Exhibition: Herta Günther
Herta Günther's exhibition invites you to discover her fascinating world with a selection of unique pieces and graphics that show her unmistakable signature: the sensitive depiction of human encounters and the aesthetics of urban melancholy
Permanent exhibition Schmidt-Rottluff Gallery
The range includes works by local and national artists such as Karl-Heinz Richter, Klaus Süß, Ingo Andratschke, Otto, Udo Lindenberg and original drawings from Star Wars - a diverse selection to look at and buy.
Collage international
The exhibition is dedicated to collage as a versatile art form between experiment and pictorial history. On display are works by international artists as well as selected works from the collection of the Neue Sächsische Galerie.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
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Hanna Remestvenska: Awakening
The exhibition presents the fascinating works of the Chemnitz artist, who creates a unique combination of emotion and form with her impressive oil paintings and innovative soft sculptures.
Historische Schauweberei Braunsdorf09577 Niederwiesa
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03.06.26 15:00 - 19:00 clock
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Nora Mona Bach: Hooray, it goes on!
Nora Mona Bach is a freelance artist, curator and lecturer. Her works move between abstraction and landscape and are characterized by a sensitive, emotional visual language and a strong interest in materials.
CKB+4 - New admissions
Four new artistic positions expand the exhibition of the Chemnitz Artists' Association. Painting, graphics and collage meet different generations and open up exciting perspectives on contemporary art. 🎨✨
A love of color and shapes - abstract painting
Kerstin Rieß is showing abstract paintings for the first time in the KSR mill gallery. Expressive colors, free forms and vivid imagery characterize the exhibition in the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff mill.
Summer made of paper
Creative vacation fun for children aged 6 to 12: After a visit to the exhibition, summery collages are created from paper. An imaginative hands-on activity full of colors and ideas.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
06.07.2609:30 clock
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Amusement of the mind and wit
The exhibition sheds light on 18th century Saxon culture through the Gellert brothers and the development of fables, offers interactive discovery opportunities and promotes an understanding of human behavior patterns.
Gellert-Museum Hainichen09661 Striegistal
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An unfinished story
The exhibition at the Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz follows in the footsteps of the Jewish Leder family of collectors and sheds light on art, loss and provenance history. The focus is on the portrait of David Leder by Gustav Schaffer.
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz09111 Chemnitz
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Threads ∞ Interdependencies
The "Threads" exhibition links 25 biographies of Jewish Chemnitz families & makes their formative contributions to the textile industry & culture visible. Forgotten stories are retold, linked and returned to the city's collective memory.
smac – Staatliches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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today 10:00 - 18:00 clock
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Medullosa stellata
Since October 2023, the museum has been presenting the fossil of the year: Medullosa stellata, a fossil seed plant with fern leaves. The exhibition reveals parts of the sensational find and presents a digital reconstruction model for the first time.
Proboscideans
The freely accessible area shows the evolution of the proboscideans, with numerous fossils and objects discovered by Christopher Herrmann offering a fascinating insight into the world of elephants and mammoths.
Museum für Naturkunde09111 Chemnitz
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Life in the museum - The insectarium
The Insectarium presents the fascinating world of arthropods: living leaf-cutter ants, iridescent butterflies, camouflaged ghost insects, tarantulas and scorpions - a tribute to the diversity, beauty and importance of insects.
Museum für Naturkunde09111 Chemnitz
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A journey through time for the whole family
An exciting journey through time underground begins at the Museum of Natural History. Interactive stations and exhibits bring the history of the volcano to life for young and old. Together we go on a journey of discovery into the primeval world beneath Chemnitz.
Museum für Naturkunde09111 Chemnitz
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A forest of precious stones - Gift of the volcanoes - The Sterzeleanum
The Museum of Natural History offers a fascinating journey into the world of petrified wood, tropical Permian oases and mighty volcanic eruptions - history can be experienced here in multimedia form, full of discoveries, the spirit of research and impressive natural phenomena.
Museum für Naturkunde09111 Chemnitz
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Museum experience
Children and young people developed games, animated films and audio contributions and brought primeval dinosaurs, scorpions and giant dragonflies to life for the experience level of the new permanent exhibition. Discover and play at interactive stations.
