Calendar

Venue:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The lecture series provides an overview of various methodological approaches in current media-historical research. By focusing on methodological issues, the lecture aims to show that the history of media is not simply limited to the historical development and succession of cultural techniques, media technologies, production cultures and the like, but that as media historiography, i.e. as media historiography, it rather encompasses a broad spectrum of different histories of media in the plural, which can sometimes differ greatly in terms of their subject areas, approaches and objectives. Firstly, the development of media technology within and outside of media studies is constantly changing the concept of what is understood as a "medium" or what should be problematized. Secondly, media historiography responds to social debates and also reacts to shifts within the academic discourse itself, under the influence of which the ways and means of telling media history also change. As a result, media historiography is itself an object of historical change.

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Venue:
HGB, Raum 2.23


(A)
JOYFUL JOINTS (Show No. 3):

We come together to celebrate the primordial and joyful act of combining two parts of any shape or material. Not only Objects, people and moments can be connected to each other with the help of an additional actant, some kind of glue, a binder, a narrative. Connections are to be found in chemistry, in alchemy, in mechanics or conceptually.

A nail connects two boards - in the past, when a house was demolished, the nails were removed from the boards and reused. Thousands of bolts and nuts assemble pieces of steel so a 25 ton transporter can move across a river. A good Handshake should be brief, with moderate pressure and aimed for the web of the hand. When the French writer Roland Barthes went to a plastics exhibition in the mid-1950s, he interpreted what he saw in mythical terms. Not only did these substances have “names of Greek shepherds (Polystyrene, Polyvinyl)”, but they were the products of a kind of alchemy.

What is there to tell about some of the smallest elements that make up the material or immaterial elements that surround us? What holds our world together? What are the cultural origins, their anthropological dynamics and social impacts?

(As part of the "All the Small Things" semester project led by Studio LOB)

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(B)
Collections:

What defines a collection? How many items make a collection? What motivates someone to start collecting?

A collection is more than just a group of objects; it’s a curated narrative, a snapshot of personal passion, obsession, research and cultural history. Whether it’s letters, books, images, or digital memes, collections capture the essence of what fascinates us.

The earliest collections, known as “cabinets of curiosities," were filled with unusual items, serving as a way to categorise and understand the world. Today, a collection is not just an assembly of items but a narrative that evolves with each new addition. Each item, whether trivial or significant, carries its own story, adding depth and context to the whole.

This semester, we focused first on the personal process of seeking, locating, acquiring and organising and then on the design process of cataloging, displaying, and storing. As a result we introduce a series of catalogues, creating a library of personal collections that might spark inspiration, a warm moment, a conversation, or simply serve as resources for other purposes.

(Semester project led by Anne Büttner and Ondrej Bachor)

opening hours:
Wed.-Sat. 1pm-6pm

Venue:
Tapetenwerk
Lützner Str. 91
04177 Leipzig


Vernissage on 04.07. from 6 pm, DJ and bar night from 8:30 pm with vinyl and live vocals through house, techno, liquid funk.
Finissage on 14.07. from 7 pm.

Venue:
Galerie KUB
Kantstr. 18
04275 Leipzig

Ever since I looked through the viewfinder of my camera for the first time, I have seen you. I see you through the lens of my camera. And I see you on the prints, the photographs I make from the negatives. I am your friend. I see you posing for me in front of the church wall. We are 15, maybe 16 years old. I see you dancing with Frieder on your back at the Rock am Ring, we have the summer ahead of us and have finished our A-levels. I see you sitting on a spinning disk with Oskar on the playground in Berlin, we're in our early twenties and you look so young. You are happy. I see you pregnant with Luise. We're in Mechow, the Waschsee is very close. We've often been here together. We meet here every summer. It's a place for all our friends. A few years later, I see you diving naked through the dark, glittering water of the Sabinensee. I stand on the jetty and find you beautiful. We are friends.

04.07.2024
FREUND:INNENtag
3 - 6 pm //KUB
Reading with Hanna, Marion, Laura, Christin, Katharina, Ani, Friedi, Stanze, Nancy
Image intervention from the Stanze archive

6 p.m. //Cossi
Bike trip to the lake and postcard campaign with CD
Picnic with all friends
(Everyone bring something.)

