Ausstellungen | Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
3. Apr 2025 – 29. Jun 2025

Schneeberger Geflecht

Art comes from making! Applied art connects this making with all our lives, brings beauty into our everyday lives, shapes relationships and living spaces. For 146 years, it has been created in the workshops of the Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeberg, whose holdings are combined here with those of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. The exhibition Schneeberger Geflecht showcases (co-)making. Students of the Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeberg are designing a participatory workroom exhibition based on the ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
3. Apr 2025 – 29. Jun 2025

Beyond Geometry

The exhibition Beyond Geometry at the Art Collections at Theaterplatz is dedicated, as part of the European Capital of Culture year 2025, to two internationally renowned star architects of their time: the visionary Frei Otto (1925–2015), born in Siegmar, Chemnitz, and the Japanese architectural icon Kengo Kuma (*1954). What unites these architects is an open, innovative approach that harmonizes nature and architecture — a central theme that the exhibition traces through original models and photographs. ...

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Museum
Presentation of the Collection

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus

Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff (near Chemnitz) in 1884. He was a founder-member of the Brücke group of artists and an important figure in the expressionist movement in Germany. After many years of initiatives and preliminary planning, the city of Chemnitz has decided to convert the former home of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s parents at Limbacher Straße 382 into an art centre. The house, along with the neighbouring mill, in which Karl Schmidt-Rottluff spent his childhood, ...

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Stadtraum
10. Jan 2025 – 19. Dec 2025

Collateral Sculptures. Art at the Hartmannfabrik 2025

The start of the European Capital of Culture year Chemnitz 2025 marks the beginning of a new project by Chemnitz investor Udo Pfeifer and his family. The owner of the Hartmannfabrik and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz developed a temporary exhibition project in the outdoor area of the Hartmannfabrik. Selected artists of international renown were invited to develop sculptures and artworks on the grounds and in the gardens of the Hartmannfabrik.

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
15. Feb 2023 – 31. Dec 2025

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and the Brücke

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff is an important representative of German Expressionism. He was born in Chemnitz (Rottluff) and is today considered the most internationally important artist of the city. He founded the artist group Brücke in Dresden in 1905, together with his friends Fritz Bleyl, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erich Heckel. Kirchner and Heckel, his school friend, also grew up in Chemnitz, so Chemnitz is considered as a kind of nucleus of the Brücke. Schmidt-Rottluff, as an ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
20. Feb 2025 – 15. Feb 2026

Galerie Oben and Clara Mosch

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, the city had two institutions that attracted art lovers from all over the country with their unconventional exhibition programme, actions and events. At the same time, these venues served as platforms for ...

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Schloßbergmuseum
Presentation of the Collection

Gothic Sculpture in Saxony

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.

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