Location
Chemnitz, old petrol station on Annenstraße
Annenstr. 34, 09111, Chemnitz
Klub Solitaer e.V. is organising the Dialogue Fields residency programme as part of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. Three international artists are invited to live in Chemnitz for six weeks at a time and work on the theme of favour.
Katariin Mudist (Tallinn, Estonia) and the artist duo Marie Donike and Johannes Specks (Cologne) have been guests on the Sonnenberg since May 19th. They are living here, getting to know the city, meeting people from Chemnitz and developing new artistic ideas. They are accompanied by the Chemnitz artist and ceramist Viet Phuong Nguyen (TIEV), who is developing his own artistic response. The results of the residency programme are now being presented in the form of artistic interventions.
Marie Donike + Johannes Specks
MINI MINI STOP
2025
Marie Donike and Johannes Specks work together as an artist duo. In their joint working method, Marie and Johannes examine cultural-historical aspects of cuisine and places of socialising. They scrutinise the aesthetics of everyday life and imitate individual elements in order to place them in new artificial contexts. In this way, collective and individual memories are both utilised and created. Their installations turn spaces into places where people come together.
During their residency, they developed a temporary installation space based on reflections on classism, social and individual economic pressure, privileges and limitations, themes that are characteristically present in Chemnitz and in particular in the former working-class neighbourhood of Sonnenberg. A space that can serve as a contact point for fleeting encounters, neighbourly exchange, but also as an anchor point for tourists.
Marie and Johannes would like to invite everyone to take a trip to the old petrol station on Annenstraße and meet here by chance. Whatever the destination of their future guests, they can stop at the MINI MINI STOP on their way.
In addition to refreshments, snacks and souvenirs from Chemnitz, which are only available here, they also offer a sympathetic ear. With a sense of humour in love with detail, a knack for new regional specialities and a conceptually artistic approach, MINI MINI STOP is the place to go for tourists and those who want to become one.
21. - 28.06.25
Opening: Saturday, 21 June, 4 - 10 pm (meeting point Lokomov)
Opening hours: Sunday 22.06.: 12 - 18 h
Monday 23.06.: 12 - 18 h
to visit: at any time
Food + drinks are available on a donation basis.
There is also the opportunity to visitthe interventions Passby by Katariin Mudist on the corner of Zietenstraße and Jakobstraße and vasesace.soleil by TIEV in the Galerie Hinten!
Further information and stay up to date:
https://www.instagram.com/dialogfelder
https://www.dialogfelder.de/
