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The transport sector is responsible for 22% of CO₂ emissions in Germany and therefore plays an important role in debates about the climate crisis. Back in 2006, the artist duo Haubitz + Zoche addressed this issue with their work Blind Date and exhibited a silver-blue BMW filled to the headrests with water in Munich’s city centre. Almost 20 years later, this work can be seen in front of the Freie Presse as part of the exhibition NEW ECOLOGIES Gegenwarten II. Chemnitz was rebuilt as a car-friendly city after the war and remains so to this day. The automotive industry is firmly anchored in Germany’s economy and consciousness. While some are calling for the socio-ecological conversion of car production to trains, trams and buses to save jobs, new e-car factories, such as Tesla in Brandenburg right now, are supposed to rescue individual transport into the future.

Art historian Susanne Prinz, director of the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, will talk to artist Stefanie Zoche about her work in the context of the climate crisis.

The discussion will then continue on the topic of mobility and the climate crisis with input from Peer Ehmke, Martin Schmidt and Janine Korduan. Peer Ehmke is a research assistant at the Schlossbergmuseum Chemnitz and has been working on urban development visions in Karl-Marx-Stadt/Chemnitz for quite some time. Martin Schmidt is the city office manager of teilauto in Chemnitz. The car sharing service has been growing continuously since 1992. Janine Korduan is involved in the alliance Tesla den Hahn abdrehen and the citizens’ initiative Grünheide in the protests against the Tesla plant in Brandenburg.

Patrick Will takes an indepth look at the stinging nettle. He confronts the stigma of the weed with earnestness and botanical attention to detail, creating convincing multi-dimensional references to the plant in industry, the food culture, medicine, music and art history.
Using artistic means, he succeeds in creating a seriousness and attention for the apparent weed without artificially elevating it.
By means of walks, workshops and lectures, he makes the manifold connections between human beings and nettles visible. Most recently, he resorted to nettles in the Chemnitz region.

For the earthworks, the Weed Information Centre, which he initiated and runs, conducts investigative research to uncover the means by which states and municipalities implement a image of gardening that stands against botanical diversity and for the exclusion of some plant species.

Opening of the mixed media installation. A water pool, a floating loudspeaker, waves, words and sky. Searching for reflection and resonance in the exhibition space.

The installation “In-Fluence” sends the amplified sound of words into a pool of water that casts shadows on the wall. The work addresses the human impact on nature and, in this context, our precious resource water, the basis of all life on this earth, but also our dependence on it.

Photo: Hannah Doepke

In summer, the heavy heat from heat islands is particularly noticeable. These are areas in the city that heat up particularly quickly and cool down only slowly, mainly due to the sealing of surfaces and little shade. The artist Anna Lorenzana takes up the topic of “heat islands” in the context of the exhibition NEW ECOLOGIES Gegenwarten II and developed a graphic work on an advertising pillar to draw attention to these places in the city. For this, she used map material from the company ThINK GmbH, which was generated in July 2023 as part of a project with the Environmental Agency and the Saxon State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology using satellite data. Citizens are cordially invited to take part in an open discussion with the artist and representatives of the Environmental Agency and ThiNK GmbH to shed light on the topic from different perspectives and answer questions.

Speakers:
Anna Lorenzana – Artist
Sarah Arnold – Environmental Agency City of Chemnitz
Jakob Maercker, Dennis Kehl – THINK GmbH

Duration: 6 – 7:30 pm
Language: German

Photo: Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz/graukarte.info

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