22 - 28 June 25
can be visited at any time
Opening: Saturday, 21 June 4 pm, meeting point Lokomov
Location: Zietenstraße corner Jakobstraße
Klub Solitaer e.V. is organising the Dialogue Fields residency programme as part of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. International artists are invited three times 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 19 May. 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.
Katariin Mudist
Passby
2025
Katariin Mudist (b. 1994) is an Estonian artist who deals with the complexity of humanity and its manifestations in our social world. In her work, she combines humour and irony to examine social norms, value systems and materiality.
During her residency, Katariin engages with the residents of Sonnenberg. Secretly and sometimes voyeuristically, she observes the people passing by and documents them in these fleeting and inconspicuous moments. Based on this, she later moulds small clay figures that could have been taken from a board game.
"The work reflects on presence, representation and collective identity and transforms everyday encounters into a playful archive of shared space. I am interested in how we see others, how we are seen and how these brief impressions form the structure of a place."
In doing so, she deliberately focuses on the everyday, the unspectacular, and tries to get closer to the essence of Sonnenberg, which makes up the neighbourhood: its people. Over time, these strangers become increasingly familiar to her, and she creates a sensitive monument to them - one that blurs the boundaries between portrait and abstraction and allows individuals to perhaps recognise themselves, but also opens up the field for a collective experience.
Further information:
www.instagram.com/dialogfelder
www.dialogfelder.de
