QUOTE (The Guardian)
Leipzig - run-down, depressed, increasingly depopulated - has now acquired the art-world cachet of New York in the 1950s or London in the 1990s. The new Leipzig School has coalesced into what Joachim Pissarro of the Museum of Modern Art described to the New York Times as "suddenly the hottest thing on earth".
The Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, a former cotton mill in a far-flung, dismal suburb, hosts the city's annual art weekend, a recently invented event. The spinnerei used to accomodate 4,000 people in a complex of 19th-century factories and workers' tenements so vast and self-sufficient it was known as "a city in the city". The mills started to deteriorate after the fall of the Wall, and ceased production completely by the mid-1990s. Now half the factory buldings are rented out to about 100 artists, with the galleries representing the cream of them settled into high, white, top-lit spaces at street level.
The Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, a former cotton mill in a far-flung, dismal suburb, hosts the city's annual art weekend, a recently invented event. The spinnerei used to accomodate 4,000 people in a complex of 19th-century factories and workers' tenements so vast and self-sufficient it was known as "a city in the city". The mills started to deteriorate after the fall of the Wall, and ceased production completely by the mid-1990s. Now half the factory buldings are rented out to about 100 artists, with the galleries representing the cream of them settled into high, white, top-lit spaces at street level.
The Spinnerei is, of course, on the interweb too: Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei
