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Maker Advent in the final for the German Tourism Award

New art at the PURPLE PATH: Monika Sosnowska's "Ghosts" in Callenberg

How young ideas make Chemnitz blossom: Betonblühen Festival 2025

Volunteer coordinators from 10 countries met in Chemnitz

The new coworking space of the FUNKEN Academy is now open!

Thank you party for Chemnitz 2025 volunteers

Chemnitz 2025 at the open day in the Saxon State Parliament

Chemnitz shines: Light art festival delights 86,000 visitors

European Capital of Culture 2026 as a guest in Chemnitz

Serious Games Maker Days 2025: New games, new perspectives, new networks

Bavarian hay barn meets PURPLE PATH - "Die Milchabauern / Der Stadltransfer" by Anastasia Khoroshilova

PURPLE PATH artist finalist for Gabriele Münter Prize

Culture and Education Committee of the EU Parliament visits Chemnitz 2025

haamit heimaten Festival has begun

Literature scholarship holder reads in Berlin and Chemnitz

Exhibition Hallenkunst extended

European Peace Ride 2025 reaches Chemnitz

European Peace Ride has started in Nova Gorica

European Toymaking Festival inspires in Seiffen

Luminous finale: James Turrell's light sculpture crowns the end of the Capital of Culture year

Edvard Munch in Chemnitz

"Maker-Advent" shortlisted for the German Tourism Award 2025

The exhibition "The Averted Portrait" by Corina Gertz opens in Marienberg

LOOP! - knitting festival in Limbach-Oberfrohna

Creative in the Ore Mountains - what the Makerfestival 2025 was like

SPORTS UNITED bringt Bewegung in die Kulturhauptstadt

"Everyone here knows someone who has moved away from Chemnitz"

Complete success: Begehungen 2025 art festival

'European Realities' breaks visitor records

The city economy has opened

Chemnitz celebrates Expressionism

One evening, five courses, one star chef: secure your tickets now

The Minister of State for Sport and Volunteering visits the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025

The summer construction sites of the travelling companions in Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region

Kiosk of Ignorance: Participation and Plattenbau

International art festival Begehungen launched

The 12,000 visitor to the "Entanglements" exhibition at the Flöha art centre

Events with translation into sign language and with audio description

39xChemnitz: Discover the neighbourhood on your own

Sun seeker! Exhibition extended until October

Culture connects: European Capitals of Culture & EU-Japan Festival

Makerspaces inclusive! Register now for workshops

Art tour through Chemnitz

Bergschau / Kopec Kreativity now on show in Karlovy Vary

EU initiative for sustainable capitals of culture

OPEN CALL: Artists wanted for interdisciplinary workshops with the TU Chemnitz

Creative offers wanted for Maker Advent 2025!

Carnival of Cultures Funken Chemnitz will not take place in 2025

PostModern publishes special stamp

Voices from the city: secure tickets for the audio walk

115.000 people celebrated KOSMOS Chemnitz

Chemnitz 2025 at the KOSMOS Festival

ZEUX materials initiative opened

Inclusive tandem training for volunteers

The toymakers' Festival starts advance sales

OPEN CALL | Game professionals wanted for Serious Games Workshop

European volunteers at the Hat Festival

The exhibition of the photo competition "Making living diversity visible" has begun

Open Call: The Kiosk of unknowledge seeks initiatives

Excellent! - ADC Bronze Nail for the Chemnitz 2025 programme book

The PURPLE PATH in Lichtenau: "Ornamente" by Frank Maibier

New at the PURPLE PATH: "Engel + Bergmann" - a new interpretation by Christina Doll

Colourful & recycled: The "Kollektüte" by the Buntmacher*innen are available at the Hartmannfabrik

Capital of Culture to collect - commemorative coin issued

Appeal for donations: Lego bricks for wheelchair ramps

Dancing neighbours in the open air

The European Capitals of Culture 2025 present their programmes at the European Parliament

Satie's Vexations: Unique warehouse concert rounds off John Cage exhibition

Europe in Chemnitz - music, discourse and culinary delights at Europe Week

#3000Garagen exhibition launched

First German-Czech Bergschau/Kopec Kreativity opens

Exhibition opens: Young art at the PURPLE PATH

Spend the night in artworks

Museum night: bus tours at the PURPLE PATH

Art exchange booths in the city centre

Erasmus+ exchange brings young ideas to Chemnitz

VW presents cultural programme

Successful launch of the Capital of Culture Tandem programme at Chemnitz University of Technology

Region celebrates the PURPLE PATH art trail

Free Walking Tours in Chemnitz

Art and mining at Wismut - "Sonnensucher!" opens in Zwickau

Read for a democratic Chemnitz!

