With the Pochen Biennale, every two years, Chemnitz becomes a place for contemporary multimedia and participatory art in Central and Eastern Germany. With committed local and international participation, an artistic center for breakage, for the fragile, for relics worth protecting, and for possible future scenarios is created.

With our first biennial in 2018, we wanted to create something that had never existed in this city before: an artistic, discursive forum for telling stories using multimedia.

A new curation is invited to each biennial, which works together with the team in an intensive exchange. Much has changed; some things have become more demanding, larger, and more international. After the "Tage des Aufbruchs” (“Days of Departure"), we appreciated the "Preis der Zukunft" (“Prize of the Future”) and dedicated ourselves to the “Neue Vermessung der Welt” ("New Measurement of the World"). Always with an eye on the East. And why all this? We are convinced that what we are doing can change Chemnitz, enrich East Germany, and strengthen a pluralistic society. The Biennale doesn't gloss over anything, but it also shows that not everything is always bad.