ANTARCTICA - ICY FASCINATION AT THE PANOMETER LEIPZIG. NEW NATURE PANORAMA BY YADEGAR ASISI

PRESS RELEASE It is one of the most hostile and at the same time most fascinating regions on our planet: on January 24, 2026, the new nature panorama ANTARCTICA by Yadegar Asisi will celebrate its premiere at the Panometer Leipzig.

ANTARCTICA is Asisi's tenth panorama at the Panometer Leipzig and the fifth work in his nature panorama series. Following EVEREST, AMAZONIA, GREAT BARRIER REEF, and CAROLA'S GARDEN, he now turns his attention to a landscape that is largely beyond human influence. The 32-meter-high circular image condenses the
natural space of Antarctica into an artistic interpretation of impressive natural power and quiet grandeur. The focus is on the Antarctic coastal landscape--where glaciers, ice shelves, and icebergs meet and unfold in a reduced, almost surreal color palette. The depiction plays with the waterline as a central perspective: above the
surface, mighty ice formations tower upwards, while the hidden life of Antarctica becomes visible underwater. A visitor platform opens up a view of this world from a perspective that is otherwise reserved for only a few researchers. Despite the extreme climatic conditions, the icy waters are home to a highly complex ecosystem. Huge swarms of krill form the basis of a fragile food web that includes penguins, whales, seals, and seabirds. ANTARCTICA sharpens the eye for the vulnerability of this unique natural space and is intended as an invitation to respect and restraint toward a region that is preserved precisely because humans treat it with caution.

Accompanying the panorama, the Panometer Leipzig is showing an exhibition on the geology, climate, and research history of Antarctica, as well as Asisi's personal artistic approach. Photographs, sketches, and paintings provide insight into his expeditions and research and make the creative process behind the work comprehensible.
The accompanying exhibition was created in scientific cooperation with the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) on the topics of the Antarctic Treaty System and polar research, the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) for the exhibition section on the historic expedition of 1901, and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) for the exhibition section on polar clouds.

Whether you are interested in nature, an art lover, or a family with children, ANTARCTICA invites you to discover the fascination of our planet's last untouched wilderness from a unique perspective. From Saturday, January 24, 2026, at the Panometer Leipzig.

About the artist and his studio Yadegar Asisi is an illustrator, painter, architect, stage designer, teacher, and author. With 18 monumental panoramic images to date, he has created a large part of his artistic life's work, which condenses history, nature, and the present into open pictorial spaces. Today, Asisi is the most viewed living German solo artist; his works attract visitor numbers that are among the highest in contemporary art, even internationally. His works are the result of intensive research, his own travels and expeditions, and invite visitors to enjoy an individual experience. "The viewer becomes the director of his own vision," is how Asisi describes the core of his work.
Studio asisi The works are created in collaboration with Studio asisi, an interdisciplinary team of experts in architecture, history, 3D visualization, exhibition design, photography, and digital art. The musical soundscapes are designed by composer and pianist Eric Babak. Light, rhythm, and the transition between day and night are integral parts of the artistic concept and are developed and implemented by Asisi himself in a painstakingly detailed process; they combine image and sound into an atmospheric experience.
Asisi himself and implemented in elaborate detail; they combine image and sound to create an atmospheric overall experience. The exhibition venues Yadegar Asisi's monumental 360? panoramas are shown in specially constructed exhibition venues, often in elaborately converted historic gasometers. Since 2003, his works have been on display at the Panometer Leipzig; other locations are in Berlin (DIE MAUER and PERGAMON), Dresden, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, and Pforzheim. With the new exhibition venue in Constance on Lake Constance, which will open in 2026, the development of the panorama venues will reach a new architectural and conceptual
dimension. On this basis, presentation partners in Germany and abroad are also developing an interest in realizing further venues. In addition, the GREAT BARRIER REEF panorama will be shown for the first time at the Panometer Dresden from March 27, 2026. Commitment to education In addition to his exhibition projects, Yadegar Asisi is committed to promoting
drawing as a fundamental cultural technique. With formats such as the book "Zeiten des Zeichnens" (Times of Drawing), the YouTube channel "Sehen & Gestalten" (Seeing & Designing), and participatory projects such as "Eine Stadt zeichnet" (A City Draws, already in four cities in 2026) and school workshops, he pursues the goal of reestablishing drawing as a natural part of education and social practice.

