Programme Politics of Form
Accompanying program of the exhibition with the artists and curators
Tue–Fri: 2 pm–7 pm
Sat–Sun: 12 am–6 pm
Single ticket: 6€ / 4€
Combined ticket: 9€ / 5€
Free admission on Wednesdays
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Accompanying program of the exhibition with the artists and curators
In order to understand its own form, art is obliged to grant access to the real world.
Day 2 Follow this link to day 1 The symposium is fully booked – registrations are no longer possible. German and English, in the afternoon, students of the Conference Interpreting master’s programme at Leipzig University offer simultaneous interpretation On the occasion of the exhibition Maria Pinińska-Bereś, a two-day symposium with lectures and artistic contributions will be […]
Day 1 Follow this link to day 2 The symposium is fully booked – registrations are no longer possible. German, students of the Conference Interpreting master’s programme at Leipzig University provide simultaneous interpretation into English On the occasion of the exhibition Maria Pinińska-Bereś, a two-day symposium with lectures and artistic contributions will be held at the […]
7 February, 5 to 7 pm 8 February, 11 am to 6 pm German and English, students of the Conference Interpreting master’s programme at Leipzig University will provide simultaneous translation of the German contributions into English. The symposium is fully booked – registrations are no longer possible. On the occasion of the exhibition Maria Pinińska-Bereś, a […]
GfZK in collaboration with IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, the John Hansard Gallery and European Kunsthalle presents Sarah Pierce: Scene of the Myth curated by Rike Frank. On March 2 between 2 and 4 pm, performers will activate works in the exhibition Scene of the Myth. About the exhibition: Sarah Pierce has developed […]
GfZK in collaboration with IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, the John Hansard Gallery and European Kunsthalle presents Sarah Pierce: Scene of the Myth curated by Rike Frank. On February 28 between 4 and 6 pm, performers will activate works in the exhibition Scene of the Myth. About the exhibition: Sarah Pierce has developed […]
GfZK in collaboration with IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, the John Hansard Gallery and European Kunsthalle presents Sarah Pierce: Scene of the Myth curated by Rike Frank. On February 21 between 4 and 6 pm, performers will activate works in the exhibition Scene of the Myth. About the exhibition: Sarah Pierce has developed […]
GfZK in collaboration with IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, the John Hansard Gallery and European Kunsthalle presents Sarah Pierce: Scene of the Myth curated by Rike Frank. On February 10 between 2 and 4 pm, performers will activate works in the exhibition Scene of the Myth. About the exhibition: Sarah Pierce has developed […]
GfZK in collaboration with IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, the John Hansard Gallery and European Kunsthalle presents Sarah Pierce: Scene of the Myth curated by Rike Frank. On February 3 between 2 and 4 pm, performers will activate works in the exhibition Scene of the Myth. About the exhibition: Sarah Pierce has developed […]
GfZK in collaboration with IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, the John Hansard Gallery and European Kunsthalle presents Sarah Pierce: Scene of the Myth curated by Rike Frank. On January 31 between 4 and 6 pm, performers will activate works in the exhibition Scene of the Myth. About the exhibition: Sarah Pierce has developed a concept […]
Charlotte Eifler in collaboration with Ebba Fransén-Waldhör, Basak Günak, Mona Louisa Hempel, Alejandra Janus, Jule Köpke, Wiebke Müller, Jasmina Rezig, Alfonso Rituerto, Helin Ulas. Performance: October 26, 6 pm **The performance is sold out** In the middle of a technology fair, something extraordinary happens when Queen Amalie Auguste from the 18th century mysteriously appears in […]
Charlotte Eifler in collaboration with Ebba Fransén-Waldhör, Basak Günak, Mona Louisa Hempel, Alejandra Janus, Jule Köpke, Wiebke Müller, Jasmina Rezig, Alfonso Rituerto, Helin Ulas. Performance: October 25, 6 pm **The performance is sold out.** In the middle of a technology fair, something extraordinary happens when Queen Amalie Auguste from the 18th century mysteriously appears in […]
Charlotte Eifler in collaboration with Ebba Fransén-Waldhör, Basak Günak, Mona Louisa Hempel, Alejandra Janus, Jule Köpke, Wiebke Müller, Jasmina Rezig, Alfonso Rituerto, Helin Ulas. Performance: October 24, 6 pm *SOLD OUT* In the middle of a technology fair, something extraordinary happens when Queen Amalie Auguste from the 18th century mysteriously appears in the present. She […]
