Our objects of daily use are never just their physical functions and properties, they always have non-physical agency, always have functions and properties beyond the physical. Albeit non-physical functions and properties that are often masked by a primacy afforded the physical function and properties in our viewing of our objects of daily use. With Fabric Visions // Textile Visionen the Esche Museum, Limbach-Oberfrohna, provide a space in which to explore and approach textiles beyond the
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The motto of Chemnitz's co-tenure as European Cultural Capital 2025 is C_The_Unseen: on the one hand a motto than can be read as C(hemnitz)_The_Unseen, an attempt at freeing Chemnitz, and environs, from the relative anonymity it has fallen into, not least on account of its DDR biography, and to bring it once more alongside a Leipzig and Dresden with whom it over generations stood at eye level; on the other can be read as an admonishment to view familiar things differently, to question that
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Architecture is often understood as being about geometry, as being about interplays and relationships between geometries of different forms at different scales to create a unified whole, a state of affairs that, arguably, can be traced back to the practice of the earliest architects. But is it? With the aid of the practice of Frei Otto and Kengo Kuma the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz invite us all to explore architecture Beyond Geometry....... Beyond Geometry. Frei Otto x Kengo Kuma,
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Although Chemnitz's co-tenure, along with Nova Gorica, Slovenia, as European Capital of Culture 2025, officially kicked off in January, it's only of late, as the days have got and longer and warmer, that the programme has really started to blossom. And as we were preparing our exhibition recommendations list for April 2025 we noted a quartet of events in Chemnitz worthy of suggestion. Unwilling to force ourselves to decided which to include in our list and to which to ignore, which seemed
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