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Venue:
Museum für Kommunikation
Leipziger Str. 16
10117 Berlin

Concept: Peter Geimer (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris), Arno Gisinger (Université Paris 8), Elissa Mailänder (Sciences Po, Paris)

The event is organized by Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris as part of the lecture series The Ends of War. International Perspectives on the Second World War, initiated by the Max Weber Foundation.

The private images that amateur soldier-photographers created during the Second World War are one of its critical material and documentary legacies. As examples of amateur photography, a cultural practice shared across boundaries of time, space, and ideology, these images demand consideration from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives. But as sources and texts, they invite as many questions as they answer: what roles did they serve during the war and what roles do they play in today’s global and digital world? What do they disclose about the intertwined histories of racism, misogyny, and colonialism? What ethical responsibilities and implications are involved when we look at graphic images of violence and genocide?

PROGRAM
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Panel 1: Artistic Approaches
Coordination: Arno Gisinger
Art and War Photography, Martin Dammann
The last one is me – examples of the simulacrum, Tatiana Lecomte
P.O.V. (Point of View), 2016, Clemens von Wedemeyer

3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Panel 2: The Lives and Afterlives of Amateur Soldier-Photography in World War II
Roundtable Discussion

Welcome and Introduction: Peter Geimer (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris)
Moderation: Daniel H. Magilow (University of Knoxville, Tennessee)
Participants: 
Ofer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
Elisabeth Edwards (De Montfort University, Leicester / Oxford University)
Elissa Mailänder (Sciences Po Paris / Centre Marc Bloch Berlin)
Sophie-Charlotte Opitz (Bucerius Kunst Forum Hamburg)

5 p.m.–7 p.m.
Reception

Venue:
HGB, Raum 4.5


Kunsthalle der HGB is a project that transforms the office in room 4.5 into a temporary exhibition space. In the coming months, solo exhibitions by students will be shown here regularly.

We look forward to seeing you!

opening hours:
Tue-Fri: 11am-5pm, Sat-Sun: 12pm-4pm

Venue:
Ciné / Cinémathèque Leipzig
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 109
04275 Leipzig

Partner:
Studentenwerk Leipzig Kulturförderung

The exhibition project RESONATING REVOLUTION is dedicated to the 2014 Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine. Based on the idea that revolutions do not spread linearly but throughresonance, the video installation examines the echo that this revolution has left behind. The revolution is not understood as a completed event, but as a process that reverberates to thepresent day.

The exhibition takes a fragmentary approach to collective memory by means of interviews,sounds, images and essayistic text excerpts. These are woven into a multi-layered web andtogether create a walk-in resonance space. At the same time, RESONATING REVOLUTION addresses forms of collective and solidary practice and raises questions about utopia andcommunity in the European context.

More information...

opening hours:
Fridays 14-18 h

Venue:
Kunstraum Ortloff
Jahnallee 73
04177 Leipzig
www.ortloff.org


'Von hinten durch die Brust ins Auge' describes making things unnecessarily complicated in everyday life-while in hunting, it refers to an impossible shot, traveling precisely- entering through the back and the heart into and out of the eye. During a CAT scan, however, this shot becomes easy. Images of the body are formed layer by layer enabling the viewer to move through the tissue. The idea of seeing through the layers fascinates me. My desire is to see through them- to understand not only what I am doing, but also what painting means to me-taking a shot at it, much like revealing the hidden structures beneath the surface. The analogy to the impossible shot lies in the fact that I can never connect with the object of desire (which might be a painting or a physical body) as much as a CAT scan is able to. Neither can I move through the canvas nor anybody else.

opening hours:
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12:00-18:00

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

opening hours:
2-8 p.m.

