No it’s not new Berlin….it’s Leipzig!

HALLE 14 is a contemporary art place that has been operating since 2002 in an historic industrial building on the grounds of a former Cotton Spinning Mill. It includes a 2,400 m² exhibition hall, a workspace for art education, 16 studios for international and local artists and seven workshops. There are over a dozen galleries and project spaces in the Cotton Spinning Mill complex, 130 artist studios, numerous other creative offices, a cinema, and a cafe. This is an arts precinct of both scale and diversity and reflects the new Leipzig. 

There are 2 exhibitions taking place currently.  ‘Das Grosse Tableau’ seeks responses to the questions - ‘Can art provide us orientation in the profusion of and contradictions in information? Does it have methods of questioning false certainties and recognizing the new and future-oriented? Can it help us to see the entire overview and the interconnected dependencies of the conditions of our existence—in short: the big picture?’

The work of Susan Schuppli with its focus on ‘Cold Rights’ reflected on the rights of ice, the Inuit people, the asylum seekers crossing the icy frontier and the cold. https://susanschuppli.com/COLD-RIGHTS

Susan is an artist and researcher whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change. She is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths as well as affiliate artist-researcher and Board Chair of Forensic Architecture.

The second exhibition is “über leitungen . infra structures”. It is ‘dedicated to increasing social attention to infrastructures and presents artistic positions with the intent of analyzing them, but also looking at forms of subverting and surmounting them. How do we design future infrastructures that don't extract from people and nature?’

Arijit Bhattacharyya, born in West Bengal, is an artist focussed on questions of identity, power and history and their social contexts. ‘He is deeply invested in the conversations of postcolonial identity, decoloniality, social marginalization and social disobedience. His work ‘Silence (2022) is a powerful banner “We the people’ with its reverse side revealing the brutality often following a demonstration. https://chertluedde.com/arijit-bhattacharyya/