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European Realities - Painting Jam

Interactive painting competition for young and old with the Kotburschi collective
[Translate to Englisch:] William Roberts, Les Routiers, um 1931, Öl auf Leinwand, Courtesy of Board of Trustees of National Museums Northern Ireland ©️ Estate of John David Roberts. By permission of the Treasury Solicitor, Ulster Museum Collection

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Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser
Stollberger Straße 2, 09119 Chemnitz
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Who remembers today that art competitions were held at the Olympic Games in the 1920s? The connection to sport was important and the categories ranged from architecture to literature, music, painting and sculpture. They were only abolished in 1954.

This event picks up on this practice and invites everyone to an interactive painting competition in the museum. Artists will show how they can conjure up creative masterpieces on canvas in the shortest possible time. Everyone is invited to contribute own creative ideas. At the end, the audience will decide which work has won.

Musical entertainment and some surprises will be provided.

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Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

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European Realities

The exhibition project European Realities at the Gunzenhauser Museum includes positions from various European countries, in particular from Northern, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The diverse realist movements that were visible almost everywhere in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s are shown on an up to now unique scale. The exhibition tells of hunger and misery, of the modernisation of industry, reports on the economic upswing and cultural prosperity, of technical progress, the big city and nightlife, emancipation and diversity. The exhibition is part of the main programme of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025.

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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.