Interventions on the Passion
from 5. March until 20. April
During Passiontide, between 5 March and 20 April, installations of interventions on the Passion will be presented in nine churches in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region. In the process, contemporary art will enter into a dialogue with the architecture and iconography of the churches. The campaign is modelled on the traditional covering of the altar in the weeks leading up to Easter.
Rebecca Horn
The Universe in a Pearl in Lößnitz
Rebecca Horn, who died in 2024, is one of the most important German artists of the 20th century. Her sculpture "The Universe in a Pearl" will travel to the Hospitalkirche St. Georg in Lößnitz on 29 March. As if from the centre of the earth, it rises up to the golden blue of the firmament.
Richard Long
Petrified Wood Circle in Freiberg
A circle of petrified, densely packed pieces of wood, half cedar and half American redwood, without a plinth or border, measuring three metres, lying directly on the ground. Petrified Wood Circle is one of the iconic ground sculptures by the pioneer of British Land Art Richard Long.
Bonhoeffer in Harlem
John Young
The exhibition Bonhoeffer in Harlem by Sino-Australian artist John Young explores Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life and work. The Protestant pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer had an impact on the church and society like almost no other theologian of the 20th century. The exhibition is primarily inspired by his time in New York's Harlem neighbourhood.