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YADEGAR ASISI - BETWEEN PANORAMA, EXPEDITION, AND EDUCATION Anyone who encounters Yadegar Asisi meets an artist between worlds: born in Vienna, raised in the GDR as the son of Persian parents, shaped by the experience of living there as a foreigner - and at the same time a student of architecture in Dresden before studying painting at the University of the Arts in West Berlin (master student of Klaus Fu?mann). GDR, West Berlin, Iran - three social systems, three worlds of experience,
come together in a biography that is as unusual as it is fascinating. Today, he is the most viewed German solo artist, one of the most viewed artists in Europe, and attracts visitor numbers that are among the highest in contemporary art internationally. His work arises from encounters with places, extremes, and the people who carry these stories. For each of his panoramas, he pushed himself to his limits - physically, geographically, artistically: expeditions to the Himalayas, diving without prior experience in the Great Barrier Reef, weeks spent in the Amazon rainforest, trips to Antarctica, research in Pergamon and Rome, among other places. With his monumental circular paintings, he captures history, nature, and the present on a
canvas that is larger than any gallery. At first glance, the dimensions suggest that a panorama is overwhelming, that visitors will be literally overwhelmed by the wealth of details and scenes. But in fact, a space opens up that tells stories--a play on perception that reveals new facets to the viewer with every step. "The viewer becomes the director of their own vision," says Asisi, describing what makes his art so special: it eludes any linear narrative and instead invites an individual experience. He is supported in this by Studio asisi, a team of experts in
architecture, history, 3D visualization, exhibition design, photography, and digital art. In addition, he has a long-standing collaboration with composer and pianist Eric Babak, who designs the musical soundscapes for Asisi's panoramas. Yadegar Asisi himself develops the lighting and the transition between day and night, combining them with sound and images to create an atmospheric overall experience. Together with external consultants and scientists, the asisi team accompanies Yadegar Asisi from the moment he develops his ideas for a new panorama to its actual realization. But one thing remains crucial: he chooses the themes himself. He does not accept commissions, he only implements what he is convinced of.
In doing so, he is deeply involved in all technical processes--right down to innovations such as the seams that connect the enormous fabric panels of his panoramas. The presentation of Yadegar Asisi's panoramas is inextricably linked to exhibition venues developed specifically for this purpose. These venues usually display several existing or new panoramas; the architecture, spatial design, and technical
equipment follow a panorama standard developed over many years. This model has already been tested internationally at ten locations, including a project in Rouen. With growing experience over more than two decades, a type of exhibition has emerged that sees the panorama not as a temporary event, but as an independent museum format of the future. On this basis, presentation partners in Germany and abroad have also developed an interest in realizing corresponding venues. The exhibition venue currently under construction in Constance on Lake Constance is exemplary of this development: it combines architectural, technical, and curatorial experience from over twenty years of panorama work and at the same time opens up
a glimpse of the future possibilities of this format. His panoramas are only part of his work. Yadegar Asisi is not only a draftsman, painter, architect, and stage designer--the cornerstones of his artistic work--but it is precisely from this basis that his commitment to education has grown.
For over 25 years, he taught at Berlin universities, teaching students the perspective and spatial thinking that still characterizes his artistic work today. For him, drawing is not a minor matter, but a key skill that goes beyond the purely rational and at the same time promotes perception, thinking, emotionality, and creativity - comparable to the basic human senses. That is why he demands that drawing be given the same status as reading, writing, and arithmetic. With the project "Eine Stadt zeichnet" (A City Draws) and his YouTube channel, which he launched in 2020 and on which he regularly publishes content, he is bringing this idea to schools, cities, and living rooms. Yadegar Asisi is - in a figurative sense - a wanderer between worlds. Between East and West, art and science, sensuality and structure. His panoramas are visible manifestations of inner journeys - stories that arise from experiences and at the same time raise new questions. But beyond his art, many things move him: the search for education as the key to perception, the interplay of the rational and the emotional, art as a language that everyone can understand.
Contact for interviews and formats Yvonne Sch?nemann Artist Relations & Project Coordination T +49 (0)30 69 58 08 6-0 yvonne.schuenemann@asisi.de

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