
Under the influence of Socialist Realism, an East German Art Academy preserved disappearing traditions of figurative painting. Today, the painters of Leipzig have inherited these traditions and become an art-world sensation. Greetings from LE, hosted by JARILAGER Gallery, celebrates thirty years of artistic endeavours of the ‘New Leipzig School.’ Presenting a rich, generation-spanning selection of works from the roster of Galerie Kleindienst, long at the heart of Leipzig’s artistic narrative under the guidance of Matthias Kleindienst, this exhibition brings the Leipzig phenomenon front and centre to the Cologne art scene.
The beginning of the JARILAGER Gallery traces back to 1998 when Jari Lager first opened his artist run space VTO in the East End of London, while also working at the LISSON Gallery, this was followed with the opening of UNION Gallery in 2003 on Union Street at Bankside near the Tate Gallery.

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