Calendar

Participating artists:
Conductor / Musical Director: Gellért Szabó; Soloists: Madeline Cain, Steven Klose; Choir: Valentin Schneider, Barnabas Jacob Herrmann, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Maximilian Bischofberger; Instruments: Thomas Kolarczyk (double bass), Susanne Stock (accordion), Babett Niclas (harp), Myrsini Bekakou (violin); Instrument making (Bell): Friedrich Hartung

Period (opening hours):
Tues, Thurs–Sun: 10 am–6 pm, Wed: 12 noon–8 pm

Venue:
MdbK - Museum der bildenden Künste
Katharinenstraße 10
04109 Leipzig
mdbk.de

Partner:
Funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and the City of Leipzig’s Cultural Office.

With their multi-channel video installation "re:miserere! (8:45 mins, 2025/2026), the artist duo Mailand / Innenhof (*1988 / *1989) bring the aria "Miserere" from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera "Il trovatore" into our time in a unique way. To this end, they have broken the piece down into five components: the orchestra, the conductor, the choir, the soprano solo and the tenor solo. These five parts were performed unannounced in various public spaces in the form of artistic interventions: in the packed waiting area of a jobcentre branch, the soprano suddenly begins to sing. The four-piece orchestra plays in a supermarket next to the bottle return machine, whilst the conductor directs the visitors to a public library and the choir interrupts a church concert to sing before the congregation. Finally, the tenor performs his aria to the surprise of the animals in the middle of a pigsty.

Through the simultaneous projection of film footage from the five interventions, the aria is subsequently reassembled in the exhibition space, whereby the sublimity of the music creates a peculiar tension with the social reality of the performance venues.

Venue:
HGB, room 1.10 and 1.13

Venue:
HGB, room 1.10 and 1.13

The second-year students on the Book Art/Graphic Design course warmly invite you to a book launch and exhibition to welcome the new first-year students on 7 October.

Freshers’ Tour 7 October 2026
Rooms 1.10 and 1.13

5.00 pm
Book Launch: The School

6.00 pm: Exhibition opening
Followed by: Party

The exhibition/freshers’ tour offers an insight into the discussions and work undertaken during the past first year of study and is intended to give new first-year students a little taste of what to expect in their own degree programmes. Of course, all students and lecturers are also warmly invited to pop in and have a look at the exhibition. Afterwards, we warmly invite all first-year students to round off the evening with us at our welcome party and to celebrate the start of their new student life in style.

We look forward to seeing many familiar and new faces and wish everyone a great start to the new term!

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb

Working group, talk and film screening with Anna Zett as part of kritička dramaturgija/ Critical Dramaturgy Program co-organised by Kurziv & SPID. 

Critical Dramaturgy is an annual event cycle co-organized by Kurziv – Platform for Matters of Culture, Media and Society (publisher of Kulturpunkt.hr) and the Croatian Screenwriters and Playwrights Guild (SPID). The program brings together artists, theorists, practitioners, activists, writers, and thinkers from various spheres to critically approach the dominant modes of working in and through culture. More information...

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Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

The Queer-Feminist Film Symposium will take place on 9 and 10 October 2026, from 10 am to 3 pm each day, at the HGB Leipzig. Through workshops, lectures, discussions, screenings and contributions from queer-feminist filmmakers, the programme will explore topics including queer body politics, queerness in the GDR, motherhood and queer-feminist pornography, production conditions and intersectionality in filmmaking, as well as post-heroic dramaturgy and speculative queerness in migration narratives.

Participation is free of charge and open to students from all universities in Leipzig. It is also possible to attend individual programme items.

Some events will be held in English and are marked accordingly in the programme. The full programme will be published in mid-September or sent out by email.

Registration: hklitzke.aidaform.com/queerfeministisches-filmsymposium

Venue:
Am Untermarkt
09599 Freiberg

How can a 16th-century metallurgical handbook be reimagined as a score for the present day? “Schmelzer:innen” explores – through a blend of live-action role-play, craftsmanship and industrialisation, (de)colonial interconnections and digital appropriation – how local identity might be preserved and transformed.

