Past - Contemporary Art from Romania

Dan Perjoschi East meet West

Romanian Cultural Resolution

01.05. - 30.05.2010

Tue - Sat 11 am - 6 pm

After significant exhibitions like "Imperium" of the Galeriea Hilario Galguera, at which mexican artists as well as location-specific works by Jannis Kounellis, Daniel Buren and Damien Hirst were shown, the meanwhile famous Werkschauhalle now allows space to another special project. This focusses on one of the recently most current developments in contemporary art. Organized by the Contemporary Art Center Craiova "Club Electro Putere” (Romania) and the Romanian Cultural Institut Berlin, the exhibition comprises four particular curated artistic projects, which gains the center of attention to some of the most important contemporary romanian artists. It is therefore the most extensive project in the region of visual arts from Romania over the past years.

 

Dan Perjovschi: East meet West.
Drawing, Courtesy Galerie Gregor Podnar Berlin

 

Here you can find the invitation (PDF 442,6 KB)
Further information about the exhibition you can find here (PDF 64,5 KB)
The exhibition opening takes place on May 1, 2010 at 11 am on the occassion of the spring gallery tour at the Spinnerei. Alle the galleries and exhibition spaces open up with new exhibitions. Find the complete exhibition programme here (PDF 31,7 KB)

Past exhibitions

WERKSCHAU is an initiative run by the Spinnerei. To date, it has presented the following exhibitions:
  • «KORSO» 5 Leipzig female painters Henriette Grahnert, Franziska Holstein, Rosa Loy, Annette Schröter, Kathrin Thiele, 2009
  • «Imperium» der Galeria Hilario Galguera, 2009
  • «Kunst trotz(t) Armut», 2008
  • Meisterschüler der Fachklasse Rautert, 2008
  • Fotofestival F-stop, 2008
  • «Lada» – Geladene internationale Galerien, 2008
  • «Three hours between planes», 2007
  • Fotofestival F-stop, 2007
  • Darren Almond: «Terminus», 2006

 

WERKSCHAU

The building we know today as Hall 12 was built in 1899 as a saddlery and a needle setting workshop. Large upright skylight constructions provide the interior with abundant daylight.

Getting the means needed to restore the complex roof over Hall 12’s single storey (which contains 900 sqm of usable space) was not easy, but in 2006, the Spinnerei was fortunate enough to have the English artist Darren Almond using Hall 12 for a time, and the combined efforts and finances of the artist, Germany’s antiquities and monuments office and the Spinnerei led to the roof being repaired and a new flooring slab being installed. The first art installation in the building was Darren Almond’s impressive project “Terminus”, involving 14 bus stops taken from Auschwitz. Since then, Hall 12, as the venue for WERKSCHAU, has been in regular use both for in-house and for guest exhibitions. The most recent exhibition, by Mexican galerist Hilario Galguera, included location-specific works by Jannis Kounellis, Daniel Buren and Damien Hirst.

Kontakt

SPINNEREI

Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH

Spinnereistraße 7 / Halle 12

04179 Leipzig

00 49 (0) 341 – 4 98 02 00

mail@spinnerei.de