Exhibitions

26.11.2025

Decorative plate <em>Kirmes,</em> Villeroy & Boch, decoration by Gustav Spoerri, Dresden, circa 1936. Stoneware, glazed and stencil painted. Donated by a private individual. Photo: Esther Hoyer.

Forms of Adaptation

Exhibition at the GRASSI Museum on arts, crafts and design under National Socialism.

The crimes committed by the National Socialists remain immeasurable to this day. They also left their mark on arts and crafts. While presuming to be… Read on

27.11.2025—12.04.2026
GRASSI Museum für
Angewandte Kunst
Johannisplatz 5–11
D-04103 Leipzig
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Exhibitions

07.08.2025

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New distance vision at GRASSI Leipzig

To gaze from the Grassi Museum into the city center. This has been possible since 2025.

The GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts is of outstanding importance for all lovers of sophisticated arts and crafts. Following the closure of the MK&G fair… Read on

09.08.2025—30.11.2025
GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Johannisplatz 5–11
04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Trade fairs

21.05.2024

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In Competition

Is it a need or a compulsion to dominate? News about competition(s) in arts and crafts in Art Aurea, issue 56, Summer 2024.

In ancient Greece, competition in art and sport, known as agon, was a fundamental principle of culture. Legendary artist duels have been known since the… Read on

Exhibitions

15.05.2024

Director Robert Wilson called these originally arranged chair creations Bright selection. © Lucie Jansch.

A Chair and You

The GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts is showing one of the world's most important private collections of chairs.

The chairs and seating objects on display in Leipzig were designed by over 100 artists and architects from the 1960s to the present day. This… Read on

08.05.2024—06.10.2024
GRASSI Museum
Johannisplatz 5-11
D-04103 Leipzig
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Exhibitions

22.12.2022

Central Park teapot, designed by Mikaela Dörfel for Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg. Produced in 2003. Cast, glazed porcelain.

The Good Modernity

On the passion of collecting design: now at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig.

With the exhibition “Die gute Moderne” the Grassi Museum of the Applied Arts Kunst is currently presenting in its Art Deco pillar hall approximately 600… Read on

05.11.2022—08.10.2023
GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Johannisplatz 5–11
04103 Leipzig
Germany
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Exhibitions

06.02.2017

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Comprehensive Construction

The importance of door handles in architecture.

24.11.2016—14.05.2017
Grassimuseum
Johannisplatz 5
04103 Leipzig
Germany
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Exhibitions

06.02.2017

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Baking, ironing, cleaning, cooking. The little household!

The exhibits are devices and household helpers from about four centuries.

05.11.2016—09.04.2017
Grassimuseum
Johannisplatz 5
04103 Leipzig
Germany
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Exhibitions

01.06.2016

Beate Kuhn – Ceramics as an Art Form

The Grassi Museum showcases works by one of the most important German ceramists of the post war era. She died on December 10, 2015. An Obituary

Beate Kuhn was a fantastic artist! It is hard to look beyond her unique ceramics, her signature montages of geometrical bodies strung together, developed on… Read on

04.04.2016—26.06.2016
Grassi
Museum for Applied Arts
Johannisplatz 5-11
04103 Leipzig
Germany
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