‘Spiel-Räume’ is the theme of the 38th Leipziger Grafikbörse. The exhibition, which will take place from 23 November 2024 to 26 January 2025 at the Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig, presents contemporary graphic art. The submissions from 87 artists from Germany, France, Ukraine and the Netherlands address the exhibition’s theme in different ways. On display are physical ‘play spaces’ such as toys, playgrounds, landscapes or rooms.
The Leipziger Grafikbörse e.V. has been promoting contemporary printmaking since 1991 and ensures its visibility with exhibitions, publications and events. This is the seventh time that the Museum für Druckkunst has hosted the biennial exhibition on changing themes. At the opening on 22 November 2024, the Karl Krug Prize, a sponsorship prize and the Wolfgang Schreiner Foundation Prize were awarded in the field of printmaking. The first Leipziger Grafikbörse took place in 1972 in the Alte Handelsbörse at Leipzig’s Naschmarkt.
After the exhibition in Leipzig, the works will be presented at four other venues, including the Bad Steben Graphic Museum, Ilsenburg Monastery Museum, Glauchau Castle Museum and Eisenhüttenstadt Municipal Museum. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with illustrations of all the exhibited works. The works on display can be purchased.
Museum for Duck Art Leipzig
Since its foundation in 1994, the Museum für Druckkunst has dedicated itself to the cultural heritage of printing technology and sees itself as a lively place with a special workshop atmosphere, presenting 550 years of printing and media history on four floors with around 100 functioning machines and presses. Artistic printing techniques of relief, intaglio and planographic printing, which are listed in the German UNESCO Commission’s nationwide list of intangible cultural heritage, are preserved, maintained and communicated. The museum is located in a listed building in the former industrial district of Leipzig-Plagwitz. The four-winged building looks back on over 100 years of tradition as a printing works and is therefore home to one of the last historical printing workshops. The museum’s basic collection is based on the Schumacher Gebler Collection, which comprises a unique ensemble of printing presses, lead type and type matrices.