Installation"seeds & seats" by Gabriela Oberkofler & Jacob Strobel opened

White paper on the future of the European Capitals of Culture presented in Chemnitz

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff House opens

Garage Campus: a new cultural centre for Chemnitz

"The Universe in a Pearl" by Rebecca Horn in the Hospital Church of St George in Lößnitz

International exchange between Create U and students from the Université francaise de Cergy

Off to the Garage Trail!

Upcycling month in Lößnitz

Conference “40 Years of European Capitals of Culture” in Chemnitz

Plant festival in spring

Lidl is the new Gold Sponsor for Chemnitz 2025

Rebecca Horn: The Universe in a Pearl Opening in the Hospitalkirche St. Georg in Lößnitz

About theatre by and with women from Chemnitz

Call for applications: International youth exchange in Chemnitz

International Maker Residence Programme | Maker meets Space

1000 volunteers for Chemnitz

European Capitals of Culture visit Chemnitz

Drivers wanted | panorama radio

Would Like to Meet: call out for artists

Spring School in the Makerhub Esche Lab: Machines remember nothing

OPEN CALL FUNKEN KOLLEG | ARTISTIC-TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH

OPEN CALL | KOSMOS

OPEN CALL | Toymaking Festival | Denkstatt Erzgebirge

Capital of Culture year opens in Nova Gorica/Gorizia

Final funding round for microprojects launched

Opening of the Makerhub NETZ-Werk in Neukirchen

Exhibition "John Cage. Museumcircle"

Interview with photographer Maria Sturm

We are the European Capital of Culture!

Successful opening of Chemnitz 2025 maker hub ESCHE LAB in Limbach-Oberfrohna

Photo exhibition "Members' Assembly" starts at the opening of the Capital of Culture year

Makerhub Esche LAB opens with an open day

AIDA Cruises becomes Gold Sponsor of Chemnitz 2025

Telekom becomes Gold Sponsor for Chemnitz 2025

Opening on 18 January

Additional transport on the opening weekend

Further events for the opening

Official protocol opening of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025

The PURPLE PATH in Gersdorf: "Heimat Ensemble II" by Jan Kummer

Baked goods, tofu ham and a Capital of Culture menu - further awards in the "So schmeckt Kulturregion" competition

Chemnitz 2025 merchandise at the Christmas market

Next stop: The cultural capital of tomorrow

Maker Advent 2024 launched with a creative Christmas workshop

fit becomes a new partner of Chemnitz 2025

New artwork for the PURPLE PATH in Chemnitz: Osmar Osten's "Oben-Mit"

Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe becomes "Official Partner" of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH

Volunteers needed to pull a Hartmann steam locomotive

Chemnitz 2025 at the TC Touristik & Caravaning trade fair in Leipzig

The official handover of the European Capital of Culture title to Chemnitz and Nova Gorica

19 new microprojects provide impetus for creative formats and encounters in Chemnitz and the region

Chemnitz 2025 and GNTB on the road in Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic

EU expert panel congratulates the preparations and recommends awarding the Melina Mercouri Prize

Maker-Advent 2024: Workshops, associations, artists and creative minds in Chemnitz and the region invite you to join in.

Planting festival "City and Forest": GELEBTE NACHBARSCHAFT plants, cares for and celebrates apple trees

"Usagi Greeting (180)" by Leiko Ikemura extends the PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail to Lichtenwalde Castle & Park

The European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 presents itself at the Germany Festival in Tokyo

Chemnitz 2025 information point opened at the main railway station

maker Advent 2024 is in the starting blocks!

What re:generation 2024 was like in Chemnitz

Joint planting campaign with Sachsenlotto and the Chemnitz-Zwickau Student Union

"Zwei in ein ander Gewobene" by Olaf Holzapfel extends the PURPLE PATH to Amtsberg

"City and forest" planting festival

Third monitoring of the European Capital of Culture activities by the European Commission

Discover what connects young and old: the re:generation conference on 26 & 27 October in Chemnitz

Inauguration at the PURPLE PATH: "Bogen" by Leunora Salihu at the Hoheneck Memorial in Stollberg

Will the East remain different? - Discussion event with the author Steffen Mau

Programme launch show with Nir de Volff - Be part of the Chemnitz 2025 programme launch!

