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Filmstill, Igor Hosnedl, Ká Quills’ Room, Berlin 2021
Igor Hosnedl Video

Throwback: Join us on a personal tour with Igor Hosnedl through his solo show "Ká Quills’ Room" at EIGEN + ART Lab 2021.

"I just have my imagination in my head. Keeping it in my mind rethinking. Daydreaming about it."

Under the title “Ká Quills’ Room”, the EIGEN + ART Lab presented in 2021 the second solo exhibition of works by Igor Hosnedl. The exhibition spaces together with the sculptural objects and six new large-format works are conceived as a single cohering experience. This time, visitors are carried off to a part of a bewildering fantasy- factory world that has not yet gone into operation.

Excerpt from text by Gilles Neiens/ACCCE

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You will find more information and works by the artist on our website: www.eigen-art.com.

Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music: Dark Ambient Drone by PatrickLieberkind and suonho_Hypersuspance/ freesound.org
English

Please find the version with Chinese subtitles here

Filmstill, Brett Charles Seiler, so many pictures..., Leipzig 2024
Brett Charles Seiler Video

Throwback: Enjoy this video tour through the solo show so many picures, so little memories by Brett Seiler at our gallery in Leipzig, 2024:

In Brett Charles Seiler's paintings, glowing with desire, friends, lovers and strangers meet in studio spaces, on makeshift stages permeated by a twilight of intimacy. Like looking through the window of Seiler's studio in Cape Town, the scenes in his paintings unfold as snapshots in the radiance of their interpersonal encounters.

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Brett Charles Seiler // Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig 2024
Film/Edit: @galerie_eigenart / Astrid Hamm
Music by Alex Ant on pixabay.com

Filmstill, Ansichten über einen Raum, Leipzig 2026
Ansichten über einen Raum 1983 – 1990 Video

Enjoy this brief tour of the very special exhibition Ansichten über einen Raum 1983 – 1990 (Views of a space) at the EIGEN + ART Gallery in Leipzig in 2026.

Here the gallery's own history is the focus of an exhibition for the first time. EIGEN + ART is showcasing printed exhibition posters, photos, and exhibition documentation from the gallery's archives, dating from the early years up to 1990, conveying a vivid portrait of those formative years. One artist who exhibited at the Galerie EIGEN + ART as early as the 1980s is the Leipzig-based photographer Karin Wieckhorst. In 1987, she showed the series Begegnungen in Ateliers (Encounters in Studios) in her solo exhibition, which are also part of this exhibition alongside the archive documents.

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Ansichten über einen Raum 1983 – 1990
Insights into the archives of the EIGEN + ART gallery
and works from the series
"Encounters in Studios" by Karin Wieckhorst.
March 14 – April 18, 2026

Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks),
@galerie_eigenart / Astrid Hamm
Music: created with Suno
3:40 min
German with English subtitles

Filmstill, Neo Rauch, Stille Reserve, Leipzig 2025
Neo Rauch Video

In conversation with Neo Rauch at his studio during preperation of his solo exhibition Stille Reserve at Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig in 2025.

Enjoy this personal interview about the development of his artworks, how the title came into being, the figures and architectual elements in his paintings and much more. Also get a special tour through the exhibition.

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In occasion of:
Neo Rauch,
Stille Reserve
Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig
3 May – 5 July 2025

Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Interview: @galerie_eigenart / Astrid Hamm
Music: created with Suno
13:32 min
German with English subtitles.

Filmstill, Interview Carsten Nicolai, unicolor, 2021
Carsten Nicolai Video

Carsten Nicolai’s artistic output has taken many forms over the past three decades. Enjoy this interview about his practice from 2021!

Nicolai’s 2014 piece unicolor is one of the artist’s most immersive works, unfolding against a long projection wall with two mirror walls on each side, creating the impression of extending into infinity. In this film, he talks to Fact about the ideas behind unicolor and how the musical experimentation in Berlin that followed the fall of the wall in 1989 kickstarted an ongoing career of artistic innovation.

Production: LUX: New Wave of Contemporary Art, London, 2021
English with English subtitles

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Filmstill, Brett Charles Seiler, Riding In Cars With Boys, 2023
Brett Charles Seiler Video

Throwback: In this video you will get great insight into the studio and working process of Brett Charles Seiler. Learn about his inspirations, materials and message.

Riding In Cars With Boys is the first solo exhibition of the South African artist in Europe. In the program of Galerie EIGEN + ART since 2021, Brett Charles Seiler lives and works in Cape Town, where he graduated from the Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2015. Seiler's work has elements of painting, drawing, installation and object art, the use of text and language also plays a major role. Sometimes poetic, nostalgic or romantic, it is an integral part of his art or stands on its own as a work as well. In his paintings, the space is indeterminate, the figures are not located and are sketchily fleeting, the writing elements spontaneous.

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
English. With German subtitle.

For the version with Chinese subtitle please go to our account at Vimeo here.

EIGEN + ART History Article

Here you will find a great article on the history of Galerie EIGEN + ART in occasion of our Exhibition Ansichten über einen Raum 1983 - 1990 at our gallery in Leipzig, 2026.