05.07.2024
DANCE day

3 - 8 pm//KUB
Sports festival with Hanna
Face painting with Jannin

from 6 pm
Concert:
Yusuf Sahilli & Hey Jetman

8 pm // sowiewir
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 36

9 pm Concert:
Karl-Marx-Stadt

10 pm Silent disco:
mini matika
Cat Cometa
Bruce Breece

06.07.2024
MECHOWday
3 - 6 pm// KUB

Ironing beads workshop with Katja
Buttons with Christin
Friendship ribbon workshop with Olga
Screen printing with Sebi
Crêpe stand by Jacob

7 pm//Garden  
by Juliane & Marc
Barbecue and European Championship quarter finals with Schambe & all friends

07.07.2024
ABBAU party
3 - 6 pm //KUB

Summer soup from
Gesa and Lars

Playlist from friends

all days:
the friends are present

opening hours:
Wed.-Sat. 1pm-6pm

Venue:
Potemka Contemporary Art
Aurelienstraße 41
04177 Leipzig
www.potemka.de/


The exhibition RE|TURN is characterized by movement - this notion is defined by a constant flow of time that takes the form of personal stories in which memory acts as a vehicle between past, present and future - returning between intimacy, interiority, personal and collective mythologies. It is about the idea of the passing of time, expressed in the movement of the body, in a series of imaginary gestures and confrontations with time itself. Memories are read, changed, re-read and reflect the emotional space of life - the mother's heart as an archetypal place, the loss of visibility and disappearance. Memento Mori motifs, the fleeting cycle of life, medial gestures, fragile bodies and transcendence form a space in this work that moves between stillness and movement and records colliding and confronting temporalities that reflect the passing of time.

Venue:
Techne Sphere Leipzig
Niemeyerstraße 2-5
04179 Leipzig
www.technesphere.de

Partner:
Kindly supported by the HGB friends e.V.

Elsa Blanc-Brude: Contemplation
listening session
8pm-10pm

Elsa Blanc-Brude performs an experimental piece of music live. Visitors are invited to come, go, rest, move and change their position in the immediate surroundings of the Ball Theater for the entire duration of the live composition. Contemplatively, she develops a sonic and poetic landscape that critically reflects on access to information streams and invites the audience to move between the "real" world and digital social interfaces.

Elsa is a French artist living in Leipzig. She studies media art at the HGB in Leipzig and at the ISBA Besançon in France. She focuses her research on listening experiences and their technological implications. This fascination is guided by feminist questions, an interest in their transformation and the interplay with virtual and real worlds. She explores the interactions between spaces, sounds and human bodies through sound compositions and installations.

María Isabel Pineda Yupanqui: Non-geographical traces - my home in 2024
Listening experience (30 min)
20:00 and 20:30 at the Fabrik (meeting point Ball Theater)

Nicht geographische Spuren - my home in 2024 is a performative sound installation in which the artist invites the audience to lie and sit on cushioned platforms around her while she mixes spatial sounds that sonically reconstruct her idea of home. The collected sounds correspond to the affectionate gestures of daily routines, from waking up to breakfast rituals to cooking together in the evening. There is the sound of the recipe she learned from her mother and the sound of the recipe she teaches a friend. In this way, the artist shares her current version of home.

María Isabel Pineda Yupanqui is a Peruvian architect/artist currently living in Leipzig, whose work draws attention to the socio-cultural interfaces between the different communities present in her life. She tries to identify situations that she herself struggles with (mainly related to issues such as discomfort, foreignness and mistakes) and then locates them in collective processes. To represent these themes, the artist works with spatial storytelling experiences where exchange and discussion are always encouraged and welcome.

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>>> Weekend 2: Kuan-Hsuan Lee, Juli Winterstein

Participating artists:
Emil Kjerrman, Anna Rebecca Villefrance Lerke, Ronja Brainstorm, Estelle Quarino, Philip Hagen, Tatjana Hub, Nataliia Oliferovych

opening hours:
Sunday 4-7pm and by appointment

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

The offspace Plast which is run for and by artists will reopen after a winter break. The Plast team want to celebrate this by having a reopening exhibition showcasing artworks by old and new members of the Plast team. The reopening show will begin on the 6.7. with a Vernissage and a grill party. Everyone is welcome, bring your own sausages!

