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title: "Leipzig Festival of Lights 2024 | “Disunited/United” – Partner Project HGB Leipzig"
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description: "The partner project “Disunited/United” with the HGB Leipzig was one of 21 light installations with which the Leipzig Festival of Lights 2024 marked 35 years of the Peaceful Revolution."
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Disunited/United

Partner project with the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig

 

Video installations and sculptural installation
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at the Paulinum, Augustusplatz

Taking as their starting point the historical significance of Augustusplatz (formerly Karl-Marx-Platz) for the political upheaval of 1989, its consequences and today’s uses within the culture of remembrance, students from HGB Leipzig set out in search of traces in the run-up to the Leipzig Festival of Lights: How visible to the public are the square’s various historical layers, such as the site of the Karl Marx relief during the GDR era? How do those born after 1989 view differences and stereotypical images between East and West? How is it possible to come together even amid disunity and stand up for shared values? The installations encouraged reflection on 1989 and on questions that remain open today.

 

*Disunited/United* at a glance

### Paulinum, Augustusplatz

Location

### Video installations and sculptural installation

Project type

### Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB)

responsible

 

 

Portraits of the contributors
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Founded in 1764, the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst/Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in Leipzig is one of the oldest state art academies in Germany. Around 600 students are currently enrolled in the four degree programmes Painting/Printmaking, Book Art/Graphic Design, Photography and Media Art.

- Tianxu Liu**Tianxu Liu** (\*1992 in Tianjin/China) studies in the Installation and Space class.
- Merlin Rainer**Merlin Rainer** (\*2000 in Potsdam) studies painting.
- Eszter Szöke**Eszter Szöke** (\*1996 in Wachtendonk) studies in the Installation and Space class.
- Samuel Ellinghoven**Samuel Ellinghoven** (\*1997 in Munich) studies in the class for Installation and Space.
- Juliane Jaschnow**Juliane Jaschnow** (\*1989 in Karl-Marx-Stadt) is a filmmaker and artist and teaches at HGB Leipzig.
- Dieter Daniels**Dieter Daniels** (\*1957 in Bonn) is an art historian and media theorist, Professor of Art History and Media Theory at HGB Leipzig (1993-2024).

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