Thursday 3, 10, 17 and 24 September, 3 pm
Language Café
Venue: Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz
Admission: free
Link to the event
We’re opening our doors to the Chemnitz Language Café – an open, relaxed social space where people of different languages and backgrounds can chat, practise German and network.
As hosts, we’re delighted to provide the venue for this wonderful initiative. The organisation and programme are managed by the Language Café team.
Do come along – open to anyone who fancies a chat and making new friends!
Friday, 11 September, 4 pm
Guided tour and performance – ‘Gut angerichtet?’ A guided tour in drag
Venue: Gunzenhauser Museum
Admission: Standard day ticket (€10 / €6.50 concessions) + €4
Link to the event
On 11 September at 4 pm, a special and surprising guided tour of the ‘Serving Gender’ exhibition at the Museum Gunzenhauser awaits you. Your hosts for the day are drag queen Dani California and drag king Smoky Addamz.
What do Eve, a housewife and the suffragettes have in common? They all play a role — whether they want to or not. This drag tour takes a closer look at well-known female figures from art history. From historical to contemporary perspectives, it covers it all. And what do you think: is *Serving Gender* actually one big drag show?
Sunday, 13 September, 2 pm
Guided tour – For Open Monument Day: Traces of Stone – Relics from Chemnitz’s monasteries and cemeteries
Venue: Schloßbergmuseum
Admission: Standard rate (10 euros / 6.50 euros concessions)
Link to the event
Monasteries were an integral and indispensable part of medieval infrastructure. As places where people could receive medical care, accommodation and education, they formed centres of medieval life and were, at the same time, part of large networks through which new ideas and technologies spread. The two monasteries in Chemnitz – the Benedictines and the Franciscans – complemented one another in their roles whilst at the same time being in fierce competition with one another. Both were dissolved in the wake of the Reformation after 1540.
The public guided tour on Heritage Open Day is dedicated to the stone relics of this vanished monastic world. The tour will focus on the architectural remains of the Benedictine and Franciscan monasteries – including those that are not otherwise accessible to the public. The tour will be complemented by a visit to the Baroque tombs of the former St John’s Cemetery in the municipal lapidarium.
Sunday, 20 September, 11.00 am
Lost in C – A cycle tour of abandoned and vanished buildings in Chemnitz
Venue: Schloßberg Museum
Event page: Link to the event
As part of its ‘Chemnitz Photographers’ series, the Schloßbergmuseum is exhibiting works by Christian Sünderwald. The photographer moved from Munich to Chemnitz in 1991. He then roamed the city and its surroundings with his camera to document the consequences of social upheaval: buildings that, until recently, had been full of life but which, for various reasons, suddenly stood empty and were left to fall into disrepair. Beyond their artistic merit, these photographs are now valuable documents of the city’s recent history.
On a two-and-a-half-hour cycle tour, we will visit several of the sites documented by Christian Sünderwald along a route that takes us from the Schloßberg Museum through the city centre to Bernsdorf and Altchemnitz.
A visit to the special exhibition is included in the tour.
Friday, 25 September, 4.45 pm
Workshop: Yoga at the Museum
Venue: Gunzenhauser Museum
Admission: 12 euros per person
Link to the event
Round off your day in a special setting: every fourth Friday, you can take part in yoga sessions in the exhibition rooms at the Gunzenhauser Museum under professional guidance. Please bring your own yoga mat if possible – a limited number of mats are available.
Yoga instructor: Mileen Rudelt
Saturday 26 September, 4 pm
A Change of Perspective – Guided tours with the Alfreds Crew Youth Council
Venue: Gunzenhauser Museum
Admission: Standard rate (€10 / €6.50 concessions)
Link to the event
The Alfreds Crew Youth Council is a group of committed, art-loving young people who have been contributing their perspectives and ideas to the museum’s work since 2025. For *Serving Gender*, they have developed four interventions in which they have engaged intensively with themes from the exhibition. In doing so, they have set their own thematic priorities and drawn connections to their everyday realities. Join two members for an exciting guided tour of the exhibition.
In a global context, women have for centuries borne the brunt of the often invisible, unpaid care work surrounding food: they cook, they provide for, and they feed children, families and communities. ‘Serving Gender’ focuses on women as society’s primary providers of food and explores gender-specific ambivalences regarding food, which are linked to social power structures, cultural norms, assigned roles, and the control and disciplining of the female body.
At the heart of the project is the question of how food not only satisfies biological needs but also reproduces social structures: who prepares food, and who is depicted in images during these processes? What expectations of female care shape the dining table? Who is allowed to have an appetite? And why, in fact, are most top chefs male?
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