UWE Festival

Location

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Visitors can look forward to a lively mix of international urban art, hands-on activities and workshops as well as a varied supporting programme.

This year, the UWE Festival once again welcomes numerous national and international artists from the fields of street art, graffiti, installation and sculpture to the former substation. As part of residencies, they will be working on new, intensive works immediately before the festival, which the public can experience live on site.

2025 is also the year of the European Capital of Culture: Chemnitz holds the title - and the Etzdorf substation is part of this special year of culture as the Makerhub of Chemnitz 2025. In this context, UWE will also offer a wide range of workshops and hands-on formats outside of the festival, thus contributing to the cultural diversity of the Chemnitz/Erzgebirge region. It remains particularly important to the festival to give people in rural areas access to art and culture and to create spaces for exchange, creativity and community.

Get creative, join in, do it yourself - that's UWE! And Uwe prints with screens, with textiles, with Lego, recycles, sandblasts, embroiders, batiks, glues, casts sepia, builds electronics, makes art from scrap, from plaster and many other things. The range of hands-on activities is once again diverse and surprising.

UWE 2025 has put together an impressive line-up with after-show parties on both festival evenings. Live acts on 3 stages will keep visitors relaxed throughout the day or inspire them at the evening events - from songwriting and hip hop to a very wide range of electronic dance music. The line-up includes A-Dreams-A, Tears for Bears, Indiana Jane, Digital Chaos, Sput, Sealt Covers, DJ Mazine, Enny One, Takeshy Sinn, Snoopy, Speche & Ron, Jan Mas, Sebastian Casper and many more.

Tickets can only be purchased on site.

How to get there

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Travelling by public transport is recommended.

From Chemnitz, take the train to Hainichen. From there, bus route 616 (direction Roßwein) runs every hour to the Etzdorf substation. Bus route 616 (direction Hainichen) also runs from Roßwein.

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By car

The Etzdorf substation in Striegistal can be reached via the A4 motorway (in the direction of Erfurt and Dresden), Hainichen junction B169 via Naundorfer Straße, Waldheimer Straße junction. A limited number of parking spaces are available on site.

Note - Waldheimer Straße is currently closed due to roadworks, please follow the signs.