Exhibition: 100 Saxon Prints
The exhibition features 100 works of printmaking and an equal number of perspectives on current social issues. It focuses on individual viewpoints, the formation of opinions, and the diversity of contemporary printmaking in Saxony.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
08.10.26 11:00 - 17:00 clock
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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.
Walter Herzog's 90th Birthday—Retrospective Exhibition and Book Release to Mark the Anniversary
To mark his 90th birthday, Walter Herzog is presenting a select retrospective featuring drawings and etchings spanning five decades. Guests can look forward to an artistic journey from the 1970s to the present, as well as the premiere of his new book.
DAG - Metropolitan Areas
Between Berlin and the international art scene: DAG showcases paintings with a distinctive visual language. The artist has been working independently since 2001 and has already exhibited his works in galleries and museums from Tokyo to Chicago.
An Enchanting World of Magic in Chemnitz
The Roter Turm Gallery combines shopping with an immersive experience and transforms into a breathtaking magical world—not just for fans of Harry Potter’s magical adventures. Re-created scenes and sets from the Harry Potter movies invite visitors to enjoy magical moments.
Galerie Roter Turm09111 Chemnitz
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19.10.26 10:00 - 20:00 clock
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Art for the Whole Family: Christmas Card Printing Workshop
A creative family afternoon centered on making your own Christmas cards: Using wood, cardboard, or foil, you’ll create personalized cards using relief printing techniques. Afterward, be sure to visit the “100 Saxon Prints” 2026 exhibition.
Neue Sächsische Galerie - Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst09111 Chemnitz
15.11.2614:00 clock
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Historische Ausstellung
1997 wurde der Grundstock für die Sammlung gelegt. Die Idee für ein „Ziegelei- & Dorfmuseum“ entstand. Bürger gaben historische Gegenstände ab, die Ausstellung wuchs. Heute betreibt ein Förderverein das Museum mit Ringofen, landwirtschaftlichen Geräten u.v.m.
Cabinet exhibition: Made in Germany
The "Made in Germany" exhibition sheds light on industrial products from the Nazi era and shows how economic success was based on forced labor. Photographs and objects combine history with questions about responsibility and industrial production to this day.
Traces of success
The exhibition at the Chemnitz Industrial Museum sheds light on the work of Jewish entrepreneurs and their formative influence on the city's industrial history. At the same time, persecution and expropriation under National Socialism are addressed. 🏭📜
Industriemuseum Chemnitz09112 Chemnitz
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08.10.26 09:00 - 17:00 clock
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The Saxon State Prize for Design
The exhibition presents outstanding design achievements and shows how design influences everyday life and the future. From sustainable ideas to technological solutions, design can be experienced as a driver of innovation and social change.
Captured in Motion: Stories of Cameras, Photography, and Vehicles Through the Ages
Historic cameras, a portable darkroom, and fascinating insights into the early days of film tell the story of some 200 years of photography. The exhibition is complemented by photographs and vehicles from the world of motorsports.
Exhibition: Meal time! Serving Gender
"Serving Gender" examines the connection between food, gender roles and social expectations. The exhibition combines historical and contemporary art and questions role models, care work and female identity.
Museum Gunzenhauser09112 Chemnitz
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08.10.26 11:00 - 18:00 clock
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The history of the Tafelstube
The extended permanent exhibition is dedicated to the life of Hans Carl von Carlowitz and the origins of the concept of sustainability. It is complemented by insights into the historic dining room and the everyday and cultural history of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Burg Rabenstein09117 Chemnitz
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08.10.26 10:00 - 17:00 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.
Exhibition: Amphibians—Wonders of Evolution
From prehistoric giants to frogs and salamanders: Over 70 exhibits, models, illustrations, and interactive stations showcase the fascinating evolution and diversity of amphibians over millions of years.
Museum für Naturkunde09111 Chemnitz
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08.10.26 09:00 - 17:00 clock
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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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08.10.26 09:00 - 17:00 clock
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Educational Mine
Hands-On Mining: A guided tour of the demonstration mine takes you on an exciting journey into the world of miners. The tower hoist, underground tunnels, and original historic machinery bring the daily work underground to life.
