Running on Empty

David Schröder

My artistic practice is processual, with concepts emerging through intermedia objects and installations. These are built on collections of various kinds, intuitively and associatively arranged. The resulting combination acts as gestures of art.

Dayoung Jung

Dayoung Jung (b.1992) approaches space as a site of sensory and emotional experience, exploring the invisible identities and emotional narratives embedded within it. Through photography and video, she captures fragmented images, marginalized perspectives, and remnants of historical memory. Her work reinterprets the identity of space and its sensory landscapes, reconstructing them through mixed media and installation formats.

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Juli Winterstein

Juli Winterstein (he/they, b. 2000, Berlin) develops a sculptural practice that extends into performance and design. After early involvement in theatre, he started to study Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), first in the class for performative arts, followed by the class for installation and space. He also works independently in stage design and model making and co-curated his first exhibition at the Kunstverein Villa Heike in Berlin in June 2025, entitled “Mechanics of Affect”.

Len Bay

Len Bay (*1994, Hamburg | they/he) is currently based in Leipzig, Germany. Since 2025 Bay is a postgraduate master student at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB) with Prof. Joachim Blank. Bay completed their diploma in the class for Installation and Space of Prof. Joachim Blank at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB). They studied in the class for Sculpture/Metal of Prof. Andrea Zaumseil at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle/Saale and Fine Arts at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts Kiel.

​Developed in hybrid installative forms, Bay’s work combines minimalist clarity with deliberately employed elements that fluctuate between kitsch and the grotesque. Everyday life observations and intimate moments are fragmentarily merged with memories and storytelling, often autobiographical, to construct new modes of authenticity. Bay’s work emerges from long-term research and imagination processes, accompanied by continuous investigation into materiality. Alongside their profound sculptural focus, Bay seeks to allow moments of identification in their installations, following an autotheoretical approach. They aim to create productive spaces of ambiguity, allowing for the interweaving of digital and physical space, collective memory as well as personal reconstruction. As Bay examines fundamental existential themes of human relationships, proximity/distance and the ambivalence of love and belonging, their works often stand in dialogical relationship to one another, acting as retellings or continuations.​

Li Huhn

My artistic practice navigates the tension between preservation and dissolution, visibility and disappearance. Through found objects, media, and atmospheres, I create installations that render identity and memory tangible. Ephemeral materials like wax, light, and heat act as carriers of time and emotion, turning each work into a fragile balance between exposure and retreat.

Marie Charlotte Elsner

Marie Charlotte Elsner is an artist based between Leipzig and Karlsruhe. When they began their Media Art studies in Leipzig, they sought to create a personal visual order within the academy’s unfamiliar structures. Rooted in independent theater, their early, performative works explored personal narratives through the body and craft-based practices.
They merged analogue methods with media distortion to connect craftsmanship, labor, and poetry, often through intuitive, visualized text. Over time, their focus shifted from subjective expression to spatial concepts engaging with politics, entertainment, and digital culture.
Today, their work materializes as immersive installations using 3D scanning and printing to extend physical and digital realities.

Marie Seelen

These evolving structures reflect my inner questions and explorations. They are not static but living systems, constantly adapting, reshaping, and transforming, just as we do.

Naomi Frank

Naomi Frank (b.1999 in Vienna, Austria) studies in the Class for Installation and Space led by Joachim Blank at HGB Leipzig.

In my artistic practice, I explore ways of connecting to my personal environment by transforming and emulating found objects, fragments of the past resurfacing in altered form. The works carry a sense of secrecy—what is unspoken and autobiographical resonates quietly within them. Through sculptural transformation, they become vessels of human connection, open to shifting meanings and memories. My work is framed by themes of non-linear temporality, queer historiography and memory whilst exploring the interplay between technology and corporeality in a space.

Oliver Schulz

Siyan Zhang

Siyan Zhang works with a rich exploration of media, touching on themes such as memory, state control, personhood, and trauma. Her work bridges between corporal materiality and subjectivity, often revealing the rules, laws, and paradox of which, and opens up new possibilities to look at the realities that govern our lives.

Sofia Egorova

Sofia Egorova is an artist based between Moscow and Germany. Her practice explores “unhuman” human bodies and organisms, examining how the physical body interacts with the inner and outer environments that shape it. Working across mediums of digital production and their tangible manifestations, Sofia Egorova operates in the tension between individuality and conformity, creating a visual language that merges the recognizable and the alien, evoking unexpected somatic unease.