing.

With the emergence of the woodcut in the early 15th century, copperplate engraving in the middle of the century and finally etching shortly before 1500, printmaking became an art genre in its own right. With personalities such as Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1400-1468), inventor of letterpress printing with movable type, and the exceptional woodcut and etching artist Albrecht Dürer (1471- 1528), Germany can look back on a centuries-old graphic tradition.

Today, it is the art academies in particular that pass on this heritage and at the same time provide new impetus. In their workshops, students receive comprehensive training in classical and experimental intaglio printing techniques - from drypoint, line etching, aquatint, vernis mou, reservage, mezzotint, shabaquatinta, but also techniques such as screen printing on printing plates or processes associated with photography such as cliché verre or photogravure through to interfaces with the digital world. The training programmes at the universities in the three participating federal states are basically the same and yet there are subtle, visible differences.

The workshop directors Maria Ondrej, Braunschweig University of Art, Pedro Boese, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and Robert Schmiedel, Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts, together with Katharina Walter, Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig, came up with the idea of launching a cross-university exhibition project. The aim is to visualise the diversity and quality of training in the field of etching and at the same time to focus on the next generation of artists. Eight to ten students from each university are invited to take part.

At the same time, the project is a first step towards strengthening similarities and cooperation between the institutions in the long term, working out differences and also providing new impetus. The co-operation is an important contribution to keeping gravure printing alive as an intangible cultural heritage.

The results of the "Mirrored - Perspectives on Contemporary Etching" exhibition will be made accessible to the public at various locations in Germany. 

Period (opening hours):
Saturday 11am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pm

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

Students at the HGB are once again organising a two-day charity winter flea market, where they will be displaying and selling their own work, prints, photographs, drawings, ceramics, small sculptures, paintings, gadgets, jewellery, comics, zines and much more.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.34

>>> More information about Prof. Stine Marie Jacobsen

In the lecture series "Positions", the professors present their artistic / design practice every Monday from 17:00-19:00. The lectures are open to members of the HGB.

Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.34

>>> More information about Prof. Emmanuelle Castellan

In the ‘Positionen’ lecture series, professors present their artistic and design practice every Monday from 5.00 pm to 7.00 pm. The lectures are open to members of the HGB.