In the square in front of the Mining Museum stands the silvery sculpture: three figures merging into one another, cast in aluminium slightly larger than life-size from a 3D print. A historical smelter, a female smelter and a third, synthetic figure, calculated in 2022 by a low-performance AI model based on historical woodcuts – a figure without a prototype or model. Their robes feature relief appliqués based on Georgius Agricola’s *De re metallica*, the tutorial on mining and metallurgy published in 1556. The sculpture draws on those images in which women are depicted as participants in the diverse work processes involved in ore extraction – a historical presence that has hitherto received little recognition and is only weakly anchored in the public consciousness.

Venue:
Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon & La fête permanente, Grandes Locos


Art historian Michal B. Ron is an experienced host of Marcel Broodthaers Memorial Birthday Parties, which take place every January 28 and sometimes also halfway, July 28, when another Marcel (Duchamp) has his (full) birthday. A few of these yearly M.B. Memorial Birthday Parties have been celebrated together with An Paenhuysen, and for the Department of Filliousophy, Michal and An share their party expertise to create a Birthday of Art at la fête permanente of the Biennale on October 17, one of the key dates in Filliou’s Whispered History of Art on the origin of art. 2026 marks the 100th birthday of Robert Filliou (17.1.1926 – 2.12.1987) and the 1 000 063 Birthday of Art. How to celebrate art? We will do so at la fête permanente on October 17, one of the key dates in Filliou’s Whispered History of Art. “A propos de fête,” wrote Marianne Filliou concerning the annual anniversary party, “Robert’s proposal for Art’s Birthday is to take the artworks off the walls, out of the display cases, and so on, and simply celebrate art.” Or as Filliou put it in 1973 on the occasion of the first official Birthday Party of Art: “How about you joining the funmaking?”

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

The Academy for Transcultural Exchange is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a programme of lectures, discussions, workshops, an exhibition and artistic contributions that shed light on the past ten years and explore the responsibilities of art colleges today. The focus will be on migration, participation, institutional change and the future of transcultural art and higher education practice.

13:30 Welcome
Commission: Academy for Transcultural Exchange

13:45 Dialogue (German)
Esraa Dayrwan & Musafer Qassim Khalaf: Things We See, Things We Have Seen
We will be discussing what it is like to work from memory – how the images we create emerge from scenes we have experienced ourselves or heard about. At the same time, we’d like to look ahead to explore how upcoming themes and the power of hope will shape our future visions.

14:45 Break
 
15:00–18:00 Workshop (German)
Anna Sabel & Mehmet Arbag: Stories of racism and anti-racism in Germany : trends, continuities and resistance over the last ten years
Since the so-called ‘Long Summer of Migration’ in 2015/16, there have been varying trends in racist conditions and anti-racist struggles and strategies. The workshop will examine key events and movements, exploring their continuities, breaks and legacies in today’s migration society. It will be held in German and is organised by the Association of Binational Families and Partnerships. The number of participants is limited to 30. Please register by emailing ex_changing@hgb-leipzig.de with the subject line ‘Workshop’, stating the names of the participants.

The workshops are being held in collaboration with the Association for Binational Families and Partnerships (iaf e.V.), which receives funding from the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth as part of the federal programme ‘Demokratie leben!’.

As part of a dialogue project organised by the IDEAL Kunstraum, Anna Sophie Gumz’s photographic work ‘off-stage’ takes centre stage in the public space. It will be accompanied during the exhibition opening by Hanako Emden’s reading performance ‘kleines licht’.

The photo series ‘off-stage’ portrays the reverse sides of election poster displays. Like the annual rings of a tree, faded textures, scratch marks and graffiti tell the overlooked stories of these image carriers, which are usually perceived merely as unassuming infrastructure. Transposed back into the outdoor space of the street on large billboard surfaces, the images reclaim the public space as a narrative stage. In addition to the billboard in front of IDEAL, the MdbK’s billboards at the Spinnerei (opposite Boesner) and at Ortfloff (Jahnallee 73) will also feature the exhibition.

‘kleines licht’ explores memories and the loss of supposed collectivity.

Commissioned and created in dialogue with the work ‘off-stage’ by Anna Sophie Gumz, this audiovisual reading attempts to recognise a dream within collective failure.

The 1990s in the capital, shaped by German reunification, and the turn of the millennium now serve as historical and geographical axes that shape Anna Sophie Gumz’s (born 1993 in Berlin) artistic perspective. She studied Fine Art at the HGB Leipzig and the ZHdK. She lives and works in Leipzig and Berlin. Hanako Emden (born 1996) is an artist and graphic designer. She writes, teaches and publishes on language and desire. Together with Sophie Florian, she forms the artist duo Florian∞Emden. She lives in Berlin.

