Exhibition: General meeting
Photographer Maria Sturm has captured over 150 members of garage communities in large-format portraits. Her works, which show the unexpected diversity of garage landscapes, will be on display at the Garage Campus from May to November.
Garagen-Campus09116 Chemnitz
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Exhibition: Fair-faced concrete
Contemporary art meets concrete: the exhibition sheds light on the material and its role in urban space. With works by Benjamin Badock, Andrea Pichl, Susanne Piotter, Stefan Vogel, Jan and Lotta Kummer, Ronny Szillo, Markus Heller and other artists.
Wirkbau-Areal Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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today 12:00 - 19:00 clock
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THE ROOI BOSS SHOW "The localization of the invisible"
The artist group Rooi Boss Productions understands art as a narrative system that unfolds in the interplay of perception, language and social interaction. At the center is the narrative as a fundamental structure of human experience.
Chemnitz minds
The 2025 exhibition pays tribute to important personalities who have shaped Chemnitz. Ulrich Eißner's portrait sculptures allow visitors to meet athletes, artists, scientists and cultural figures and tell inspiring stories.
Galerie Weise09111 Chemnitz
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Heinz Schumann - Calligraphy and type design
The Chemnitz graphic artist and typographer Heinz Schumann (1934-2020) is often only associated with the huge wall of lettering behind the Karl Marx head. The exhibition now focuses on his calligraphic work with examples from all creative phases.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
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Harry Scheuner – Grafik und Design
Scheuner (1935 - 2025) hat als Grafiker und Werbegestalter in Chemnitz und der Region gewirkt. Bekannt ist er auch für seine Briefmarkenentwürfe. Die Ausstellung präsentiert Originalentwürfe, Plakate, Werbebroschüren, Signets u.v.a.m. aus fünf Jahrzehnten.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
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HEINZ SCHUMANN - calligraphy and type design and HARRY SCHEUNER - graphics and design
The current exhibition at the NSG is entitled "Your heart travels in your dreams" and features calligraphy and typeface design by HEINZ SCHUMANN (1934 - 2020). Graphics and design by HARRY SCHEUNER (1935 - 2025) since the 1950s can be experienced.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
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PRESS - created. broken. recovered.
The exhibition shows works by Friedrich Press at three locations in Chemnitz. Sculptures, photographs and works reflect his view of the human being between brokenness and security and provide an insight into his work, which has left its mark on church spaces.
e.artis Galerie & Kunstauktionen09111 Chemnitz
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Dauerausstellung
Im Sortiment finden sich Werke lokaler und nationaler Künstler wie Karl-Heinz Richter, Klaus Süß, Ingo Andratschke, Otto, Udo Lindenberg und Originalzeichnungen von Star Wars – eine vielfältige Auswahl zum Anschauen und Kaufen.
Luoghi dellanima
The exhibition shows paintings by Sonja Kalmanfi, inspired by Cilento in southern Italy. Between dream and reality, she creates works that combine nature and the inner world - a poetic view of landscape as a mirror of the soul.
Renate Müller Toys + Design Sonneberg
To mark the 80th birthday of Sonneberg toy designer Renate Müller, this exhibition provides an insight into her creative life's work from 1965 to the present day. Her toys accompanied generations of children as they grew up & are coveted by collectors today.
Wasserschloss Klaffenbach09123 Chemnitz
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Textil? Zukunft!
2004 titelte die Neue Zürcher Zeitung: „‘Chamtz‘ ist noch immer Deutschlands Textil-Hauptstadt!“ Grund, das Thema Textil in Chemnitz näher zu beleuchten. Die Schau zeigt das textile Heute & Morgen. Gezeigt werden ikonische Objekte samt Kurzporträt der Akteure.
Villa Esche - Henry van de Velde Museum09120 Chemnitz
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Special exhibition: Art - Railway and Encounter
Industrial culture meets art: painting, photography and print come together in this exhibition. On display are lost-place photographs by Marc Antonio, garage paintings by Conny Köckritz and photographs by Sven Hope.
Special exhibition: Railcar 15 - A centenarian
The small exhibition in railcar 15 shows stations from 100 years of vehicle history in words and pictures - a compact portrait of technical development and regional mobility culture.
Telephone stories
The cabinet exhibition shows telephone sets from the 19th and 20th centuries, from manual switching to self-dialing. Highlights include city telephones, early dial telephones and a usable telephone booth - the history of telecommunications up close.
The unseen design classic
The exhibition "The unseen design classic" sheds light on the popular GDR kitchen chair: from design, production and ecology to user experiences. The focus is on stories and perspectives.
