Wem gehört der Boden und was darunter liegt? Ein Gespräch über Landnutzung mit Lara Almarcegui, Peter Leonhardt und Stefan Rettich

In the organizer's words:

Stefan Rettich, architect, professor of urban planning and author of the book "Die Bodenfrage", and Peter Leonhardt, monument conservator and curator of several exhibitions on Leipzig's architectural history, will discuss resources, building and the common good together with artist Lara Almarcegui. Using examples from Leipzig, they will shed light on the impact of the construction sector on the climate, environment and society and ask about the possibilities of a sustainable transformation of architecture and urban development.

The talk concludes the one-year project Angehaltener Aushub, which Almarcegui realized for the GfZK in Leipzig in 2024. Since the mid-1990s, a time of construction boom and extensive urban renewal in Europe, the Rotterdam-based artist has been working on processes of urban transformation. She is interested in soil, wasteland, building materials and construction sites. In Leipzig, she went to the construction site of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) on Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz. She paused the construction work there when the deepest layers of the excavation had been reached. In a video work, Almarcegui recorded the uncovered material and historical layers of the city before they were buried again.

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The ticket can be used to visit the exhibitions in the GfZK Villa,