Ausstellungen | Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

Museum Gunzenhauser
16. Jun 2024 – 4. Aug 2024

WIN/WIN

Every year the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony acquires works by contemporary fine artists in order to financially support such artists at important points in their career and make their work accessible to the public. The works purchased are by artists who work primarily or reside in the Free State of Saxony or whose works have close links with Saxony’s cultural landscape. The main focus of the undertaking is on promoting younger ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
24. Aug 2023 – 25. Aug 2024

Classical Modernism Painting and Sculpture

Since its foundation in 1920, the programmatic self-image of the Chemnitz Art Collections has been focused on contemporary art. This selection shows, in addition to the Gallery of Modern Art on the top floor and the exhibition »Brücke and Blauer Reiter«, further representative works of Classical Modern Art; including works by Heinrich Campendonk, Lyonel Feininger, Max Beckmann, Carl Hofer, Gabriele Münter and, exemplarily, contemporary artists. The first director of the museum, Friedrich Schreiber-Weigand, had a ...

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Museum Gunzenhauser
12. May 2024 – 1. Sep 2024

Sieh dir die Menschen an!

What does our face reveal about our character, our life, our political leanings? In the context of the current use of artificial intelligence, this is a question that might well give rise to a comeback for physiognomy using algorithms and statistics. This approach is not new. Concepts of types were widespread even in the Weimar era. Reflections on physiognomy, type theory and characterology abounded, both in scientific publications and in the flourishing newspaper, cinema and ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
20. Apr 2024 – 8. Sep 2024

Ab dem 20. April 2024 treten die Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz in allen Häuser mit einer Plakataktion in den öffentlichen Raum. Hierfür hat der Chemnitzer Künstler und Grafiker Steffen Jacob ein Motiv mit dem Aufruf »Demokratie wählen« entworfen, das als Banner an der Außenfassade am Theaterplatz, im Schaufenster des Museum Gunzenhauser und im Schloßbergmuseum zu sehen ist. Anlässlich der diesjährigen Europawahl sowie den Kommunal- und Landtagswahlen in Sachsen setzen die Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz mit dieser Aktion ein Zeichen ...

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Schloßbergmuseum
26. May 2024 – 29. Sep 2024

In Stein gemeißelt

A double coat of arms with a gilded crown adorned the postal mileposts in front of the city gates, marking a good start to travel in Saxony, whether on horseback or by stagecoach, at the time of Augustus the Strong. Wandering journeymen consulted the stone mileposts for information on the distance to their destination and the number of hours’ journey time remaining. The directively guiding postal mileposts and other mile markers were innovative and reliable. ...

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Stadtraum
22. Jun 2024 – 29. Sep 2024

NEW ECOLOGIES

On Friday, 21 June 2024, at 5 pm, the exhibition NEW ECOLOGIES. Gegenwarten II next to the Kar Marx Monument. All project locations are accessible free of charge. Please note the opening hours of the Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz, the Museum Gunzenhauser, the gallery rooms of the Klub Solitaer, the University Library, the Public Baths, Chemnitz Open Space and the underground parking at Theaterplatz.

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
7. Jul 2024 – 20. Oct 2024

Hanna Bekker vom Rath

The exhibition presents one of the most committed women collectors and art dealers of the post-war period in Germany. It tells the story of the Expressionist networks of the 1920s to 1940s and the post-war art trade from a different, female perspective.

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Schloßbergmuseum
23. Jun 2024 – 24. Nov 2024

Zwischen Zunft und Fabrik

After the end of the Seven Years’ War, the economic decision-makers in the Electorate of Saxony transformed Saxony from a devastated and financially ruined state into a leading German economic centre within a matter of a few years. This period, known as the rétablissement, gave rise to a diverse economic landscape, in which towards the end of the century the foundations were laid for the transition to industrial capitalism: The medieval instrument of craftsmen’s guilds ...

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Museum Gunzenhauser
Presentation of the Collection

Expressionismus in Deutschland

Ein Schwerpunkt in der Sammlung Alfred Gunzenhausers bilden Werke der deutschen Expressionist:innen. Der Ausstellungsrundgang beginnt mit Arbeiten von Paula ModersohnBecker, eine der bedeutendsten Vertreter:innen des frühen Expressionismus. In Worpswede malt sie vorrangig bäuerliche Szenen, nicht romantisch, aber auch nicht anklagend. Sie mag die einfachen Menschen und ist an Form, Fläche und Konstruktion interessiert. Entscheidend für ihre Entwicklung sind ihre wiederholten Aufenthalte in Frankreich, wo sich auch Gabriele Münter und Oskar Moll zeitweise aufhalten, sich mit ...

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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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