What to do and see in Leipzig, Saxony: The Best Art Museums

This museum houses a spectacular collection of Renaissance painting.

The GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts counts among the most significant of its type in Europe and stands out for a completely new permanent exhibition. The first tour “From Ancient times to Historism” is a call to a journey covering over 3,000 years of the history of art. Amongst others, the fascination in this journey is the Roman Hall, the Piranesi Gallery and precious Baroque Items of the Treasure Chamber. The second exhibition area “Asian art: Impulse for Europe” is above all else, dedicated to art treasures from China, Japan and Iran. In the third trip “From Art Nouveau to the present day”, there is a series of treasures from the period of Art Nouveau of known and unknown Bauhaus pieces, design highlights as from 1950, East German design and pieces from the immediate present. Each year at the end of October the Museum held the GRASSIMESSE, an international forum and fair fur applied art and product design from all fields.

The Grassimuseum, an impressive building complex in Art-Deco style, houses three museums of domestic and international significance: the Museum of Applied Arts, the Museum of Ethnology and the Museum of Music instruments. At the center of attraction in the three museums are their respective new feature of permanent exhibitions and alternating special exhibitions.

Immersive digital interactive multimedia! The former heating plant in the district of Lindenau / Plagwitz has in a short time turned into a center for digital art and culture. Spectacular multi-media installations immerse visitors into the worlds of painters or the industrial culture of Leipzig. Embark on a unique journey into fascinating worlds of images that you will only experience at the Kunstkraftwerk with a recommended stay of 1.5 to 2 hours.

The Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, a foundation based in Leipzig, is an exhibition space for contemporary art and a museum for art post 1945. GfZK promotes and imparts international and national artistic positions on its own premises and in public spaces, it initiates cooperations and carries out research-based artistic projects. The fine art collections mirror the interest in the natural integration of diverse forms of expression, of different artistic positions and generations. Since the inception of GfZK, addressing local themes in connection with global developments is a focus. Migration and transcultural phenomena offer important starting points, also for reflecting the GfZK’s modes of action. The possibility of participation and the social agency of art are of particular importance. In this sense, the work of the GfZK focuses less on defining a canon of values than on exploring the potentials of artistic and curatorial work and of art mediation. In the presentations of the collection, new artistic productions, and research projects, what is concerned is facilitating manifold perspectives and developing new working methods. The GfZK has gradually established itself internationally as a place where the reciprocal relationship between art and architecture and between art and design is addressed and the relationship between presentation, the construction of meaning and the ascription of value is questioned. In this, the educational mandate of public institutions plays just as important a role as the exploration of the economic conditions for the production of contemporary art. How can these conditions be addressed, jointly designed, and circumvented? What spaces for actions can be opened up for artists and visitors? The foundation Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst is supported by the Free State of Saxony, the City of Leipzig and the Friends of the GfZK.

The G2 Kunsthalle houses the Hildebrand Collection dedicated to national and international contemporary art. With its focus on painting and Leipzig important artists from the so called New Leipzig School (Neo Rauch, David Schnell, Matthias Weischer, etc.) are permanently on view. The G2 Kunsthalle also organizes special exhibitions in collaboration with young, emerging artists.

ANTOINETTE – ALTAR der Europa – Finale in Merseburg Nach einer drei jahrigen Reise durch Europa ist ANTOINETTE nun im Schloßgartensalon von Merseburg angekommen. Dort hat Sie bis zum 30.11.2020 ein offenes Atelier eingerichtet und vollendet, mit der Anfertigung der "Merseburger Zaubertafeln", die Arbeiten am "Altar der Europa".

Atelier and Showroom from Pop Art artist Martin Hermeling. Look inside the place where Hermeling produce all his incredible 3d Pop-Art artworks for international exhibition and whatch his latest work exklusiv in his Showroom. Get in personal contact with the artist.

Die Kunsthalle für die Leipziger Schule! Konzeptionell ausschließlich auf die Kunst der sogenannten „Leipziger Schule“ fokussiert, gewährt die Kunsthalle Einblicke in die größte Sammlung dieser Art. In wechselnden Sonderschauen werden thematische Schwerpunkte gesetzt, die das breite Spektrum des Kunstschaffens in der Stadt widerspiegeln, das den Kunstmarkt weltweit in Aufruhr versetzt.