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Edvard Munch.

A large historic building with an ornate facade, featuring arched windows, a central clock tower, and a red-tiled roof, stands against a clear blue sky. The foreground consists of an expansive, checkerboard-patterned plaza made of stone tiles.
A large historic building with an ornate facade, featuring arched windows, a central clock tower, and a red-tiled roof, stands against a clear blue sky. The foreground consists of an expansive, checkerboard-patterned plaza made of stone tiles.

The renowned Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (English Chemnitz Art Collections) are dedicating one of their main exhibitions in 2025 to the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. he visited Chemnitz in 1905 and painted a portrait of the family of textile industrialist Herbert Eugen Esche for his Art Nouveau villa.

The exhibition deals with the theme of fear, based on the works of the most important pioneer of modern painting in Europe. Munch's works on this existential theme are linked to contemporary positions that deal with loneliness, illness and loss.

With a direct link to the exhibition, a "Pavilion of Fear" will be created in the urban space, inviting visitors to discuss fear as an existential, global and personal theme.

Edvard Munch. Fear

When? 10. August - 2 November 2025

Where? Art collections on Theatre Square, Chemnitz

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Exhibition Edvard Munch. Angst

Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz, Theaterplatz 1, 09111 Chemnitz

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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.