Performance at the Long Night of Museums: International Art Students Activate Emblematic Sculpture at GfZK Leipzig
The walk-in installation »Formel:Marionette_Leipzig« has been part of the GfZK Leipzig’s collection since 2017 and is currently on view in the exhibition »Dynamic Spaces« (12 April 2025 – 29 March 2026), curated by Julia Eckert and Franciska Zólyom. In response to the piece, the PANAS students will translate their own artistic contributions into symbolic codes and visual vocabularies, which will be inserted into the sculpture’s pre-existing system of signs and gestures.
The result is a six-hour performance that explores a possible future format of transcultural, multilingual and public participation. Using the structural framework of Weber’s artwork, the students continually rearrange their interventions. In interaction with the diverse and shifting audience of the Long Night of Museums, their gestures challenge and shift the roles of artwork, artist and spectator. A public exchange of thoughts accompanies the performance, generating shared stories in real time.
With its unique linguistic diversity – currently encompassing Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, English, Persian, Chinese, Thai, Kurdish, Serbian, Cantonese, Italian, and German – PANAS actively addresses and includes a multilingual audience.
Performance as part of the Long Night of Museums Halle & Leipzig
Date:
Saturday, 10 May 2025, 6 p.m. – midnight
Location:
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK)
Karl–Tauchnitz-Straße 9–11
04107 Leipzig
Participants:
Ameer Masoud, Anil Aydinoglu, Oğul Arda Biçer, Zeynep Bodur, Raisa Bosich, Febe Corba, Emily Cheung, Carolina Díaz, Dania González Sanabria, Negar Kablou, Jodie Luk, Krittaporn Mahaweerarat, Giuliana Marmo, Chya Mohammed, Stefan Ralevic, Erphaneh Sadeghzadeh, Emily Thomas, Kitman Yeung, Jennifer Yue Yuen Yu
PANAS & Komplizen:
The GfZK Leipzig, known for its exceptional pilot projects in the fields of participation and sustainability in a transfer-oriented society, supports this first sequence of the PANAS project module »Keeping and Making Porous – Strategies for Public Space«, led by Interim Professor Suse Weber.
PANAS & Komplizen in the current semester:
FeliX Art&Eco Museum, Verbeke Foundation, Base-Alpha Gallery (Belgium); Thuringian State Representation Weimar; Sergio Servellón (Director of the FeliX Art&Eco Museum Belgium and board member of the Network of European Museum Organisations), Geert Verbeke (Collector, Verbeke Foundation), Bart Vanderbiesen (Gallery Owner and Chairman of Antwerp Art Organisation), Cassis B. Staudt (Composer), Prinz Gholam
Special thanks to curators Julia Eckert and Franciska Zólyom and the entire GfZK team for their generous cooperation.
More information: www.gfzk.de
Contact:
Associate Professor Suse Weber for Public Art and New Artistic Strategies
e-mail: suse.weber[at]uni-weimar.de