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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László Moholy-Nagy may have given Marianne Brandt "mettle for metal", and metal may be the material with which she is most readily and popularly associated; however, as she wrote in 1922, "Ich bin ganz von Glas"..... I am entirely glass. Fragile? Transparent? Opaque? Metamorphic? Refractive? Sparkling? For its 7th edition the triennial International Marianne Brandt Contest sought projects exploring glass in all its interpretations, properties and essences; the 60 nominated projects being
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👋 Gestures belong to the oldest of human actions and interactions. Have accompanied mankind through good times and bad, through its innumerate technical, cultural and social revolutions. And are so intuitive, we are often barely aware of them. With the exhibition Gestures – Past, Present and Future, the Sächsische Industriemuseum Chemnitz explores not only the (hi)story and importance of gestures, but for all their role in our smart, digital, autonomous futures. Gestures - Past, Present
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