On every first Wednesday of the month, Werkleitz offers an interested audience the opportunity to meet media artists. This year, some of the events will be co-arranged with the media art faculty of Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design and the Deutscher akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). Usually, Visiting Artists takes place on the premises of Werkleitz at Schleifweg 6, Halle (Saale). (Directions p.--)
Admission is free.

• Mandy Gehrt
  Wednesday, 9 January 8:00 pm.

  The young artist Mandy Gehrt from Leipzig will present her works Dialogue Tools and Erbstuecke. To her, art is the hot wiring of social and communicative processes. Her previous artistic work focused on the examination of current societal problems and their reflections in media and politics. In Dialogue Tools, for example, she initiated an intercultural dialogue between 30 participants from Algeria, Denmark, Germany, Lebanon and Turkey. Erbstuecke is a video project based on a number of interviews the children and grandchildren of contemporary witnesses of National Socialism. The video is embedded in a space installation, which uses simple materials to emulate a family’s communication.

  The evening will be organised and arranged by students of the media art faculty of Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design.

• Köken Ergun (EMARE stipendiary)
  Wednesday, 6 February 8:00 pm.

  The artist will present his Werkleitz supported Halle-Project as well as his well renowned film and video productions. In these, he critically examines politics of his home country Turkey.

• Stéfan Piat (EMARE stipendiary)
  Wednesday, 5 March 8:00 pm.
• Further invited guests in 2008 are (among others):

  Jose Luis Extremera Martinez (DAAD stipendiary, ES)
  James T. Hong (DAAD stipendiary, USA/TW)
  Carlos A. Morelli (DAAD stipendiary, MX/UY)
  Jörg Haßengier, Jürgen Brügger (A38 stipendiary)
  Curtis Burz (A38 stipendiary)

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When the shutter is opened at Schleifweg 6, you will get a surprising view at exciting art experiments!

With the aid of the media art faculty at the Burg Giebichenstein Hochschule für Kunst und Design, a newly installed showcase of the building at Schleifweg 6 will frequently be displaying art projects by students and media artists. Ideas for projects and enquiries will be received cordially by Werkleitz and Burg Giebichenstein.

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Werkleitz celebrates the beginning of summer with a work exhibition under a star lit sky. On Friday, 14th June, productions by stipendaries and media lab supported works from the last years will be shown in the garden. Hopefully, the weather will be fine as there will be barbecuing and partying into the wee hours.

Admission is free. The garden is at the back of the Werkleitz building at Schleifweg 6, 06114 Halle (Saale).

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In order to enable talented young curators and cultural managers from Central and Eastern Europe to gain experience in the international cultural industry, and in order to initiate an exchange in the field of art and culture, the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung established a special support program. Once again, Werkleitz is a project partner. For twelve months, Elena Gladkova will be embedded into the Werkleitz team, initially working on her own curational project, which will be actualised in the spring. The focus is on the placement of artists from her hometown Kalinigrad in Russia. Information regarding conception and dates can be found at our website www.werkleitz.de in time.

Cultural Manager from Central and Eastern Europe is being initiated by MitOst e.V. and funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung.

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