The multi-part project The Questions by the Manchester-based artists' collective Quarantine invites you to intergenerational encounters at the Gunzenhauser Museum and at three locations in the city library for four weeks from 6 November. Talks, an exhibition, performances and exchanges between artists from Manchester and Chemnitz will focus on the question of belonging from the perspective of different generations. At the start of the project, the project partners and the artists from Quarantine will present the individual building blocks of The Questions.
In the performative exhibition Telescope at Museum Gunzenhauser (15-29 November), people talk about the feelings and meanings they associate with objects. They bring things to the museum that are of particular value to them. In public conversations with the performers from Quarantine, they try to find out whether something is important to young people in a different way to older people. A growing exhibition is created from the objects they bring with them.
Moving boxes also contain stories and memories. These can be put together by museum visitors in ever-changing constellations in the participatory installation Moving Boxes. The Museum Gunzenhauser is accepting used moving boxes until 14 November.
Five artists from Chemnitz recently travelled to Manchester to work with an artist from a different generation. These pairs of artists are now meeting again in a temporary studio at Museum Gunzenhauser. Would like to Meet is an open studio to which visitors are invited.
Visitors to the Tietz City Library, the Yorck Center and the Vita Center can expect to be approached and engaged in conversation from 6 to 22 November. Chemnitz artist Gabi Reinhardt and Kate Daley from the Quarantine group have prepared a catalogue of very different questions for these spontaneous encounters. They transform the library users' answers into texts and turn them into a book on site in each of the libraries, which is added to the respective collection and can be borrowed. The project is called Building of Spines . The first date is on 6 November from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Yorck-Center district library.
At the end of The Questions on 29 November, curator Florian Malzacher invites you to a conversation between the generations in his format The Art of Assembly.
Moving Boxes | Museum Gunzenhauser | Call for participation: 7 - 14 November 2025 | Exhibition: 15 - 30 November 2025
Moving Boxes is an installation of borrowed moving boxes that bear traces of movement, memory and change. The installation will be on display on the ground floor of the Gunzenhauser Museum and invites visitors to arrange and rearrange the boxes in ever-changing constellations.
On display are moving boxes that Chemnitz residents have used and lent to the museum. From 7 to 14 November 2025, from 2 to 5 pm, boxes can be handed in at the Gunzenhauser Museum. All boxes will be registered in a public archive. The museum asks for prior notification to leo(at)qtine.com.
Telescope | Museum Gunzenhauser | 15 - 29 November 2025
A performative exhibition with borrowed objects that traces the thoughts of their owners on the subject of belonging. Over the course of three weeks, the artist group Quarantine will animate the changing show through conversations with the lenders. The result is an insight into what we hold on to, what we value and why.
15.+16 Nov, 12-5pm / 19-23 Nov, 12-5pm / 25-28 Nov, 12-5pm / 29 Nov, 12-4pm
Building of Spines | Chemnitz Libraries | 6 - 22 November 2025
British artist Kate Daley and Chemnitz-based author Gabi Reinhardt are creating individual books by hand based on conversations with visitors to the Chemnitz libraries. The books portray library users and then become part of the library's collection.
District libraries, 6 - 13 November 2025
Vita Centre Chemnitz: Mon (10 am - 6 pm), Wed (2 pm - 6 pm), Sat (10 am - 2 pm)
Yorck Centre Chemnitz: Tue (10 am - 6 pm), Thu (10 am - 4 pm), Fri (10 am - 6 pm)
Chemnitz City Library, 15 - 22 November 2025
Mon/Thu/Fri 10am-7pm / Wed 2pm-6pm / Sat 10am-6pm
Would Like to Meet | Museum Gunzenhauser | 24 - 30 November
Would Like To Meet brings together five artists of different generations from Chemnitz and Manchester. The artists, who work in the fields of textiles, ceramics, ikebana, visual arts, performance, photography and illustration, will move their studios to Museum Gunzenhauser and open them to the public.
Quarantine: Art of Assembly | Musuem Gunzenhauser | 29 November, 4 - 6 pm
The Questions concludes with Florian Malzacher's The Art of Assembly. This project brings together artists, activists and thinkers in a long-term research endeavour to explore how and why it is important that we physically assemble - and what becomes socially and politically possible as a result, especially in a time of great uncertainty. In Chemnitz, the focus is on the topic of intergenerational assembly and the different layers of experience that a city carries within itself.
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