Chemnitz will be the European Capital of Culture together with Nova Gorica in 2025. For this special year the team at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz has been working for weeks and months on an exciting exhibition programme. So on this page you will find an overview of all events and programme items. We start with the exhibition highlights and will continue to add information as time goes on. So keep in touch!
27. 4. – 10. 8. 2025
European Realities
Realism movements of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe
Museum Gunzenhauser
With a focus on painting, the European Realities project is dedicated to the many different European Realism movements throughout nearly all of Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. The project addresses the issues of starvation and misery, and about the modernisation of industry. It reports on the economic upswing and cultural boom, on technical progress, on the big city and nightlife, on emancipation and diversity. This period in European art has never been presented on such a scale: the project not only includes the well-known movements in Italy, France and Germany that characterise this period, it also features artists from northern, eastern and southeastern European countries who captured the spirit of the 1920s and 1930s impressively in their works.
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Send questions to: gunzenhauser@stadt-chemnitz.de
Book a guided tour (max. 24 people) at: info.kunstsammlungen@stadt-chemnitz.de
The prices valid for 2025 can be found here from summer 2024.
10. 8. – 2. 11. 2025
Edvard Munch
Angst
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Norwegian-born painter Edvard Munch is one of the most important pioneers of modern painting in Europe. Munch registered the intensity of an entire period much as a seismograph, expressing it through his emotionally charged paintings. Angst – a key pictorial theme in his works – was ever present.
The exhibition explores this existential theme in the artist’s work and combines it with contemporary stances. A ‘Pavilion of Angst’ directly related to the exhibition will be created with the aim of seeking dialogue on the topic with passers-by in urban space. With this discursive exhibition project, the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz intends to draw analogies between historical approaches and our present day. At the same time, an attempt will be made to discuss Angst as an existential, global and also very personal topic.
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Send questions to: kunstsammlungen@stadt-chemnitz.de
Book a guided tour (max. 24 people) at: info.kunstsammlungen@stadt-chemnitz.de
The prices valid for 2025 can be found here from summer 2024.