Venue:
Galerie Von & Von
Königstraße 5
90402 Nürnberg

Since 2016, Galerie Von & Von has been supporting academy graduates with the Playground exhibition series and awards a prize for up-and-coming talent throughout Germany. Among this year's winners is Vanessa Amoah Opoku, currently a master student of Prof. Tina Bara at the HGB Leipzig.

The winners will be presented in a group exhibition in the gallery. The exhibition will be complemented by a documentation of the exhibition's construction and interviews with the prizewinners in order to make the gallery's work accessible to a younger audience.

Venue:
BSMNT
Spinnereistraße 7 / Halle 18
04279 Leipzig

I didn’t choose my desire. I’m relentlessly at its mercy. It emerges from within me and is only released at the hands of another. Someone who follows my invitation to get close to me. It’s not
only up to me who this may be. But I’m open to it – open for the agony and fear of rejection and imbalance that could lead to true connection.

For my exhibition „hand job“, let desire and rejection collide. Rubbing against each other, leaving traces on each other and possibly forming a third instance outside of one another. At the border of an image being more than just that and a body being nothing else but an image in a space, I assume my position. The surfaces are not as flat and meaningless as we think. They are in fact the gateway to that third instance, that true fusion.

opening hours:
Open by appointment: email vsautier@hgb-leipzig.de, telegram: @sautier, instagram: @valentinsautier

Venue:
KV - Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Kolonnadenstrasse 6
04109 Leipzig

Sa, 13.7.2024, 6pm
Finissage and Performance with Sarah Letalik, Aria Schlecht, Emma Toschka

Costume: Rabea Ter Braak
Coordination: Lydia Marx
Sound: Felix Almes
Script: Valentin Sautier

appear³
verb

come into sight; become visible or noticeable, especially without apparent cause.
"smoke appeared on the horizon"

seem; give the impression of being.
"she appeared not to know what was happening“

In a time, where truth feels more and more arbitrary and out of focus in public discourse, appearance arises as the last strand of palpable fact. There is no point in trying to prove appearance, as it is by definition already relative. For something to be perceived, it simply has to give the impression of being.

The Schönheitengalerie⁴ at Munich’s Nymphenburg Palace forms the basis of 36 Beauties. Selected by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, 36 portraits of his women contemporaries gaze at today’s visitors in a tile-like arrangement.
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Text: Carla Huttenloher
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³ All definitions: Oxford Dictionary
⁴ Artists: Karl Joseph Stieler, Friedrich Dürck: 36 portraits of particularly "beautiful" women from the reign of King Ludwig
I of Bavaria, each measuring 60 x 70 cm, Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, 36 portraits are by Stieler (1827-1850), one
is now lost. 2 further portraits were added by Dürck in 1861.

opening hours:
(via public tours): Wed. 6pm–7pm / Fr.–Sun. 3pm–4pm

Venue:
G2 Schaulager
Dittrichring 13
04109 Leipzig

The work STARTS, ROUTES, LOOPING consists of a growing inventory of pictorial elements printed on of picture elements printed on acrylic glass, which can be variably connected to each other and
and can be arranged in the room. The semi-transparent strips, each 1 meter long, show blurred fragments of landscapes, ground and weather.

Like models, they stand for the views, environments and stretches of potential life realities and, when combined, create loose narratives, that take place in undefined locations. A sequence of possible perspectives on a seemingly randomly changing environment.

The modular system creates a state in which routes, locations and daily sequences can be can be changed quickly within the fixtures, and in addition to the occupied slots, there are always there are always empty spaces that can be filled. Hovering over every placement in the space is also an offer of an alternative. It is like this, but it could also be different be different. 6 silhouettes that extend into the format of the acrylic glass elements like shadows when the sun is low. Acrylic glass elements form entry points into the route. They initiate the acceleration with which the eye moves along the route and doesn’t really stick to anything.

Everything merges into one another like a rush. The viewing of the picture only takes place only in the overview, in the arrangements, which settle on the walls and form entertaining units.
form entertaining units.

Registration for a public tour...

