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The New Raw is a Rotterdam-based research and design studio. Founded in 2015 by the architects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki, the studio has developed a growing body of work that advocates the sustainable reuse of plastics with a positive impact on the environment and society. It works with new digital craft techniques to extend […]
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2022, new acquisitions, collection
The GfZK’s collection is regularly expanded through donations from artists and patrons and with the support of the Förderkreis. Several works were added to the collection in 2022: Magret Hoppe: Südwall Olga Sazykina: Atem-Tagebuch Lungenmimik, 1997 – ongoing Series of nine drawings, pencil, paper, each 70 x 100 cm Jota Mombaca: Voices, Voices… Inexplicable Machinery! […]
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On drawing’s new importance in the wake of the global protest movements in recent years
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In February, the Friends of GfZK visited artist Lucia Graf at her exhibition BEACH in the ODP Gallery. Lucia Graf guided the Friends of GfZK through her exhibition in dialogue and accompanied the tour with selected texts. About the Artist: Lucia Graf loves to play with signs in her works. As she herself claims, they […]
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On the last weekend of the exhibition Looking For A New Foundation, there will be a conversation with makers of the feminist magazine outside the box. The latest issue, outside the box #8:Struggles explores how women around the world are rebelling against violence, oppression, and exploitation, what technologies they are using, and how they are […]
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When papers perform is a collaborative and research project that explores the question of what remains after a performance. The project focuses on the artists’ view of their own publications and the relationship between the performative and the recorded. Artists’ books, handwritten notes, dramaturgical instructions, poetic associations or drawings will be presented and the conversation […]
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When papers perform is a collaborative and research project that explores the question of what remains after a performance. The project focuses on the artists’ view of their own publications and the relationship between the performative and the recorded. Artists’ books, handwritten notes, dramaturgical instructions, poetic associations or drawings will be presented and the conversation […]
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Engagement,
Every year, we are able to make purchases with the help of the Friends of GfZK. In 2022, we were able to purchase the work of Jota Mombaça Voices, Voices…Inexplicable Machinery!. The work consist of six drawings that were created as sketches for Jota Mombaça’s sound performance on 10.9.2022 in Clara-Zetkin-Park. The performance was dedicated […]
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Friday, 16.12.: 4 to 7 pm Saturday, 17.12.: 10 am to 1 pm and 2 to 6 pm The workshop is part of the exhibition project There is Always Dance in Abundance by Filipa César and Diana McCarty and will take place in English. Participation is free of charge. The number of participants is limited, […]
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Voices, Voices…Inexplicable Machinery –Jota Mombaça‘s sound performance was performed on 10.9.2022 in Clara Zetkin Park and was dedicated to voices that have been extinguished or silenced. The exhibition in the showcase of the New Building of the GfZK includes six drawings that were created as sketches for the performance, a spatial intervention, and the sound recording […]
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2022, exhibition
Opening: October 7 at 7 pm
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then think about sitting with us and Flippo, the GfZK children’s newspaper! What will become of our world if no one stands up anymore, but everyone stays seated? Why do we need furniture to sit on but not to stand on? We invent, try out, draw, build models – everything about […]
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Opening: 11 June, 4 to 10 pm
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2020, projects
Manche Leute sagen: Die Einschläge kommen näher. Na gut, man könnte es also so sagen: Die Einschläge kommen näher. (Das Handy zeigt mir Begegnungen mit niedrigem Risiko, ich halte beim Lesen irgendwie die Luft an. Tage später, wann immer ich das Handy aktualisiere, ist es, als wartete ich auf eine Diagnose: Hab ich‘s oder hab […]
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With Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, New York based artist Christian Nyampeta continues his collaboration with GfZK, ongoing since 2018 when Nyampeta received The Art Prize Future of Europe and presented his exhibition A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness without Sorrow in 2019. The exhibition and program Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is […]
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Opening: November 5 from 6 to 10 pm
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2020, exhibition, collection, collections exhibition
Has work come to an end ? Or is it just invisible because it takes place somewhere else, because it is automated or immaterial ? What thought processes are stimulated when we deal with different materials and social contexts? What does artistic work consist of? Is it a multitude of exchange processes, a constant work […]
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Forms of resistance and solidarity are at the centre of the multimedia exhibition Im Rücken die alte Ordnung (he she they walked), which takes the stage at the GfZK with photographs, drawings, sculptures, videos and a multi-channel sound installation. Parts of the artistic project Ankersentrum (surviving in the ruinous ruin), created for the German Pavilion […]
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Forms of resistance and solidarity are at the centre of the multimedia exhibition Im Rücken die alte Ordnung (he she they walked), which takes the stage at the GfZK with photographs, drawings, sculptures, videos and a multi-channel sound installation. Parts of the artistic project Ankersentrum (surviving in the ruinous ruin), created for the German Pavilion at the 58th […]
