Venue:HGB galleryWächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig
www.hgb-leipzig.de/galerieinstagram.com/hgbgalleryWhen dialogue is understood not only as a means of passing on information, but as a space in which stories, identities and public meanings are formed, it becomes a way of producing "inter-views" - an understanding that knowledge is always relational and never closed.
Inter(-)Views brings together artistic approaches that utilise interviews and conversations in new ways. The exhibited works explore how interview formats can challenge traditional research methods in contemporary art. The interviews in the exhibition are neither fixed nor neutral. They unfold as open, performative encounters characterised by differences in power relations, expectations and ways of speaking.
The works in the exhibition - radio programmes, performances, films and installations - are based on interviews that include research, initial discussions, planning and an examination of legal issues. They move between anonymisation and the visualisation of certain elements. Sometimes the recording process itself becomes visible or audible. This raises questions about transparency: Does it help us to think more critically about representation when we see how something is made, or is there a risk of reproducing the very structures that are supposed to be scrutinised?
The exhibition Inter(-)Views understands conversation and interview as artistic methods and brings together students from the Media Art undergraduate programme:
Nil Al-Hashimy, Philipp Albrecht, Ehsan Azali, Hyenjin Cho, Andrei Dmitrenko, Felix Duerler, Teresa Flanderka, Anafi Kordatzaki, Yool Kwon, Seongmin Lee, Emma-Belinda Mueuersepp, Yeonwoo Park, Jannis Weu, Corinna Marie Wolff, Shirley Zama, Lijin Zhou, Yixuan Zhuang and Alexandra Zubritskaya from two yearsof the Media Art degree programme at the Academy ofr Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) - together with guest artists Candice Breitz and Adrian Paci and their professor Stine Marie Jacobsen - In collaboration with Ilse Lafer, curator of the HGB Gallery; Carsten Möller and Max Schneider from the HGB Audio-Video Department; Juri Groß from HGB Radio; and Radio Blau.
Inter(-)Views can be seen from 18 May to 3 June 2026 at the HGB Gallery, Wächterstraße 11, 04107 Leipzig.
