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What traces of geological, political and social change can be found beneath the city? In 2024, the GfZK will realise a site-specific collaboration with the artist Lara Almarcegui, based in Rotterdam. Since the mid-1990s, a time of construction boom and extensive urban renewal in Europe, the artist has engaged with processes of urban transformation.
In Leipzig, Almarcegui will explore a building site. For one day, she will halt construction work at the location where a new building for the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, IfL) is currently being built. Construction work will be stopped at the point when the deepest layers have been reached. Almarcegui will then invite the public to join her in the excavation pit to view the uncovered material and historical layers of the city before they are concealed again. At Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz, a site of transformation, the work deals with the urban change brought about by construction.
For the presentation of the project at the GfZK (13 September, 2024 to 12 January 12, 2025), Almarcegui will create a video work and expand her onsite research.
A collaboration with Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, IfL). Sponsored by the Mondriaan Fund and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin, on the occasion of the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ guest appearance at the Leipzig Book Fair 2024.