PARTNERS

The BMW Werk Leipzig is the official main sponsor of the programme. The company HeiterBlick – For Quality of Ride will serve as a sponsor for a chinese and an ukrainian studio. LIAs further partner is the Spinnerei Leipzig (www.spinnerei.de). The programme engrafts itself in an already existing network of artistic and cultural institutions.

The Patron of the programme is Burckhard Jung, mayor of Leipzig.

Among LIAs partners is the iaab (Internationales Austausch- und Atelierprogramm Basel, www.iaab.ch) as well as the Japan Foundation. We are also proud to have the New York Academy as a new partner, which will sponsor the painter Chris Marshall during July and August.

We would like to thank Antje Rademacker for the redesign of the webpage and Meggie Jaworski for its maintenance, the Cultural Office of the city of Leipzig as well as the company HeiterBlick - For Quality and Ride for the funding of the artist Song Kun from Beijing. We also thank the family Winckelmann for the generous donation in terms of their kitchen and furnishings and Stefan Nowotzin for the documentation of all hitherto existing events by LIA.

Special thanks for their support and confidence, especially during the first days, go to: Robert Bartan, Mario Dornberg, Armin Drochner, Claudia Ensenbach, Claudia Gehre, Peggy Hempel, Constanze Kratzsch, Judy Lybke, Matthias Raetz and Sébastian Rolland.