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A film presentation and talk between Christian Nyampeta und Arlette-Louise Ndakoze A public programme invites to excursions and screenings that focus on the colonial legacies of the German Empire in Rwanda and its afterlives in Leipzig. Screenings with films by Christian Nyampeta, Kivu Ruhorahoza, Clémentine Dusabejambo and Amelia Umuhire. ‘A Flower Garden of All Kinds of […]
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2019, exhibition
with Karimah Ashadu, Thibaut Henz, Cemile Sahin
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2008, exhibition, dr-klaus-schaffner-preis
The exhibition “Versions – The Artists’ Library” presents the ground floor of the GfZK as a forum for eight international artists who show their ideas on the subject of libraries. The term library is linked to many other topics and interactions. Some artists understand the library as an archive and deal with their ordering system. […]
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2019, exhibition, Europas Zukunft
A Flower Garden of All Kinds of Loveliness Without Sorrow is the artist Christian Nyampeta’s first solo exhibition in Germany. The title is borrowed from Een bloemhof van allerley lie ijkheyd sonder verdriet (1668), one of the first Dutch dictionaries by Adriaan Koerbagh, a Dutch philosopher and critic. Despite its own contradictions, Koerbagh’s publication attempted to […]
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For the first time in its history, the INFORM – Prize for Conceptual Design is awarded to a graphic artist based in Leipzig. Anja Kaiser, at home in the field of activism in subcultural scenes, goes out in search of free spaces for social participation. In cooperation with the Institut fuer Zukunft, Conne Island and […]
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2019, exhibition
The exhibition anarchive shows various artistic approaches to the theme of the archive.The work of the archive is to categorise, classify, attribute and select. Archives are exclusive. What makes the archive such an attractive subject in art and social sciences, as we have increasingly observed in recent decades? The classical archive opens up the central […]
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2018, Archive, Education
During november and december 2018, nine language classes from the Leipziger language coach institute (LCI) switched one of their weekly classes to the GfZK. There they visited the exhibition Martian Dreams Ensemble. The main focus was to experience and to discover new and unknown rooms. Individual impressions and associations linked to the exhibition were shared […]
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Opening February 15 at 7 pm
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Kunstpreis INFORM 2017
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In cooperation with metroZones
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The one day convention is linked to the launch and celebration of Myvillages’ ‘International Village Show’ publication. The book brings together the group’s collaborative and dispersed art practice over the last years. It features some of the topics and questions that make Myvillages tick, and documents 12 projects from elsewhere which were shown at the […]
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Sentsov’s Camera tells of how conflicts become inscribed in spaces
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Erstmalig treffen in der International Village Show zwei Flusslandschaften aufeinander
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Versteckt
Accompanying program of the exhibition with the artists and curators
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Kunstpreis Europas Zukunft 2015
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with Flaka Haliti, Hanne Lippard, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff
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In the second part of International Village Show Spanish villages meet the surrounding region of Leipzig
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The cultural translation of historical and mythological narratives
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References from cinema, modernist architecture and theater result in a visual essay
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The Schmidt-Drenhaus collection compromises works of modern art, primarily expressionism, German post-war art and New Expressionism from Berlin along with American conceptual art/photography and young art from Dresden.
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exhibition, collections exhibition
Many of the works found in a collection cannot be permanently exhibited, often due to a lack of space or for conservation reasons. It makes more sense to present this kind of work in small, so-called >Kabinett exhibitions< which are rotated at regular intervals.
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2005, exhibition
In drawings and slide series with explanatory audio texts, Sofie Thorsen has for several years been exploring the themes of dwelling, the influence of tourism on established village structures and the formal appearance of detached houses and housing estates in new or older villages.
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2002, exhibition
Milan based artist Francesco Vezzoli is the winner of the 2001 Blinky Palermo award of the East German Savings Bank Foundation for the Free State of Saxony.
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2000, exhibition
Die in New York und London lebende Künstlerin Sarah Morris schöpft für ihre Arbeiten aus ihrem unmittelbaren metropolitanen Lebensumfeld. Die Motive ihrer Gemälde gleichen urbanen Archetypen unserer Zeit.
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1999, exhibition
This exhibition will take as its point of departure the conceit of seven stages of life, which is arguably the most familiar: infancy, childhood, youth, adolescence, adulthood, middle-age and old-age.
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