Art Festival BEGEHUNGEN
Festival of contemporary art
The Begehungen art festival will take place from 18 July to 17 August 2025 on the site of the decommissioned Chemnitz-Nord lignite-fired power plant. Under the title EVERYTHING IS INTERACTION, the festival aims to visualise the complexity of the issues of resource consumption, species loss and the climate crisis.
The exhibition brings together 30 international artistic perspectives on the social, ecological and economic consequences of environmental destruction, questions of justice and power and the associated social crises. The festival is intended to be an inspiring place for new, forward-looking discourse - a space for encounters, exchange and creative impulses.
A festival programme with concerts, readings, lectures and performances will complement the exhibition. The full festival programme will be published on 19 May 2025.
When? July 18, 2025 to August 17, 2025
Where? Chemnitz, Former HKW Chemnitz-Nord
Exhibition
The Begehungen art festival will showcase large-scale installations, photographs, drawings, sculptures, video and sound artworks. A good quarter of the artworks will be site-specific and created especially for the festival, including works created with the participation of employees and residents of Heizkraftwerk Nord.
The exhibition is based on the works selected by the artistic director, an artist-in-residence programme with European partner institutions of the festival and project ideas from the worldwide Open Call. The Open Call was reserved for artists under the age of 30, which means that almost a third of the exhibition is characterised by young perspectives. Dr Claudia Tittel is the artistic director of the exhibition.
Artists
Ana Alenso (VE) - Lara Almarcegui (NL/ES) - AWOL Collective (VE/ES/RS) - Ursula Biemann & Paulo Tavares (CH/BR) - Böhler & Orendt (DE/RO) - Borek Brindák (SK) - Daniel Canogar (ES/US) - Abie Franklin & Daniel Hölzl (GB/AT) - Tim Gassauer (DE) - Elza Gubanova (UA) - Sarah Damai Hoogman (NL) - Clemens Hornemann (DE) - Anne Duk Hee Jordan (KR/DE) - Nadia Kaabi-Linke (DE/TN/UA) - Diana Lelonek (PL) - Tea Mäkipää (FI) - Gisle Nataas (NO) - Olaf Nicolai (DE) - Uriel Orlow (CH) - Johanna M. Reich (DE) - Amparo Sard (ES) - Katharina Sauermann (AT) - Günther & Loredana Selichar (AT/IT) - Hito Steyerl (DE) - Gregor Schneider (DE) - Daniel Otero Torres (CO) - Rikuo Ueda (JP) - Anna Weberberger (AT) - Valeria Zane & Victor Nebbiolo di Castri (IT/FR)
Status as of 31/03/2025