The Eigen + Art Gallery is one of Germany’s best-known commercial galleries. It represents artists such as Neo Rauch and Kristina Schuldt, as well as artists from the United States, France, and Israel. In a new exhibition, the gallery is now exploring its own roots in the GDR for the first time. It is a journey through time into the alternative art scene of the final decade of the workers’ and peasants’ state. [...]

Interview with Eva Gaeding
mdr aktuell, published March 14, 2026
Images: Achive of Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin

The article in in German

Filmstill, Ulrike Theusner, Mahagonny, Leipzig, 2023
Ulrike Theusner Video

#classic: In this interview, Ulrike Theusner is taking you with her to Mahagonny. Enjoy!

Mahagonny – that’s the city of unbridled hedonism invented by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, where having no money is a crime punished by death. Ulrike Theusner has turned her years of interest in Mahagonny into her current exhibition. She conceived an oversized fictional studio wall on which she has pinned pastels and drawing, prints, and photographs, all shreds of memories of her life between Europe and the United States.
"All images are of course always closely related to my current emotional state, to my experience, to life itself. You can't put it into words very well, but if something is transferred, then I've definitely achieved what I wanted, which is to transport something and to touch the emotional level of the viewer. That's what art is for."

Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music: Elisa Demonki
German with English subtitles

Filmstill, Olaf Nicolai, I never look at you from the place..., 2023
Olaf Nicolai Video

The exhibition I never look at you from the place from which you see me by Olaf Nicolai at Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin presented a series of photographic works taken in June 2022 in Olympia, Greece. In this interview the artist is taking you with him on the journey of discovery, history, concept and is giving you great insights into this project.

The motifs are the landscape and the historical facilities of Olympia - but in anamorphic and floating distortions. They were created using a parabolic mirror - the mirror used to IGNITE the Olympic Flame by the sun's rays.

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
German with English and Chinese subtitles

Screenshot miejsce magazine, Issue 10/2024, Article by Lynn Rother
EIGEN + ART in New York Article

Enjoy this deep dive into the history of Galerie EIGEN + ART and the times in 1993, when the gallery had a temporary space in SoHo, New York.

This article analyzes an initiative undertaken by the EIGEN + ART Gallery, founded in Leipzig in 1983 in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), which involved opening a four-month branch in New York’s SoHo district. The branch operated in the spring of 1993, during a period marked by a severe crisis in the American art market and a deep recession in reunified Germany. The event was widely covered in the German media, which regarded it as an act of courage.

East Germany Comes to New York - The 1993 SoHo Venture of Leipzig’s EIGEN + ART
Text: Lynn Rother in cooperation with Frank Eckart
Published at MIEJSCE 10/2024
All Images from the Archive of Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
The article is in English

Private photo, Gerd Harry Lybke with his mother and brother
Gerd Harry Lybke Interview

In 2021 all artists, the gallery team and friends asked Gerd Harry Lybke aka "Judy" a question each for his 60th Birthday. Enjoy the answers and this personal insight!

The Interview is accompanied by selected exclusive images from the private archives. All questions and answers are in German.

Concept: Sarah Alberti
Edit: Hannah-Constanze Grabner
Graphic Design: Hagen Tanneberger
© Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, 2021

Filmstill, Stefan Guggisberg, Facing the Light, Berlin, 2023
Stefan Guggisberg Video

Follow us into the universe of painting and drawing by Stefan Guggisberg and learn how his works are created with very unique techniques.

In this video the artist is giving you a tour through his exhibition Facing the Light at our Berlin gallery and great insight into his work series of oil on paper and iPad drawings.
"In fact what impresses me about painting is that you can go back 40,000 years and these images are still there and, above all, they still reach us. So the drawings permeate everything - it reaches and touches us. And that's a form of communication that I think only exists once." (Stefan Guggisberg)

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music: "Out of the Dark" by Crowander "Slow Smoke" by Crowander Source: Free Music Archive and license type: CC BY-NC

German with English subtitles

Please find the version with Chinese subtitles here

Filmstill, Maja Behrmann, Dock20, 2025
Maja Behrmann Video

Enjoy this studio visit and interview with Maja Behrmann during the preperations for her solo show at DOCK 20 in Austria!

In the exhibition entitled Quale – zirkeln, flimmen (Pain – circling, flickering), Maja Behrmann transforms the exhibition space into a sensory field of experimentation. Bright colours, opulent forms, sculptures, collages, paintings and drawings are stacked and layered to create a visual parcours and a living archive.

In occasion of:
Maja Behrmann
DOCK20, Austria
Quale - zirkeln, flimmen
20 September – 6 December 2025

Film & Edit: Studio OOHHAA
Interview: Anne Zühlke, Maja Behrmann
Production: DOCK20 and Galerie EIGEN + ART
German with English subtitles

Front View of the former gallery from "Leipzig und die Fritz-Austel-Straße 31", 2007
EIGEN + ART History Publication

About the special history of a space: Leipzig and the Fritz-Austel-Straße 31

In the backyard of the former Fritz-Austel-Straße 31 in Leipzig stands a small, now renovated former factory building with a remarkable history. Following its trail, you immediately find yourself in artistic circles whose work, starting around 20 years ago, has had a special significance for the development of art in Leipzig to this day. Gerd Harry Lybke was the initiator at the time. We are talking about the beginnings of the Galerie EIGEN + ART.