Dancing neighbours at the Day of the Elderly in Chemnitz

"Motorbike, Medusa Motorbike" by Caroline Mesquita inaugurated at the PURPLE PATH

Gaming culture in Chemnitz: the Serious Games Maker Days 2024

Call for entries for creative exhibition in the Ore Mountains

Begehungen 2025 art festival in the former lignite-fired power station

The European Peace Ride connects the European Capitals of Culture Bad Ischl 2024 and Chemnitz 2025

In exchange: Coordinators of the volunteers programme in the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024

Chemnitz sociologist opens democracy conference in European Capital of Culture Bodø

Mourning for employee of the European Youth Capital Lviv 2025 who died in Russian missile attack

European Peace Ride starts in the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024

"My Floating Home" by Karolin Schwab inaugurated at the PURPLE PATH

New artwork on the PURPLE PATH: "42 days" by Bettina Pousttchi in Schwarzenberg

Spinning threads - Study trip around textile projects by Makers, Business & Arts

The next work for the PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail: "Endless Column" by Stijn Ank in Hainichen

Inauguration of the PURLE PATH art and sculpture trail: "Fließgleichgewicht" by Michael Sailstorfer in Zschopau

Video Installation "Innenlandschaft" - photos of your garages wanted!

Makerfestival Erzgebirge in Schneeberg

Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken are gold sponsors for Chemnitz 2025

NILES-SIMMONS-HEGENSCHEIDT is Gold Sponsor for Chemnitz 2025

The 14th round of microprojects has begun: Apply with your idea by 31 August!

Unmissable on the A4 motorway: Chemnitz will be European Capital of Culture 2025!

Chemnitz 2025 gets a 20 euro collector's coin

Chemnitz 2025 volunteers practise English in tandems with students at Chemnitz University of Technology

The public art project NEW ECOLOGIES Gegenwarten II invites you to Chemnitz city centre

The thirteenth work on the PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail: "TRASHSTONE" by Wilhelm Mundt in Freiberg

Conclusion of the "Celebrate generations!" tender

The PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail in Olbernhau: "Plywood" by Jay Gard

Creativity, dialogue and fun - the second Serious Games Maker Days will take place in September.

Garage portraits - shops wanted for exhibition

Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra invited musical guests to Chemnitz with concerts in Poland

Creative offers wanted for the Maker Advent 2024!

Chemnitz 2025 city selection wins football match against FC Bundestag

"Dancing Neighbours": Japanese choreographers as guests in Chemnitz

11 culinary products and experiences honoured in the "This is what a cultural region tastes like" competition

Chemnitz 2025 represented the Free State of Saxony at the democracy festival to mark 75 years of the Basic Law

Various projects at Chemnitz University of Technology are being realised in partnership with Chemnitz 2025

UWE-Festival in Etzdorf is a blast!

Hybrid European Democracy Festival

Democratic Chemnitz reads!

Exchange between twin towns - seniors' working group organises international meeting

A milestone has been reached: The Hartmannfabrik is the centre of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025

New funding programme "EUJA! Initiative projects for the Capital of Culture year" programme

Visitors from all over the world at GTM 2024

"Colourful stones for accessibility" fundraising campaign

EDEKA supports the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 as a Gold Sponsor

Begehungen festival promotes Chemnitz 2025 in the art metropolis of Venice

LIVING NEIGHBOURHOOD planting festival in April 2024

Dancing neighbours - stay in motion harmoniously. Dance lessons for older people

Young volunteers get involved in Tartu 2024 Extended

20 new microprojects for Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region

In dialogue: mayors of the European Capital of Culture Region Chemnitz 2025 met

Chemnitz 2025 cube at the Leipzig Book Fair

Looking back: Network meeting for a materials initiative #4

Jahnsdorf presents projects for the PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail

enviaM is the first Gold Sponsor of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025

The European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 at the ITB International Tourism Exchange

Interventions for Passion 2024

Cooperation with Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Chemnitz West in the Living Neighbourhood project

Chemnitz 2025 volunteer programme: training courses agreed in cooperation with the police

Review of the discourse event "How can culture succeed for everyone?"

Business supports Chemnitz 2025: Review of "Local Hero for Europe"

Chemnitz 2025 at the world's largest public trade fair for tourism and leisure in Stuttgart

Thank you for a great year in the European Capital of Culture 2025!