Venue:
Bauhaus Weimar
Belvederer Allee 1A / Westvorstadt
99425 Weimar

Partner:
Claas Deutschland, Pollmeier Massivholz GmbH & Co. KG, Bauhaus Universität Weimar

The installation LEVERAGE combines sculptures by Jakob Elias Meyer and Oliver Bleckmann into a single assembly based on a shared platform.

This work is linked to a tractor unit. The main motif is that of the opening the soil and the attempt to continue the formative logic of means of production.

The work will be on display next to the Bauhaus building in Weimar as part of summaery2024.

Participating artists:
Naima Amrain, David Behrens, Oliver Bleckmann, Adam Elezrah, Nick Horter, Elena Huber, Miriam Jehle, Jasmina Klein, Jette Kleindienst, Karolina Kossmann, Jonas Liesaus, Olena Melnyk, Sofia Elise Nogueira Negwer, Nataliia Oliferovich, Nele Pianka, Rasool Abu Saab, Kola Kärtner Sainz, Fedele Friede, Valentin Sautier, Eva Noeske, Mika Plutitsky, Mare Hakamushi, Ronja Brainstorm, Karl Lobo, Lukas Schwake, Arno Selle, Nesren Shalgen, Leon von der Lippe, Anna Bein, Lucie Hess

opening hours:
Thu.-Sat. 12pm-6pm

Venue:
a&o Kunsthalle
Brandenburger Str. 2
04103 Leipzig


come spoon with us!

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Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

"Multisensory reading group" is a peer-to-peer learning cosmos in which we engage with multisensory reading practices based on body-based research. We will explore how movement and multisensory stimulation affect our reading and encounter text materials experimentally. We will try out free reading exercises and create scores to guide our reading. As a practice of reflection, we will share our different corporal realities and feel, hear, see, taste and smell text materials. In the process, we will develop a performative situation which will be presented as part of the anniversary program at the HGB Sommerfest.

With Andolie Marguerite, Antonia Braun, Emma Schunack, Nataliia Oliferovych, Sarafina McLeod, Sarah Letalik and Lissy Willberg

opening hours:
Tue-Thu 11:00-17:00, Fri 11:00-15:00

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

12.07., 17:30
Presentation of interactive student works from the class of the seminar "100XM.B." on the artist's question "What to do to make love?", Location: Reading room of the library

„Moi Aussi, je me suis demandé si je ne pouvais pas vendre quelque chose et réussir dans la vie. Cela fait un moment déjà que je ne suis bon à rien.  Je suis âgé de quarante ans … […]“

In 1964, the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) wrote in the invitation to his first solo exhibition: " I also asked myself whether I could sell something and be successful in life. For some time I had been useless. I am forty years old ... [...]". He showed objects in the exhibition. These included fifty unsold copies of his last book of poetry, Pense-Bête (1964), which were transformed into a plaster object.
In 2024, Pense-Bête will be 60 years old, Broodthaers 100 years old and the HGB library 150 years old. An opportunity to celebrate together: a deceased artist who made and buried books, with the library of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst!

The students of the seminar "100xMB or 'What to do to make love?", supervised by Michal B. Ron. are "also" wondering whether they can show "something" new about Broodthaers and "succeed" in the seminar. Does showing Marcel Broodthaers mean de-plastering or over-plastering books? In the field of tension between IMITATION COPY COPY ORIGINAL | IMITATION FALSE COPY ORIGINAL, the students will present their first results on July 12, 2024.
 
>>> The event is part of the annual program for the 150th anniversary of the HGB Library. More information...

opening hours:
Mon.-Fri. 8:00-22:00, Sat. 12:00-17:00

This semester, the HGB library serves as working material, thinking space and presentation venue for the typography course “Fantasies of the Library” with Teresa Rudolf in the first year of graphic design. On display are book recommendations as posters and Ex Libris stamps that have emerged from the examination of the library's holdings.

opening hours:
Fr. 4pm-10pm, Sat. 2pm-9pm, Sun. 12am-6pm

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

>>> Folder/Floor Plan Diploma tour & summer fest 2024 (for Smartphones)
>>> Folder/Floor Plan Diploma tour & summer fest 2024 (for Desktop)
>>> Booklet/exhibition reader

The HGB invites you to the diploma tour, which shows the final theses of this year's graduates. Visitors can look forward to exhibitions throughout the Academy building. Works by around 60 graduates from the fields of painting/printmaking, photography, book design/graphic design and media art will be on display in around 25 exhibition spaces. These are conceived across all media based on content-related, formal or methodological references and are organised by Ilse Lafer (Head of the HGB Gallery) and her team together with the artists.

