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Sun seeker! | Exhibition

An exhibition on art and mining at Wismut

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Historic cotton spinning mill 1896, metaWERK AG, Zwickau
Pölbitzer Str. 9, 08058 Zwickau Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m
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During the Cold War, SDAG Wismut mined weapons-grade uranium for the Soviet Union in western Saxony and eastern Thuringia. It was also a notorious »state within a state«, collecting fine art on a grand scale. For the first time in Zwickau, at an authentic Wismut site, the exhibition provides an over­­view of the most extensive art collection ever owned by an East German company, displaying more than 4,000 works by 450 artists. A pictorial expedition into the recent past that also examines the themes of transformation after German reunification.

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Organizer

Wismut Stiftung gGmbH, Dresdner Institut für Kulturstudien e.V., Stadt Zwickau, Kunstverein Zwickau e.V.

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Sonnensucher!

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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.