Makerhub Esche Museum: Chemnitz 2025 pins created using historical knitting machines

Our team of volunteers supported the closing celebrations of the European Capital of Culture Timișoara 2023

On the trail of the Soft Skills Academy I projects: on a research trip to Oulu

The European Capital of Culture 2025 at the Chemnitz Christmas market

Review of the Christmas creative workshop in the Lehngericht

Review of the event "Gutes aus der Garage" - An afternoon with the scouts and #3000Garagen

Additional funding from the state government for Chemnitz 2025

Living European exchange: Artist-in-Residence programme between Chemnitz and Manchester

Sachsenlotto supports the Maker Advent

Points of light against forgetting

An evening with the artists Gabriela Oberkofler and Hoda Towakul

Chemnitz 2025 on the road in Hamburg and Prague

Special event: Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 as a guest in Chemnitz

The European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 GmbH mourns the death of Egmont Elschner

Review of the Info-Café on tour: on the way to an inclusive European Capital of Culture

Mayors' conference in Zwickau

Conference Tourism:creative

COSMOS CONFERENCE

All grounds are playgrounds

European Peace Ride and Sports UNITED 2023

Impressions from the 1st garage concert

European Peace Ride 2023

SPORTS UNITED 2023

Capital of Culture on wheels: The participation mobile

Review: Discussion "Chemnitz - A protected space for diversity?" and CSD 2023

RE:SOURCING - EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL of the FUNKEN Academy

WELTKUNST magazine publishes special issue on Chemnitz

Germany's largest international theatre festival comes to Chemnitz in 2026

The intensive work phase begins - second monitoring report on the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 published

13 new micro-projects for Chemnitz and the Capital of Culture Region

The "Open Process" exhibition in Annaberg and Olbernhau

The European festival "makers united" invites you to the Stadthalle

MAKERFESTIVAL Erzgebirge in the buntSPEICHER Zwönitz

Successful promotion of the "Weitergehen am Purple Path" project

9. International Festival TANZ I MODERNE I TANZ meets RAIL2DANCE

The Chemnitz Capital magazine has been published!

Hat festival has 2025 pennant designed for Chemnitz

MAKERFESTIVAL at the Etzdorf substation

TOGETHER FOR DIVERSITY - successful campaign for German Diversity Day

"Averted portraits" from the Chemnitz 2025 cultural region

HAT FESTIVAL 2023

Democratic Chemnitz reads!

Inspections 2023 - "etcetera pp."

Sculpture exhibition "DER ANNABERGER IMPULS comes to Chemnitz"

Strategies against right-wing violence - Capital of Culture GmbH invites you to a panel discussion

Zbyněk Baladrán's installation "New Social Contract"

Our parliamentary evening at the Saxon State Representation in Berlin

Revealing the altar - interventions on the Passion

Impetus for regional development - the IMAG meets in Chemnitz

Review of our first Capital of Culture Info Café

EUROPEAN PEACE RIDE hybrid

The 11th round of our microprojects

Altar wrappings at the PURPLE PATH

PURPLE PATH: MAKERSNew Year underTAGE

Thank you for this great year in Chemnitz and the cultural region!

PURPLE PATH: Hoheneck women speak

Culinary Makerhub in Neukirchen/Erzg.

Museum Circle - a great conversation

Build Peace Conference 2022

Getting creative together at the second MAKERS DAY at Makershub Neukirchen/Erzgebirge

SPORTS UNITED - Sport connects people

European Peace Ride 2022

The projects for the 10th round of our microprojects have been finalised!

Off to new shores - BEGEHUNGEN 2022 at the fun pool

Travelling with a delegation from Nova Gorica in the cultural region

VISIONS OF EUROPE at the European makers festival "makers united"

MOVING GARDEN - a moving garden for Chemnitz

Chemnitz 2025 cultural region honours movers and shakers

Commercial Managing Director of Kulturhauptstadt-GmbH appointed

Democratic Chemnitz reads!

The successful projects of "Take a seat!" 2022 have been finalised

European Capital of Culture is: European diversity and togetherness

State of affairs

Greetings from the ISS to the European Capital of Culture 2025

19 new micro-projects for the European Capital of Culture

Interview with Stefan Schmidtke

Successful first monitoring by the European Commission

Managing Director of the Capital of Culture GmbH introduced

Peace ride reloaded: European Peace Ride from Chemnitz to Prague

Flowering meadow festival - greetings to the Heckert area!

City of Chemnitz and MDR agree partnership for European Capital of Culture 2025

Financing agreement signed

Free State of Saxony agrees to finance the Capital of Culture

No award without a team!

Microprojects: 16 ideas are supported with a total of €40,000

Supervisory Board of the European Capital of Culture 2025 GmbH begins work

Supervisory Board members elected for future European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 GmbH

Chemnitz 2025 - now it's official!

The city of Chemnitz receives 25 million euros each from the federal and state governments to support the European Capital of Culture 2025 project

Jury report on the final decision published

Seven new microprojects

Chemnitz becomes European Capital of Culture 2025

City of Chemnitz launches foundation of the limited liability company for the European Capital of Culture 2025