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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL

Ars Electronica, located on the frontier of art and technology, is a globally important media art festival - a platform that focuses on the future as it is currently being realized.

ART BASEL

Described as the "Olympus of the art market" and the "queen among art fairs", Art Basel is considered the world's best and most important fair for art from classical modernism to the present.

BERLIN BIENNALE

New, specially produced works by contemporary artists from all over the world, renowned curators: as an exhibition with international appeal, the Berlin Biennale has secured its firm place in the global round of biennials.

VENICE BIENNALE

The Biennale has been held in Venice every two years since 1895 and is one of the most important exhibitions of international contemporary art.

DOCUMENTA

If one wants to reduce the more than fifty-year history of Documenta to a common denominator, then one can probably say that - like no other major exhibition - it has repeatedly intervened in the respective current art discussion, adopted one or the other attitude and thus triggered controversies.

LIGHT ART

Art with light? With artificial light? Eectrical light is one of the prerequisites for creating what is now called light art. The examination with predominantly artificial light, is a relatively young, but increasingly independent art genre.

NEW LEIPZIG SCHOOL

"Leipzig is coming" was the confident slogan in the 2003 catalog for the exhibition sieben mal malerei (seven times painting) - and the seven painting graduates of the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts were to be proven right.

INSIGHT INTO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Insights into private art collections: Whether old masters or contemporaries, art is booming. More and more art enthusiasts are building up their own, often contemporary, collections. Thus, great art treasures are often hidden in private rooms.