Do you remember? Less than two months ago, walking through the city became the new leisure activity. What else could we have done? The restaurants, the cultural institutions, the gyms – everything was closed. So what to do with our urge to move and all the leisure time we had? This was also considered by the Chemnitz application team for the European Capital of Culture 2025. The idea: we bring art into the city – on citylight posters. That way, the walks could become open-air gallery tours and, what’s more, it’s time to make the artistic potential of Chemnitz and the region more visible anyway.

In the end, 182 artists answered the call to submit artworks for this project. As many as nobody expected. And so it was not easy for the jury of Diana Kopka (curator of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz), Matthias Zwarg (cultural journalist of the Freie Presse), Frank Weinhold (organizer of the art festival Begehungen), Kati Halama (designer), Simone Becht and Jenny Zichner from Team Chemnitz2025 to choose the 51 works, which have been on display in the open air gallery since Tuesday.