The video installation “Speaking: Statements for the Future” is part of the Festival Begehungen in Chemnitz:

About the Festival:

There is unrest in the region 35 years ago. What started small soon grew into a major movement. Protests break out across the country, society wavers between fear and awakening. Is the situation tipping over? Or will the forces balance out and calm return?

The 21st edition of the Begehungen art festival will take place at a location that is closely linked to the protests in the GDR 35 years ago: back then, a group of citizens came together to change the GDR’s education system, among other things.
Although the GDR was soon history, the idea took shape surprisingly quickly. On 1 September 1990, the new Chemnitz school model was opened as a place for progressive learning and teaching. It still exists successfully today, now at a new location.

The founding building at Charlottenstraße 52, formerly the Albrecht Dürer or Charlottenschule, was abandoned in 2012 due to structural defects – and now forms the authentic setting for the 2024 festival entitled “KIPPELN”.

An exhibition will bring together 23 works by international contemporary artists and a festival programme with concerts, theater, lectures and performances will be offered.

The aim of the festival is the artistic examination of different forms of protest and resistance as well as the visualisation of protest movements in the present day, but also of past decades across the globe.

Opening hours of the exhibition:

15.08. Opening at 18:30
16 – 18 August: 10 am to 8 pm
19 – 23 August: 12 to 6 pm

Appointments for group tours can still be made for 19 – 23 August. Please send enquiries to info@begehungen-festival.de

Address: Charlottenstr. 52, 09126 Chemnitz

Admission to the exhibition and all events is free of charge.