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Art festival Begehungen

Under the title "tilting", the 21st edition of the festival focuses on the theme of protest. In addition to the exhibition of contemporary art, there will be concerts, performances and talks.

Date & Time

All day

Location

Charlottenschule, Charlottenstraße 52, 09126 Chemnitz
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There is unrest in the region 35 years ago. What started small soon grew into a major movement. Protests break out across the country, society wavers between fear and awakening. Is the situation tipping over? Or will the forces balance out and calm return?

The 21st edition of the Begehungen art festival will take place at a location that is closely linked to the protests in the GDR 35 years ago: back then, a group of citizens came together to change the GDR's education system, among other things.

Although the GDR was soon history, the idea took shape surprisingly quickly. On 1 September 1990, the new Chemnitz school model was opened as a place for progressive learning and teaching. It still exists successfully today, now at a new location.

The founding building at Charlottenstraße 52, formerly the Albrecht Dürer or Charlottenschule, was abandoned in 2012 due to structural defects - and now forms the authentic setting for the 2024 festival entitled "KIPPELN".

An exhibition will bring together 20 - 25 works by international contemporary artists and a festival programme with concerts, readings, lectures and performances will be offered.

The aim of the festival is the artistic examination of different forms of protest and resistance as well as the visualisation of protest movements in the present day, but also past decades across the globe.

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Organizer

Begehungen e.V.

Program field

Barrierefreiheit

Barrier-free travel by public transport

Travelling to the venue is barrier-free using public transport.

It's Moving

It's time to get out of the city - to the 38 partner municipalities of the Capital of Culture Chemnitz. Into a cultural region that is rediscovering its own tradition and history in a moving exchange and focusing on its themes. In motion! opens up new encounters in projects along the Purple Path, the art and sculpture trail that is currently being created, and initiates joint negotiations on the future of the region.

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European Capital of Culture 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 Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.