The Mittweida Sukkot
Art + Life at the Feast of Tabernacles
From 5 to 12 October 2025, the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025, together with the city of Mittweida, invites you to the Sukkot Mittweida festival. For one week, Mittweida’s city centre will transform into a space for art, music, readings, culinary encounters, and conversations about Jewish life – past and present.
The starting point is the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, Sukkot, a celebration of joy, gratitude, and community. At its centre stands the Sukkah, a hut symbolising hospitality. Poet and curator Yona Dvir-Shalem brings this idea to life: under the title Uschpisin, 25 international artists present installations and exhibitions across vacant shops, the university, the town church, the city museum, and other locations.
The programme also features concerts, readings, panel discussions, culinary performances such as East on East, and a communal Shabbat dinner as an artistic installation. Cinema and theatre are equally part of the festival: a free film day presents international works, including the Oscar-winning No Other Land, and a theatre laboratory offers room for discovery.
Organised by the city of Mittweida, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, and Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH, the festival is supported by the Berthold Leibinger Foundation. It is part of the PURPLE PATH, the European Capital of Culture’s art and sculpture trail.
At the same time, Sukkot Mittweida reflects on history: until 1938, Jewish students could enrol in Mittweida, while in other places in Germany, access was already denied. Inspired by this legacy, the festival connects history with contemporary art, creating a dialogue between past, present, and future.
Participating artists: Eyal Assouline • Yuval Barel • Mischa Tangian & Babylon Orchestra Berlin • Abie Franklin • Michal Fuchs • Tamar Grosz • Noam Helfer • Alena Jabarine • Jeffrey James • Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç • Rachel Libeskind • Emilia Viktoria Lokamova • Raphaëlle Oskar • Adi Oz-Ari • Joachim Perez • Shlomo Pozner • Benyamin Reich • Moran Sanderovich • Elie Shamir • Ronen Shifron • Luke Shiller • Nirit Sommerfeld • Lili Sommerfeld • Hadas Tapouchi • Giovanni Vinciguerra • Shira Wachsman • John Wild • Tchelet Zohar
When? From 5 October 2025 to 12 October 2025
Where? Mittweida, Mittweida | different places
Sukkot Mittweida is an interdisciplinary festival and exhibition project with many different events. Advance registration is required.
