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Visitors to the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz will have to pay more admission from January (archive photo) / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

Chemnitz increases admission to art museums

Chemnitz is expecting many guests from near and far in the Capital of Culture year 2025. The art museums will also be presenting a top-class program. However, visitors will have to pay more admission.

From Edvard Munch to the artist group "Clara Mosch": the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz are celebrating the 2025 Capital of Culture year with a top-class exhibition program / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

From Munch to Mosch: Chemnitz art program 2025

Chemnitz is associated with internationally renowned artists. During the GDR era, there was an alternative art scene here. A top-class exhibition program will shed light on all of this in the coming year.

The exterior of the Gunzenhauser Museum in Chemnitz. (Archive photo) / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

Money for the expansion of Museum Gunzenhauser

The Gunzenhauser Museum preserves the majority of a private collection of 20th century German art. A bank building was turned into an art museum for the foundation of gallery owner Alfred Gunzenhauser.

Kriebstein Castle sits enthroned in the autumn-colored valley of the Zschopau / Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa

Painting on the famous legend of Kriebstein Castle restored

After extensive restoration work, the painting "The Faithful Lady of Kriebstein" will return to the Knights' Hall of the castle of the same name on July 1. The painting, which measures 2.1 by 1.4 meters, was created around 250 years ago by the Württemberg court painter Nicolas Guibal (1725-1784) and ..

View of the Zwickau art collections / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

Zwickau Art Museum closes until 2028

If you want to experience the treasures of the Zwickau Art Collections one last time, you'll have to hurry. At the end of June, the museum closes for several years for construction work. What will happen to the Pechstein paintings in the meantime?

Elon Musk appears at an event. / Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP/dpa

Artist group Rimini Protokoll turns Musk into a puppet

The artist group Rimini Protokoll has turned US tech billionaire Elon Musk into a puppet. It is part of an installation called "Alter Ego Raubkopie" as the first annual exhibition of the Dresden Puppet Theater Collection in its future home, as announced by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD ..

Elon Musk appears at an event. / Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP/dpa

Artist group Rimini Protokoll turns Musk into a puppet

The artist group Rimini Protokoll has turned US tech billionaire Elon Musk into a puppet. It is part of an installation called "Alter Ego Raubkopie" as the first annual exhibition of the Dresden Puppet Theater Collection in its future home, as announced by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD ..

A precious tapestry can be seen in an exhibition. / Photo: Matthias Rietschel/dpa/Archivbild

Precious tapestry back in Moritzburg Castle

After a good year and a half, the historical tapestry with the portrait of Emperor Charles V that was recovered for Moritzburg Castle near Dresden is now on permanent display. A special climate-controlled display case first had to be made to protect the almost 500-year-old exhibit made of silk, gold ..

Artist Markus Draper stands in front of the former KGB villa, now the Rudolf Steiner House in Dresden / Photo: Robert Michael/dpa/Archiv

Artist Draper: Putin installation purchased for Albertinum

The Albertinum in Dresden has acquired a new addition to its collection in the form of an installation by artist Markus Draper. The work "House near a large forest" was acquired for the museum by a couple living in Berlin, Draper told the German Press Agency. The starting point is the city villa in ..

A participant holds a poster with the inscription "Viva La Vulva" during the Christopher Street Day (CSD) parade in the city center. / Photo: Patrick Seeger/dpa/Archivbild

Vulva plaster workshop at the museum on International Women's Day

The MEWO Kunsthalle in Memmingen wants to contribute to the removal of taboos with a vulva plaster workshop on International Women's Day. For a long time, the image of the vulva was taboo and its depiction was often dismissed as obscene, explained the municipal museum on Friday. The ignorance about ..

Passers-by walk past the Old Town Hall in Leipzig's city center. The historic building has been home to the City History Museum since 1909 / Photo: Jens Kalaene/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB

Exhibition on upheaval and liquidation in the 90s

The Leipzig City History Museum will dedicate one of its major special exhibitions this year to the period of upheaval in the 1990s. The show "Between Awakening and Liquidation" will focus on the new possibilities of freedom as well as the great disappointments and the unexpected decline of the city ..