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


4 July 18:30-20:00: Reading and discussion

opening hours:
Fridays 3-6 p.m. and Saturdays 12-3 p.m. and by appointment

Venue:
Galerie Kleindienst (Westside)
Franz-Flemming-Straße 9
04179 Leipzig
www.galeriekleindienst.de/

Venue:
Werner Vogel Schulzentrum
Hans-Marchwitza-Straße 12
04279 Leipzig


The HGB Choir is an offer of the university for its members. Choir practice is every Wednesday 18:30-20:30 in room 3.05. All HGB students, teachers and staff are cordially invited to sing along!

opening hours:
Sun 14-20 h, Mon 12-20 h

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


Linocuts and sculptures (gallery room 1)

Venue:
HGB Bibliothek

Curated by Michal B. Ron, based on the idea by Regine Ehleiter

After six semesters with the basic course "Political temporality(ies) in art: History? Present? Future?" the question was posed to the holdings of the HGB library: What temporalities can be found between the pages, on the bookshelves and in the stacks? The students of the basic course of the summer semester 2025 propose temporal terms and search for publications that deal with the respective term, disembody it or even stand in tension with it. Starting from the archive and library, we collectively developed a temporality-based lexicon that spans from "durée" to "emptiness" to "cycle". Our aim is to rebel against the canon of art history, its hierarchies and dominant narratives and to enable other, rhizomatic connections.

What time is it in the library?

For the "Hidden Treasures" exhibition series, publications from the otherwise inaccessible stacks of the HGB library are presented. Often, only a subtly placed colour-coded bookmark or a coloured underlay indicates that it is an exhibition exhibit.

opening hours:
Tue-Fri: 2pm-7pm, Sat-Sun: 12pm-6pm

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

In an installation of salt sculptures, palm branches, metal and videos, Ronny Aviram traces the emotional landscapes of departure. She combines biographical experiences with biblical stories and Mediterranean myths. The story of Lot's wife from the Old Testament serves as her starting point: fleeing from the impending destruction of Sodom, she looks back at her hometown against God's instructions - and turns into a pillar of salt. The look back can be interpreted in different ways. For Aviram, it reflects the complex relationship between what lies before and behind a person who leaves a familiar place. For her, both the departure and the backward gaze are part of a process. This is characterised by inner conflicts and conflicting feelings, by the hope of a new beginning and the longing for what lies behind. In Aviram's work, salt symbolises the persistence between the past and the future as well as the duality of destruction and preservation.

Ronny Aviram lives and works in Leipzig. She studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University and photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Werde ich zu einer Salzsäule is the final project of her diploma studies with Prof. Dr Ines Schaber. She is the winner of the study prize of the Friends of the HGB and Sparkasse Leipzig (2019) and co-author of the book TelAviVienna: Vom Heimkommen (2022, with Christina Maria Landerl).

opening hours:
Fri.: 16:00-22:00, Sat: 14:00-21:00, Sun.: 12:00-18:00

Venue:
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig

The HGB invites you to the Diploma Tour, which shows the final projects of this year's graduates. Visitors can look forward to exhibitions throughout the Academy building. Works by around 80 graduates in painting/graphics, photography, book art/graphic design and media art will be on display in around 20 exhibition rooms, organised by the graduates together with Ilse Lafer (Head of the HGB Gallery).

As part of the graduation ceremony on 11 July at the HGB Leipzig, Stephan Zerbe and Ulf Jung from the board of the Rössing Foundation will award the Rössing Prize for Photography 2025. The Rössing Prize is awarded every two years by the Rössing Foundation among the graduates of the photography programme at the HGB and is endowed with three prizes of €1,000.

On the opening day, the HGB will once again celebrate its traditional summer festival, which this year will be organised by media art students. The programme includes live acts and DJ sets by and with HGB students, bars and food (see below).

Café Europa - this year's exhibition of ERASMUS exchange students from all disciplines will take place in the former HGB café - the ExCafé. Under the title "Café Europa", a collective infrastructure of artistic works, encounters and communal cooking practice will be created during the summer festival and diploma tour - a place for art, transcultural exchange and togetherness. Curated by Janne Steinhardt and Tobi Fabek.

After the summer festival celebration on Friday, the Radical Kidz SpAce will take over the courtyard of the east wing of the HGB in front of "Café Europa" for two days. The initiative creates an open space for children - and for anyone who wants to play, create or collectively hang out. Situational, open formats are created: There will be splashing around, face painting, eating, painting, dancing and much more. The exact schedule will be announced later. The Radical Kidz SpAce sees itself as an artistic-social practice that makes care work visible and tests forms of participation and encounters within the HGB. Times: Saturday, 12.07.2025, 14:00-21:00 Sunday, 13.07.2025, 12:00-18:00

Diploma exhibitions at external locations:

Morten Bjerre: Threshold Magic, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig (garden), exhibition: 11 June - 24 August 2025