Participating artists:
Diana Alb, Franziska Dathe, Felix Donaubauer, Valeria Drotskaya, Ingo Duderstedt, Thomas Geyer, Arina Heinze, Julia Hochbaum, ïom, Justyna Janetzek, Selma Kan, Kazuki Koga, Mathilda Köhler., Gustav Körnig, Seungjoo Lee, Dorothee Liebscher, Victoria Matthies, Michael Möbius, Margarita Montgomery, Mika Plutitsky, Sophia Roggenkamp, Janek Sänger, Stefan Schilling, Sebastian Schmidt, Klara Schöll, Andreas Schröder, Marie Jamil Schwab, Oliver Schwulst, Gustav Sonntag, Angelina Tschirch, Leon von der Lippe, Maria Wagner, Salwa Wittwer, Louis Wuttke, Ivo Zibulla, Martin Ziegler

Period (opening hours):
Wed–Fri 4 pm–7 pm / Sat 12 noon–7 pm / Sun 12 noon–4 pm

Venue:
WERKSCHAU Halle 12
Baumwollspinnerei
04179 Leipzig


Further information & supporting programme:
www.zfk-kunstverein.com
Instagram: @zfk.kunstverein

Venue:
HGB ceremony hall
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

The exhibition “QUEER ART IN THE GDR?” and its comprehensive educational programme focus on queer artists from the GDR. Through the varied biographies of nine artists and their works – including paintings, sculptures, ceramics and photographs – the exhibition shows how differently they dealt with the political and social conditions of their time. To what extent did their sexual orientation influence their artistic practice and professional development? >>> More information on the exhibition at the University of Leipzig

The HGB is exhibiting works by Jürgen Wittdorf, who studied at the HGB from 1952 to 1957. It was in Leipzig that he produced the most important series of his graphic work, including the cycle ‘Für die Jugend’ (‘For the Youth’), which is on display there. Also on display will be sketches and preparatory drawings, as well as historical documents – including photographs and newspaper reports – which provide context for Wittdorf’s life and work.

The project is an initiative of KVOST – Kunstverein Ost e.V. in collaboration with the University of Leipzig’s Curators’ Office and in partnership with the G2 Kunsthalle, the Gallery for Contemporary Art, the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Passage Kinos Leipzig.

Events: tba.

Venue:
Heizhaus Leipzig
Alte Salzstraße 63
04209 Leipzig

The 97th issue of Edit Magazine is celebrating its launch at the Heiz Haus in Grünau. To mark the occasion, Jannis Weu will be reading from their piece ‘Kuckuck’.

‘Kuckuck’ by Jannis Weu observes how wage labour transforms the body and fragments time, and how the bureaucratic system in which children are embedded helps to shape them. The text is intended as a counterpoint to the progress reports and performance records that form part of everyday life in residential groups. They give the illusion of documentation, yet in doing so shape the children’s lives and experiences before they are even able to speak.

From a single sound, a syllable takes shape, an incomplete word. The narrative challenges the binary oppositions of behaviour and degeneracy, madness and sanity, the external environment and the inner world. The text weaves together poetic testimonies about the unmasking of the nuclear family—presented as a supposed space of protection and growth, but in reality a possessive, individualistic, hierarchical and brutal form of coexistence—with experiences of exhaustion drawn from the shift work of a queer educational professional. The impossibility of just care within the capitalist system echoes in images of dissolving physicality.

Jannis Weu is an artist, author and educational specialist. Jannis is currently studying in the performative arts class at the HGB and creative writing at the German Literature Institute.

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

In 2026, the Academy for Transcultural Exchange will celebrate its tenth anniversary with a programme of events comprising lectures, discussions, workshops, an exhibition and artistic contributions that shed light on the past ten years and explore the responsibilities of art colleges today. The focus will be on migration, participation, institutional change and the future of transcultural art and higher education practice.