On the HGB also celebrates its traditional summer party on the opening day, which this year will be organized by painting/printmaking students.

This year's diploma students are:

Book Design/Graphic Design: Hannes Barwanietz, Sophie Florian, Jannis Fray, Nina Gohlke, Tamara Manus, Carla Selva Matthes, Frederic Meier, Clara Paulina Mohr, Ris Pascoe, Edgar Sanchez, Jos Schön, Konrad Staisch, Hannah Witte, Jeong Yeongseon

Photography: Hammam Alawam, Leon Billerbeck, Nancy Göring, Tizian Hempel, Joseph Imilian, Josephine Jatzlau, Matthias Klein, Susanne Kontny, Patricia-Roxana Moroşan, Mandy Möbes, Clarita Phiri-Beierdörffer, Julia Perkuhn, Lucie Reichmayr, Stephen Stahn, Elisabeth Stiebritz, Caroline Zellfelder, Philipp Zöhrer

Painting/Printmaking: David Behrens, Christian Bode, Lorin Brockhaus, Niklas Dietzel, Fedele Friede, Leon Friederichs, Rebekka Grunwald, Kristina Hajdúchová, Nick Horter, Josephine Jannack, Franziska Koch, Jonas Liesaus, Raneem Maatouk, Mihael Martinec, Paul Nägele, Leni Pohl, Alexandra Preusser, Valentin Sautier, Kai Rolf Wildemann, Louis Wuttke

Media Art: Jan-Helge Aisenbrey, Lara Hampe, Yunseon Jeong, Lisa Kirchhoff, Marie-Luise Meister, Merlin Maximilian Meister, Neam Tarek, Mohamad Ezzeldin, Mahmoud Moawad, Snow (Seung Lok) Paik, Franziske Pätzold, Churi Potrykus, Max Ratay, J. Lukas Schwarz, Phil Stahlhut, Charlotte Ruppert, Fiete Worreschk

Performances:
Fr. 12.07.
20:00 Jos Schön: soft | Konzert/ Performance

Sa. 13.07.
18:00 Edgar Daniel: The Bus Artist | Lesung, Bar, Musik
19:00 Sophie Florian: A Space is the Place where the Body is | Lesung
20:00 Fedele Friede: Eigentlich räumt niemand gerne auf: Verortungsfragen | Lesung

So 14.07.
16:00 Lara Hampe: Die Werkstatt | Lesung
17:00 Leni Pohl: Im Ringen um das Immerschon | Lesung

External diploma exhibitions:

Franziska Koch: tingling fingers
Exhibition: 07.06.–27.07.2024 | Opening hours: Wed.-Fr. 11am-6pm, Sa. 11am-4pm | ASPN, Spinnereistraße 7, 04179 Leipzig

Kristina Hajduchova und Leon Friederichs: LONG WAY HOME
Exhibition: 04.–14.07.2024 | Opening hours: Wed.-Sat. 1pm-6pm | Tapetenwerk, C01 Halle, Lützner Str. 91, 04177 Leipzig

Patricia Morosan: Re/Turn
Exhibition: 05.–29.07.2024 | Opening hours: Wed.-Sat. 1pm-6pm | Potemka Contemporary Art, Aurelienstraße 41, 04177 Leipzig

David Behrens: Hand Job
Exhibition: 06.–10.07.2024 | BSMNT, Spinnereistraße 7 / Halle 18, 04279 Leipzig

Valentin Sautier: 36 BEAUTIES
Exhibition: 08.–14.07.2024 | Performance & Finissage: Sa. 13.07., 18:00 Uhr | KV Leipzig, Kolonnadenstr. 6, 04109 Leipzig

Lorin Brockhaus: Starts, Routes, Loopings
Exhibition until 28.07. | G2 Schaulager, Dittrichring 13, 04109 Leipzig | open by appointment: g2-leipzig.de

