The three-aisled industrial hall transformed for this purpose by the H2 ARCHITEKTUR by hendrik heine office from Lichtenstein on behalf of the town of Oelsnitz/Erzgeb. formulates a completely new idea of monument preservation. The steel skeleton of the former 1,600 square meter hall was dismantled, restored and will be re-erected together with the crane runway. It forms the framework for an exhibition building clad in Corten steel, for which James Turrell has designed his light art work "Ganzfeld - Beyond Horizons 2025".
Turrell has been creating skyspaces and Ganzfelds around the world since the 1980s, and important works of his can be found on the Japanese art island of Naoshima. A work like the light artwork developed for Chemnitz 2025 has so far only been experienced in a similar form in Germany on a temporary basis in 2009/10 at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. It offers visitors a unique experience. They are immersed and become part of a shadowless installation of colored light that seems to dissolve the sense of time and space.
The light artwork will be open to visitors from Saturday, November 29, 2025 and will also be accessible after the end of the Capital of Culture year.