The PURPLE PATH weekend from 11 to 13 September 2025 combines international contemporary art with regional festival culture. In the region around Chemnitz, in Central Saxony, the Ore Mountains and the Zwickau area, visitors can look forward to a varied programme: featuring walks, music, festivals, guided tours of the artworks, discussions with artists, workshops and events in public spaces.
From installations to church squares, from meadow paths to marquees
The weekend invites you to rediscover art and the region. Between art installations and church squares, meadow paths and festival marquees, encounters and conversations about local history and contemporary art take place, opening up new perspectives on them. For three days, Chemnitz and the 38 local authorities along the PURPLE PATH offer numerous opportunities for excursions to artworks, cultural highlights and picturesque landscapes.
Art that tells a story
The PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail tells the story of a region shaped by mining and industry, exploitation and profit, but also by traditions of innovation, craftsmanship and solidarity. The works of renowned contemporary artists such as James Turrell, Leiko Ikemura and Tony Cragg engage in a dialogue with this history and unfold in public spaces: on industrial wastelands, at railway stations, on riverbanks or in the still waters of a millrace. They interact with agricultural and textile museums, and connect with castles and old churches, their organs and their art.
Programme
You can find the programme in the coming weeks at: purple-path.de/wochenende
