Ausstellungen | Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

Schloßbergmuseum
23. Jun 2024 – 12. Jan 2025

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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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Presentation of the Collection

Collection histories

This collection presentation draws various threads through the holdings of the Chemnitz Art Collections. It traces the course of these stories through three centuries, interweaving the various genres of art from painting to textile art. In this way, outstanding examples of 19th and early 20th century painting are placed in dialogue with decorative art objects and textiles. These illuminate the significance of Chemnitz as a hotspot of the textile industry at the beginning of the ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
17. Nov 2024 – 2. Mar 2025

Erich Heckel – Aquarelle und Druckgrafik aus der Sammlung Jess

Erich Heckel was a founding member and commercial director of the Brücke artist group, with close ties to Saxony and Chemnitz. Jürgen Brinkmann’s outstanding donation to Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz significantly expands the collection through the addition of four watercolours and 40 graphic works produced between 1905 and 1966, thus tying in with the most recent acquisition of the sculpture Stehende, from 1920.

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
24. Nov 2024 – 2. Mar 2025

Reform of Life

When Henry van de Velde was born in 1863, historicism, with its mixture of styles, prevailed in Europe. Artists and industry had hardly any points of contact. When van de Velde died almost a century later, the collaboration between art and industry had a name: »product design«. In the intervening period came several generations of artists and designers who wanted to revisit the form and function of everyday objects – and Henry van de Velde ...

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Schloßbergmuseum
20. Nov 2024 – 2. Mar 2025

Der Fotograf Paul Wolff

Architectural photography constitutes a focal point in the work of Paul Wolff. Wolff also documented the everyday life of urban and rural populations. His estate with over 6,000 glass plate negatives is now kept by the Saxony State Office for the Preservation of Monuments. The exhibition will feature a selection of these negatives, including a variety of views of the city of Chemnitz. The photographic motifs dating primarily from the period before and after the ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
17. Nov 2024 – 2. Mar 2025

Yvon Chabrowski

Die Video-Skulpturen der Künstler:in Yvon Chabrowski laden zur Auseinandersetzung mit körperlichen Repräsentationen ein. Chabrowski schafft performative Verhandlungsräume, in denen die Bewegungsmuster, die sich in die Körper einschreiben, die Rollen, die wir in einer Gesellschaft einnehmen, und die Beziehungen, die wir miteinander eingehen können, befragt und in Bewegung gesetzt werden. Die Künstler:in reflektiert in ihren Arbeiten Körper-Bilder.

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Museum Gunzenhauser
29. Sep 2024 – 16. Mar 2025

Best of

With more than 3,000 works, the Gunzenhauser Collection is one of the most important private collections in Germany. Founded by the Munich gallery owner Alfred Gunzenhauser, the collection is not least representative of his taste and interests – influences that guided him when buying art. The Gunzenhauser Museum is now exploring this treasure trove of art in two different exhibitions.

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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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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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