LIA Programme

We cordially invite you to the opening
Thursday, 24th September 2026, 7 pm
Mädler Art Forum Leipzig, Grammaische Str. 2-4 / Entrance B
*continuing* by artists Bongile Gorata Lecoge-Zulu and Angelika Waniek, moderated by Mena Liebold and an introduction by Anna-Louise Rolland

”What becomes visible when we don't just watch, but become part of the action ourselves? The performance invites you to experience visibility and invisibility, as well as community.”

Admission is free; registration is requested: [email protected]

Many thanks to everyone who came to visit us last weekend at the Rundgang at the Spinnerei—it was a very interesting and enriching day! We'd also like to thank the people who make this project possible, the Federal Foreign Office, and above all,
the artists for their dedication and hard work 💐

ph: Walther Le Kon

We’d like to thank everyone who joined us for the opening of the “South Africa und Leipzig” exhibition. Thank you for coming and sharing this important moment with us! We’d like to remind you that this exhibition will be on view at the Mädler Art Forum through February—be sure to stop by and see it; there are beautiful and interesting works of art 💐

On September 5th and 6th, Colombian Artist Andrés Quintero will open his studio to the public as part of the Spinnerei Rundgang. We look forward to seeing you there! ⭐️💐

Thousands of dried Liquidambar seed capsules are being gathered across Leipzig, tracing an irregular path through the city. What begins as a material search becomes a way of attending to what usually escapes notice: what falls, remains, accumulates. Slowly, these isolated forms begin to constitute another body, one whose shape cannot be fully determined in advance. The sculpture grows through the gathering of many small, distinct elements, where difference is not erased but becomes part of a shared structure. Each fragment contributes without determining the whole, allowing the work to emerge through coexistence, negotiation, and collective presence. Eventually, the sculpture will move outdoors, continuing its encounter with the city.

Lillie, an artist from Tanzania, will also be joining us on September 5th and 6th to showcase her work at the RUNDGANG in the Spinnerei ⭐️

During my residency in Leipzig, I wanted to explore disability from the perspective of barriers rather than impairment, looking at how physical environments and cultural attitudes can disable people. Guided by the social model of disability, I looked how everyday spaces and systems shape disabled people’s experiences of participation, belonging, and visibility. Through strings, my installation makes these often invisible barriers tangible,im inviting audiences to recognise disability as a social and structural issue rather than something located solely in the body.

On September 5th and 6th, Jungwon Phee, our artist-in-residence, will be opening his studio and showing his work at LIA.
He will also be opening THE THIRD Gallery—a new gallery that will be part of the Spinnerei gallery complex—on September 5th with a solo exhibition. Everyone is invited! Don’t miss it 💐

During my residency at LIA, I am examining whether my material experiments rooted in Eastern ink and industrial mediums like cement translate and adapt to a new European environment. By analyzing how my core textures evolve or maintain their structural integrity here, I am developing a series of black paintings in preparation for my upcoming exhibition at the Spinnerei gallery in September. Through these ink-based layers, I explore my identity as well as my central artistic statement: "Emotions are universal, while expressions are subjective."

This week at LIA:

September 2: South Africa and Leipzig - Mädler Art Forum
September 5–6: SPINNEREI RUNDGANG, LIA Open Studios
The Black Path, Jungwon Phee, THE THIRD Gallery
September 5, 10 a.m.: Guided tour in English by Anna-Louise Rolland at the Mädler Art Forum

Everyone is cordially invited! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

On September 5 and 6, Gerardo Cordón, artist from Guatemala, will be opening his studio at the Spinnerei Rundgang. Everyone is welcome, don't miss it! ⭐️💐



Using mixed media and collage with delicate threads that hold found objects, cardboard, and cotton fabric in place, I create a lighthearted narrative. I aim to pose at least two obvious questions: What does “imperialist democracy” offer to those of us who yearn for freedom? And is the idea of democracy a threat to self-determination and peace?

On September 5 and 6, Annina will be exhibiting her work at the Spinnerei's Rundgang, don't miss it! ⭐️💘

At LIA in Leipzig’s Baumwollspinnerei, Roescheisen situates The Crimson between the site’s
cotton-spinning history and the German idiom Etwas zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch ein Leben
—a red thread runs through one’s life. Across this series of paintings, the idiom acquires a body: the
red thread renders continuity tangible.
Pouring pigment, moving performatively across the canvas, folding, cutting, piercing, and stitching,
she registers gravity, pressure, rhythm, and duration as Spuren: traces held by matter. The thread
becomes line, axis, seam, pulse, memory, and measure—a tuning fork between the visible and the
unseen, free to disappear, continue, and return.

⭐️ September 5–6: SPINNEREI RUNDGANG ⭐️

Spinnerei is opening the doors of its studios to everyone! At this event, which takes place three times a year, we invite you to explore the studios of the five new artists joining us for this round at LIA. Artists from Colombia, Guatemala, Tanzania, Slovenia/Germany, and South Korea will be waiting for you :)

*Saturday*
11 a.m. – doors open
2 p.m. – artist talks
7 p.m. – END

*Sunday:*
11 a.m. – doors open
4 p.m. – END