Ex/Changing: Transculturality and institutional Work
10 Years Academy for Transcultural Exchange
15 - 22 October 2026
In 2016, the HGB Leipzig established the Academy for Transcultural Exchange (AtA), Germany’s first regular degree programme for people with a refugee background in the fields of fine art and graphic design. With a programme of events and an exhibition in the hgb gallery, the HGB is celebrating the AtA’s tenth anniversary and reflecting on its past and present. Further information...
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.