#3000Garages – The exhibition
The garage phenomenon at a glance
This organically growing and changing exhibition made the Garage Campus the hub of the #3000Garages project. The essence of garages, the cultural value of these inconspicuous little buildings, was presented in a condensed and transformed form: in the form of artistic works, recordings, documents and artefacts. Photographic portraits of Chemnitz residents, curiosities, designs, installations and objects, tuned and imaginary vehicles, texts, video and sound recordings were brought together here.
When: 9 May to 29 November 2025
Where? Chemnitz, Garage Campus, Zwickauer Str. 164
Exhibition objects
Like a huge garage, the exhibition brought together everything that is important for the #3000Garages project. New elements were gradually integrated. It grew, changed and thus illuminated the socio-cultural phenomenon of the "East Garage" from different perspectives. The exhibition began with works, fragments, documentation and loans from Andi Gläser, Béla Kupfer, Cosima Terrasse, Johannes Richter, Ernesto Uhlmann, Henry K. Wein, Kati Hyyppä, Klaus Pobitzer, Luise Müller, Maria Sturm, Martin Maleschka, Peter Rossner, Rainer Prohaska, Sabine Hochmuth, Tanja Krone, Thomas Pasdzior, Uwe Wetzel, Valentin Kühn and many more.
Works, found objects, installations
Garages are veritable smorgasbords, and this exhibition was no exception. If you looked closely, you could already find fragments and traces of future exhibits. a reading room invited visitors to delve into specialised literature on the garage as a cultural asset. Objects, installations and artefacts provided an insight into the artistic exploration of the subject.
Maria Sturm, General Meeting, 2024
Analogue photography, digital printing, various sizes
[9 May - 29 November 2025]
For Mitgliederversammlung, photographer Maria Sturm visited dozens of garage courtyards and took portraits of 164 garage users. Behind each of her analogue photographs was an encounter, a conversation, sometimes even a friendly relationship.
Klaus Pobitzer, Interior Landscapes
Drawing/digital print, video object (loop 8:37 min)
[28 June to 29 November 2025]
A video was shown in the small garage model. It showed interior landscapes that had been recreated: Chemnitz garages photographed by their owners. The video was supplemented by typical motifs from Klaus Pobitzer's work - celebrities, pop stars, aliens - some of which were AI-generated. A rap video in it showed what happens when machines take over the narrative: an echo of collective images, clichés and untruths. The work was not an expression, but a mirror of machine-processed culture.
BURG x #3000Garages
Funnels, index cards, messages hidden in print, rocking chairs and counters made from discarded garage doors. In 2024, students from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle designed objects for the #3000Garage trail that conveyed the local stories of Chemnitz's garage yards. Two selected designs were realised at ten stations on the trail. Counters and rocking chairs, which were created as part of the research project, served as functional parts of the exhibition architecture, funnels and index cards were shown as exhibits and created a connection to the garage trail in public space.
Rainer Prohaska / FUTURAMA°LAB, The Cars We Like . Chemnitz 25
28 June to 29 November
The cars we Like was a humorous exploration of the future of the car. In June 2025, the FUTURAMA°LAB teamed up with VW apprentices from Chemnitz to build the "Bettmobil" in front of the exhibition audience - a sustainable, humorous sculpture powered by muscle power. It offered decelerated driving pleasure in four-poster beds and could be transformed at any time - without any grey energy.
Cosima Terrace, Horsepower
Performance, social sketch, video (1:20 min)
A counterpart to the installation Fischelant
The artist Cosima Terrasse has brought together two worlds that rarely meet: vaulting art and car tuning. On a former industrial site, now a garage location for tuners, body technology and machine aesthetics met - connected by a mechanical vaulting horse owned by a garage user.
