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REALISM - PAINTING TRADITIONS BETWEEN COMMUNISM AND POST-COMMUNISM CASE STUDY LEIPZIG

 

Lecture Anna-Louise Kratzsch

March 1st 2010

6 pm

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SPRING GALLERY TOUR OF THE SPINNEREI
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST AWARDEES SHOWING EXHIBITIONS & SPECIAL GUESTS ISRAEL

 

1st and 2nd May, 2010
11 am - 8 pm

LIA: Spinnereistraße 7
Hall 18, 2nd floor

 

Saturday, May 1st

 

3 pm

Welcome by the Mendelssohn Music Salon - the MDR Cello Quartet

Laudatio Atara Barratson

(Director International Relations at Municipality of Herzliya, Israel)

 

4 pm

Concert with the MDR Cello Quartet

Classic and music from the thirties

 

Sunday, May 2nd

 

3 pm 

Lecture by Varda Genossar

(Director International artist in Residency Programme Herzliya)

The contemporary art development in Israel

 

 

In line with the Spring Gallery Tour at the Spinnerei LIA will present the works of the Japanese media artists Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi (Japan Foundation), the Dutch photographer Ksenia Galiaeva (Fonds BKVB) as well as the conceptional works of the Swiss artist Vincent Kriste (Christoph Merian Foundtion) and Etamar Beglikter (Department for European and interntional affairs city of Leipzig) from Israel. Varda Genossar, director of the studio program Herzliya (Israel), will talk about the contemporary art development in Israel. Furthermore the Mendelssohn Music Salon will join the event with a cello quartet of the MDR presenting classical music and music from the thirties.

 


 

The main sponsor of LIA programme is BMW Werk Leipzig.

 

 

 

 

LIA Report 2009 (PDF)

 

 

NEW PARTNER: FONDS BKVB

 

We would like to announce our new partner, the Fonds BKVB, who will foster
visual artist Naro Snackey from 1st July to 31st December 2009. Until the
15th May 2009 Dutch artists can apply for another LIA scholarship from 1st
January to 31st June 2010. Please see:

www.fondsbkvb.nl/ateliers/index 

 


SHONAH TRESCOTT AT EIGEN & ART

 

Former LIA artist Shonah Trescott will be shown as young guest artist
during the spring gallery tour of the Spinnerei at Gallery Eigen & Art.

 


LECTURE

 

Anna-Louise Kratzsch, programme director of the LIA, MA Art History (Courtauld

Institute of Art London) offers a talk on the topic of "Realism - painting traditions

between communism and post-communism case study Leipzig". The Lecture

can be held in either English or German. Bookings under art@liap.eu subject

matter: realism.

 

 

MORE ABOUT ARTISTS AT LIA

In our archive you are now able to find the new category PUBLICATIONS. There you 

can find out more about our artists while reading press articles or publications by

Anna-Louise Kratzsch about LIA fellows.

 

 

MORE LINKS

 

The short documentation about the LIA programme by Heinrich Lenhart can be seen
under the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr8lStkFzA4

Also by Heinrich Lenhart a documentation about Shonah Trescott and her residency at the LIA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoO5Pc8Jb-E

LIA thanks Osvaldo Budet for his photo-taking efforts. The LIA excursion to the Klinger Vineyards,

the visit of the Museum für Bildende Kunst, as well as his impressions of the city of Leipzig

are documented under the following link:

http://gallery.me.com/osvaldobudet