Stay : Leipzig, metropolis of contemporary art
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5 days
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Detail of the stay : Leipzig, metropolis of contemporary art - 5 days
Day 1: Fine Arts to start
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Spend your day at the Fine Arts Museum, which is well worth it. It will show the evolution of modern art in Germany and particularly in Leipzig, where important artists such as Max Klinger (symbolism), Max Beckmann (New Objectivity), Werner Tübke (socialist realism), and Neo Rauch (New Leipzig School) were born or worked in the 20th century. Temporary exhibitions are often at the forefront of artistic and exciting news.
MUSEUM DER BILDENEN KÜNSTE - MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS
Day 2: La Spinnerei, an artists' district
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Direction Rome of contemporary art in Leipzig, in the west of the Plagwitz district: the Spinnerei. The old factory has been transformed into a gigantic artists' district with workshops, galleries, museums and all kinds of events related to contemporary art. There are several exhibition spaces to visit, then you have to take your time, hang out at the big café, possibly meet artists...
Day 3: Discover the Westerwerk
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A day of walks in Plagwitz, the new quarter of artists and pq. One of the most fashionable museum areas of the moment is Karl-Heine-Strasse, many artists'galleries and workshops have recently emerged; there is what to do...
Day 4: Artistic walk
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A day's walk in Leipzig in search of murals scattered throughout the city. Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse is a privileged stopover: Fischer-Art's murals, Blek le Rat's graffiti "La Vierge et l'Enfant" and the communist signs of Feinkostgelände reign there. In Plagwitz, some street art works have become cult, such as the "Weisse Dame", a 1920s advertisement. In the evening, land at Galerie Kub, also in the Südvorstadt, a favourite place for performances and installation exhibitions, hosted by art students.
KARL-LIEBKNECHT-STRAßE
Day 5: Leipzig, city of printing and photography
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Visit Galerie d'art contemporain de Leipzig, which features Leipzig artists from the GDR era such as Rosemarie Trockel and Carsten Nikolai, as well as beautiful temporary exhibitions. In the afternoon, you can vary the art forms with a visit to the Assissi Panometer, a specialist in panoramic reconstructions, the Museum of Printed Arts, which showcases Leipzig as a printing city, or the superb German Photography Museum, the largest of its kind in Germany
Leipzig lends itself to many thematic stays: "Leipzig and the musicians", in the footsteps of Bach, Wagner or Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, "Leipzig and industry", which will take you to the city's incredible industrial and post-industrial heritage, from Plagwitz to Lake Zwenkau, "Leipzig and the legacy of communism", where you will discover surprising remains of the GDR era in the city, or "Leipzig, city of fairs". We can also imagine a "tourism of subcultures" through the city's bars and clubs, or a "tourism of gigantism", with a visit to the city's superlative monuments: the monument of the Battle of the Nations, the Central Station, the University Tower...
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