Metamorphosis of Workwear
Der Blaumann ist ein wandelbares Kleidungsstück, er kann praktische Arbeitskleidung oder ausgefallenes Designerstück sein. Bei „Metamorphosis of Workwear“ wird er zur künstlerischen Projektionsfläche der Industriekultur.
fit. A Saxon success story
The success story of the "fit" brand began in Chemnitz in 1954. Numerous objects & advertising graphics trace the development: From VEB Fettchemie Karl-Marx-Stadt through the uncertain post-reunification period to the successful medium-sized company.
Tales of Transformation
Gabrovo, Łódź, Manchester, Mulhouse, Tampere: like Chemnitz, these cities have an industrial heritage. How do they deal with it? What strategies exist for the future, what can we learn from each other? History, present & visions for the future.
Industriemuseum Chemnitz09112 Chemnitz
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Textile? The future!
Many products from Chemnitz invite you to feel and discover. They include examples from traditional companies with over 100 years of experience as well as experimental start-ups. The show is complemented by satellite presentations in the region.
Industriemuseum Chemnitz09112 Chemnitz
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ACHTUNG: Aufgrund des zu erwartenden Besucher:innenaufkommens sind Anmeldungen zur öffentlichen Führung in der Ausstellung Edvard Munch. Angst ausschließlich über den Ticket-Shop möglich. Anmeldungen für die öffentlichen Führungen (ausgenommen Familienführungen) an der Kasse, über Telefon oder Email sind nicht möglich.
Public guided tour: Edvard Munch - Fear
The public tour through the exhibition Edvard Munch - Angst conveys central works and themes such as fear, loneliness, illness and Munch's stay in Chemnitz in 1905. Contemporary positions enter into an exciting dialog with his work.
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Treffpunkt: Kasse des Museum Gunzenhauser
Public guided tour: Interactive guided tour | Best Of II - Visitor's Choice
The "Best Of II - Visitor's Choice" exhibition at the Gunzenhauser Museum invites you to get involved: Visitors, the youth council and Chemnitz initiatives create spaces for exchange. Interactive stations open up creative approaches to art, technology and expression.
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Treffpunkt: Kasse des Museum Gunzenhauser
Guided tour: Contemporary highlights - WIN/WIN and Gabriele Münter Prize
The guided tour Contemporary Highlights at Museum Gunzenhauser combines the exhibition WIN/WIN - Art Acquisitions by the Kulturstiftung Sachsen with the presentation of the Gabriele Münter Prize. Works by current artists and award-winning positions are on display.
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Museum Gunzenhauser09112 Chemnitz
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18.10.2514:30 clock
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Public guided tour: Edvard Munch. Angst (guided tour with Czech consecutive translation)
A tour of the exhibition sheds light on central themes in Munch's art such as fear, loneliness, illness and his stay in Chemnitz in 1905. Contemporary works by Abramović, Bonvicini, Rauch, Warhol and others enter into a dialog with Munch.
Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz09111 Chemnitz
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Public guided tour
A guided tour of the permanent exhibition, from the transmission-operated locksmith's workshop to modern welding robots.
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Treffpunkt: Kasse des Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus, Limbacher Straße 382
Curator's tour: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff House
The newly opened museum presents the work of the Chemnitz-born expressionist. Two unique collections, prints and loans make it a new hotspot for Expressionism. The guided tour offers exciting insights into the exhibition.
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Haus09116 Chemnitz
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19.10.2514:00 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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Public guided tour: Highlights in the Schloßbergmuseum
Public guided tour through the permanent exhibition of the Schloßberg Museum: The exhibition tells the history of Chemnitz from the 12th to the 20th century and impresses with numerous models of the architectural development of the monastery and town.
Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz09113 Chemnitz
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Public guided tour: The new city
Public guided tour of the exhibition The New City at the Schloßbergmuseum. The focus is on the short but formative period as "Karl-Marx-Stadt" with a particular focus on urban planning and architectural developments.
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13:00 - 15:00 Uhr - Kennenlernen und Verkostung verschiedener Apfelsorten
15:00 - 17:00 Uhr - Führung über die Apfelwiesen in Hilbersdorf
17:00 - 19:00 Uhr - Kennenlernen und Verkostung verschiedener Apfelsorten
BUND apple exhibition
The exhibition in the historic half-timbered ensemble shows variety and enjoyment: different apple varieties can be tasted and discovered, complemented by expert advice and guided tours of the apple orchards in Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf.