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KohleWelt09376 Oelsnitz/Erzgeb.
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Public Tour: Let's Eat! Serving Gender
The guided tour of the “Serving Gender” exhibition explores the connection between food, care, and gender roles. It features works from the 19th century to the present that challenge social norms and gender stereotypes.
Public Tour - Allegories of Life
Myths, Literature, and Life’s Big Questions: The guided tour of “Allegories of Life” explores the unique perspectives of Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt and Wolfgang Mattheuer and their examination of freedom, love, and society.
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Stockings, casting and gasworks - the combined tour
One hour guided tour of the industrial museum and one hour guided tour of the town. Karin Meisel looks at the historical roots through to today's changes in industry, architecture and surroundings, as well as the connection between the location and historical exhibits in the museum.
Public Leadership - Myth: From Gods to Superheroines
From ancient gods to modern superheroines: This guided tour shows how myths have lived on through the centuries in art and the media. A particular focus is on mythological motifs in the art of the GDR.
Treffpunkt: Kasse des Schloßbergmuseums
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Public guided tour: Highlights of Chemnitz city history
A public guided tour through the permanent exhibition of the Schloßbergmuseum invites you to take a tour through the history of Chemnitz from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Historical city models illustrate the changes, growth and life of the city.
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Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz09113 Chemnitz
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11.10.2614:30 clock
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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
13.10.2617:00 clock
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Public guided tour
The new learning center for democracy and the newly created permanent exhibition invite visitors to learn more about the history of this place and the lives of the people who lived there.
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Lern- und Gedenkort Kaßberg-Gefängnis09112 Chemnitz
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14.10.2614:00 clock
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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.
Family tour: Family tour of the Schloßbergmuseum
The permanent exhibition of the Schloßbergmuseum is explored together in a playful way. City models and stories from eight centuries invite you on an exciting tour. Afterwards, visitors can create their own small works of art and take them home.
Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz09113 Chemnitz
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18.10.26 11:00 - 14:30 clock
Kosten: Eintritt (Kinder unter 18 Jahren sind frei) + 2,00 € Materialpauschale für Erwachsene und 0,50 € Materialpauschale für Kinder
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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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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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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Treib Gut Life Buoy
Christoph Roßner’s art installation “Treibgut Rettungsring” explores themes of hope and rescue in times of crisis. Inspired by flooding, climate change, and displacement, the ring stands as a symbol of humanity, solidarity, and the will to survive.
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.
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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Jiskor—A Pearl for Every Child
Eve Stockhammer’s art installation, featuring 1.5 million glass beads, commemorates the Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust. It invites visitors to reflect on their memory and sends a powerful message against anti-Semitism and in support of social responsibility.
Stadtkirche St. Jakobi Chemnitz09111 Chemnitz
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08.10.26 07:00 - 15:00 clock
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Open process
The exhibition tells stories of migration since the Second World War, addresses everyday racism, right-wing violence since the baseball bat years and shows how those affected fought back - loudly, visibly and in solidarity.
OFFENER PROZESS - Dokumentationszentrum09111 Chemnitz
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08.10.26 11:00 - 17:00 clock
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Body worlds of animals
KÖRPERWELTEN der Tiere shows over 100 unique exhibits and provides fascinating insights into the inner workings of the animal world. From the mouse to the elephant, the anatomy, movement and diversity of nature become impressively visible.
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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08.10.26 09:00 - 17:00 clock
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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. 🎭
The Play of Colors—How We Perceive Light and Color
How do we see and experience light and color? An interactive exhibition invites visitors to explore through colorful experiments. At various stations, visitors of all ages can playfully explore physics, the senses, perception, and creativity.
Extractive Zones
The exhibition presents the results of cross-border research into the true costs of uranium mining, with photographs, modern cartography, archive material and artistic studies, and invites you to the vernissage on November 7.
Hot Super Projektraum09111 Chemnitz
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09.10.26 16:00 - 19:00 clock
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