Was macht die Angst mit uns? Angst ist ein intensives Gefühl, das wir alle kennen. Sie kann uns warnen, wachrütteln oder auch lähmen. Mit dem Pavillon der Angst, der im Vorlauf zur Ausstellung Edvard Munch. Angst durch Chemnitz reist, schaffen wir einen besonderen Ort der Begegnung. Hier laden wir alle Neugierigen herzlich ein, neue Perspektiven zu entdecken und mit anderen Menschen gemeinsam über dieses starke Gefühl ins Gespräch zu kommen.
Museum Gunzenhauser
27. Apr 2025 –
10. Aug 2025
The exhibition is the first to be devoted to the various realist movements that were visible almost everywhere in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. It tells of poverty and misery, of economic boom and cultural prosperity, of scientific and technical progress, of the big city and nightlife, of emancipation and diversity. Never before has this artistic period been presented on such a large scale.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Museum
Presentation of the Collection
Chemnitz has a new artists’ museum. After many years of initiatives and preliminary planning, the city of Chemnitz decided in February 2023 to renovate Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s former parents’ house as a listed building. The Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (Art Collections) were entrusted with the conceptual setup of the house and opened it as their sixth museum in April 2025. Together with the neighboring residential mill, where Karl Schmidt-Rottluff spent his childhood, the ensemble will become another hotspot ...
Stadtraum
10. Jan 2025 –
19. Dec 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.
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
15. Feb 2023 –
31. Dec 2025
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 ...
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
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, 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 ...
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.