13:00 Welcome
Commission: Academy for Transcultural Exchange

13:15 Dialogue(s)
Ehab Assadi & Rami Hariri: AtA as a beautiful picture: Reflection Session
Beauty is never entirely fixed or universal; that is what we quickly learnt whilst studying at the HGB. In a similar way, the idea of success is often measured against a particular image of the ‘best’. These standards are often not chosen or reflected upon because they stem from a hierarchical framework. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we don’t know how to create a space for collective reflection.
That is what we will be doing in our session: with the benefit of hindsight, we will look back at the journey of the AtA programme, examining both its internal and external aspects. We will share some of our own thoughts and hope to explore the idea of positive progress for the future.

14:15 Break

14:30 Roundtable
Havîn Al-Sîndy & Simin Jawabreh: Resistance from here
Moderator: Mehmet Arbag (Association of Binational Families and Partnerships, iaf e.V.)
What does it mean to be resistant when one’s own resistance is directly linked to a place where war, violence and political oppression prevail? How does resistance change when it takes place from within the diaspora? At a physical distance, yet at the same time in immediate political and emotional proximity?
In conversation with Havîn Al-Sîndy and Simin Jawabreh, we explore forms of resistance at the intersection of art, activism and political organisation. We ask what it means to continue, raise awareness of and help shape struggles from within the diaspora. What forms can resistance take when immediate opportunities for action are limited? Where are its boundaries? What directions can be pursued when one’s own political practice is always linked to the question of what is happening elsewhere? And what does it mean to remain capable of action despite experiencing a sense of powerlessness?

16:00 Break

16:15 Dialogue
Raisan Hameed & Raneem Matouk: This is not an Artist Talk

The workshops are being held in collaboration with the Association for Binational Families and Partnerships (iaf e.V.), which receives funding from the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth as part of the federal programme ‘Demokratie leben!’

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

DAMENZIMMER HERRENSCHNITT
This homage to Aenne Biermann is surprising, unconventional and remarkably topical. Through juxtapositions, collages and staged photographs, Heidi Specker enters into a dialogue with Jewish avant-garde photography and brings its artistic legacy into the present day. Heidi Specker’s exhibition is the result of her artistic engagement, spanning several years, with the life and work of the Jewish photographer Aenne Biermann (1898–1933). Heidi Specker explores the person and work of Aenne Biermann, establishing an artistic and personal connection with her. Loss plays a significant role in this. Aenne Biermann’s work came to an abrupt end due to her early death from illness. A large part of her photographic estate was looted by the Nazis or is considered lost. In the course of her artistic research, Heidi Specker made contact with Aenne Biermann’s grandchildren. Through juxtapositions, she reimagines the photographer’s themes and compositions, appropriates them and translates them into the present day.

Venue: 19 October at 5.00 pm, GfZK, Old Building

>>> More information about Prof. Heidi Specker

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

Participating artists:
Franziska Dathe, Klara Fischer, Aya Ganor, Toni Gerhardt, Linda Göhrs, Bente Heyer, Selma Kan, Jette Kleindienst, Mathilda Köhler, Fox Kynast, Gisou Rosenthal, Klara Schöll, Sonia Shono, Matthias Sterff, Luise Tschakert

Venue:
K2 im Allgemeinen Konsumverein Braunschweig
Hinter Liebfrauen 2
38100 Braunschweig

A group of students is exploring the theme of the ‘amygdala complex’: eerie paintings, animated ghosts, childlike innocence and strange figures all come together at K2.

The challenge of exhibiting together with fellow students in a relatively small space presents opportunities for the group and the young artists, who are finding their way through a variety of media and subjects. This exciting process is being supervised by Marthe Lallemand, an artistic collaborator based in Leipzig, and forms part of the Konsumverein’s professional development programme.

Venue:
Ballhaus Ost
Pappelallee 15
10437 Berlin

Can we recognise the moment when we should not cross a line, should not go along with something, or should not look the other way? Can we resist the game of censorship, survive it, disrupt it or subvert it? And at what point do these strategies begin to perpetuate the very system they originally sought to endure or overcome?

‘The Game We Knew but Didn’t Play’ explores censorship as a power struggle that intervenes in artistic processes, relationships and everyday encounters. The performance explores how censorship determines what can be said and shown, but also how it shapes institutions, communities and the ways in which artists negotiate, adapt, remain silent, take risks or continue their work within restrictive structures.The work is based on Azadeh Ganjeh’s research into German theatre productions that were staged in state-controlled venues in the Islamic Republic of Iran following the 1979 revolution. Shaped by the perspectives of exiled artists who have experienced censorship, these case studies serve as a starting point for an exploration of censorship in various political, cultural and institutional contexts.Developed by Rebel-IST-hah! members Foad Esfahani and Azadeh Ganjeh in collaboration with Lisa Lucassen, Jule Flierl and Philine Rinnert, the performance draws on documentary materials, historical case studies, personal archives, biographies and performative actions.

