Group show as part of Chemnitz - European Capital of Culture 2025
Artists: Uli Aigner, Nevin Aladag, Stijn Ank, Alice Aycock, Johann Belz, Daniel Buren, Tony Cragg, Christina Doll, Gregor Gaida, Jas Gard, Eberhard Göschel, Jana Gunstheimer, Jeppe Hein, Olaf Holzapfel, Rebecca Horn, Leiko Ikemura, Jeffrey James, Hans Peter Kuhn, Gregor-Torsten Kozik, Jan Kummer, Friedrich Kunath, Young-Jae Lee, Via Lewandowsky, Arthur Heinrich Lippert, Richard Long, Frank Maibier, Kris Martin, Caroline Mesquita, Igor Mitoraj, Moreplatz, Michael Morgner, Wilhelm Mundt, Gabriela Oberkofler, Osmar Osten, Bettina Pousttchi, Tanja Rochelmeyer, Marusa Sagadin, Michael Sailstorfer, Leunora Salihu, Andreas Schmid, Karolin Schwab, Anja Schwörer, Sean Scully, Monika Sosnowska, Jacob Strobel, James Turrell, Carl Emanuel Wolff, Iskender Yediler, Annaberger Impuls I, Annaberger Impuls II
The PURPLE PATH connects the citizens of Chemnitz with each other and with the people of 38 towns and municipalities in the region. A sustainably designed sculpture museum is being created in public spaces between Mittweida and Schwarzenberg, Glauchau and Seiffen, Freiberg and Schneeberg. Stars of the contemporary art scene such as Leiko Ikemura, Monika Sosnowska, Jeppe Hein or Michael Sailstorfer meet significant artists from Saxony such as Jana Gunstheimer, Via Lewandowsky and documenta artist Olaf Holzapfel. Chemnitz-based artists such as Johann Belz, Gregor-Torsten Kozik or Michael Morgner remain largely unknown in the West. Their works encounter international classics such as those by Rebecca Horn, who died in 2024, Daniel Buren and James Turrell.
The PURPLE PATH becomes a storyteller: behind the foil of the installed artworks, an unknown history of the region is formulated, a narrative of mining and industry, exploitation and profit, marginalisation and solidarity, as well as a history of precarity and innovation that continues to this day.
Works by more than 60 artists can be found on industrial wastelands, at railway stations, on riverbanks or in the still waters of a millrace. They correspond with farm and textile museums, connect with castles and old churches, their organs and their art. Sometimes they also take place in illustrious nooks and crannies of UNESCO-protected old towns, which become context providers and polyphonic narrators of the history mentioned.
Venue of Usagi Greeting (180): Schloss & Park Lichtenwalde, Schlossallee 1, 09577 Niederwiesa / OT Lichtenwalde
Link to: Inauguration of the sculpture "Usagi Greeting (180)" by Leiko Ikemura (09. November 2024)
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