Dialogfelder

What is missing in the neighborhood? How can the neighborhood’s artistic and decentralized potential as well as that of its citizens be tapped, the public space be revitalized and tested and the neighborhood be culturally impacted? In a predominantly negatively reputed metropolitan area, the Dialogfelder seek to break through the existing visual and emotional barrier to the neighborhood, creating occasional interventions along the Zietenstraße as reasons to stroll and pause. With art in public space, we create a field of friction in which discussions on urbanity, living spaces and collaborative processes in everyday urban life can develop.

To this end, we invite six artists from different fields of work over a period of six months. In three sub-projects they investigate the Southern Sonnenberg in a residency context; they live in the district and explore it by artistic means under an annually changing theme. Chemnitz creatives accompany each project duo throughout the entire period and document their joint experiences, thus stimulating an intensive exchange beyond the boundaries of city and genre.

The Dialogfelder was implemented for the fourth time in 2021. In 2018, the project was made possible in a larger framework of five double residencies thanks to funding from the Federal Cultural Foundation.
The Dialogfelder are run as a residency programme of the European Capital of Culture 2025.

For further details and project documentation see https://www.dialogfelder.de/