Mikroprojekte: 125 Ideen für Chemnitz und Region

Garage concert at the Theaterstraße with the Horst-Adler-Kapelle, Photo: Johannes Richter

Seit 2017 setzen die Mikroprojekte Impulse für neue kulturelle Formate, kreative Beteiligung und Begegnungen in Chemnitz und der Kulturhauptstadtregion. Gemeinschaften, Vereine und Einzelpersonen erhalten damit die Möglichkeit, ihre Projektideen mit finanzieller Unterstützung umzusetzen. Im Jahr 2026 konnte insgesamt 125 Projekten eine Finanzierung zugesprochen werden – mehr als doppelt so vielen wie im Kulturhauptstadtjahr 2025 und so vielen wie noch nie seit Beginn des Programms. Die Bandbreite reicht von einem Nachbarschaftsfest mit ukrainischem Flair auf dem Brühl-Boulevard über Garagenkonzerte und Open-Air-Karaoke an Kunstorten der Region bis hin zu Klöppelkunst mit innovativen Technologien.

Die Mikroprojekte 2026 sind zugleich Teil des nachhaltigen Erbes der Kulturhauptstadt Europas Chemnitz 2025. Jedes Mikroprojekt knüpft inhaltlich an eines der Themenfelder von Chemnitz 2025 an:

Von den 125 Mikroprojekten aus diesem Open Call werden 81 in Chemnitz und 38 in der Kulturhauptstadtregion stattfinden. Die Projekte werden mit jeweils bis zu 2.500 € finanziert.

3T-Printing: Transforming Trash to Treasure
Schneeberg - Kulturwerk Schneeberg - Maker Region

3x3 Olympic and for everyone
Chemnitz - Sports hall ESV Lok - Team Generation

AfroSax - Culture, Business & Exchange
Chemnitz - Maker Region

Old crafts go digital as a link between history and the future
Olbernhau - Olbernhauer Hutzenstübl - Maker-Region

Annaberg Lines
Annaberg-Buchholz - Old Brewery - Team Generation

Art to connect - a picture connects / Erzgebirge * Krušnéhory
Annaberg-Buchholz - Maker Region

Under its own steam - An orchestra grows
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Block party 2.0 - Celebrate street life!
Chemnitz - Crossroads Uhlandstraße / corner Gießerstraße - Living neighbourhood

Blood is a coincidence - From the idea to the stage
Chemnitz - Maker Region

Rupture-Transformation-New Emergence
Chemnitz - Maker-Region

Buchholz joins in - Creative activities for young and old
Annaberg-Buchholz - Waldschlösschenpark - Team Generation

Build Your Spot - Craft and movement at vectorlab
Chemnitz - vectorlab - Maker-Region

C.UNFOLDS
PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

C.UNFOLDS
Chemnitz - Amphitheatre on Theaterplatz - Living neighbourhood

Chasing the dream - theatre play
Lichtenau - Farm theatre, in a barn on a three-sided farm in Krumbach - Team Generation

Chemnitz Stories
Chemnitz - Küchwald - Team Generation

Chemnitz compliments - The creative workshop
Chemnitz - Hartmannfabrik - Maker Region

Chemnitz Chess Cup
Chemnitz - Garagencampus - Team Generation

Club Stage
Chemnitz - Kosmos - Team Generation

Community Music Chemnitz: Lantern Parade 2026
Chemnitz - City Centre - Team Generation

CONNECTING PEOPLE - Meeting at Lohse-Uhlig-Steig
Chemnitz - Lohse-Uhlig-Steig - Team Generation

Chemnitz CoolTour Festival
Chemnitz - Rölitzer Park and rooms CVJM Computer Club e.V. - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

The little PURPLE PATH through Limbach-Oberfrohna
Limbach-Oberfrohna - works of art Delicious Monster and the laboratory of a meadow orchard - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

Three rubbish collection campaigns Sonnenberg
Chemnitz - Sonnenberg - Team Generation

Discover-Create-Preserve: A cultural-educational project in the residential mill of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Chemnitz - Maker Region

Discovery tour 2026
Region - Team Generation

European diversity on your doorstep - apple exhibition and guided tours in Hilbersdorf
Hilbersdorf, Chemnitz - Orchard at the city park, Apple Park Hilbersdorf - Maker Region

Colours connect generations - Ukrainian creative workshop.
Chemnitz - Ukraine House - Team Generation

FLINTA* strengthening - sharing crafts - shaping the neighbourhood
Chemnitz - Rölitzer Park - Maker Region

Women's café Sonnenberg - Encounter. Diversity. Co-creation.
Chemnitz - Women's café - Living neighbourhood

Carving the light of peace from Chemnitz volcanic rock
Chemnitz - Zeisigwaldschänke - Maker region

