art pilgrimage leipzig
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more international Dogenhaus Galerie brings based on the idea of displaying high-quality art the New Leipzig School painting tradition.
together German painters such as Klaus Killisch for affordable prices in what the gallerist has Similarly adept at orchestrating dialogue
– who when we visited had a very slick show on called ‘flat files’: portfolios of original artwork and exchange is Torsten Reiter’s Maerzgalerie,
of his large Pop-inspired, luridly coloured displayed in shallow drawers. Favourites of the founded in 1999 and based at the Spinnerei
paintings – with cool young American artists gallery include Stefan Bohnenberger and since 2005. Representing or showing artists
such as Reed Anderson, known for his David Scher. including Tobias Köbsch, Miriam Vlaming and
compelling deconstructed and reconstructed PIEROGI was joined in September Thomas Henninger, the gallery has over time
paper works, or the hip Californian conceptual 2006 by London’s FRED, which was originally established a successful series of exhibitions
collagist Joe Amrhein, who also happens to be housed in a temporary space but has recently and projects entitled maerzaffairs.
the owner of another of the Spinnerei’s more moved to a permanent gallery in what could In the large industrial hall at the other
international gallery’s – the Brooklyn-based almost be an incredible Victorian stable at the end of the complex lies Filipp Rosbach’s
PIEROGI. Amrhein was drawn to the near end of the site. In the coming year the gallery, a nice clean space that recently
Spinnerei because of its incredible atmosphere gallery plans to show EXPORT/IMPORT, showcased the first solo exhibitions of several
and the availability of large, dynamic show a group exhibition bringing together seven young German artists. Rosbach’s recent
spaces – something that reminded him of the of the gallery’s American and British artists, successes have included the Dresden-trained
qualities he saw in Brooklyn when he first including David Lock, John Jodzio, Peter Jones sculptor Katja Wiechmann, whose uncanny
moved there. PIEROGI is an innovative gallery and Matthew Usmar Lauder. With this show, resin busts play with drawn and photographic
directed by Leif Magne Tangen, and like its FRED hope to initiate a dialogue between surfaces, and the Leipziger Marianna Krueger’s
Brooklyn counterpart, its philosophy is partly contemporary Anglo-American painters and strangely pretty and horribly kitsch acrylic
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