Over the coming weeks, a small exhibition of East German photography aims to build a bridge from the Venice Biennale art exhibition to the Capital of Culture 2025 in the eastern German city of Chemnitz. Under the title “Anleitung zum Sehen” (Guide to Seeing), works by photographers Margret Hoppe, Oskar Schmidt and Edgar Leciejewski, all former master students of Timm Rautert at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, are on display. Photographs from Leciejewski’s “Aves” (Latin for birds) series – portraits that show birds very close up and full of grace – and from Hoppe’s “Die Verschwundenen Bi…