Current exhibition

ANTARCTICA
From January, 24th 2026

Dear visitors, the ANTARCTICA Panorama is open. We are open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please allow at least 1 hour for your visit and keep your coats on.

The keyvisual of ANTARCTICA shows two whales swimming in the ocean.

The Panorama

View from above of the panoramic interior space of the Panometer Leipzig. The visitor tower is located in the center.

 

It is one of the most hostile yet fascinating regions on our planet: on 24 January 2026, Yadegar Asisi's new natural panorama ANTARCTICA will celebrate its premiere at the Panometer Leipzig. The 32-metre-high circular image focuses on the Antarctic coastal landscape – where glaciers, ice shelves and icebergs meet and unfold in a reduced colour palette of white and blue tones. The display plays with the waterline as a central perspective: mighty ice formations tower above the surface, while underwater, the hidden life of Antarctica with whales, seals and penguins becomes visible.

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The accompanying exhibition

Visible is the ANTARCTICA exhibition at the Panometer Leipzig. A huge globe hangs in the center, images can be seen throughout the space, and many visitors are present.

 

Accompanying the panorama, the Panometer Leipzig is showing an exhibition on the geology, climate, wildlife and research history of Antarctica, as well as Asisi's personal artistic approach. He first travelled to the region in February 2016. Photographs, sketches, exhibits and paintings provide insight into his expeditions and research and make the creative process behind the work comprehensible. The exhibition sharpens the eye for the vulnerability of the southernmost continent on our planet and is intended as a call for respect and restraint. 

 

 

The painter

Yadegar Asisi works on his original painting for the panorama "Monet's Cathedral".

 

Yadegar Asisi has been realising the world's largest 360° panoramas since 2003. Following the success of the first panorama exhibition over 20 years ago in Leipzig - 8848 EVEREST - Asisi's 360° artworks can currently be viewed at a total of 6 locations in Germany, including Dresden and Berlin.


Born in Vienna in 1955, the Persian-born artist studied painting and architecture in Dresden and Berlin and discovered his passion for panoramic art in the early 1990s. At the same time, he has been painting for over 30 years and shares his passion for painting with anyone who wants to learn to paint on his Youtube channel.
 

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The museum

Exterior view of the Panometer Leipzig at dusk.

 

"When a panorama meets a gasometer, then a gasometer becomes a panometer." - The success story of Yadegar Asisi's panoramas began back in 2003 in Leipzig. Asisi's first panorama - 8848 EVEREST - was shown in a converted gasometer.


After a sensational success with visitors, the location developed into the artist's first exhibition centre. Since then, popular panoramas such as AMAZONIA, LEIPZIG 1813 and TITANIC have been on display at the Panometer Leipzig. The current panorama THE CATHEDRAL OF MONET is expected to be on display at Panometer Leipzig for 1.5 years.


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