Charlotte Eifler in collaboration with Ebba Fransén-Waldhör, Basak Günak, Mona Louisa Hempel, Alejandra Janus, Jule Köpke, Wiebke Müller, Jasmina Rezig, Alfonso Rituerto, Helin Ulas. Opening: October 20, 2023, 7.30 pm Performances: October 20, 24, 25 and 26, each 6pm **For the performances please register: welcome@gfzk.de** (The performance on October 20 is already sold out) In […]
The Performance „Conjugative Literacy” von John SH LEE is taking place in the context of the exhibition “How do we speak? A repertoire of language.” The work of John Seung-Hwan Lee focuses on the idea that time is not a linear progression, as well as on how our history is shaped through different levels of […]
in English small acts PechaKucha-style: kurze Präsentationen der WorkshopteilnehmerInnen Moderiert von Attila Bujdosó (Budapest, H) Thursday 4 October 6 pm – 8.30 pm – SMALL ACTS PECHA KUCHA-STYLE, moderated by Attila Bujdosó (H) Public event with short presentations by: Norbert Pálfi, „One Million for the Freedom of Press in Hungary“ (H) Gyula Balog and Tamás Bárász, The […]
Followed by an artist talk, moderated by Joanna Warsza, Berlin/Warsaw Alexandra Pirici, who in collaboration with Manuel Pelmuş represented Romania at the 55 Venice Biennale – works with the politics of remembrance and the ontology of the city monuments. In Leipzig she stages a choreographic critical domestication of the “Four German Virtues” of the Leipzig’s Monument […]
Through the lens of phonetic, semantic, and theological slippage, The Tranny Tease explores the potential for transliteration – the conversion of scripts – as a strategy both of resistance and of research into notions such as identity politics, colonialism, and faith. The latest lecture-performance in the artists’ current cycle of work, The Tranny Tease focuses […]
The initiative „politics of the small act“ invites international actors (activists, artists, curators) to Leipzig for a two-day workshop at the intersection of artistic and socio-political discourses.
The GfZK presents Germany’s first comprehensive solo exhibition of Maria Pinińska-Bereś (1931-1999), one of the most extraordinary personalities of 20th century Polish art. Pinińska-Bereś created a unique body of work including sculptures, objects, installations and performances. A central element of her poetic and political art is the exploration of femininity and the societal constraints associated […]
The Förderkreis was invited to view the Scene of the Myth exhibition in advance and to get to know the artist Sarah Pierce and guest curator Rike Frank. About the exhibition: Sarah Pierce has developed a concept she names “community of the exhibition“. She describes exhibitions as places where works of art and audiences form […]
GfZK in collaboration with IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art and European Kunsthalle presents Sarah Pierce: Scene of the Myth curated by Rike Frank. With Scene of the Myth, the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK) shows the first comprehensive solo exhibition by artist Sarah Pierce in Germany from January 26 – May 26, […]
GfZK in collaboration with IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, the John Hansard Gallery and European Kunsthalle presents Sarah Pierce: Scene of the Myth curated by Rike Frank. Sarah Pierce has developed a concept she names “community of the exhibition“. She describes exhibitions as places where works of art and audiences form a community […]
Eröffnung: 20. Oktober 2023, 19.30h
Against the backdrop of a shift to the right, war and the climate crisis, there is a growing need for useful art – socially engaged, participatory art, art that intervenes directly and practically. After the IMPULS Festival 2022 described the world from the future with Futur2, the current crises challenge us to act in the […]
An open discussion with T. J. Demos Moderated by Andrea Garcia Vasquez and Eleni Michaelidi How can we pursue climate action with(in) art museums? Recognising that steps taken so far are not effective enough to achieve net zero by 2030, we need to address the climate emergency even more drastically. Art institutions are no exception […]
The French historians Agnès Arp and Élisa Goudin-Steinmann explore the question of how the GDR as a society continues to have in the lives of East Germans to this day. The interviews they conducted with former with former citizens of the GDR reveal closeness and immediacy and immediacy, nuances and differentiations – beyond the one-sided […]