Museum für Naturkunde09111 Chemnitz
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Eintritt: 4 € p.P., ermäßigt 2,50 €
Reopening of the Augustusburg Castle Carriage Museum
In the former stables of Augustusburg Castle, the world of carriages can be experienced interactively over an area of 1,100 m². Visitors can immerse themselves in historical scenarios, discover technology, magnificent court carriages and test the carriage simulator.
Schloss Augustusburg09573 Augustusburg
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Public guided tour
The public tour offers insights into the exhibition "Digital Graphics on Paper". Selected works that combine digital image creation and graphic expression on paper will be presented.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
02.06.2617:00 clock
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The fascination of machines under steam
Demonstration of the single-cylinder back-pressure steam engine from 1896.
Industriemuseum Chemnitz09112 Chemnitz
02.06.26 11:00 - 11:30 clock 13:00 - 13:30 clock 15:00 - 15:30 clock
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Public guided tour: Artistic printing techniques in the work of Käthe Kollwitz
A special look at the graphic artist Käthe Kollwitz: the tour shows her diverse printing techniques - from etching to woodcut - and reveals how she implemented her pictorial ideas in a powerful and experimental way.
Public guided tour: Utopia
A guided tour through the exhibition "Utopia. Right to Hope" presents artistic positions on visions of the future. The focus is on ideas for a fairer, sustainable coexistence and the role of art as a place for utopian thinking.
Public guided tour: Meal time! Fine Arts Hall
Public guided tour of the Feinkunsthalle in the Gunzenhauser Museum. The tour shows how food is thematized in art as an expression of culture, identity, enjoyment and social issues. Part of the "Mahlzeit!" exhibition series.
Behind closed doors - special guided tour
On the discovery tour up and down the stairs, visitors can finally look behind all the many doors that are otherwise closed. The tour ranges from Augustus' imperial hall to the everyday work of the servants in the farmyard and fountain house.
Public guided tour: Traces of proximity. Käthe Kollwitz
Insight into the life and work of Käthe Kollwitz: the exhibition combines her haunting works with contemporary photography and shows how topical themes such as closeness, loss and humanity still are today.
Family tour - Meal time! Fine Arts Hall
he playful guided tour through the "Feinkunsthalle" exhibition invites you to discover art related to food. Afterwards, participants design their own small works of art and implement creative ideas.
Museum Gunzenhauser09112 Chemnitz
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07.06.26 13:00 - 14:30 clock
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Treffpunkt: Kasse des Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus, Limbacher Straße 382
Public guided tour: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff House
The newly opened museum presents the work of the Chemnitz-born artist and co-founder of the "Brücke". Two unique collections, prints and loans make it a new hotspot for expressionism.
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus09116 Chemnitz
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Public guided tour: Meal time! Feinkunsthalle - English
Public guided tour of the Feinkunsthalle in the Gunzenhauser Museum. The tour shows how food is thematized in art as an expression of culture, identity, enjoyment and social issues. Part of the "Mahlzeit!" exhibition series.
Jeffrey James: Cumulus
The "Cumulus" sculpture by Jeffrey James at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences consists of five perfectly interlocking concrete modules. It symbolizes stability and at the same time recalls the cosmopolitan attitude of the university in times of National Socialism.
Traditionsweg der Hochschule Mittweida09648 Mittweida
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Stijn Ank: Endless Column
The white-patinated bronze sculpture symbolizes the importance of paper as a material for Hainichen and Europe. While the columnar structure is reminiscent of stacked sheets of paper, it pays tribute to the enlightenment culture of reading as the driving force of civic life.
Gellertplatz Hainichen09661 Hainichen
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Karolin Schwab: My Floating Home
The sculpture stands between the banks of the Mühlgraben like a fleeting three-dimensional sketch of a house. There, as the seasons change, constantly changing images are created in the water, posing the question of what it means to be at home, to be anchored.
Mühlgraben Niederwiesa09577 Niederwiesa
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Anja Schwörer: Mapping Patterns - Industrial Flora
Anja Schwörer's mural Mapping Patterns: Industrial Flora at the Braunsdorf show weaving mill combines historical cartridge drawings with modern pixel aesthetics. It poetically references textile structures, weaving techniques and early forms of programming languages.
