Ausstellungen | Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
18. May 2023 – 6. Jun 2023

Antisemitismus als Kulturtechnik

Das Forum demokratische Kultur und zeitgenössische Kunst (Forum DCCA) ist ein Ort für künstlerische Kulturkritik. Es wurde von den Künstlern Fabian Bechtle und Leon Kahane gegründet. In Kooperation mit Kulturinstitutionen produzieren sie künstlerische Beiträge und Begleitprogramme, die sich mit aktuellen gesellschaftspolitischen Debatten sowie kulturellen Kontinuitäten von Antisemitismus und Rassismus auseinandersetzen. Dafür kooperiert das Forum eng mit Expert:innen, die zu den Themen Antisemitismus und Rassismus arbeiten und forschen. Die Filmreihe beginnt am 17. Mai 2023 um ...

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Schloßbergmuseum
18. Jun 2023 – 20. Aug 2023

Insights / Outlooks

Most readers of Chemnitz newspapers should be familiar with the photographs of Sven Gleisberg. The photographer, a »lateral entrant« to the field, has been working for the wide range of printed media in Chemnitz since 1990. But Sven Gleisberg is also active as a photographer in other areas, working for other print media and in advertising, for machine engineering companies, sports and private weddings. His photographic oeuvre also includes architecture, landscape or events. The exhibition, ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
25. Jun 2023 – 24. Sep 2023

Timelessly beautiful?

For the first time in the history of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, a representative selection is being shown of the holdings of precious wallpapers dating from the period around 1900, some of which have never been exhibited before. Today the Textile and Decorative Arts collection in Chemnitz has more than 1000 samples of wallpaper thanks to targeted purchases of complete pattern books from French dealers as well as comprehensive donations, such as for example by the ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
2. Jul 2023 – 1. Oct 2023

My Last Will

In the exhibition and artist’s book entitled »Mein letzter Wille« (My last will), around 30 international contemporary artists respond to the question, »What remains?« Each of them engages with their legacy and, by means of a central statement or a paradigmatic work, tries to locate the essence of what constitutes their main artistic objective and interest. In doing so they question their presumed importance for a future which they themselves will not experience and whose ...

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Museum Gunzenhauser
23. Jul 2023 – 15. Oct 2023

FAMED

With the Leipzig artist-duo FAMED (Sebastian M. Kretzschmar and Jan Thomaneck) the Museum Gunzenhauser is again devoting its attention to young contemporary artists from Saxony. FAMED are not only showing works in the museum in the form of site-specific installations and a selection of existing objects, they are also integrating urban space into their exhibition. In doing so the artists who were born in the GRD engage with the specific economic and political situation in ...

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Schloßbergmuseum
3. Sep 2023 – 12. Nov 2023

»Bürgersilber«

Utility items made of pewter were once an indispensable component of the everyday and table culture of the middle-class, or burghers. Pewter items were also widespread as Eucharistic vessels in churches or as prestigious goblets used in the context of the trades and guilds. Compared with silver, pewter was inexpensive and yet its aesthetic charms are similar to those of its more expensive cousin. The Schloßbergmuseum is showing objects representative of everyday culture, religious services ...

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Schloßbergmuseum
24. Sep 2023 – 10. Mar 2024

The Shrine of Redemption

Holy sepulchres are among the special objects to be found in church interiors. Their configuration refers to the sites of Jesus Christ’s Passion and Resurrection in Jerusalem. Since the Middle Ages different kinds of sepulchre replicas featuring varying figures and accessories have become a fixed component of the Easter Week liturgy. The close connection between art and piety so characteristic of the Middle Ages is particularly evident here. Architecture and sculpture merge to form an ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
22. Oct 2023 – 14. Jan 2024

Which modernism?

The exhibition traces the interrelations between so-called naïve artists and the »masters« of Classical Modernism. The term »naive«, or also »Sacred Heart painters«, was coined by the art historian Wilhelm Uhde. He was living in Paris at the time and wished to draw attention to a number of particular talents, including Henri Rousseau as a model, Séraphine Louis, André Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Louis Vivin, Adolph Dietrich, Maurice Utrillo and many more. Their careers did not ...

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Museum Gunzenhauser
12. Nov 2023 – 4. Feb 2024

»Das Kreative geht dem Unbekannten kühn entgegen.«

The Museum Gunzenhauser is devoting an extensive exhibition to the internationally esteemed artist Willi Baumeister. Alfred Gunzenhauser became interested in Baumeister at an early stage and acquired the first work for his Baumeister Collection directly from the artist in 1955. Today, the Museum Gunzenhauser’s holdings of paintings by Willi Baumeister are the third largest in a public collection in Germany. The retrospective exhibition includes works from all phases of the artist’s career and so not ...

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Schloßbergmuseum
3. Dec 2023 – 4. Feb 2024

Christmas worlds

A farmyard with colourful animals, a fortress with walls, towers and knights, a whole village with houses, trees and people, also parades of miners, nativity scenes, Christmas mountain landscapes with nativity, hunting and mining scenes – all made out of wood, lovingly painted and carefully packed in chipboard boxes. What child’s heart doesn’t leap for joy at the thought of such wonderful Christmas playthings? The Erzgebirge, a centre of toy production since the 19th century, ...

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