MUSEUM EXHIBITION
TATJANA DOLL
COLLATERAL SCULPTURES
GROUP EXHIBITION AT KUNSTHALLE CHEMNITZ
JANUARY 10 – DECEMBER 19, 2025
The start of the European Capital of Culture year Chemnitz 2025 marks the beginning of a new project by Chemnitz investor Udo Pfeifer and his family. The owner and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz have developed a temporary exhibition project in the outdoor area of the Hartmannfabrik. Selected artists of international renown have been invited to place sculptures and works of art on the grounds and in the gardens of the Hartmannfabrik.
Without predetermining a theme, the exhibition offers an open space for current artistic debates and aesthetic questions that enter into a direct dialog with the visitors. Different approaches and strategies are represented, which are formulated in the context of issues relating to monuments, animal sculpture, figurative and abstract sculpture and painting, iconographic upheavals and pop culture.
The invited artists are Atelier van Lieshout, Tatjana Doll, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Heike Mutter / Ulrich Genth and Lydia Thomas. Further contributions are planned.
The project was conceived by Sabine Maria Schmidt, curator at the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. The Hartmannfabrik is the information and reception center of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. It is one of the most frequented public venues of the Capital of Culture and therefore has a high representative function. Built in 1864, the hall was once part of the globally successful engineering company of "locomotive king" Richard
Hartmann. Just as it was a center of industrial progress back then, the Hartmann factory is now once again a place of creativity and innovation and a symbol of the city's ability to change, which is characterized by many transformation processes. After standing empty for a long time, the listed building was renovated by the Pfeifer family in a successful public-private partnership, with additional funding from the federal government, the Free State of Saxony and the City of Chemnitz.
For the small district heating station in the garden at the Hartmannfabrik, Tatjana Doll has designed a three-sided mural in the outdoor space. She uses it to collage her own paintings from various series of works that incorporate both art-historical references (such as Otto Dix, Henri Rousseau and Georg Baselitz) and pop-cultural quotations (Simpsons, Star Wars). War, threat, danger, unrest, but also resistance and humor come together here and seem like an echo of current conflicts. All the motifs are advertising poster prints of originals, which she translates into large-format lacquer and oil paintings in a direct, fast and sometimes raw style. When working with lacquer paints, flaws such as shiny surfaces, cracks, paint streaks and deformations that arise during the process are also staged as part of the painterly process. Painting is never as perfect as the serial industrial products of our thoroughly capitalized culture.
VENUE:
Kunsthalle Chemnitz
Theaterplatz 1, 09111 Chemnitz, Germany
Tue, Thu – Sun 11 AM – 6 PM
Wed 2 – 9 PM
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