Spring festival in the garden of ideas
Chemnitz - Ideengarten Reinhardtstraße - Living neighbourhood

GARAGE YARD - Street culture in the backyard
Chemnitz - Backyard on the site of Bernsdorfer Straße 5a - #3000Garagen

Garages of democracy - kompliz* action day 2026 in Chemnitz
Chemnitz - Underground car park of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz - #3000Garagen

Garage concert in the Ahornstraße car park
Chemnitz - Ahornstraße car park - #3000Garagen

Garage concerts
Chemnitz - Garages at Kulturhaus Arthur - #3000Garages

Creative together
Gersdorf - Kunstwerk Heimat Ensemble II - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

Together at the table - Neighbourhood eats together
Chemnitz - Hainstraße - Team Generation

Watering parties and bed gossip meetings at 30 flowering tree discs on the Sonnenberg
Chemnitz - Sonnenberg - Living neighbourhood

Gold rush
Chemnitz - Garagenhof Theaterstraße 70 - #3000Garagen

Grand Slam of Saxony
Zwickau - Old Gasometer - Team Generation

Green Oasis Sonnenberg
Chemnitz - Sonnenberg - Maker-Region

Historic well house in the craftsman's house Zwickau-Planitz - cultural monument
Zwickau - Craftsman's House Zwickau-Planitz - Maker Region

Hours of Growth Vol. 6
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Influence Your City - Youth makes visible
Chemnitz - City area - Team Generation

INSIGHTS
Chemnitz - Fritz Heckert area - Living neighbourhood

International Youth Day
Chemnitz - Konkordiapark - Team Generation

Youth Parliament
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Youth Symphony Orchestra meets Singakademie Chemnitz (AT)
Chemnitz - St Mark's Church - Team Generation

Sound connects. Open intercultural music workshop in the Ukraine House Chemnitz
Chemnitz - Ukraine House and urban space - Maker Region

Sound Bridges 26 - Apple Brunch
Chemnitz - Intervention area at Pleißenbach and surroundings - Living neighbourhood

KlimaWurzel - Mobile irrigation for cultivated apple trees and urban greenery
Region - Living neighbourhood

Combining the art of lace-making with innovative technologies
Augustusburg, Lößnitz, Chemnitz - Makerspaces - Maker Region

Critical introduction days Chemnitz winter semester 2026/2027
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Kitchen connects. A community p(b)acks something!
Neukirchen - NETZ-Werk Neukirchen - Maker Region

Cuisine without borders. Experience international culinary culture and cultural diversity.
Chemnitz - living neighbourhood

Culture and enjoyment at the Taurasteinturm
Burgstädt - Taurasteinturm - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

Experience the PURPLE PATH art project
Chemnitz and the surrounding area - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

Longest breakfast table in the world
Chemnitz - Brühl-Boulevard and surroundings - Living neighbourhood

Let community flourish!
Niederwiesa - Artworks Mapping Patterns: Industrial Flora and My Floating Home - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

Reading connects
Limbach-Oberfrohna - Book cell - Team Generation

Festival of Lights at the Modified Social Bench for Jahnsdorf #1
Jahnsdorf - Modified Social Benches 1-10 - Team Generation

Purple variations on the Purple Path: Blossoming paths to art.
Lichtenstein - Untitled artwork (ESDA) - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

Maker of the future - Interactive vernissage
Chemnitz - Kolorit Integration and Cultural Centre - Maker Region

Maker Market
Chemnitz - Garage Campus - Maker Region

Into space with reading fun
Chemnitz - Cosmonaut Centre and others - Maker Region

Neighbourhood cooks the future
Chemnitz - Experimental Kitchen - Maker Region

Snack garden on the Wasserberg
Freiberg - Wasserberg - Living neighbourhood

Take a seat!
Oederan - public space - maker region

Open theatre workshop Chemnitz
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Open Clay Systems - 3D printing hack, composter and urban cycles
Augustusburg, Neukirchen - Lehngericht, vectorlab - maker region

Opening Iron Casting 2026
Chemnitz, Limbach-Oberfrohna - Wolkenburg Castle, Red Tower - Living Neighbourhood

Paint Action Art
Chemnitz - Living neighbourhood

Pearls connect generations: Intergenerational Advent
Freiberg - Freiberg City and Mining Museum - Maker Region

Pixelparty 2.0
Zwönitz - Buntspeicher - Team Generation

Plywood - the plywood song
Olbernhau - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

Pop-up exhibition "Nachtarchiv - Chemnitz club culture between the GDR and Y2K"
Chemnitz - Schmidtbankpassage - Team Generation

Purple Night - Thalheim in purple light
Thalheim - sculpture Include Me Out - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

PURPLE PATH at night
Zwönitz, Lichtenstein, Callenberg, Burgstädt - Tour, artworks Colour Floating, Untitled (ESDA), Ghosts and Wetterleuchten/Fernsehen - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

