When: 14/12/2024 to 21/04/2025

Where: Deutsches Damast- & Frottiermuseum Großschönau

Ulrike Friese’s dolls, affectionately known as the Lolas, are textile storytellers. With a wink, a glance or their style of dress, they subtly tell stories about worlds that are partly familiar and partly alien to us. Their interactions are humorous provocations in everyday life that make us smile and make us think.

Event: Doll sewing course

8 and 9 March 2025 | From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. with break and catering

Costs: €100

Registration under museum@grossschoenau.de

When: 05/02/2025 to 27/04/2025

Where: Historische Schauweberei Braunsdorf

When: 14/03/2025 to 04/05/2025

Where: Textile and Motor Racing Museum Hohenstein-Ernstthal

The exhibition illustrates the complex interrelationships of global textile production in a creative way, making the structure of fast fashion and the industry’s business model transparent.

In the various compartments and drawers of the wardrobe, the path of our trousers and T-shirts is traced from the cotton seed and the often problematic production conditions to the used clothing bag. Ten installed audio stations, which are available in German and English, provide visitors aged at least 14 with the necessary information. Together with an accompanying booklet, a deeper understanding of the effects of the global textile and clothing industry on people and the environment is created and a critical examination of economic and political responsibilities is encouraged. 

When: 13/04/2025 to 09/11/2025

Where: The Esche Museum

Fabric Visions is located at the interface between showing and (co-)making. 13 current artistic perspectives on the medium of textiles will be presented. The focus is on collective practices of production and a joint, experimental discovery of textile techniques, common and unusual materials against the backdrop of an ecologically and socially sustainable approach to textiles and fashion. Both ‘classic’ exhibition objects on the subject of textiles and interactive and process-based activities will be included.

When: 25/04/2025 to 16/11/2025

Where: Chemnitz Industrial Museum

Rapid growth and splendid wealth coupled with precarious living conditions. Later a radical collapse and the necessary reinvention.

Experience the exciting development of the city of Chemnitz up to the current transformation processes. Chemnitz gave the starting signal for industrialisation in Saxony and developed into the ‘Saxon Manchester’. However, these ‘Manchester’ cities can be found all over Europe and show that Chemnitz is not alone in its challenges: the French city of Mulhouse, Tampere in Finland, Gabrovo in Bulgaria, Łódź in Poland and, of course, the eponymous Manchester in northern England. How do they deal with their industrial heritage? What strategies do the cities have for their future and what can we learn from each other?

_{The exhibition is sponsored by the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH.
This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon State Parliament and by federal funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
The image of the eins chimney is courtesy of eins energie in sachsen.}

When: 18/05/2025 to 17/08/2025

Where: Textile and Motor Racing Museum Hohenstein-Ernstthal

The three internationally renowned textile artists Pascale Goldenberg (F), Gabi Mett (D) and Judith Mundwiler (CH) not only place the four elements of fire, water, air and earth at the centre of their textile works, but also incorporate the museum’s exhibits and the textile traditions of the region through creative changes and transformations. The result is an unusual combination of art and industrial culture, which visitors can discover on three exhibition floors.

When: 15/06/2025 to 31/10/2025

Wo: Textile and Motor Racing Museum Hohenstein-Ernstthal

Düsseldorf-based artist Ulrike Kessl will cover the four-storey façade of our building with 350 fine tights in the colours of the purple spectrum. 

When: 06/09/2025 to 02/11/2025

Where: Textile and Motor Racing Museum Hohenstein-Ernstthal 

30 renowned international textile artists show pictorial and abstract works, art quilts, installations and textile objects that tell stories, reflect cultural identities or deal with political, social and personal issues and sometimes interact with the museum’s own exhibits.