M25: Festival der Meisterschüler*innen 2025

Ceremonial farewell to the master students, Opening & presentation of the G2 Master Student Award:
Fri 26.09.2025, 18:00, Techne Sphere Leipzig

The following will speak:
Agnes Wegner, Rector HGB
Steffen Hildebrand, collector and managing director G2 Kunsthalle
Leo Wedepohl, Director G2 Kunsthalle

Performative contribution by Sarafina McLeod
"Birth of Stones"
Friday, 26.09. + Sunday 28.09. each at 4 pm
Courtyard of the Werkschauhalle

At the end of the summer semester, the HGB presents the final projects of the master students from all disciplines from the winter and summer semesters 2024/25. They are the result of the two-year postgraduate programme at the HGB, which deepens and expands artistic-practical and artistic-scientific skills.
The approximately 20 artistic positions will be presented to the public as loosely connected solo exhibitions in the Techne Sphere Leipzig, in the Werkschauhalle and in the basement of the EIGEN+ART gallery at the Leipziger Spinnerei. Everyone is cordially invited to the opening at Techne Sphere on Friday evening, 26 September 2025 (admission free)!

This year, the G2 Kunsthalle 's Master Student Award will honour a graduate for the ninth time. The prize is endowed with €10,000 and a free workspace for 12 months.

The 2025 master student examinations are / will be attended by
Anne Chpakovski, DEMNACH, Raisan Hameed, Luna Haser, Hendrik Heinicke, Eungbok Kang, Brigita Kasperaite, Sarafina McLeod, Beatrice Moumdjian, Mika Plutitsky, Ophelia Pauline Reuter, Janek Sänger, Ramona Schacht, Anna Scherbyna, Katharina Schreiter, Anna Sopova, Anja Zhukova

Exhibition venues & artists:

WERKSCHAU Hall 12 (Spinnereistraße 7, 04179 Leipzig):
Anne Chpakovski, DEMNACH, Raisan Hameed, Hendrik Heinicke, Luna Haser, Sarafina McLeod, Mika Plutitsky, Janek Sänger, Ramona Schacht, Anna Sopova

Gallery EIGEN+ART Leipzig / Basement (Spinnereistraße 7, 04179 Leipzig):
Anna Scherbyna, Anja Zhukova

Techne Sphere Leipzig (Niemeyerstr. 2-5, 04179 Leipzig):
Eungbok Kang, Brigita Kasperaite, Beatrice Moumdjian, Ophelia Pauline Reuter, Katharina Schreiter