Line-Up Summer Party

BÜHNE INNENHOF OST
16:30 Stuber Crew
17:30 Sonic Death Monkeys
18:30 Try 'n Error
20:00 Großer Schein b2b Kleiner Schein
21:00 Josh Bobzin

INNENHOF WEST
ANTI BAR
19:00 PJPJPJ
21:00 Jewelry

FLOOR VERWALTUNGSTRAKT
22:00 Yara
23:30 Eves120

AFTERPARTY
DUQO, Lagerhofstraße 2
> Free Entry until 23:59, after that 5 Euro

Participating artists:
Stefan Armbruster, Johann Alexis, Kelsey Brookes, Malcom Gompf, Nino Maaskola, Tim Plamper, Franziska Reinbothe, Max Roedel, Gary Schlingheider, Constanze Vogt

opening hours:
by appointment

Venue:
la maison
12 rue principale
67480 Kauffenheim / Frankreich


In the exhibition “The Voids”, a group of international artists explore the philosophical idea of emptiness. Emptiness is not just the absence of something, but a space of potential, of the unknown and of reflection. The diverse artistic perspectives on the theme invite us to reflect on the meaning and potential of emptiness in a highly complex, almost fast-paced world.

Venue:
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam
Max-Planck-Straße 17
14473 Potsdam

This spring, THE MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam is showing the group exhibition Soft Power, which presents textile design as an artistic means of expression that can be used to question power relations. The exhibition focuses on aspects of textile art in three chapters. Ramona Schacht, Meisterschülerin at the HGB, talks about perspectives on the industrial history of the GDR as part of the exhibition. More information...

Venue:
SKD: Japanisches Palais
Palaisplatz 11
01097 Dresden


Ossama Shalgheen (Asim) embodies the character (Em 3ioun), who translates the coffee traces at the bottom of coffee cups into short stories that invite the audience to reflect on their personal lives. The performance goes back to a social custom that has been practiced in Southwest Asia for more than 500 years, mainly by women. Shalgheen presents this custom outside of traditional gender roles and questions Western projections.

This performance is part of the intervention “Under the same sky. Patterns and other beings” within the permanent presentation "Dialogue among Guests" in the Damascus Room, curated by the Master's program Cultures of the Curatorial.

Duration of the exhibition: April 26 - November 3, 2024

The exhibition is a cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony and the American University of Beirut, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service. This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.

Venue:
Techne Sphere Leipzig
Niemeyerstraße 2-5
04179 Leipzig
www.technesphere.de

Kuan-Hsuan Lee: Untitled
performance
27.07.2024 | 20:30 - 22:30

K.H. responds to the surreal atmosphere of the Ball Theater on the grounds of the Technesphere by performatively creating a fantasy world in which time, emotions and events are frozen and decomposed, fragmented and reconstructed. The evening shows a scenic experiment, which is started by an undefined character with the presentation of a to-do list of tasks, which then unfold in a series of fragmented events, choreographed actions, merging movements, text and sound. For K.H., the events take place in what K.H. calls a "wet and ambiguous environment".

K.H. works with performance and has a background in experimental theater. K.H. is currently studying media art at the HGB in Isabel Lewis' class for performative arts. K.H. works with the boundaries between movement, text, performance and various other media. In K.H.'s artistic practice, the exploration of fictional characters and physical experiments are starting points for the development of fragments of different universes with their own rules, temporalities and narratives.

Juli Winterstein: versus II
installation
28.07.2024 | 20.30 - 23.00 hrs

The installation versus II forms the second part of a research on corporeality, sign systems and externalization in the field of sculpture and uses the Ball Theater as an exhibition space. The practice of exhibiting is viewed from a performative angle, and the making, showing and making movable of sculptures as a dramaturgical process of conditioning for the reading gaze, which extends across the time axes of production, presentation and reception and interactively permeates them. At the end of the festival, the installation serves as a deactivation of the Ball Theater.

Juli Winterstein studies in Isabel Lewis' class for performative arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and works object-based. He has a background in theater in the areas of stage design and performance and works as a model maker alongside his studies.

More information...