A craftsman installs new benches in the gallery of the mining museum / Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa

"Kohlewelt" to open in late summer: Costs have risen

The extensive refurbishment of the Oelsnitz Mining Museum is entering the home straight, but will be far more expensive than originally planned. In late summer, the "Coal World" will reopen to visitors as an experience in an authentic location. According to the Erzgebirgskreis, the costs amount to a ..

A man stands in front of Caspar David Friedrich's work "Monk by the Sea" in the Alte Nationalgalerie. / Photo: Lisa Ducret/dpa/Archivbild

Advance booking for Caspar David Friedrich in Berlin

The Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin is starting ticket sales early for the exhibition "Caspar David Friedrich. Infinite Landscapes". From April 19 to August 4, the museum on Museum Island is presenting more than 60 paintings and 50 drawings by the famous German Romantic artist Friedrich (1774-1840). The ..

An employee of the City History Museum points to a golden Krakow nativity scene / Photo: Patricia Bartos/dpa

Christmas exhibition in Leipzig shows Krakow nativity scenes

Colorful Krakow nativity scenes have been on display in a Christmas exhibition in Leipzig since Wednesday. The special exhibition in the Old Town Hall was created in cooperation with the Muzeum Krakowa, as the city administration announced on Wednesday. It is also intended to celebrate the 50-year p ..

The sun shines on the Panorama Museum, which is to be renovated ahead of the 500th anniversary of the Peasants' Wars in 2025. / Photo: Michael Reichel/dpa

Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen before partial renovation

The Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen with its oversized painting of the Peasants' War by Leipzig painter Werner Tübke is to be partially renovated. Work on the outer concrete wall of the circular building, which opened in 1989, is to begin next year, as a spokeswoman for the Thuringian Ministry of ..

Saxony's Minister of Culture Barbara Klepsch speaks during a press conference / Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa/Archivbild

Saxon Museum Prize 2023 goes to Dippoldiswalde

The Saxon Museum Prize 2023, endowed with 20,000 euros, goes to Dippoldiswalde (Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district). The award was presented to the Lohgerber Museum & Gallery in Dresden on Monday, as announced by the Ministry of Culture.

Saxony's Minister of Culture Barbara Klepsch (CDU) / Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa/Archivbild

Renaming works: Klepsch defends artistic freedom

In the discussion about the renaming of works of art at the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD), Culture Minister Barbara Klepsch has defended artistic freedom. "We do not interfere politically with the freedom of art," emphasized the CDU politician in the state parliament on Thursday. It is therefo ..

"Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz" is written on the entrance door to the museum on Theaterplatz in Chemnitz / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

New museum director wants to tighten the network in the surrounding area

The future head of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Florence Thurmes, wants to strengthen democratic work and tighten networks in the surrounding area. Her aim is to break down barriers to the museum and appeal to younger generations, said the 42-year-old in Chemnitz on Monday. In terms of a democratic ..

Evening view of the illuminated Semper Opera House on Theaterplatz / Photo: Robert Michael/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Archivbild

Minister Klepsch optimistic: Culture on the upswing

Thanks to financial support, Saxony's culture has come through the Corona pandemic well, despite severe restrictions and losses. Museums and theaters, festivals and events are in demand - and the response is sometimes surprising.

View of the facades of residential buildings. / Photo: Nicolas Armer/dpa/iconic image

Living in the museum: exhibition shows archaeology of living

From the well to the bathtub, from the storage pit to the refrigerator: How people live has changed over time. A new exhibition in Chemnitz is therefore dedicated to the home as an important place to live. Exhibits from prominent previous owners are also on display.

Florence Thurmes stands in front of the building of the Chemnitz Art Collections / Photo: Marie-Sophie Roß/Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/dpa

Art Collections Chemnitz get new general director

Art historian Florence Thurmes will be the new general director of the Chemnitz Art Collections. According to city hall, the 42-year-old was elected by the city council on Wednesday and, as things stand, will take up her new post at the beginning of 2024. She has been head of Dortmund's municipal mu ..

Orhan Pamuk, Turkish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

The Consolation of Things - Art by Orhan Pamuk in Dresden

Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk is spending half a year as a guest artist among Dresden's Old Masters. For the exhibition "The Consolation of Things," he has recreated 41 of the 78 so-called cabinets of his famous Istanbul "Museum of Innocence" and created entirely new ones in occupation with holding ..