90 x 70cm
Egg tempera on canvas
Group Exhibition
Duration: 22.05. – 28.06.2025
Five years ago, we presented outstanding graduates of the renowned Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts as part of our “Spektrum Leipzig” exhibition. In the 1970s and 1980s, the university became the focus of national and international attention with the so-called “Leipzig School”. The loose association of artists around Neo Rauch and Arno Rink inspired with an unmistakable visual language and a consistent commitment to painting – especially at a time when conceptual art dominated the scene. Numerous visitors were drawn to the group of artists who had come together in Leipzig’s Baumwollspinnerei. Neo Rauch still has his studio there, as does his student Rayk Goetze – an artist who, if at all, is rather reluctantly referred to as a representative of the so-called “New Leipzig School”. However, this term is not only repugnant to the associated artists, but is also largely outdated today due to its vagueness. What remains, however, is the well-founded training with Rauch and Rink, among others, on the basis of which the artists in our exhibition were able to develop their individual styles and independent visual languages.
With “Spektrum Leipzig reloaded”, we are now, five years later, once again turning our attention to Leipzig. The artists Rayk Goetze, Dorothee Liebscher, Malte Masemann and Miriam Vlaming design their canvases as a perceptual dispositive: fragments of the real intertwine with abstraction and surreal imagery. As graduates of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, they individually negotiate private, historical and social reference systems. Working with fragments, as can be seen in Goetze, Masemann and Vlaming, always opens up a discourse on temporality and at the same time points to loss and new development. Their works open up a discourse on memory, identity and social and private change.
GALERIE VON&VON
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90402 Nürnberg