Gunst/Favor

Ungleichheit prägt unsere Gesellschaft, in der Nachbarschaft, in Europa, in der Welt. 

Sind Mangel und Überfluss nur eine Frage der Perspektive? Können Privilegien belasten? Geht Kunst ohne Gunst? Wem ist was vergönnt und was können wir uns angesichts der Klimakrise, global und gegenseitig gönnen? 

 

Die Dialogfelder wollen die Ambivalenzen von Privilegien als gesellschaftliche Last und individuellen Luxus untersuchen.

Mit den Erfahrungen und Blickwinkeln aus verschiedenen sozioökonomischen Hintergründen eingeladener Künstler:innen und beteiligten Partner:innen suchen wir Momente, die in Chemnitz Gemeinsinn stiften.

Dafür lädt der Klub Solitaer e.V. je zwei internationale Künstler:innen zeitgleich auf den Chemnitzer Sonnenberg ein. Ihre fünfwöchige Recherche mündet in künstlerischen Interventionen für den öffentlichen oder halböffentlichen Raum.

Chemnitzer Kreative begleiten die Dialogfelder in unterschiedlichen Rollen. Zum Einen bringen sie als Hosts von ausführlichen Welcome Weekends ihr lokales Expert:innenwissen ein und schaffen Anknüpfungspunkte zur Stadtgesellschaft und Akteur:innen vor Ort. Zum Anderen wird neben den Interventionen ein künstlerisches Spin-Off von jungen Chemnitzer Kreativen geschaffen.

Dialog field 3

  • Denise Lee

    Denise Lee / 李筑 (lǐ zhú) (USA / Hong Kong / Taiwan) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Leipzig. Conversation is a key part of her methodology, where she uses interviews, creative writing and other dialogic encounters to fuel her work in sound art, intervention, and short film. With a background in public art, civic education and object design, Denise seeks to create physical and non-physical spaces for connection and dialog. Her current research explores alienation and belonging in the urban environment, diaspora and language, and longing in the digital age.

  • Denise Lee

    Denise Lee / 李筑 (lǐ zhú) (USA / Hong Kong / Taiwan) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Leipzig. Conversation is a key part of her methodology, where she uses interviews, creative writing and other dialogic encounters to fuel her work in sound art, intervention, and short film. With a background in public art, civic education and object design, Denise seeks to create physical and non-physical spaces for connection and dialog. Her current research explores alienation and belonging in the urban environment, diaspora and language, and longing in the digital age.

  • Philipp Kolychev

    Philipp Kolychev (1991) is an artist working with moving images and object installations, often using satire to get his point across. While his work has an ironic edge, the issues he tackles, like police violence, are serious and urgent. His earlier projects focused on automobilism or power dynamics between civil society and government, using wrecked cars and old vans as symbols of social exclusion and virtual elites. In recent years, he has shifted his attention to the housing crisis, exploring its impact in a critical way. Kolychev studied New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2013–2019). His video installations play with space and ask viewers to rethink ideas about power, wealth, and social norms.

  • Philipp Kolychev

    Philipp Kolychev (1991) is an artist working with moving images and object installations, often using satire to get his point across. While his work has an ironic edge, the issues he tackles, like police violence, are serious and urgent. His earlier projects focused on automobilism or power dynamics between civil society and government, using wrecked cars and old vans as symbols of social exclusion and virtual elites. In recent years, he has shifted his attention to the housing crisis, exploring its impact in a critical way. Kolychev studied New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2013–2019). His video installations play with space and ask viewers to rethink ideas about power, wealth, and social norms.

  • 06.07.2025 Introducing – Anne Schädlich
    Dialog field 3
    local spin-off

    Anne Schädlich (@studio.aeynee) works with her hands – sewing, painting, drawing, sometimes crocheting or building. Her art arises from impulses, not from plans. What emerges is often raw, fragmentary and never completely balanced – just as searching as she is. Between fabric and colour, she struggles with her own perfectionism and yet finds peace in her creative work. Her works are not about answers, but about trying things out, covering them up and finding them again.

  • Shubhangi Singh
    March 14, 2025
    Maja Simišić
    April 27, 2025
  • Marie Donike und Johannes Specks
    May 19, 2025
    Katariin Mudist
    June 29, 2025
  • Denise Lee
    July 11, 2025
    Philipp Kolychev
    August 24, 2025