Schloßbergmuseum
4. May 2025 –
1. Feb 2026
The exhibition at the Schloßberg Museum traces the intense and momentous era of »Karl-Marx-Stadt«, which lasted only a few decades, with a particular focus on developments in urban planning and architecture.
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
18. Oct 2025 –
1. Feb 2026
The Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz receive an outstanding Brücke donation from Hermann Gerlinger. The 42 works reflect the entire spectrum of Brücke Expressionism and the depth of a passionate collecting history. Special highlights include key works by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
20. Feb 2025 –
15. Feb 2026
In opposition to the official cultural scene in the GDR, a hotspot of the alternative art scene developed in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) in the early 1970s. With the Galerie Oben and the artists’ group Clara Mosch (1977–1982), which also ran an artists’ cooperative gallery, ...
Museum Gunzenhauser
20. Sep 2025 –
22. Feb 2026
Starting on December 10, 2025, the Gunzenhauser Museum will present a new and equally personal view of its collection: visitors’ favorite works will be paired with five artistic interventions that respond directly to the collection. As part of the presentation of favorite paintings, ...
Schloßbergmuseum
26. Oct 2025 –
22. Feb 2026
The historical-cultural exhibition uses personal perspectives to tell the story of how the city and region of Chemnitz were once interwoven with the mining districts of the Ore Mountains. It provides an insight into the trade relations, friendships and family ties of little-known ...
Museum Gunzenhauser
12. Dec 2025 –
22. Feb 2026
Based on the region’s industrial and social history, the project focuses on the phenomenon of the ladder—a continuous, defective change in the fabric structure of knitwear. The ladder becomes a concept and a symbol for the individual artworks, as well as for the ...
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
27. Nov 2025 –
1. Mar 2026
Carlfriedrich Claus is one of the most important representatives of international visual and phonetic poetry. In the 1950s, he began examining language and writing in terms of their tonal and visual content, based on his first experimental poems. At the time, writers and ...
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
11. Dec 2025 –
12. Apr 2026
Under the title frank maibier. tritt tritt, the extensive work of artist Frank Maibier is presented in a solo exhibition. The show brings together works from three decades and shows how consistently Maibier explores material, sound, and writing, repeatedly questioning familiar structures.
Schloßbergmuseum
Presentation of the Collection
Thanks to the generous conceptual approach of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the unique collection of Gothic Sculpture in Saxony has been on display at the Schloßbergmuseum in Chemnitz since 21 June 2009.