Together, these materials broaden the exploration of how our lives, our decisions and our actions become entangled in systems of censorship.

Each performance opens up a space for questions. How does censorship intrude upon this space? How does it become an invisible component of aesthetic decisions, institutional agreements or artistic collaborations? And who benefits from the compromises and interdependencies that arise from this? What did we know about the play? And what might happen if we turned this knowledge into action?

Rebel-IST-hah! is a performance and research collective founded in 2006 by Azadeh Ganjeh and Foad Esfahani in Tehran (Iran) and based in Berlin since 2022. Through performance art, artistic research and collaborative working processes, the collective explores social and political issues and examines how people experience power through bodies, spaces, institutions and narratives. Over the years, Rebel-IST-hah! has worked in both conventional and unconventional spaces, collaborating with interdisciplinary artists, performers, researchers and diverse communities. The spectrum of their work ranges from performance activism to immersive theatre, radio plays and lecture-performances, right through to stage productions. In doing so, they combine documentary and archival materials with embodied practices, memory and performative experiments. The result is work that bears witness to activism, opens up spaces for appearance, invites participation in the performance and/or in social reality, and devises alternative forms of political coexistence.

Dates:
Thu 22 Oct 2026, 8.00 pm Premiere
Fri 23 Oct 2026, 8.00 pm
Sat 24 Oct 2026, 8.00 pm
Sun 25 Oct 2026, 6.00 pm
Tickets...

Concept/Idea: Rebel-IST-hah!
Written and performed by Lisa Lucassen, Jule Flierl, Philinne Rinnert, Foad Esfahani, Azadeh Ganjeh Artistic Director Azadeh Ganjeh Research Azadeh Ganjeh
Dramaturgy: Foad Esfahani Set design: Philinne Rinnert
Artistic collaboration: Gali Har-Gil
Lighting and Technical Direction: Gilda Coustier; Intern: Bita Asadi
Production management: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro

A production by Rebel-IST-hah! in collaboration with Ballhaus Ost. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and by the Performing Arts Fund from funds provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Venue:
diffrakt | zentrum für theoretische peripherie e. V.
Crellestraße 22
10827 Berlin


Issues relating to the environment and the climate crisis pose a fundamental challenge to familiar democratic structures – a challenge which, moreover, is increasingly being overlooked as it is overshadowed by other crises and sidelined by institutional overload, political inaction and powerful economic interests. Yet these issues touch upon the very foundations of how we (wish to) live together: how do the environment and democracy relate to one another? What happens when individual freedom clashes with the need to limit resources? And is it possible to conceive of a form of community that responds to the climate crisis not with less, but with more participatory decision-making? Further information...

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

In 2026, the Academy for Transcultural Exchange will celebrate its tenth anniversary with a programme of events comprising lectures, discussions, workshops, an exhibition and artistic contributions that shed light on the past ten years and explore the role of art colleges today. The focus will be on migration, participation, institutional change and the future of transcultural art and higher education practice.

6.30 pm Welcome
Commission: Academy for Transcultural Exchange

18:45 Dialogue (German and English)
Isabella Friedrich & Natascha Frankenberg: Transculturality at art colleges

>>> followed by
Solidarity party at Umerigu
Umerigu is a diasporic, queer and neurodivergent community of artists living and working in a community-based artistic and cultural space in the west of Leipzig. We’re asking for your support to keep the house warm and open throughout the coming winter. We need to raise €5,000 to buy 10 tonnes of wood pellets for the winter. Over the past year, we’ve been renovating and reopening the spaces through voluntary work, artistic projects and other community activities.
Heating is essential to keep the living spaces, workshops, event spaces, café and communal areas running throughout the winter. If you can donate, every amount helps. If you are unable to donate, please share the fundraiser with your friends, networks and communities. Visit Umerigu.com

The workshops are held in cooperation with the Association for Binational Families and Partnerships, iaf e.V., which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth as part of the federal programme ‘Demokratie leben!’.

