It pounds when you rhythmically tap against a surface. We stand by our ideals. And when something moves us, our hearts pound. Pochen is also the name of a biennial in Chemnitz – a space for critical dialogue about the changes driving our society.

Symposium 2026
Community of Heirs?
Year-End Event
Pochen Logbook
2023-2025
Best of II – Visitor’s Choice
The art of seeing the everyday
Exhibition at Asortymentna Kimnata (Ivano-Frankivsk)
Where it all goes
The secret view of Wismut 2025
In cooperation with the Stasi Records Archive in Chemnitz
Discourse Days of Resonance 2025
In cooperation with the Documentation Center on the NSU Complex Chemnitz
KOSMOS 2025
In collaboration with the Else Frenkel-Brunswik Institute
Silent Names: Anda, Gilel, and others
Exploring echoes: Multiple voices, parallel stories
A collaborative project between the Pochen Biennial (Chemnitz), HELLERAU (Dresden), WRO Art Center (Wrocław), Jam Factory Art Center (Lviv) and the Center for Urban History (Lviv)
Exhibition at Wirkbau Chemnitz
What we are made of
Biennial 2024
Ex Oriente Ignis
NEW ECOLOGIES - Presences II 2024
In cooperation with the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
KOSMOS 2024
In cooperation with Office for Wish Development
Symposium 2023
Has our world really become fragile?
Biennial 2022
The (new) Measuring of the World
Symposium 2021
The (new) Measuring of the World
Biennial 2020
Prize of the Future
Symposium 2019
Biennial 2018
Days of Departure
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