PURPLE PATH in 3D (Stereo)
Chemnitz, PURPLE PATH locations - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

PURPLE PATH Postal - Hiking, art, postcards
Augustusburg, other locations - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

PURPLE PATH to touch - The wild boars on a journey
Ehrenfriedersdorf - Ehrenfriedersdorf funfair - PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

RÖLI becomes colourful - A lively play street
Chemnitz - Rölitzer Park - Team Generation

Salsaton-Latin American music connects people
Chemnitz - KOSMOS - Team Generation

Snipping party
Chemnitz - Environmental Centre or Subbotnik - Living Neighbourhood

Pruning for the future - care courses for cultivated apple trees
Region - Living neighbourhood

Writing women - An audio project on female poets in Chemnitz and the region in the GDR and today
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Silent Reading Speaks Volumes
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Skate of the Art
Augustusburg - Maker Space - Maker Region

Sonic Generations - Sound Clash Chemnitz
Chemnitz - KOSMOS - Team Generation

Sprout workshop - from clay to sprout
Chemnitz - Waldorf School Chemnitz - Maker Region

City Championship in Poetry Slam Chemnitz
Chemnitz - Weltecho - Team Generation

Statue "Our village" at the crossing "Wolfsschlucht"
Callenberg OT Langenchursdorf - Bus stop - Maker Region

Stars over Chemnitz - A journey into the invisible
Chemnitz - Ahornstraße garage courtyard - #3000Garagen

Knitting parkour
Limbach-Oberfrohna - public space - Maker-Region

Sundowner at the Schieferloch
Lößnitz - Schieferloch - Team Generation

Symposium - wood meets stone
Jahnsdorf - outdoor pool Jahnsdorf - Team Generation

Day of the Latin American Heart
Chemnitz - Living neighbourhood

Dance pavilion
Chemnitz - Schloßchemnitz - Living Neighbourhood

Touch models for art walk in the park of the OdF Chemnitz
Chemnitz - Park of the OdF - Maker Region

Staggering Open Air
Chemnitz - Kulturhaus Arthur - Team Generation

Technology consultation Sonnenberg - digital basics for smartphone and co.
Chemnitz - Sonnenberg - Living neighbourhood

Theatre on site
Chemnitz - Kirchner primary school - Team Generation

Together We Play - Family Play Day Garage Campus
Chemnitz - Garage Campus - Maker Region

Two Towns - An audio walk on feelings in public space
Chemnitz - Public space - Living neighbourhood

Ukrainian Sounds: Hidden music of the Ukraine
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Under one roof
Team Generation

Transience
Chemnitz - Tafelgarten - Living neighbourhood

Award of the C-star
Chemnitz - Living neighbourhood

From the idea to the object - designing together in the vectorlab
Chemnitz - vectorlab - Maker region

From field to fabric, from flax to linen
Chemnitz - Maker Region

Growing and becoming
Freiberg - Petrikirche - Team Generation

Warm water from the wall - A look into the past poses questions for the present. Intergenerational dramaturgy workshop, readings and talks in retirement homes
Chemnitz - Team Generation

When pots steam and dragons dance. The big neighbourhood festival on the orchard meadow
Chemnitz - Orchard meadow at the ERZscheune in Jahnsdorf, - Living neighbourhood

How did Heidi Fuchs shape us? Generations in dialogue through art
Ehrenfriedersdorf - Team Generation

Meadow raves
Chemnitz - Chemnitz green spaces - Team Generation

Wool Garage 2.0
Chemnitz - Wollgarage - #3000Garagen

Wonder creatures in action
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Wyschywanka Day: Neighbourhood festival
Chemnitz - Brühl Boulevard - Living neighbourhood

Show your stuff - vernissage and product show
Chemnitz - Stadtwirtschaft - Team Generation

Zeux action week
Chemnitz - Zeux premises, Subbotnik e.V. workshop - Living neighbourhood

Growth for the ark beds
Chemnitz - Archebeet on the Chemnitzer Höhenweg, Begegnungsgarten BeetKultur - Gelebte Nachbarschaft

Between the grooves X PURPLE PATH
PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

Between wood and culture - homemade chopsticks
Chemnitz, Augustusburg - Maker Region

Between light and shadow: Your dance!
Chemnitz - Team Generation

Thanks to the commitment of eins energie in sachsen GmbH & Co. KG, three additional projects in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region were offered funding in the Open Call for Microprojects 2026: "Frauencafé Sonnenberg - Begegnung. Diversity. Co-creation.", "Touch models for art walk in the park of OdF Chemnitz" and "Buchholz joins in - creative activities for young and old". As the main sponsor of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025, eins had already supported the financing of the micro-projects.

City of Chemnitz The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Free State of Saxony European Capital of Culture

This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.