Venue:
Rehearsal room, Room 304, HMT Leipzig
Grassistraße 8
04107 Leipzig

The lecture marks the start of the joint internationalisation programme organised by HGB and HMT Leipzig in collaboration with the Association of Binational Families and Partnerships (iaf e.V.). The programme focuses on so-called ‘contact zones’: spaces in which different positions, experiences and forms of knowledge converge, and in which conflicts and frictions become the starting point for negotiation and reflection.

How can a practice of mediation be conceived in a post-Nazi migration society that neither ignores differences nor attributes and reproduces them? How can spaces of reference and discourse be expanded without, in doing so, levelling out power relations? In the 1990s, the postcolonial theorists James Clifford and Mary Louise Pratt developed the concept of the ‘contact zone’. By this they describe social spaces in which different social and cultural positions converge and must coexist and be negotiated on a daily basis – with varying degrees of conflict. Against this backdrop, the concept (even though it was originally intended to address colonial and postcolonial situations) lends itself to describing shared spaces in a society of migration. But contact zones are zones of conflict. And so my paper focuses on contact zones in which it is possible to ‘face up to conflicts’ – in which disputes are neither avoided nor played out as resentment. If we take the concept of the contact zone seriously, this opens up a space in which no one has to leave their sense of belonging behind, but nor can anyone be reduced to it alone.

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:
Leipzig Hauptbahnhof
Willy-Brandt-Platz
04109 Leipzig

The Leipzig International Festival of Documentary and Animated Film – DOK Leipzig for short – is both a festival for the general public and Germany’s most important gathering place for the international documentary film industry. Founded in 1955, it is the oldest documentary film festival in the world and one of the largest film festivals in Germany. Its combination of documentary and animated film makes it unique worldwide.

During the festival week, 217 artistically outstanding, socially relevant films and extended reality works – including those by HGB artists – will be screened at various cinemas and venues across Leipzig. The festival’s programme and organisation are shaped by the values of peace, human dignity, participation and diversity.

The selected works offer insights into familiar and unfamiliar ways of life, address current political debates or highlight social systems and their imbalances. At the same time, their creative styles reflect new trends in documentary and animated film. DOK Leipzig is committed to presenting these films to as wide an audience as possible, thereby contributing to a dialogue about art and the world that encourages shifts in perspective or the resolution of conflicts. Some of the events are free of charge and therefore easily accessible: films from the programme are screened daily at the main railway station, whilst the extended reality exhibition ‘DOK Neuland’ and some of the interactive formats (including the masterclasses and the DOK Talks) are free of charge.

>>> Festival programme & tickets

Films by HGB artists:

• Emerson Culurgioni: 10 to 20 Halden
• Franz Impler: Breaking the Law / Change Over / Gum Bubble Buddy / Hidden Message / Nothing to expect / Out of Bounds / A Wish
• Haiguang Li: Cold River: I am in Leipzig (premiere)

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

"Half-titles" — Fliegende Blätter by Marthe Lallemand presents a selection of titles from the HGB Library's magazine collection, including the journal Fliegende Blätter (1844–1944), Imago, FKW, Imprimatur, Reichsdrucke, Das Plakat, and others. The selection follows a feminist thread through the collection. Placed side by side, these titles share a common vocabulary: traces of what a culture displays or conceals when it is not "unveiled."

From each title, the half-title, frontispiece, endpaper, cover, blank page, or colophon is reproduced by hand through various techniques — pencil drawing, relief printing, or painting — in a uniform format of 76 × 56 cm, regardless of meaning, classification, or paper quality. Wrapped in sewn camouflage sleeves made of tea paper, the posters integrate site-specifically into

For the ‘Hidden Treasures’ exhibition series, publications from the HGB Library’s stacks – which are not otherwise freely accessible – are presented. Often, only a subtly placed, colour-coded bookmark or a coloured backing indicates that the item is part of the exhibition.

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

Venue:
Galerie der HBK Braunschweig
Johannes-Selenka-Platz 1
38118 Braunschweig

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

• Gallery Alte Feuerwache (25.11.26 - 17.01.2027)
  Marchlewskistraße 6, 10243 Berlin
• Municipal Gallery Wolfsburg (04.12. - 31.12.2026)
  Schloßstrasse 8, 38448 Wolfsburg

Venue:
Art Exhibition Hall. Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
Otto-Schill-Straße 4a
04109 Leipzig

Bea Meyerand Katharina Immekus are artists who have been engaged in a close dialogue – both with each other and with their circle of friends – for several years. They attach great importance to creating structures and formats that enable a serious and independent engagement with art. In doing so, they develop their own projects, explore artistic self-organisation and share their experiences. Both were founding members of the artist-run gallery b2_ in the Baumwollspinnerei, which emerged from the B/2 art space.

