Art pilgrimAge leipzig
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paintings examining the construct of identity addressing post-socialist life in Eastern Europe. the original Leipzig School, Wolfgang
and home. Opposite is Galerie b2_, an Housed in the architecturally juxtaposed Mattheuer.
avowedly artist-run space whose members are minimalist glass box (designed by the Berlin- Leipzig’s Spinnerei complex makes the
largely drawn from the city’s environs and the and Vienna-based architecture firm AS-IF) Shoreditch of the early 1990s look meek,
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst. Tina and the neighbouring neoclassical museum, the whimsical and decidedly lacking in ambition in
Schulz, for example, has been an active collection boasts a particularly on-the-button comparison. However, unlike London’s, Leipzig’s
member of the gallery since 2004. A graduate selection of contemporary German and new art scene isn’t restricted to a crappy
student of the HGB who studied under the international artists. For example, SUPERFLEX, and once-slightly-more-affordable enclave in
well-known Köln artist Astrid Klein, her recent Francesco Vezzoli and Jonathan Meese are all the eastern part of the city. It is the whole city.
and conceptually coherent show brought presently exhibited under the title German And it’s happening now.
together sculpture, video and installation. Histories, with curatorial input from Liam Gillick,
Things are just as exciting beyond the whose all-pervasive influence even extends to
heavy industry of the cotton mill. A little closer this Eastern city. Back in the centre of town, the See Listings for further information on the
to the centre, the impressive Gallery of Museum of Fine Arts looms high over Spinnerei, archiv massiv, EIGEN+ART, Halle 14,
Contemporary Art (GfZK) resides on Karl- Katharinenstrasse, where it was constructed in galerieKleindienst, Dogenhaus Galerie,
Tauchnitz-Strasse. The gallery’s mission is a 2004. Its colossal spaces, reminiscent of Tate PIEROGI, FRED, Maerzgalerie, Filipp Rosbach,
worthy one: to exhibit former East German Modern’s Turbine Hall, are home to a respect- Galerie b2_, Gallery of Contemporary Art,
artists alongside their colleagues from the old worthy exhibition programme that spans the Museum of Fine Arts, Galerie Emmanuel Post
Soviet Bloc in order to explore how they are old and new, from Ed Ruscha to the patriarch of and ASPN
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