Calendar
October
Current Exhibition
Evelyn Richter
Light in the Darkness
02/07 — 19/10/2025
In April 2012, Evelyn Richter (1930 Bautzen – 2021 Dresden) travelled to Moscow for the last time to document the Orthodox Easter celebration in th...
Current Exhibition
Rosa Barba
Under the Canopy
28/05/2025 — 31/05/2026
Rosa Barba has created a spatial installation for the MdbK on the large terrace on the 2nd floor, in which she addresses the physical perception of...
Current Exhibition
Katharina Schreiter
24/02/2025 — 22/02/2026
In her most recent work, Katharina Schreiter (*1984 Dresden) takes the architecture of the MdbK as the starting point for her photographic self-por...
Current Exhibition
Rediscovering Abraham Jaskiel
07/05 — 14/12/2025
The Polish-born artist Abraham Jaskiel (1894 Częstochowa – 1987 Haifa/Israel) lived in Leipzig from 1920 to 1933. In 1929, he married Leipzig resid...
Current Exhibition
Graphic art in focus:
The Collector Johann August Otto Gehler #2
09/07 — 19/10/2025
Since the end of 2024, the MdbK's Graphic Collection has been regularly exhibiting a thematic selection from its holdings in a collection room on the first floor.
Current Exhibition
In/visible
Making stories visible
15/08/2025 — 04/01/2026
In/visible shows a selection of 12 portraits with stories, experiences and challenges of people from the cosmos of Mobile Youth Work Leipzig e.V. The association is aimed at young people who are confronted with social and individual problems, are marginalized or at risk of marginalization.
Upcoming Exhibition
Making Visible – Traces of Jewish Involvement in the MdbK
30/10/2025 — 28/06/2026
Jewish citizens of Leipzig had a decisive influence on the city and the MdbK with their civic and cultural commitment since the 19th century - unti...
Upcoming Exhibition
Focus on graphic art:
Francisco de Goya – Etchings #1
30/10/2025 — 01/02/2026
Since the end of 2024, the MdbK's Graphic Collection has been regularly exhibiting a thematic selection from its holdings in a collection room on the first floor.
09/10/2025 09/10/2025 15h30–18h
Open Studio
Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over
free of charge, no registration required
09/10/2025 09/10/2025 18h30
Nachhall
Concert with the musicians of the Musikalische Komödie
free of charge, no registration required
12/10/2025 12/10/2025 10h30
emdebeka 7⁺: Licht im Dunkel?
12/10/2025 12/10/2025 11h
Vorher, nachher und wann es passiert. Vorstellungen von Zeit in Kunst und Kultur
14/10/2025 14/10/2025 15h30
Generation 60⁺: Leipziger Stadtansichten
15/10/2025 15/10/2025 18h
Farbräume in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
16/10/2025 16/10/2025 15h30–18h
Open Studio
Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over
free of charge, no registration required
18/10/2025 18/10/2025 15h
60 Minuten Kunst / 60 ХВ МИСТЕЦТВА
19/10/2025 19/10/2025 11h
blind sehen: Evelyn Richter. Licht im Dunkel
19/10/2025 19/10/2025 14–17h
#Dialog: Wir arbeiten dran: Netzwerke der sächsischen Performing Arts Szene
22/10/2025 22/10/2025 18h
AUSFALL: Katharina Schreiter. Membran
22/10/2025 22/10/2025 18h
Darstellungen von Weiblichkeit im Werk von Ida Matton und Alice Nordin
23/10/2025 23/10/2025 15h30–18h
Open studio
Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over
free of charge, no registration required
29/10/2025 29/10/2025 17h
Generation 60⁺: Leipziger Stadtansichten
29/10/2025 29/10/2025 18h
Sichtbarmachen. Spuren jüdischen Engagements im MdbK
Presentation of the installation by Sharon Adler and Shlomit Lehavi
30/10/2025 30/10/2025 15h30–18h
Open studio
Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over
free of charge, no registration required
30/10/2025 30/10/2025 16h
Ein Duft, eine Farbe, ein Klang
November
01/11/2025 01/11/2025 15h
60 minutes art
Guided tour through the collection with Yvonne Buchheim
free of charge, no registration required
02/11/2025 02/11/2025 10h30
emdebeka 4⁺: Kunst von unten sehen?
