The Executive Board invites you to the next General Meeting on Friday, 15 November 2024 at 4 pm in the HGB (Room 2.41):
Agenda:
TOP 1 Welcome and determination of the quorum
TOP 2 Approval of the agenda
TOP 3 Report of the Executive Board on the year 2024 and future activities in 2025
TOP 4 Report of the treasurer
TOP 5 Approval of the actions of the Executive Board, the treasurer and the auditor
TOP 6 Report from the HGB
TOP 7 Miscellaneous
>>> please reply by 11.11.2024 to freunde@hgb-leipzig.de
Attention, special feature this year! In order to enhance our general meeting and welcome as many of you as possible, we are combining this year's meeting with two special events: Directly after the general meeting, the presentation of our annual edition will take place, which this year will kindly be designed by Prof. Michael Riedel (Professor of Painting and Graphics, HGB). Prof Riedel will be present at the presentation in person.
In the evening, the VNGart Prize (art prize of the VNG Foundation and the HGB Circle of Friends) will be awarded for the first time on the premises of Leipzig University. You are also cordially invited to attend.
Presentation of the annual award with Prof. Michael Riedel:
Friday, 15 November 2024 at 5 pm at the HGB (Graphics Cabinet, Room 3.55)
Presentation of the VNGart Prize
Friday, 15 November 2024 at 7 pm at Leipzig University (Alter Senatssaal, Ritterstraße 26)
The winners of the past years:
2023/24:
Photography: Gabriel Enrique Corredor Aristizábal -with special distinction-
Book art / graphic design: Lion Mayer
Painting / graphic design: Kyuhyun Kim
Media art: Mahshid Mahboubifar
Detailed information on the 2023/24 award winners
2022/23:
Painting / Graphics: Lorin Brockhaus - with special distinction -
Book art/ graphic design: Yeongseon Jeong, Nelly Nakahara, Hagen Tanneberger
Photography: Salome Lübke
Media art: Adrian Q. Vardi
Detailed information on the 2022/23 award winners
2021/22
Book art/ graphic design: Anna Breit & Barbara Galizia
Painting/ graphic design: Mara Jenny
Media art: Lydia Marx
Photography: Stephen Stahn
- Recognition Award - Class for Photography & Moving Image Prof. Tina Bara
Detailed information on the 2021/22 award winners
2020/21
Clarita Maria (Photography) - with special distinction
Minhye Chu (media art)
Susanne Kontny (media art/ photography)
Matteo Visentin (photography)
Hyejeong Yoo (Photography)
Detailed information on the 2020/21 award winners
2019
Jonas Rossmeißl (media art) - with special distinction
Ronny Aviram (photography)
Maja Behrmann (painting/graphics)
Musafer Qassim Khalaf (painting/graphics)
Julia Müller (painting/graphics)
2018
1st prize: Josefine Schön (book art/graphic design)
2nd prize: Oscar Lebeck (Photography)
3rd prize: Christian Kölbl (painting/graphics)
2017
1st prize: Julie Hart (media art)
2nd prize: Schreier Johann (painting/graphics) & Beatrice Schütt (media art)
2016
1st prize: Rebecca Korb (photography)
2nd prize: Fabian Hampel (media art)
3rd prize: Jennifer König (painting/graphics)
2015
1st prize: Christian Doege
2nd prize: Max Richter
3rd prize: Alexander Repp
2014
1st prize: Hanna Stiegeler (photography)
2nd prize: Julian Irlinger (painting/graphics)
3rd prize: Burkhard Beschow (media art) & Anne Fellner (painting/graphics)
2013
1st prize: Cosima zu Knyphausen (painting/graphics)
2nd prize: Stefanie Heinze (painting/graphics)
3rd prize: Christian Weigel (photography)
2012
1st prize: Philip Poppek (photography)
2nd prize: Martin Peter (Fine Arts)
3rd prize: Katharina Siegel (painting/graphics)
2011
1st prize: Martin Groß (painting/graphics)
2nd prize: Kalinka Gieseler (Photography)
3rd prize: Almut Hilf (photography) & Reymund Schröder (book art/graphic design)
Become a member of the Friends of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and support the HGB in promoting young artists and graphic designers and in improving study conditions.
Membership of the HGB Friends enables you to
- meet young and established artists and graphic designers,
- the opportunity to actively support and promote the development of the HGB and young design and art from Leipzig,
- to further vitalise the connection to circles interested in art and design,
- to support numerous projects of the art academy as well as the renowned study prize of the Circle of Friends and Sparkasse Leipzig.
As a member of the HGB Friends you receive
- an exclusive subscription right for editions from the HGB
- invitations to exclusive tours and introductions to the HGB's most important exhibitions with Rector Thomas Locher, artist talks and studio visits with HGB artists,
- a donation receipt for your membership fee and any other donations in cash or in kind.
Membership fees (annual)
25 EUR for students
100 EUR for other natural persons
200 EUR for organisations, associations, corporations
500 EUR for companies
The HGB Friends supports artistic and creative projects by students of the HGB. Applications for project funding can generally be submitted on two dates per year:
30 April
30 October
The following documents must be submitted: project description (maximum two pages!), calculation (this should also include details of other funding applications, e.g. to the student council, foundations, etc.) and details of the person or group of people who would like to carry out the project.
Applications should only be submitted digitally at freunde@hgb-leipzig.de.
The scholarship for participation in the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg has been awarded to students of the HGB by the Freundeskreis der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig e.V. since 2014. It is a residence and travel scholarship that covers the course fee for the four-week participation in the Summer Academy, among other things. Renowned artists, curators and critics from all over the world will address current issues in visual art production.
