Arrivals Hall
A bus stop has recently been installed right outside the Klub Solitaer e.V. project centre. Since then, people have been waiting outside the gallery windows, seeking shelter in the entrance when it rains or sitting on the windowsill. Very few come inside. Most just want to move on.
From 19 October to 1 November, the Glaskasten gallery will therefore be transformed into an arrivals hall kiosk.
For two weeks, it will be open daily from early morning until evening: as an exhibition space and meeting place, a workshop and living room, a stage and a place to linger. Have you found yourself on Zietenstraße? Come on in. Warm up, have a cup of tea, have a look around, stay a while. Discover installations and performances, take part in workshops, listen and discuss, eat and drink together, enjoy concerts – or simply join us.
Because we want to explore: what does a space need to encourage people to enter it? What conveys a sense of safety and belonging? And what turns a place where you just pop in briefly into a place where you want to stay?
To this end, the space itself is being reimagined and redesignedby Katharina Betz, Anna Brodmann and Annabel Schipper.
Over the course of two weeks, a wide variety of artistic, craft-based, culinary and discursive formats will come together here:
Installation“Utopian Institutions” by Anike Joyce Sadiq
19 October – 1 November 2026
Anike Joyce Sadiq is an artist and professor at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts. In her work, she explores questions of representation, belonging and power within social and institutional structures. With “Utopian Institutions”, she uses an anonymous survey to investigate who constitutes an institution, who can help shape it – and how it might change.
Performance video “UNTERWEGS – I haven’t lost my way; the way has lost me” by Banafsheh Nejati Barogh
19 October – 1 November 2026
Banafsheh Nejati Barogh,a theatre educator from Chemnitz , is developing the piece “UNTERWEGS – I haven’t lost my way” for the Ankunftshallen-Kiosk, in which diverse experiences and voices form the starting point for a multi-part video work.
Neighbourhood outreach with greater form
22 October – 24 October 2026
10.00 am – 5.00 pm
greater form are exploring how the Glaskasten gallery can become an even stronger hub for the neighbourhood. Together with you, we’ll be experimenting, gathering ideas and discussing: Who feels welcome here? What’s missing? And what would need to happen for more people to discover the gallery as a place that belongs to them too?
Workshop: Incense-burner* workshop with Christian Berens and Alexander Wagner
23 & 24 October 2026
3.00 pm – 7.00 pm
The end of the year is approaching and you still need a present? Or do you simply fancy making something lovely? We invite anyone interested to join us in letting a few worries go up in smoke. We’ll be building, gluing and sawing our own incense men*, animals and figures from found objects or whatever’s lying about. We can keep the little figures*, give them to our loved ones, show them off proudly, explain to everyone how we made them, or simply think some lovely thoughts. Whilst we’re making and doing, we’ll chat about this and that: What’s worrying us? Have you started smoking again? When is a man a man?
Workshop/Performance: Ferment-easy PingPong with easyeasy: Part 1: Ginger Beer
24 October 2026
4.00 pm – 7.00 pm
easyeasy is a Weimar-based collective at the intersection of art, performance, hospitality and communal dining. Using a mobile bar system, they develop adaptable formats that, depending on the location, become a bar, a kiosk, a meeting place or a performance. Their two-part workshop centres on fermentation: together, participants will make ginger beer and kimchi, accompanied by tastings, discussions and insights into microbial processes.
Mid-Fest
24 October 2026
from 6 pm
We’re celebrating Bergfest! easyeasy with ginger beer and snacks, a concert by Saeko Killy and a DJ set.
The Japanese musician Saeko Killy lives in Berlin and moves in an indefinable way between new wave, J-pop, NDW, industrial and electronic club music. At times driving and edgy, at times warm, and almost always dreamlike. Multilingualism, fragmented memories and the feeling of moving between places and states characterise her music.
Workshop/Performance: Ferment-easy PingPong with easyeasy: Part 2: Kimchi
25 October 2026
11:00–14:00
Kiosk discussion with Jacob Strobel about chairs
26 October 2026
7.00 pm
And because ‘arriving’ eventually also means taking a seat, we’ll be talking to Jacob Strobel about almost forgotten chairs and design. Jacob Strobel is an award-winning furniture designer and Professor of Wood Design at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Schneeberg.
Women’s*/Language Café with the neighbourhood pilots
29 October 2026
11.00–13.00
Workshop: WAITING ROOM with Raisan Hameed and Pooya Sedighi Mournani
30 October 2026
2.00 pm – 6.00 pm
What does it mean to arrive somewhere? When do we feel we have arrived – and can we ever truly arrive in a place?
In this workshop, the artists Raisan Hameed and Pooya Sedighi Mournani invite participants to explore the theme of ‘arriving’ through language, memory, perception and the city of Chemnitz.
Together, we will discuss how language shapes our perception of a place, look at artistic works and examples, and share different perspectives on the concept of ‘arrival’.
The focus will be on the question: How can we recognise when we have ‘arrived’? Does ‘arrival’ always have to be linked to a place, an encounter or a specific situation – or can it also be an inner, mental state? Participants will choose an image, an object, a word, a sound or another form that, for them, relates to ‘arrival’, and ask: Why does this particular thing, image or sound tell a story of ‘arrival’?
Back in the Waiting Room, these different fragments are brought together to form a shared, personal map of the city of Chemnitz.
No prior artistic experience is required.
‘Move Your Ass’ workshop with students from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Schneeberg
31 October 26
13:00 – 14:30, 14:30 – 16:00, 16:00 – 17:30
Students from Schneeberg will be bringing the “Move Your Ass” workshop, developed by Jacob Strobel, to the arrivals hall. You’ll have the chance to build your own stool, try it out and take it home with you at the end. Please register at info@klub-solitaer.de
Kiosk discussion with Dr Inken Carstensen-Egwuom and Prof Dr Anna Amelina on the theme of “Arrival”
31 October 26
6.00 pm
We’ll be talking to Dr Inken Carstensen-Egwuom from the “Integrative Geography” department at the University of Flensburg and Prof. Dr Anna Amelina from the Chair of “Intercultural Communication” at Chemnitz University of Technology about the city, migration, neighbourhoods, belonging and how settling in can actually work.
Workshop / Performance with ‘Ostdeutschland stays soft’
1 November 26
3.00 pm–5.00 pm
Ostdeutschland stays soft is a blanket.
It is large, soft and warm.
It engages with the concept of East Germany.
Make yourself comfortable, dream:
Which person from East Germany,
which landscape, which object or animal from East Germany would you like to lie here with?
Tell us about it, embroider it onto the blanket. Let’s have a good time together.
We’re travelling across the country with the blanket.
‘Ostdeutschland stays soft’ is a group of artists who engage with the concept of East Germany through performance, media and participatory art. We want to create a safe space for diverse East German stories, including the painful and violent ones.
It all kicks off on Monday, 19 October 2026, at 6.00 pm with the opening and a presentation of the programme.
Come along. Come along. Pop in. Stay a while.
Funded by the Socio-Cultural Fund from resources provided by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and co-funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony through tax revenue based on the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.