02/11/2025 02/11/2025 11h
Grafik im Fokus: Francisco de Goya
05/11/2025 05/11/2025 15–18h
blaumachen: Leerstellen
Creative-practical action for everyone on the exhibition "Making Visible. Traces of Jewish Involvement at the MdbK"
free of charge, no registration required
05/11/2025 05/11/2025 18h
Rosa Barba. Under the Canopy
06/11/2025 06/11/2025 10h15
Ein Duft, eine Farbe, ein Klang
06/11/2025 06/11/2025 15h30–18h
Open Studio
Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over
free of charge, no registration required
08/11/2025 08/11/2025 14–17h
Griffelkunst
09/11/2025 09/11/2025 10h30
emdebeka 7⁺: Kunst von unten sehen?
09/11/2025 09/11/2025 11h
Spuren jüdischen Sammelns
09/11/2025 09/11/2025 17h
Katharina Schreiter. Membran
11/11/2025 11/11/2025 15h30
Generation 60⁺: Grafik im Fokus. Francisco de Goya und seine Zeit
12/11/2025 12/11/2025 12h30
Talk to me! Painting to music
Open invitation, cultural and artistic exchange for German-speaking and German-learning women
free of charge, no registration required
12/11/2025 12/11/2025 18h
Wackelkontakt
13/11/2025 13/11/2025 15h30–18h
Open Studio
Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over
free of charge, no registration required
15/11/2025 15/11/2025 15h
60 Minuten Kunst / 60 ХВ МИСТЕЦТВА
16/11/2025 16/11/2025 11h
blind sehen: Klinger und Rodin. Skulptur im Fokus
19/11/2025 19/11/2025 16h
Stifterabend
20/11/2025 20/11/2025 15h30–18h
Open Studio
Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over
free of charge, no registration required
22/11/2025 22/11/2025 11h
Über Kunst philosophieren
22/11/2025 22/11/2025 14h
GedankenGang: Was kann Kunst?
23/11/2025 23/11/2025 11h
Zeigen, Verbergen, Berühren. Die menschliche Haut als Bildmotiv
26/11/2025 26/11/2025 17h
Generation 60⁺: Grafik im Fokus. Francisco de Goya und seine Zeit
26/11/2025 26/11/2025 18h
Hans-Christian Schink. Über Land
27/11/2025 27/11/2025 15h30–18h
Open Studio
Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over
free of charge, no registration required
27/11/2025 27/11/2025 16h
Ein Duft, eine Farbe, ein Klang
29/11/2025 29/11/2025 15h
60 minutes art
Guided tour through the collection with Yvonne Buchheim
free of charge, no registration required
30/11/2025 30/11/2025 11h
MdbK [next;raum]#3: Break
Conversation about the current project episode
free of charge, no registration required
December
Current Exhibition
Picture Universe #2
Art from Leipzig
12/12/2023 — 06/01/2026
The MdbK Leipzig presents one of its most important art treasures on the almost complete area of the third floor, spread over 9 gallery rooms and the central hall: painting and sculpture of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Upcoming Exhibition
A world of threads
Tapestries of the modern age
11/12/2025 — 12/04/2026
Spinning threads and weaving them together is one of humankind’s earliest cultural technologies. Just as old is the use of textiles as a form of ar...
03/12/2025 03/12/2025 15–19h
blaumachen: Moving Colours
Creative-practical action for everyone on the exhibition Rosa Barba. Under the Canopy
free of charge, no registration required