Anna Lena von Helldorff pursues an interdisciplinary creative practice centred on collaborative processes and long-term connections with artists, authors and other social actors. Her long-standing friendship with Katharina Immekus and Bea Meyer has led to numerous joint projects, including the design of the visual identity for the b2_ gallery.

The discussion will focus on the importance of personal relationships, affinities, trust and solidarity within the art scene and beyond. Moderated by Olga Vostretsova.

No registration required.
Admission is free.

Participating artists:
Tobias David Albert, Léon Auffenberg, Max Baitinger, Hjordis Lyn Behncken, Sibel Beyer, Jan Blessing, Paul Bowler, Benjamin Buchegger, Constanze Hein, Pia Christmann, Jonas Deuter, Anne Dietzsch, Lina Ehrentraut, Elias Erkan, Till Gathmann, Lucia Graf, Tim Grützner, Timo Hinze, Franz Impler, Tobias Klett, Lea Kontak, Marie Lautsch, Frederik Meyer, Ondine Pannet, Paul Pistorius, Nicola Reiter, Ann Richter, Teresa Schönherr, Paul Spehr, Thomas Spieler, Malwine Stauß, Katharina Triebe, Helmut Völter, David Voss, Felix Walser, Roman Wilhelm, Paul Zech, Katharina Zimmerhackl

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

Following the successful Faculty Days in 2016 and 2017, the Book Design/Graphic Design department’s alumni event is returning to the HGB. Over two days, students, alumni and teaching staff will come together to discuss the future of visual communication, gain insights into different career paths and forge both old and new connections.

On Friday, the programme will open with a panel discussion on the topic ‘AI and the Future of Graphic Design’. Following this, and on Saturday, 32 alumni will give short talks presenting their work and experiences since graduating. Friday evening will conclude with a social gathering in the HGB’s atrium. 

FRIDAY

10:00–12:00
Panel Discussion

12:00–13:30
Lunch Break

13:30–14:10
Short Presentations
Nicola Reiter
Marie Lautsch
Paul Spehr (Studio Spehr)
Elias Erkan
Benjamin Buchegger (Beton)
Jan Blessing & Constanze Hein (Book Book Studio)

2:10–2:30 p.m.
Short coffee break & setup

2:30–3:10 p.m.
Short presentations
Jonas Deuter
Frederik Meyer
Helmut Völter
Timo Hinze (Supercomputer Studio)

3:10–4:00 p.m.
Long coffee break & setup

4:00–4:40 p.m.
Short presentations
Teresa Schönherr
Anne Dietzsch
Paul Pistorius
Thomas Spieler

5:00–5:40 p.m.
Short presentations
Paul Zech
Katharina Triebe, Tim Grützner (Grützner Triebe)
Felix Walser (Book Book Studio)
Sibel Beyer

Starting at 6:00 PM
Drinks & buffet in the atrium

Starting at 8:00 PM
Music in the atrium with Léon Auffenberg


SATURDAY

10:00–10:40 AM
Short presentations
Pia Christmann / Ann Richter (Studio Pandan)
David Voss, Ondine Pannet (Bureau Est)
Roman Wilhelm
Hjordis Lyn Behncken

10:40–11:00
Set change & coffee break

11:00–11:40
Short presentations
Lucia Graf
Katharina Zimmerhackl
Tobias Klett
Till Gathmann

12:00–1:10 p.m.
Lunch break

1:10–1:50 p.m.
Short presentations
Paul Bowler (b2 Press)
Tobias David Albert
Jan Blessing (Book Book Studio)
Lea Kontak

1:50–2:10 p.m.
Setup & coffee break

2:10–2:50 p.m.
Short presentations
Max Baitinger
Lina Ehrentraut
Franz Impler
Malwine Stauß

2:50–3:10 p.m.
Coffee break
3:10–3:45 p.m.
Closing round / Discussion / Outlook
3:45–4:00 p.m.
Closing remarks and farewell

Participating artists:
Alejandra Arévalo, Verena Brakonier, Josephine Findeisen, Susanne Keichel, Ilija Matusko, Quang Nguyen, Aslı Özçelik, Prof. Dr. Francis Seeck

Venue:
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte (MKK) Dortmund
Hansastr. 3
44137 Dortmund

In her photographic and video works, Susanne Keichel explores ‘fragments of social realities’ in schools and the world of work.

