Calendar

May

Current Exhibition

Bernhard Heisig

Birthday Still Life with Icarus

20/03 — 09/06/2025

Bernhard Heisig (1925-2011) had a decisive influence on the art of the Leipzig School with his vivid visual language. HHe would have been 100 years old on 31 March 2025. The MdbK is honouring his work and influence in Leipzig with a cabinet exhibition to mark the occasion.

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

Grafik im Fokus

13/03 — 22/06/2025

Seit Dezember 2024 werden in dieser neuen Ausstellungsreihe der Graphischen Sammlung in einem Raum der Dauerausstellung Arbeiten auf Papier gezeigt...

Current Exhibition

Animals that no one has yet heard

11/04 — 15/06/2025

At the MdbK, sighted, visually impaired and blind pupils from the Vladimir Filatov School and the Protestant School Centre created animal sculptures on six workshop dates.

Upcoming Exhibition

Rediscovering Abraham Jaskiel

07/05 — 17/08/2025

The Polish-born artist Abraham Jaskiel (1894 Częstochowa – 1987 Haifa) lived in Leipzig from 1920 to 1933. In 1928, he married Leipzig resident Aug...

Upcoming Exhibition

Rosa Barba

Color out of Space

29/05/2025 — 31/05/2026

The German-Italian artist Rosa Barba (* 1972 Agrigento, Italy) has created a spatial installation for the MdbK on the large terrace on the 2nd floo...

07/05/2025 07/05/2025 15–19h

blaumachen: figure it out

Creative practical action for everyone in the exhibition Role Models

07/05/2025 07/05/2025 18h30

Nachhall

Walking concert with the musicians of the Musikalische Komödie

08/05/2025 08/05/2025 10h15

Ein Duft, eine Farbe, ein Klang

08/05/2025 08/05/2025 15h30–18h

Open Studio

Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over

10/05/2025 10/05/2025 18–23h55

Museumsnacht in Halle und Leipzig

11/05/2025 11/05/2025 10h30

emdebeka 7⁺: Mythen, Märchen und Geschichten?

11/05/2025 11/05/2025 11h

Was Bilder können. Betrachtungen zu drei Gemälden von Camille Corot

13/05/2025 13/05/2025 15h30

Generation 60⁺: Rosa Loy & Neo Rauch - Kunst der Gegenwart im Dialog

14/05/2025 14/05/2025 12h30

Sprich mit mir! Modellieren mit Ton

Open invitation, cultural and artistic exchange for German-speaking and German-learning women

14/05/2025 14/05/2025 17h

Grüne Wände für Leipzig

14/05/2025 14/05/2025 18h

Profund. Hartwig Ebersbach

14/05/2025 14/05/2025 18h

Kunst im Kontext. Zur Provenienz der Werke im MdbK

15/05/2025 15/05/2025 15h30–18h

Open Studio

Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over

17/05/2025 17/05/2025 15h

60 Minuten Kunst / 60 ХВ МИСТЕЦТВА

18/05/2025 18/05/2025 11h

blind sehen: Bernhard Heisig. Geburtstagsstilleben mit Ikarus

22/05/2025 22/05/2025 15h30–18h

Open Studio

Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over

22/05/2025 22/05/2025 16h

Ein Duft, eine Farbe, ein Klang

24/05/2025 24/05/2025 14–17h

Griffelkunst

Presentation of the current graphic selection of the Griffelkunstvereinigung Hamburg e. V., which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2005.

25/05/2025 25/05/2025 11h

Bernhard Heisig. Geburtstagsstilleben mit Ikarus

28/05/2025 28/05/2025 17h

Generation 60⁺: Rosa Loy & Neo Rauch - Kunst der Gegenwart im Dialog

28/05/2025 28/05/2025 18h

Max Beckmann

28/05/2025 28/05/2025 19h

Rosa Barba. Color out of Space

29/05/2025 29/05/2025 15h30–18h

Open Studio

Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over

June

Upcoming Exhibition

Screen Time

Leipzig Video Art since 1990

05/06 — 31/08/2025

Today, the term video art covers a variety of time-based audiovisual forms of expression, including screen-based single-channel videos, expansive m...

Upcoming Exhibition

Family Matters

19/06 — 14/09/2025

The thematic exhibition Family Matters explores family memories in the migration society and their links to socio-political and historical issues.

01/06/2025 01/06/2025 10h30

emdebeka 4⁺: Sommer, Sonne, Sonnenschein?

01/06/2025 01/06/2025 11h

Rembrandt - Der Radierer

04/06/2025 04/06/2025 15–19h

blaumachen: Mit Licht und Wasser

Creative-practical action for everyone on the project Spring by Nina Schuiki in the museum square

04/06/2025 04/06/2025 18h

Screen Time. Leipziger Videokunst seit 1990

05/06/2025 05/06/2025 10h15

Ein Duft, eine Farbe, ein Klang

05/06/2025 05/06/2025 15h30–18h

Open studio

Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over

08/06/2025 08/06/2025 10h30

emdebeka 7⁺: Sommer, Sonne, Sonnenschein?

08/06/2025 08/06/2025 11h

Zwischen Todessehnsucht und Frühlingshoffnung

10/06/2025 10/06/2025 15h30

Generation 60⁺: Oeser, Winckelmann und Goethe - eine Dreieckskomposition des Klassizismus

11/06/2025 11/06/2025 12h30

Sprich mit mir! Fotografieren mit Infrarot

Open invitation, cultural and artistic exchange for German-speaking and German-learning women

11/06/2025 11/06/2025 18h

Screen Time. Leipziger Videokunst seit 1990

12/06/2025 12/06/2025 15h30–18h

Open studio

Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over

14/06/2025 14/06/2025 15h

60 minutes art

Guided tour through the collection with Yvonne Buchheim

15/06/2025 15/06/2025 11h

Wiedersehen mit Abraham Jaskiel

18/06/2025 18/06/2025 18h

Family Matters

19/06/2025 19/06/2025 10h

Reunion with Abraham Jaskiel

Guided tour through the exhibition Picture Universe #2. Art from Leipzig with Ulrike Saß

An event as part of the visiting programme for former Jewish Leipzig residents and their descendants

19/06/2025 19/06/2025 15h30–18h

Open studio

Space for creative design and drawing for everyone aged 12 and over

21/06/2025 21/06/2025 14h

Family Matters

21/06/2025 21/06/2025 17h

Fête de la Musique

Musical contribution by Sorbian artists

22/06/2025 22/06/2025 11h

blind sehen: Nostalgie im Bilderkosmos

25/06/2025 25/06/2025 17h

Generation 60⁺: Oeser, Winckelmann und Goethe - eine Dreieckskomposition des Klassizismus

25/06/2025 25/06/2025 18h

Background

25/06/2025 25/06/2025 18h

Caspar David Friedrich und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - eine konfliktreiche Beziehung