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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
3. Apr 2025 – 29. Jun 2025

Schneeberger Geflecht

Art comes from making! Applied art connects this making with all our lives, brings beauty into our everyday lives, shapes relationships and living spaces. For 146 years, it has been created in the workshops of the Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeberg, whose holdings are combined here with those of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. The exhibition Schneeberger Geflecht showcases (co-)making. Students of the Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeberg are designing a participatory workroom exhibition based on the ...

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Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
3. Apr 2025 – 29. Jun 2025

Beyond Geometry

The exhibition Beyond Geometry at the Art Collections at Theaterplatz is dedicated, as part of the European Capital of Culture year 2025, to two internationally renowned star architects of their time: the visionary Frei Otto (1925–2015), born in Siegmar, Chemnitz, and the Japanese architectural icon Kengo Kuma (*1954). What unites these architects is an open, innovative approach that harmonizes nature and architecture — a central theme that the exhibition traces through original models and photographs. ...

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Museum
Presentation of the Collection

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus

Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff (near Chemnitz) in 1884. He was a founder-member of the Brücke group of artists and an important figure in the expressionist movement in Germany. After many years of initiatives and preliminary planning, the city of Chemnitz has decided to convert the former home of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s parents at Limbacher Straße 382 into an art centre. The house, along with the neighbouring mill, in which Karl Schmidt-Rottluff spent his childhood, ...

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Museum Gunzenhauser
27. Apr 2025 – 10. Aug 2025

European Realities

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.

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Schloßbergmuseum
4. May 2025 – 1. Feb 2026

The new city

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.

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

Edvard Munch

The exhibition project spans an arc from a historical perspective on the feeling of fear in the art of Edvard Munch to contemporary works. The exhibition combines international loans with works from the extensive holdings of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Munch’s works and their themes remain highly relevant and thus accessible today.

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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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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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