To accompany the exhibition by the Dresden-based artist, experts from the fields of research, literature, design, the performing arts and photography invite visitors to engage with perspectives critical of classism.

A discussion with Ilija Matusko will take place on the opening night of the exhibition. Susanne Keichel presents works from the series ‘Social Justice’ / Part 1: School and Part 2: Work.

Venue:
ODP Galerie
Rolf-Axen-Straße 35
04229 Leipzig

In his artistic practice, Fabian Lehmann takes a historical look at the development of technology. In his solo exhibition ‘Acceleration Strategies’, he focuses on technology’s relationship with speed and views it as a force that shapes thought, social relationships, power structures and world views.

In his sculptural works, he juxtaposes digital and analogue technologies through artefacts, remnants and 3D-printed reconstructions. In doing so, he emphasises the developmental process to which both belong. He questions whether ‘progress’ necessarily implies improvement, what is lost along the way, and who decides what is considered obsolete. He also examines how the role of human manual labour is shifting in collaboration with machines, and how technology is changing our relationship with the world.

Venue:
Literaturhaus Berlin
Fasanenstr. 23
10719 Berlin

Comics, readings, talks and Modern Tarot

Featuring Laura Freudenthaler, Sole Otero, Lara Rüter, Zara Zerbe and Anna Zett
Curated and hosted by: Giorgio Ferretti and Linn Penelope Rieger

Admission €9 / concessions €6 / Berlin-Ticket S 3

Period (opening hours):
Wed–Fri: 11.00–18.00 Sat: 11.00–16.00

Venue:
ASPN
Spinnereistraße 7
04179 Leipzig
www.aspngalerie.de/

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:
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...

Period (opening hours):
2.00 pm–6.00 pm

Venue:
Universal Cube Berlin
Straßburger Straße 53
10405 Berlin

As if something has moved. Not suddenly, but gradually; it enters 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 with 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 terrestre, 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 that is placed within it; by presence, by absence, by the weight of what came before, and by the uncertainty of what is to come. What stays constant when everything changes. Perhaps the question itself.

More information: http://www.universalcube.de

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.

HGB artist Hyerin Eom is one of the finalists for this year’s Young Art Prize, organised by the Krupa Art Foundation. She is studying in the ‘Expanded Cinema’ class taught by Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer and is the winner of the 2025/26 Student Prize awarded by the Friends of the HGB and Sparkasse Leipzig.

Following an assessment of the numerous submissions, the jury has selected 32 projects to be presented as part of the KAF Young Art Prize finalists’ exhibition.

The KAF Young Prize is an international competition for emerging artists from across Europe. Following the success of the first edition, which received 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.

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

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.

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

With:
Milan Albrecht, Lotta Beckers, Robin Becker, Véra Deubner, To Fabek, Teresa Flanderka, Lam Funke, Jo Gruber, Ilse Lafer, Samaneh Nikfard, Lucia-Charlotte Ott, Marc Rölli, Rahel Scharabi, Frida Schramm, Leonidas Zouvelos and guests

With "Escape_Practice", the HGB Gallery is launching a new format that takes a student-produced curatorial situation as its starting point. Rather than mere exhibition, the act of inviting—conceived as a transformed host–guest relationship—is to be tested, performed, and developed between HGB students and practitioners from related disciplines. In this process, escape (Paul O’Neill) is not understood as an esoteric, escapist flight, but serves as a collective tool to fluidify entrenched roles and working dynamics.

Drawing on Isabelle Stengers’ “Ecology of Practices”, the project asks: How do we work—within a situation, within a milieu—so that everyone can work (well)? Rather than relying on seamless organization, "Escape_Practice" centers on a field of productive friction, where individual practice can be recalibrated and realigned through negotiation with others. Methodologically, the project draws on scores to make movements of escape visible and tangible within space. In doing so, it follows a premise of experimental choreography: “move or be moved by some thing rather than oneself” (Yvonne Rainer).

>>> 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.

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:
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.

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.

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.