Study Award 2025/26 of the HGB Circle of Friends and Sparkasse Leipzig
12.02.-27.02.2026
Award ceremony & exhibition opening as part of the HGB Rundgang: Thursday, February 12, 2026, 4:30 pm
Opening hours during the Rundgang: Thursday 5:00 pm–10:00 pm, Fri. + Sat. 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm, Sun. 12:00 pm. to 6:00 pm / From February 19: Thu. to Fri. 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm and by appointment: galerie@hgb-leipzig.de
Congratulations to the winners of the HGB Study Award 2025/26:
Robin Becker (Media Art)
Hyerin Eom (Media Art)
Lam Funke (Photography)
Janne Steinhardt (Painting / Printmaking)
Meta Weckeßer (Book design / Graphic design)
This year, the jury selected five works from 98 submissions. The winners will each receive prize money of €2,000. This is the 19th time that the Friends of the HGB and Sparkasse Leipzig have announced the HGB Study Award. Applications were open to HGB students of all disciplines who have not yet registered for their diploma and are not Meister-students.
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The gallery of the Academy of Fine Art sees itself as a membrane between the interior and exterior of the institution. The gallery's aim is to supplement and extend both the teaching contents and practices of the various departments as well as making a contribution to current inquiries in the arts, thereby establishing connections between internal and external discussions and - being situated in the centre of the academy - offering a social and discursive place for carrying out such debates. In the framework of the academy's specific capabilities, the gallery affords students, lecturers, invited artists, curators and theoreticians an experimental and reflective form of exhibition practice that can incorporate, beyond the presentations themselves, the active involvement with the exhibition and the reworking and reformulating discursive material.