Nordic Leipzig

I samarbeid med LIA (Leipzig International Art Programme) tilbyr Goethe-Institut nordiske kunstnere muligheten til et tre måneders gjesteopphold i kultursenteret Spinnerei Leipzig. På begynnelsen av 1900-tallet var det Europas største bomullsfabrikk, men i dag er det et av de mest spennende produksjons- og utstillingsstedene for samtidskunst og -kultur i Tyskland.

Foto: Claus Bach

PROGRAMMET FOR GJESTEOPPHOLDET FOR NORDISKE KUNSTNERE

Kunstnerne flytter inn i sitt eget studio i Spinnerei Leipzig og blir veiledet av LIAs direktør Anna-Louise Rolland og hennes team. De har dessuten mulighet til å delta på en kuratert gruppeutstilling i september i forbindelse med "Spinnereirundgang" som finner sted hver tredje måned.

GJESTEOPPHOLD SOM RAMME FOR KULTURUTVEKSLING

Gjesteoppholdene er svært populære blant kunstnere. De muliggjør fordypning og konsentrasjon på et annet sted enn hjemstedet, og kunstnerne får nye inntrykk og inspirasjon samt mulighet for nettverksbygging. I utvekslingen med lokale kunstnere og kuratorer oppstår det nye ideer, og nye prosjekter utvikles og realiseres.

LEIPZIG INTERNATIONAL ART PROGRAMME

Nåværende stipendiatene

Nordic Leipzig
Linda Morell (NO)

Linda Morell is a visual artist based in Bergen who mainly works with sculpture and installation, forming speculative futures based on myths, science and medicine. During her residency at LIA Morell will focus on pharmaceutical properties in plants and hormonal interactions across the plant and animal kingdom.

Amalie Gabel (DK)

Danish artist Amalie Gabel, born in 1992, works with painting, installation and texts. During her three-month stay in Leipzig, she intends to work on a new book project. The texts will be complemented by a new series of square paintings in which the artist wishes to explore the following themes: “Windows into all the lives I haven’t lived, situations that never became doors.”

Photo: A. Bösenberg (2022)

Charles Young (SCT)

The Scottish Charles Young studied architecture. His sculptures, in paper and wood, and animations draw from the forms and structures of the built environment. During his time in Leipzig, Young will be looking at the structures of the Spinnerei as well as other places in the city. The size of the studio space will allow him to focus on producing larger pieces of work in wood, cane and paper than has been possible up to this stage.

Johanna Oskarsson (SE)

The Swedish artist Johanna Oskarsson’s practice is based in the visual aesthetics that is a darkening echo of the subcultures of post-punk and the industrial scene of the 80’s. Techniques she works in are drawing, film and digital jacquard weaving. During her stay in Leipzig she will work on a project around the proletarian socialist weightlifting clubs that were present in Germany in the 1920s -1930s.

Heikki Kaski (FI)

Heikki Kaski is a Finnish artist working with visual art, sound and performance. The background of his visual art practice is photography, and it permiates also the other “categories” of visual arts that he does, be it painting or video. The other trajectory of his work is sound and especially vocal sound.

Alumni

Duy Nguyen (NO)

Duy Nguyen is a Norwegian-Vietnamese artist. His works span photography, design, and video. During his residency at LIA from August to October 2022; he wants to explore and reconstruct his childhood and family memories through a mixture of subjective recollections and imagination.

Madelin Wilian (DK)

During her residency at Spinnerei Leipzig, the Danish painter Madelin Wilian would like to explore various examples of alternative communities as part of a primarily painting-based project.