Jeppe Hein: Modified Social Benches for Jahnsdorf
Hein's bench, specially designed for Jahnsdorf, continues a worldwide project and forms a course that invites you to sit, lie down or slide around dynamically. An encouragement to use art and conquer public space.
Park Jahnsdorf09387 Jahnsdorf/Erzgeb.
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PURPLE PATH: Inauguration Fast legs and bad mood without kiosk and kitchen by Maruša Sagadin
The artworks "Fast Legs (Marjetka)" and "Bad Mood without Kiosk and Kitchen (Juliana Three-Legged)" by Maruša Sagadin, both from 2020, will be inaugurated and invite visitors to explore modern themes.
Wiesenfläche ggü. Adorfer Hauptstr. Neukirchen09221 Neukirchen/Erzgeb.
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Friedrich Kunath: Include me out
The humorous group of spruces with lowered eyelids and pointed noses, to which a tree does not belong, touches on social and societal primal fears. At the same time, the sculpture is reminiscent of the concept of forest sustainability (von Carlowitz, 1713).
Buntsockenpark09380 Thalheim/Erzgeb.
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Young-Jae Lee: Vases
Young-Jae Lee, pioneering ceramic artist, presents 49 colorful glazed vessels and bowls at the Stadtkirche St. Jakobi in Chemnitz. Her works create installations that redefine spaces and bring secular art into churches.
Stadtkirche St. Jakobi Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Hans Peter Kuhn: Lights light
The work "Lights light" by Hans Peter Kuhn on the eins energie administration building in Chemnitz shows randomly illuminated LED rods that create a constantly changing "concrete poetry" as a minimalist, architecture-related light drawing.
Verwaltungsgebäude von eins energie in sachsen in Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Purple Path: Inauguration of the "Seeds & Seats" sculpture
A new meeting place is being created in the Lobgedichte area with "Seeds & Seats": plants, GDR design chairs and Brecht quotes invite you to linger. The "Lobgedichte" sculptures have also been cleaned.
Lobgedichte-Areal Brückenstraße09111 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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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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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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Leunora Salihu: Bow
Like a shiny silver piece of jewelry consisting of fine links, the approximately two-metre-high arch invites you to walk through and observe the shadows changed by the sun: Movement in the static form as a confrontation with the place.
Areal Stalburc/Hoheneck09366 Stollberg/Erzgeb.
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Anasthasia Khoroshilova: The dairy farmers / Stadeltransfer
Anastasia Khoroshilova portrays the Ziegs and Huber families in their living environment. The photographs, taken in 2023, can be seen in an original Bavarian hay barn on the Ziegs' Erzgebirge property - a new social meeting place.
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Bauernhof Ziegs09387 Jahnsdorf/Erzgeb.
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Exhibition Two Way Street
"Two Way Street" brings together works by volunteers from Timișoara and Chemnitz. The exhibition shows landmarks, places of remembrance and hidden corners of both cultural capitals. A visual dialog is created that allows visitors to experience art as a unifying force.
Garagen-Campus09116 Chemnitz
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Photo exhibition I_SEE_C
The exhibition shows fascinating photographs that present the city from unusual perspectives and capture the hidden beauty of its architecture, lighting moods and urban nature. The photographer is Paula Rauschenbach from Chemnitz.
Garagen-Campus09116 Chemnitz
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Genauer Ort und Zeit wird noch bekannt gegeben
Photographs from the Chemnitz Clinic
Felix Bielmeier is developing a work for the Chemnitz Clinic that makes the invisible visible in medical care and questions aesthetic boundaries and the role of photographic images between information and practice.
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Klinikum Chemnitz09116 Chemnitz
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Challenge your Perception / ZADA pilot project
Challenge Your Perception is an audiovisual exhibition course by ZADA in the Capital of Culture year 2025. It invites self-reflection on prejudices, conspiracy narratives and anti-Semitism and strengthens pro-social thinking and action.
Wirkbau-Areal Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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PRESS - created. broken. recovered.
The exhibition shows works by Friedrich Press at three locations in Chemnitz. Sculptures, photographs and works reflect his view of the human being between brokenness and security and provide an insight into his work, which has left its mark on church spaces.
Propsteikirche St. Johannes Nepomuk09112 Chemnitz
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Vernissage for "God told me to write"
Vernissage of the exhibition "Gott hat gesagt ich soll schreiben" by the artist Mandy Kunze (master student in the master class of Prof. Neo Rauch at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig) at Weltecho Studio.
