22 October 2024

Exhibition “From Leipzig, With Love”

“From Leipzig, With Love”. This is an exhibition of artists living and working in Leipzig, Germany.

It is a collection of twelve artists’ different experiences and impressions, created in the same city, at the same time, conveyed through their unique prisms.

The exhibition features small-format works that travel freely like postcards around the around the world, conveying concise yet expressive messages. Small works have their own charm – they are unpretentious, sketchy, often incomplete, sometimes rough, and often intimate. Although it consists mainly of paintings, the exhibition also includes prints and sculptures.

The number of artists invited to take part in the exhibition was set at 12. The main idea was to include those with whom recent collaborations and meetings have taken place. There are common tendencies in all the works: an emphasis on drawing, an openness to chance or incomplete elements, a simultaneity between abstraction and reality, and a light touch of humour.

Curator of the exhibition – Gabija Vidrinskaitė. The artist graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Art in 2014 with a degree in graphic arts, has been living and working in Leipzig for ten years.

For the curator, the most interesting part of organising the exhibition was visiting the artists and the opportunity to see and select the works for the exhibition in Vilnius. During these visits, she made short videos documenting the artists’ situations in their studios in the summer of 2024.

The exhibition “From Leipzig, With Love” invites you to engage with the works sent from Germany, but also to stick your nose into the artists’ studios.

Participants: Lorenzo Aceto, Benjamin Badock, Raffael Bader, Fabian Blobel, Robert Ernst, Adrian Mudder, Sascha Patzig, Shamin Radmand, Lars Anker Rasmussen, Gabija Vidrinskaitė, Florian Wenzel, Matthias Jun Wilhelm

The exhibition is supported by the German Embassy in Vilnius

Partner: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

The opening of the exhibition “From Leipzig, With Love” will take place on 24 October at 5 pm in the atrium of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, 5th floor.

The exhibition will be open to library visitors from 24 October 2024 to 12 January 2025.

Briefly about the exhibition

Date

opening of the exhibition on 24 October at 17:00
exhibition on display - 24 October 2024 - 12 January 2025

Time

library working hours

Place

5^th floor atrium

Attendance

free

Partners and supporters

German Embassy in Vilnius
Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

Important

the opening of the exhibition may be photographed and/or filmed

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