| 1954 | born in Dresden-Loschwitz. Schooling, Positiveretoucher apprenticeship
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| 1969 - 72 | Evening classes at the University of Fine Arts Dresden (Painting, Graphics, Art History)
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| 1973 - 78 | Study at the University of Fine Arts Dresden with Prof. Gerhard Kettner
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| 1978 | Member of Artists Union, concentrates on other media: Free Jazz, new music, film, dance and their simultaneous use
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| 1979 | Malerverband freier Musik (Michael Freudenberg and A R Penck), foundation of the group ZWITSCHERMASCHINE, later group FACTORY 4
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| 1984 | Removal to Berlin-Charlottenburg
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| 1990 | Foundation of the group GOKAN
Teaching position at the University of Arts Berlin
Invention of "Noise-painting"
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| 1993 | Study visit in Carrara, Italy, spatial works
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| 1996 | Study visit in Nepal
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| 1998 | Study travel to China
Helge Leiberg lives and works in Berlin. |
Exhibitions [Selection]
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| 2006 | Kunstverein Talstrasse, Halle
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| 2005 | Kunstkabinett, Regensburg
2. Biennale Peking 2005, Biennale Peking
Museum für Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder
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| 2004 | Peter Borchardt Gallery "Babylon"
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| 2003 | Participation in "Blickachsen", Bad Homburg
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| 2002 | - 2Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Pernambuco, Olinda/BR
- Centro Cultural Sao Laurenco, Almancil / P
- "History Revisited", Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
 Oregon/USA
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| 2001 | - Espacio Branco, Castello do Viana "Grüne Hölle"
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| 2000 | - ART Frankfurt (at Peter Borchardt Gallery)
- Art within buildings: huge stained-glass work
for entrance hall of the Signal Iduna
insurance company, Kapstadtring Hamburg
- German-Chinese Art exhibition, German Embassy
Beijing / RC
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| 1999 | - "Zwischen Sprung & Fall" ("between jump & fall"),
Peter Borchardt Gallery
- ART Frankfurt
- "Shakespeare sonettes", literary performance
with Corinna Harfouch in the Literaturhaus Hamburg
- Kunstverein Uelzen
- Schultz Gallery, Berlin
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| 1998 | - "Im Stein", artist book with Christa Wolf
- ART Frankfurt
- Performance at the University of Beijing
- "Shakespeare sonettes", Performances in the Gewandhaus Leipzig,
in Erfurt and in Zagreb with Corinna Harfouch
- "Tanzfluss", Jena (Jenoptik)
- "Springflut", Terminus Gallery Munich
- Horschik + Schultz Gallery, Dresden
- paintings & sketches, Goethe Institute Lisboa
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| 1997 | - "Luftzug an der Ferse", Peter Borchardt Gallery
- "MEDEA", Performance with Christa Wolf in Leipzig, Koblenz
and Switzerland
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| 1996 | Study visit in Nepal
- Performance with artists from Berlin and Amsterdam in the
Art Academy, Berlin
- "MEDEA", Performance with Christa Wolf in Lisboa
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| 1993 | - Art Basel
- Art Cologne
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Works by Helge Leiberg
are on permanent display in the following museums and public collections:
Berlinsche Galerie, Staatliche Sammlung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin, Berliner Volksbank, Kupferstichkabinett Dresden, Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, Würth Collection, Kulturfonds Sachsen, Klingspornmuseum Offenbach |
