contemporary art

The Leipzig Connection – Zagreb Biennial exhibition of master painters

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Zagreb's "Leipzig Connection" covers artworks from the 1960s, including insights into material that influenced the Leipzig School, up to a representation of the New Leipzig School: the post-communist generations of painters trained by the earlier masters.

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Lebanon to Leipzig: a friendship told through art

"Mahmoud and I are opposites; he is an artist, I am a doctor, he is a Muslim, I am an atheist, he is a refugee, I am not. We are friends beyond our categories, because of something much deeper."

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Isabelle Dutoit: reenchantment with natural world

Combining a delicate precision of realism with abstract colour layers, Leipzig painter Isabelle Dutoit forges fantastical realms where dreams and actuality converge. Through superimposing the real with the uncanny, Isabelle shatters the illusion of the image. The familiar regresses into the unknown…

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Islam and contemporary art at Halle 14

Particularly in the context of Saxony's current political climate, "Forgotten Enlightenments" stands as a statement to the power of inclusion, integration and culture.

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