>>> Weekend 1: Elsa Blanc-Brude und María Isabel Pineda Yupanqui

Participating artists:
Curated by Anna Breit and Pia Heer with Catwings, Roxana Rios, thai Lu and Emilia Schlosser

opening hours:
1pm–7pm

Venue:
KV - Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Kolonnadenstrasse 6
04109 Leipzig

Partner:
The event is part of the program series 2024: PAUSE/PLAY of KV Leipzig. Various “interludes” offer platforms for encounters and a shared, playful reflection on our time, on perception, listening, caring and hosting.

In collaborative, process-oriented research, we examine how collective care can be a form of artistic practice and how we establish and maintain it in individualistic, neoliberal structures. On a material, social and artistic level, we actively consider: How do we want to enter into relationships with each other? How can we make spaces accessible to many groups of people? How can cultural work function independently of exploitation and pressure to perform, be sustainable and not exclude marginalized groups? How can we shift from the individual to a policy of caring, exchanging and sharing that has a lasting impact on all aspects of our lives?

Program
13:00 -14:30 Catwings: And then what? (Workshop, E/D, pre-registration via mail)
From 15:00 Carpet weaving, hangout, rest and reading corner, snacks, exhibition Thai Lu: nympha
16:30-17:00 Roxana Rios: response-ability, taking a position in collective care (talk, E/D)
18:00-18:40 Emilia Schlosser: (on) how to rest (performance, E)
19:00 End

Contact: hello@based-on-gathering.com
More info: https://www.instagram.com/based_on_gathering/

Participating artists:
Artists: David Behrens, Nadia Pereira Benavente, Alba Frenzel, Florian Glaubitz, Manuel Gröger, Kaori Hiraiwa, Hanna Kuster, Marja Marlene Lechner, Levin Oehler, Franziske Pätzold, Michael Pleißner, Kay Lotte Pommer, Selina Redeker, Athena Rombach, Hui Chen Yun, Arthur Zaleweski. Curators: Florian Glaubitz & Athena Rombach

opening hours:
Tuesday to Saturday: 11 am–6 pm

Venue:
werkschau Halle 12
Baumwollspinnerei
04179 Leipzig

When we think of the word “space”, it is primarily architectural spaces that come to mind, such as our own four walls or public spaces. We move within the framework that built spaces offer us and occupy private and public spaces with our existence.

Inhabiting something does not necessarily mean moving into a building. It implies all those forms of association that give an opaque, personal and never quite tangible feeling a fixed form - only to be able to dissolve and change again and again in this very form. So how is it possible to withdraw from reality and yet find a home in the midst of it? Are there utopian models of being and living together? What creates invisible alliances and relationships?

The private four walls have long been regarded as the most intimate space, largely
largely withdrawn from the public eye and, due to their invisibility, have a rather unconcrete meaning for our fellow human beings. Public spaces, on the other hand, are furnished and charged with what society as a whole wants to show and represent; they are visible to everyone, a concrete place and object of publicity and therefore open to public discussion.

If we think further, architectural spaces originate from a space of the imagination and have been transformed from this into a real public element whose laws are open to discussion. They originate from that intimate space of thought and feeling that every human being carries within themselves and from which everything man-made originates in the first place. It is the invisible and inner architecture of human existence that ultimately determines how our world is shaped by us.
This also means that as soon as we turn our intimate thought space outwards through words, images, painting, sculpture, music, but also the use of social media, etc., making it visible and tangible for others, showing and positioning ourselves in public space, we are also participating in a reciprocal process of shaping the inner life of society.

This idea means that society is constantly informing, organizing and transforming itself. And that turning the inner world outwards into the public sphere is a cornerstone of society's togetherness. If not the core of society.

“Compared with the reality that is constituted in being heard and seen, even the strongest forces of our inner life - the passions of the heart, the thoughts of the mind, the pleasure of the senses - lead an uncertain, shadowy existence, unless they are transformed, de-privatized and de-individualized, as it were, and reshaped in such a way that they find a form suitable for public appearance.” Hannah Arendt, Vita Activa

We adjust ourselves and give ourselves out. We pour ourselves out and settle in. This is based on practices that stand alone in moments and result in something large and public: Lingering, pausing, feeling, thinking, acting.