Chiara Hofmann: How fast the wind turns, Leipzig District Court / Schwurgerichtssal, exhibition: 19 June - 5 September 2025

Till Hunger: Endless Roller Roaster, Kunsthalle.Ost, exhibition: 27.06.-25.07.2025

Theresa Münnich: RESONATING REVOLUTION, Cinémathèque Leipzig, exhibition: 02-13 July 2025

Anna Perepechai: Tears of Things, Techne Sphere, exhibition: 03-07 July 2025

Gustav Körnig: blume blume // 3000, WESTSIDE Galerie Kleindienst, exhibition: 04.07.-02.08.2025

Karolina Koßmann: From behind through the chest into the eye, Kunstraum Ortloff, exhibition: 03.07.-01.08.2025

Bob Jones, a&o Kunsthalle, exhibition: 03.-12.07.2025

Felix Lorenz: Inventar, Techne Sphere (gallery space 1), exhibition: 06-07 July 2025

Ronny Aviram: Werde ich zu einer Salzsäule, Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, exhibition: 11 July - 24 August 2025


Bars & Food:

The HGB Summer Festival and the Diploma Tour will once again be accompanied by class bars, Küfas and great local partners:

Illu-Bar, System-Bar and Emergency-Bar for Installation and Space will be serving special drinks on a donation basis at the summer festival to keep the class coffers ringing.

The Radical Kunst Force Bar is organising a Soli-Küfa for Ukraine with home-made food and drinks.

FRUCHT KITCHEN offers bagel sandwiches in different versions with toppings from their own production. Delicious cakes will also be available on Saturday and Sunday.

HGB-Ex-Café opens the Café Europa with Bar & Exhibition in cooperation with the Erasmus students of the HGB for the Diploma Tour.

Café Mitsu will provide visitors to the summer festival and tour with speciality coffee from small organic farmers' cooperatives from direct local imports.

Frittenkollektiv provides crispy chips fresh from the fryer at the summer festival.

Anti-Bar mixes cocktails and mocktails to smooth sounds from its own turntable.

Ice cream van refreshes young and old with vegan ice cream specialities.

opening hours:
Fri.: 16:00-22:00, Sat: 14:00-21:00, Sun.: 12:00-18:00

Venue:
HGB, ExCafé

The international group of exchange students from all disciplines in the ERASMUS programme is organising this year's exhibition not in the Festsaal, but in the increasingly student-self-managed former café of the HGB - the ExCafé.

A group exhibition entitled "Café Europa" is being held there, which is both an exhibition project and a social space.

"Café Europa" is not just a title, but also a concept: the students are expanding the classic exhibition format to include a collective, culinary practice. The result is a space for transcultural exchange and encounters.

During the summer festival and the Diploma Tour 2025, the ExCafé will become a collective infrastructure in which artistic works and communal cooking and sharing will take place side by side and interact with each other. The exhibition invites you to linger, to talk, to pause.

Curated by Janne Steinhardt and Tobi Fabek.

opening hours:
Tue-Fri 2pm-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm

Venue:
akanthus galerie im westwerk
Karl-Heine-Straße 89
04229 Leipzig

Opening in the presence of the artist
Jutta Penndorf

Dietrich Burger studied at the HGB Leipzig under Bernhard Heisig and was a professor in the undergraduate painting programme for many years.

Participating artists:
Lennert Arnold, Len Bay, Felix Ebersbach, Marie Charlotte Elsner, Kreatur Studio, Kim Camille Kreuz / Vanessa Kahl / Kaya Leonie Pilsner
Curated by Lara Popp

Venue:
Galerie KUB
Kantstr. 18
04275 Leipzig

Digital spaces have long been shaping our perception of bodies, identities and social relationships. The group exhibition Don't break my decellularised pig's heart examines these shifts and addresses how digital structures affect our physical realities, often quietly but profoundly, between the physical body and virtual projection, between collective memory and individual fragility. The focus is on the interface between digitality and carnality, i.e. the body as a projection surface for algorithmic control, economic interests and ideological reinterpretations. The positions draw on various media: Installation, sculpture, painting, video, performance and sound.

Don't break my decellularised pig's heart invites us not only to talk about bodies in the digital age, but also to make them visible in all their fragility, projection and political influences.