Ausstellungen | Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
10. Aug 2025 – 2. Nov 2025

Edvard Munch. Angst

Fear as a fundamental emotion is an essential feeling for survival. Like joy, sadness, disgust, surprise, anger and contempt, it is part of our human existence and is a lifelong companion. Everyone knows the feeling: the fear of failure, of losing loved ones, of losing your job and fearing for the future. It can release energy or leave us in a state of shock. Fear knows no social boundaries and affects all social groups. Fear ...

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Museum Gunzenhauser
31. Aug 2025 – 26. Oct 2025

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 focus for purchase is on works that were created in the Free State of Saxony. The nomination and selection of artworks lies with the independent Visual Arts Advisory Board and the Board of the Cultural Foundation.

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Museum Gunzenhauser
20. Sep 2025 – 18. Jan 2026

Best of II – Visitor’s Choice

Im Museum Gunzenhauser entsteht im Herbst des Kulturhauptstadtjahres ein ungewohntes partizipatives Ausstellungsformat: Die Besucher:innen selbst sind eingeladen, das Museum Gunzenhauser neu zu definieren und gemeinsam einen Ort für Diskussion und Austausch zu schaffen. Zwei Räume werden dabei vom Jugendrat des Museums umgesetzt. Außerdem ist eine Gruppe von interessierten Chemnitzer:innen, künstlerisch aktiven Menschen und Initiativen aus der Stadt daran beteiligt. Durch diesen Beteiligungsprozess möchte sich das Museum weiter öffnen und von den vielfältigen Stimmen für die ...

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Museum Gunzenhauser
27. Sep 2025 – 16. Nov 2025

GABRIELE MÜNTER PREIS

The Gabriele Münter Prize is the only art prize in Europe that is awarded exclusively to female visual artists over the age of forty. The prize, endowed with 20,000 euros, was created because female artists in this age group are significantly underrepresented in important awards. The Gabriele Münter Prize offers an effective opportunity at national level to highlight, promote and honour the outstanding achievements of contemporary female visual artists living in Germany. The prize is ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
27. Nov 2025 – 1. Mar 2026

Carlfriedrich Claus

Throughout his life, Carlfriedrich Claus was preoccupied with the human subconscious and the extent to which subconscious forces are reflected in written and spoken language. In constant self-experimentation, he created drawings and prints that visualise thought processes and affective movements. From the 1980s onwards, he devoted himself to pre-linguistic sound experiments in the form of acoustic works that capture moments before semantic articulation. In 1995, Claus developed the so-called Lautprozessraum (Sound-Processing Room), in which visitors ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
11. Dec 2025 – 12. Apr 2026

Frank Maibier

The work of Frank Maibier is characterised by a great sensitivity to material, form and writing. Paper is folded, coloured, rolled and perforated; it is strengthened and damaged in order to explore the limits of its properties. The same applies to his large sculptures in wood, steel or plastic, for which the Chemnitz-based artist develops a formal vocabulary that plays with statics and balance in a constructivist or organic manner. Maibier sharpens the eye for ...

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