Leipzig: A Universe of Images, a presentation of the collection that opened last year, sees itself not as completed but as a dynamic process. In a continuous exchange, works from the MdbK's collection are integrated into the already existing display in order to offer ever new perspectives on Leipzig's art in the 20th and 21st centuries.
With the presentation series In Focus, the MdbK invites artists to expand the picture cosmos of Leipzig stylistically and thematically with their works. The first in the series is Malte Masemann. Born in Kiel in 1979, Masemann studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 2004 to 2011. He was a student in Neo Rauch's painting class and a master student of Heribert C. Ottersbach. In his figurative paintings, a contemporary vocabulary in the arrangement of colouring and space overlaps with historical photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries. In this way, exciting pictorial arrangements are created in which the timeless and the contemporary appear concurrently. Malte Masemann stands in the tradition of the New Leipzig School, which he enriches with innovative stylistic possibilities of expression, especially in the depiction of figures.
