In the organizer's words:

Hans Aichinger, Sven Braun, Wolfram Ebersbach, Henriette Grahnert, Anna Haifisch, Franz Jyrch, Yvette Kießling, Julia Schmidt, Anija Seedler, Stefan Stößel

This exhibition is an invitation to look again. It continues the presentation of several paintings, drawings and objects that were already shown in the exhibition "How to look at..." (May 3 to August 10, 2025), supplemented by a few new works. With reference to a quote from the famous essay "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility" (1935) by the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), that exhibition questioned the role of painting in a world in which our vision is shaped by reproductive image techniques such as photography and film. Some works focused on aspects that precede the creation of a picture. The choice of detail, the motif and the image carrier itself were the subject of the artworks. Many works dealt with the role of photography and reproduction and alluded more or less obviously to art-historical or pop-cultural models.

"How to look at things again" highlights a thought-provoking impulse that was already present in the title of the original exhibition: in 1946, the New York painter Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) published a series of over 20 art comics in the Sunday editions of a New York magazine, all of which began with the title "How to look at...". In ironic, biting collages, Reinhardt addresses aspects of the avant-garde art scene of his time and, above all, distances himself from an understanding of art that expects beautiful, recognizable images from painting. In his comics such as "How to look at looking" and "How to look at things again", he demonstrates that seeing is not a passive reproduction process, but a process of recognition structured by knowledge and ideas. Seeing itself is a creative process.

This exhibition shows a selection of works by artists associated with Leipzig. Some are current, others are from past decades. They range from realistic to more abstract and expressive forms of representation. In their different combinations, they invite visitors to discover new things and to engage more deeply with the individual pictorial worlds.

Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony

Price information:

6 €, reduced 3 €