The Questions
Intergenerational encounters
The multi-part project The Questions by the Manchester-based artist collective Quarantine creates intergenerational encounters through exhibitions, performances, talks and cultural exchange. The focus is on the collaboration between the twin cities of Manchester and Chemnitz. What connects people in the UK and Saxony, what separates them? How can intergenerational dialogue and participation succeed? By scrutinising social divisions, The Questions created relationships and networks between people, places, artists and institutions across generations.
The Questions at Museum Gunzenhauser was part of the exhibition project: Best of II: Visitors' Choice.
When: 6 to 30 November 2025
Where? Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz City Library, district libraries Yorck-Center and Vita-Center as well as Manchester
Telescope
Performative exhibition
Telescope at the Gunzenhauser Museum showed borrowed objects from young and older people. The lenders had their say in a series of talks.
Moving Boxes
Participatory installation
Moving Boxes was an installation with the moving boxes of museum visitors. They could hand in their used moving boxes to the Gunzenhauser Museum. The focus was not on the empty moving box, but on the stories and memories that the object brought with it. The installation was displayed on the ground floor of the museum and invited visitors to arrange and rearrange the boxes in ever-changing constellations.
Building of Spines
Book project with library users
In Building of Spines, British artist Kate Daley and Chemnitz-based author Gabi Reinhardt created individualised books by hand in just a few days. The pair spoke to people in the Chemnitz libraries (district libraries in the Yorck and Vita centres and the city library). They created books that portrayed library users. The finished books were then added to the libraries' collections.
Would like to Meet
Open artist studio
The Questions project consisted of five parts: Would like to Meet brought together artists from different generations from Chemnitz and Manchester. The residency project aimed to promote intergenerational collaboration and learning from each other. The artist exchange took place in Manchester in spring 2025. In November, the British artists were guests in Chemnitz. The five German-British artist couples moved their studio to the Gunzenhauser Museum, where they also engaged in dialogue with visitors.
The Art of Assembly
How generations come together
The Questions concluded with Florian Malzacher's The Art of Assembly. the series of talks by the author, dramaturge and curator deals with the potential of assemblies in activism, art and politics. In the context of The Questions, the focus was on intergenerational coming together.