Sound-performances and DJ-sets The artists Elena Savvidou, Emiddio Vasquez, Panagiotis Mina, Dimitris Chimonas & Zach Schoenhut, *collaborators of The Broken Pitcher project, present a series of live and sound pieces in resonance with the exhibition (spaces). Elena Savvidou: time;( 25 min. Elena Savvidou’s work is deliberately influenced by the contexts she performs in. In time;( […]
The video installation shows a contemporary witness of the Second World War in the form of a petrol can, allowing it to tell its story. The Wehrmacht’s standard fuel container came to be known as the “jerrycan”. It was mass-produced from 1936 onwards by the company Max Brose, which expanded through the use of forced […]
The event is already fully booked! From 24.11.2022 the GfZK presents the work “Jerrycans to Can Jerry” by Leon Kahane. The video installation shows a contemporary witness of the Second World War in the form of a Bezinkanister and lets him tell his story. The Wehrmacht canister, which became known as the “Jerrycan”, was mass-produced […]
This talk begins from a seminal, albeit heavily contested, essay by economist and writer Francis Fukuyama, titled “The End of History?” (1989). Published a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, in its anticipation of the end of the Cold War it concluded that history had come to an end, because the competing […]
Radmila Joksimović has a diploma in art history and philosophy and a master’s degree in cultural management and cultural politics from the University of Belgrade. She obtained a doctorate from the Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst Leipzig with a thesis on: “Performative artistic/curatorial archive projects – potential spaces for self-education and emancipation“. She is a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hybrid identities – arabic ‘ATA – Akademie für Transkulturellen Austausch’ invites: WORKSHOP#2 Hybrid identities with Marie-Eve Levasseur & Karoline Schneider September 28, 6-8 pm public presentation The workshop takes place in cooperation with the project ‘Visibility Room’. What influence do places, meetings, surroundings, climate, a language’s structure and the current moment have to the perception? […]
International symposium “Collecting in Time” with lectures, workshops, and panel discussion.
International symposium “Collecting in Time” with lectures, workshops, and panel discussion Due to the proliferation of globalization and its concurrent technological developments art museums are currently facing new challenges. The ways in which they perform their educational mission and social responsibility are widely discussed. What could adequate responses to these socio-political shifts and the innovations of […]
With Martin Beck, Lars Bergmann and Suse Weber
Curated by Kirsa Geiser
Till Exit, Weltall Erde Mensch, Manifestation IV, 2011 2010 wurde der Künstler Till Exit beauftragt, die Bibliothek der GfZK umzugestalten. Wohnzimmerstühle und Leuchten aus den 1950 er und 1960 er Jahren und neu gefertigte Tische und Regale, die an diese Zeit erinnern, rufen eine Vergangenheit auf, die sowohl in Ost- als auch in Westdeutschland stark […]
Sorry, this entry is only available in German. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Auf der Internetseite The Art Educatorʼs Talk ist folgendes Interview mit Julia Schäfer mit dem Titel “Kunstvermittlung kuratieren” erschienen. In welchem Kontext […]
In their installation Lektor Slavs and Tatars examine the politics and performativity of language
In Leipzig nimmt Alexandra Pirici das Völkerschlachtdenkmal genau unter die Lupe und regt eine kritische Domestizierung der „Vier Deutschen Tugenden“ an.
The three-part exhibition series Scenarios about Europe continues with its second scenario presentation. The same ten curators have been invited to make proposals on how to think about Europe from the perspective of the arts.
Alongside the workshop, a “think and do tank” is opened in the GfZK. The exhibition and action space introduces several international initiatives and different formats and possibilities of small acts. It provides more information on Hungary and also serves as a platform and workplace for local initiatives, who can sign up to use the space for meetings, workshops and further events.
Mark Hamilton is producing new work for his presentation in the context of the >RAUM 107< exhibition series. His projects are often closely connected to the specific context of the particular venue of exhibition.
“LocalMotion” asks what role we should assign to locality in today’s globalised society, and what per-spectives for action such a role opens up – beyond those offered by regional and national ideologies