Art pilgrimAge leipzig
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such a deal. Why pay upwards of $20,000 a the site’s newfound importance. At the time of and readings. Tucked behind Halle 14 is Halle
month for a space in Chelsea when you can our visit, a gallery favourite – the painter Martin 12, the former needle-setting hall, where in
get something better in Leipzig for $1,500, Eder – had an amazing show on; his demonic 2006 the British artist Darren Almond installed
and in the process provide opportunities for cats, sexualised insects and biblically scaled his monumental Terminus project (1999).
tomorrow’s talent today? magical realism filled the gallery’s impressive A little way along the old freight tracks,
One of the Spinnerei’s first and still most space, the seven-metre-high former steam you find galerieKleindienst, which has long
formidable galleries is Gerd Harry Lybke’s boiler room. held a presence on the international art fair
EIGEN+ART, which moved to the complex Dominating what might loosely be stage and moved to the Spinnerei in 2005.
in 2004. Lybke was arguably responsible for regarded as the centre of the site is the Matthias Kleindienst mines the same approach
Leipzig’s underground art scene back in the enormous Halle 14, its five floors home to as Lybke, showing Leipzig artists, but this time
day, originally setting up the city’s first studios, exhibition, performance and production of a much younger generation, with sculpture
nonconformist gallery in his own apartment in spaces (not least Universal Cube), a theatre and photography taking its place alongside
1983 (and undoubtedly amassing a vast Stasi and a library. It was originally established in painting. Painters like Peter Busch – an
file in the process). Having been equally 1990. Today, as then, Halle 14 is a not-for-profit impressive younger-generation Leipzig School
instrumental in the creation of East Berlin’s venture, run in conjunction with the Federkiel painter, shown in 2006 at the Barbara Davis
Mitte gallery scene when he moved to Foundation and a number of other nonprofit Gallery in Houston – are exhibited aside photo
Auguststrasse, and the insane gentrification partners. Together they seek to foster greater artists such as Erasmus Schröter and the young
that followed, it’s not surprising that Lybke’s dialogue between the contemporary art world photographer Sebastian Stumpf. Next door,
move to the Spinnerei was seen as cementing and the local public, hosting numerous talks Jochen Hempel’s slightly more edgy, slightly
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