call for artworks, performances and installations

The festival was founded in Chemnitz in 2003. It is one of the most renowned art events in Saxony and attracts thousands of visitors every year. Since 2010, the art festival has changed its venue every year. Since then, a former prison, empty cultural centers, abandoned allotments, an old brewery, disused department stores and schools, a drained water park, an abandoned museum and an overgrown train station have been among the festival's venues.

The Begehungen art festival sees itself as an inclusive and barrier-free festival. Access to all program items and the exhibition is free of charge. The festival is made possible by a lot of voluntary work by the members of Begehungen e. V. and many helpers.

The Begehungen art festival is looking for works of art that, with a view to the festival title EVERYTHING IS INTERACTION, make the complexity of the issues of resource consumption, species extinction and climate change visible on various level.

We are interested in creative reflections on the social, ecological and economic consequences of the climate crisis, on the debate on questions of justice and power, and on the social crises associated with it. Site-specific works that include the history, purpose or architecture of the festival location are possible.