The exhibition shows a spectrum of works that deal with the
works that deal with exterior and interior life, with public and private space. Monomentum seeks forms that open up new possibilities for inhabited and habitable space. Utopian places, fragmented spaces of memory, seemingly familiar materialities and abstract visual worlds are placed in new relationships. Monomentum thus creates a space that turns the retreat outwards. From the private debate to the public arena.

Monomentum Party
Drinks & DJ Set
10.08.2024, 6 pm

Free admission

Venue:
Libken e.V.
Böckenberg 15 - 17
17268 Gerswalde
www.libken.de

The one-week interdisciplinary Libken Summer Academy is an invitation to live, work and exhibit together beyond familiar environments and structures. It is about exchange, reflection and expansion of one's own artistic practice. The theme of this year's summer academy is sustainability/political ecology. What could a more sustainable art production, a more sustainable common life and action look like?

You will explore these and similar questions together, using different media and working methods. You will be accompanied by the lecturers @harryhachmeister working with clay / sculpture / photography and @ozlemaltin (mixed media). In addition to the practical programme, you will be cooked a decent meal, can swim in the lake on the doorstep, watch films at night and enjoy the campfire. At the end of the week on 7 September, the works will be presented to the public in a joint exhibition in the former waterworks and on the Libken site.

Photos from past summer academies, as well as information on the programme, prices and registration can be found on our website.

The Summer Academy 2024 is conceived and organised this time by Sophia Kesting in cooperation with Libken e.V.

opening hours:
Wednesday and Thursday 4-7pm

Venue:
westpol.space
Weißenfelser Str. 16
04229 Leipzig


What do I wear...
... on a first date?
... at work?
... to the job center?
... when visiting my parents?
... on vacation?
... when I'm ill?
... when nobody sees me?
... when I want to be sexy?
... when I feel sexy?
... when I'm having an abortion?
... for my best friend's birthday?
... when I'm 55?
... when I'm in love?
... when I am insecure?
... when I die?
... to the class reunion?
... just for me?

... "Processing Fibres" uses performative processes to explore the relationship to oneself and to others, mediated by the body and the layers that surround it: Clothing, fabric, fashion, material in and on the body.

What we wear and how we wear it is never neutral, never without meaning. Normative codes, social hierarchies, gender and cultural imprints, personal experiences, injuries and preferences - everything flows into the choice of textile coverings and the act of dressing and undressing. Through the performative use of textiles and other media, the exhibition evolves and changes over the course of the two days - Processing Fibres.

Barrier-free event

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

Every year since 1995, "Library Day" has been held throughout Germany on October 24. It was initiated by the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker.

Every year, the day draws attention to the more than 9,000 libraries in Germany and arouses curiosity about their extensive range of services. Since the introduction of the Day of Libraries, many libraries have held a variety of events to draw attention to the various services provided by libraries as indispensable cultural and educational institutions.

On Libraries Day, the German Library Association, together with the Telekom Foundation, awards the "Library of the Year" prize and, since 2020, the "Library of the Year in Small Municipalities and Regions".

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek


Dr. Regine Ehleiter, Berlin art historian and curator, working for the Institute for Theory in 2021/22, deals intensively with the topic of "Artists Books" and, during a visit to the library, talks about a project by the long-time director of the MoMA Library and artist book historian Clive Phillpot in the 1970s: conceptual ("difficult") publications (which could neither be clearly defined as books nor as exhibition catalogs) are listed as works of art in their own right and are not relegated to the stacks, but presented in the open stacks: His aim was to create surprises and moments of wonder in the confrontation with the "odd pamphlets": "People using any part of the library could then become mystified or be given surprises by coming across puzzling artists' books that have been dispersed or sercreted through the collection... wonderful moments of not understanding".

Anna Lena von Helldorff, Professor of the Typography class, will be responsible for the second selection of special titles, which are actually "hidden" in the magazine, but will be shown to the public on the occasion of the anniversary (if the condition of the collection permits).

>>> The event is part of the annual program for the 150th anniversary of the HGB Library. More information...

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

A visual system that animates and rearranges terms found in the HGB’s library classification. Laila Kamil studies in the class for installation and space.

>>> This event is part of the 150th anniversary of the HGB Library. Learn more about the program...