Chemnitz Mikveh
At the Bahnhofstraße/Zschopauer Straße traffic circle, the AG Mikwe Chemnitz is presenting an exhibition with a mikveh model (1:10) and information boards that shed light on the archaeological find, the religious significance, the owners and the possible users.
Rondell (Ecke Bahnhofstraße / Zschopauer Straße)09126 Chemnitz
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Eine Sonderausstellung zum Freikauf von Rumäniendeutschen 1968 - 1989
Jews, Germans and oil are our best exports
This unique exhibition sheds light on the freeing of Romanian-German minorities from the Ceaușescu dictatorship. Contemporary witnesses tell their stories. Since 2023, the learning center has been offering workshops, guided tours and artistic activities on history.
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Lern- und Gedenkort Kaßberg-Gefängnis09112 Chemnitz
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Nature and structure
Around 40 works from the collection of the Deutsche Bundesbank are on display, including works by Genzken, Havekost and Heckel. They focus on architecture and refer to the construction of the Chemnitz branch by Josep Lluis Mateo.
Deutsche Bundesbank - Filiale Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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Eintritt frei
Jeppe Hein: Modified Social Benches for Jahnsdorf
Hein's bench, specially designed for Jahnsdorf, continues a worldwide project and forms a course that invites you to sit, lie down or slide around dynamically. An encouragement to use art and conquer public space.
Park Jahnsdorf09387 Jahnsdorf/Erzgeb.
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PURPLE PATH: Inauguration Fast legs and bad mood without kiosk and kitchen by Maruša Sagadin
The artworks "Fast Legs (Marjetka)" and "Bad Mood without Kiosk and Kitchen (Juliana Three-Legged)" by Maruša Sagadin, both from 2020, will be inaugurated and invite visitors to explore modern themes.
Wiesenfläche ggü. Adorfer Hauptstr. Neukirchen09221 Neukirchen/Erzgeb.
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Besichtigung der Ausstellung ist nur nach Anmeldung unter Peter-Ziegs@web.de möglich.
Anasthasia Khoroshilova: The dairy farmers / Stadeltransfer
Anastasia Khoroshilova portrays the Ziegs and Huber families in their living environment. The photographs, taken in 2023, can be seen in an original Bavarian hay barn on the Ziegs' Erzgebirge property - a new social meeting place.
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Bauernhof Ziegs09387 Jahnsdorf/Erzgeb.
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Exhibition Two Way Street
"Two Way Street" brings together works by volunteers from Timișoara and Chemnitz. The exhibition shows landmarks, places of remembrance and hidden corners of both cultural capitals. A visual dialog is created that allows visitors to experience art as a unifying force.
Garagen-Campus09116 Chemnitz
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Photo exhibition I_SEE_C
The exhibition shows fascinating photographs that present the city from unusual perspectives and capture the hidden beauty of its architecture, lighting moods and urban nature. The photographer is Paula Rauschenbach from Chemnitz.
Garagen-Campus09116 Chemnitz
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today 09:00 - 17:00 clock
Exhibition: General meeting
Photographer Maria Sturm has captured over 150 members of garage communities in large-format portraits. Her works, which show the unexpected diversity of garage landscapes, will be on display at the Garage Campus from May to November.
Garagen-Campus09116 Chemnitz
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Tales of Transformation
Gabrovo, Łódź, Manchester, Mulhouse, Tampere: like Chemnitz, these cities have an industrial heritage. How do they deal with it? What strategies exist for the future, what can we learn from each other? History, present & visions for the future.
Industriemuseum Chemnitz09112 Chemnitz
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Genauer Ort und Zeit wird noch bekannt gegeben
Photographs from the Chemnitz Clinic
Felix Bielmeier is developing a work for the Chemnitz Clinic that makes the invisible visible in medical care and questions aesthetic boundaries and the role of photographic images between information and practice.
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Klinikum Chemnitz09116 Chemnitz
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Spare parts store exhibition by Martin Maleschka
In "Ersatzteillager", Martin Maleschka stages everyday objects from Chemnitz garages in the vehicle elevator of a high-rise garage. The installation makes it possible to experience the garage as a living archive of the GDR's architectural heritage.
Museum für sächsische Fahrzeuge09112 Chemnitz
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Challenge your Perception / ZADA pilot project
Challenge Your Perception is an audiovisual exhibition course by ZADA in the Capital of Culture year 2025. It invites self-reflection on prejudices, conspiracy narratives and anti-Semitism and strengthens pro-social thinking and action.
Wirkbau-Areal Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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