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Hiking in Armenia – Traveling through the wild Caucasus
An illustrated travel lecture by Rebecca Maria Salentin
Friday, March 20, 2026
Admission from 5 pm | Lecture 6 - 7:30 pm
Techne Sphere Leipzig in the cafeteria
under the Niemeyer Sphere
Niemeyerstraße 2-5
04179 Leipzig
Admission is free. Registration is not required.
On Friday, March 20, 2026, at 6 pm, Techne Sphere Leipzig invites you to a special travel lecture. Under the title Hiking in Armenia – Traveling in the Wild Caucasus, experienced author and adventure traveler Rebecca Maria Salentin takes the audience on a journey to Armenia – a country between East and West, characterized by impressive nature, rich culture, and strong traditions.
Armenia – small, relatively unknown, and full of secrets. Between rugged peaks, deep gorges, and ancient mountain monasteries, a country unfolds that immediately captivates hikers. Those who travel here stumble upon history carved in stone and picturesque alpine meadows and rugged canyons. But what makes hiking in Armenia so special is the diverse wildlife, warm encounters along the way, and unforgettable hospitality.
Rebecca Maria Salentin (born 1979) is a German author, presenter, and outdoor explorer. She hosted the literary show Die schlecht gemalte Deutschlandfahne from 2019 to 2023; since 2026, she has been presenting the formats SpeakEasy and Balagan. In the later bestseller Klub Drushba, she published the travelogue of her four-and-a-half-month long-distance hike on the International Mountain Friendship Trail from Eisenach to Budapest. The book Iron Woman, published in 2023, in which Salentin described her impressions on the almost 10,000 km long cycle path of the former Iron Curtain, also became a bestseller. In addition to her travel stories, she publishes novels and writes for newspapers and magazines such as Spiegel, ZEIT, Stern, and Globetrotter Magazine.
www.rebecca-salentin.de
Current
Modernism in Transition – Techne Sphere Leipzig presents two exhibitions that explore architectural aesthetics, programmatic utopias, and the complex realities of 20th-century architectural visions of the future.
The focus is on architecture and urban planning as a response to the profound social, political, and economic upheavals of their respective eras. Modernity as a design principle – from the reform-oriented approaches of the Bauhaus to Soviet-Armenian manifestations and the successors of utopian concepts of the Soviet avant-garde – the exhibitions offer insights into the programmatic, aesthetic, and ideological diversity of modernism.
Exhibition:
January 10, 2026, to March 22, 2026
Opening times:
Friday to Sunday from 3 pm to 6 pm
Kunstraum der Techne Sphere Leipzig
Niemeyerstraße 2-5
04179 Leipzig
the spirit of past future
(Margret Hoppe, Nvard Yerkanian)
With the Goethe-Institut Armenia production “the spirit of past future,” Techne Sphere Leipzig is showing photographs by Leipzig artist Margret Hoppe as well as graphics and multimedia works by Armenian designer Nvard Yerkanian.
A collaboration between Techne Sphere Leipzig, the Goethe-Institut Armenia, and the City of Leipzig. The exhibition marks the official start of the cultural year between the City of Leipzig and the Armenian capital Yerevan.
Credit: Design Nvard Yerkanian
Frédéric Chaubin – Soviet Cosmic Modernism
A selection of photographs by the French artist complements the exhibition the spirit of past future with motifs of late Soviet architecture that combine futuristic science fiction and concrete monumentalism.
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The Techne Sphere Leipzig art space regularly hosts exhibitions by international artists.
Its proximity to Oscar Niemeyer's architecture and the production facilities of TECHNE KIROW GmbH enables it to combine exhibitions that bring art, space, and architecture into dialogue with one another.
Opening times
Friday to Sunday from 3 pm to 6 pm
Plus visits on request
kultur(at)technesphere.de
Kunstraum der Techne Sphere Leipzig
Niemeyerstraße 2-5
04179 Leipzig
Germany