Kris Martin: Good Luck
The sculpture "Good Luck" by Kris Martin combines a cube on a sphere made of Rochlitz porphyry tuff. It alludes to Goethe's "Stone of Good Luck", but reverses the order and transforms the classicist ideal into a precarious wish.
Am Rathaus Wechselburg09306 Wechselburg
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Daniel Buren: 7 colors for a chimney
In 2013, Daniel Buren transformed the 302-metre-high furnace of the northern CHP plant in Chemnitz with colored rings and his iconic 8.7 cm wide stripes into a widely visible work of art that marks Chemnitz as a city of art.
Gelände des ehemaligen Heizkraftwerk Nord Chemnitz, eins energie in sachsen09114 Chemnitz
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Tanja Rochelmeyer: Glance
The installation, made up of 171 rectangular panels along the 100-metre-long tunnel, shows frames, stylized brickwork, rectangles and letters that make up the city name. Depending on the perspective, they create mental afterimages for the day.
Bahnhof Flöha09557 Flöha
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Osmar Osten: Top With
Softly colored columns made of natural Saxon stone nestle together and form the support for a whole bundle of figures cast from silver-colored aluminum. A clash of contradictions that invites speculation.
Schillerpark/Schillerplatz09111 Chemnitz
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Andreas Schmid: Colorfield Chemnitz
The light installation Colourfield Chemnitz by Andreas Schmid transforms the main portal of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz into a colorful interplay of 38 LED bundles. Inspired by expressionism and music, it combines architecture, perception and movement.
Theaterplatz Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Johann Belz: Rattling fountain
The rattling fountain by Johann Belz in Chemnitz features abstract bronze flower and leaf shapes that direct the flow of water. Tilting bowls produce the characteristic rattling sound that gives the impressive fountain its name.
Klapperbrunnen nähe Busbahnhof09111 Chemnitz
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HERRENLOS - Photography by Franziska Kurz in the Dorfgalerie Auerswalde
At the vernissage, artist Franziska Kurz will provide insights into her work and the background to her paintings. The exhibition will then be on display for several weeks, presenting selected works by the artist.
Dorfgemeinschaftshaus Auerswalde09244 Lichtenau
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Future is past
The impressive mural "FUTURE IS PAST" by Hendrik Beikirch will be presented at the A4 business park in Chemnitz. The large-scale artwork is reminiscent of GDR labor collectives and invites visitors to reflect on change, identity and the history of the region.
Gewerbepark A409114 Chemnitz
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Large Simson and MZ exhibition
Technical history comes to life at the Chemnitz Center: Restored Simson and MZ models show iconic design and pure Ostalgie. An exhibition for fans of classic two-wheelers and nostalgic mobility.
Good God
Via Lewandowsky's work of light art adorns the tower of Chemnitz Castle Church. The striking neon installation shines far into the city and artfully addresses the tension between faith, doubt and social issues.
Schlosskirche Chemnitz09113 Chemnitz
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Exhibition: Plant and fiber in an artistic context
Students of the Faculty of Applied Arts Schneeberg present works on fiber plants and textile art. The exhibition combines nature, design and artistic research in an exciting way.
Architects Mildner/Heine
The exhibition by architects Mildner and Heine showcases impressive designs and concepts that push the boundaries of architecture and convey a new understanding of space, light and sustainability while inspiring visitors.
Universitätsbibliothek TU Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Stage in miniature. The Chemnitz puppet theater through the ages
To mark its 75th anniversary, the exhibition shows the history of puppet theater - from its beginnings to the present day. On display are puppets, designs and exciting insights into the development of this special genre. 🎭
Sculpture inauguration: Yesterday is today becomes tomorrow
The new sculpture "Yesterday is today becomes tomorrow" will be unveiled as part of the "Ortskundig" project by the Chemnitz Artists' Association. The work will be unveiled on the corner of Hartmannstraße and Fabrikstraße, accompanied by words from Matthias Zwarg and music from STRELA.
Body worlds
The exhibition presents the human body in the process of development and decay and encourages visitors to reflect on health and lifestyle, while fascinating exhibits vividly illustrate the process of change.
ModernBat - Comics about a vampiric life
The artist Vetochka presents small picture stories about the everyday life of a vampire and a musician. Inspired by her own experiences and romantic fairy tales, her drawings combine fantasy with modern motifs.
Stadtbibliothek im Tietz09111 Chemnitz
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