In this catalogue of the exhibition in 2007 at Kunsthalle der Sparkasse in Leipzig you will find great photos and facts about the beginning of the gallery during the GDR and ist artists.

The publication is in German.

Publisher: Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig
Edit: Dr. Claus Baumann, Gitta Große
Design: wpunktw kommunikation + werbung gmbh, Leipzig
© 2007 Sparkasse Leipzig and the authors, (cb) SÄCHSISCHE KUNSTWERK
ISBN 3-9809160-8-1

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Filmstill, Karl-Heinz Adler, Metrics, Berlin 2021
Karl-Heinz Adler Video

„Art must emerge from thoughts and emotions - just emotions.“
Karl-Heinz Adler

Throwback: In the video, which was created for his extensive solo exhibition „Metrics“ at EIGEN + ART Berlin in 2021, we are following the tracks and inspiration of Karl-Heinz Adler (1927 - 2018).

Karl-Heinz Adler is one of the most important representatives of concrete, postwar avant-garde art. His minimalist, geometrically inspired drawings, collages, folding art, and sculptural objects, but also the construction-accompanying works developed jointly with Friedrich Kracht, have for some time now been in the process of international rediscovery in art and architecture circles and are appreciated as pioneering artistic achievements. (...)
Kito Nedo

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Film & Edit: TABLEAU Films (Matthias Maercks)
Music: Dietmar Diesner

German with English and Chinese subtitles.

Screenshot, Homepage "Kunstszene Ost", Gerd Harry Lybke
Gerd Harry Lybke Interview

Gallery owner Gerd Harry Lybke talks about his experineces with the police of the former GDR (Staatssicherheit), money, which played no role in the GDR, and the rise of his Galerie EIGEN + ART.

The interview project “Kunstszene/Ost – Biografien im Umbruch” (Art Scene/East – Biographies in Transition) brings together 20 interviews conducted by journalists Birgit Grimm and Sarah Alberti with important figures from the GDR art scene, some of whom are still active today. The full versions of all the interviews are accompanied by short video interviews and portrait photos by Thomas Kretschel.

Interview: Sarah Alberti & Birgit Grimm
The website is in German

Filmstill, Raul Walch, Villa Romana, 2025
Raul Walch Video

Follow us into the studio by Raul Walch in Florence, during his fellowship at Villa Romana in 2025.

Based on his time at Villa Romana, Walch explores the global textile industry in his new textile installations, assemblages and the new video work using the city of Prato as an example. Enjoy this interview and quick insight!

Video by Giulia Del Piero
Voice over: Raul Walch
Villa Romana
Director: Elena Agudio
Curator and Project Coordinator: Mistura Allison
Administration: Claudia Fromm
Maintenance: Ala and Victor Cebotaru
The Villa Romana e.V. maintains the Villa Romana and the Villa Romana Prize.

Filmstill: Das Einhorn. Kulturgeschichte einer Sehnsucht, arte, 2026
Olaf Nicolai Video

Enjoy this documentary by Mathias Frick about the exhibition Einhorn. Das Fabeltier der Kunst including an interview with Olaf Nicolai and his work La Lotta.

For centuries, one of the most famous mythical creatures has roamed our cultural history. Over time, the unicorn has come to embody numerous meanings—healing, destruction, innocence, queerness. This documentary sets out to uncover the truth: What lies behind the ubiquitous unicorn myth?

Production ZDF/arte, 2026
Director: Mathias Frick
53 min., available until 09/15/2026
Interview in German

Filmstill, Stella Hamberg, "Nackte Gestalten", arte 2025
Stella Hamberg Video

In this exciting feature on arte about the naked body - captured in sculpture - Stella Hamberg talks about sculpting and her intentions.

Nudity and sculpture have been inextricably linked since antiquity. Naked figures such as Michelangelo's "David" statue in public spaces are celebrated, but also demonized. There have always been religious and political taboos, bans and attacks on sculptures.

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Director: Dagmar Wittmers
Production: mdr / arte mediatheque, 2025
German, no subtitles

Filmstill, Madeleine Roger-Lacan, Lay down with me, Berlin, 2024
Madeleine Roger-Lacan Video

Madeleine Roger-Lacan is taking us in her first solo show Lay down with me at our Berlin gallery into a very honest and raw cosmos, full of emotions, obsessions and failure.

Enjoy the interview with the French artist and see the making of the great wall painting, exclusively for the space. And dont' miss the end, with a surprise Performance during the opening!

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Film & Edit: Paul Ott
Interview / Edit: @galerie_eigenart / Astrid Hamm
Music: Mono Ono - Piano Piano, ERPS - Rota
English with German subtitles

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