Chemnitz, the European Capital of Culture 2025, has reached around 3.5 million people, thereby significantly exceeding its original target of two million visitors.

An institutional delegation comprising representatives of the 2025 European Capitals of Culture – including the Mayor of Gorizia, Rodolfo Ziberna; the Mayor of Nova Gorica, Samo Turel; the director of ECoC projects in Chemnitz, Josephine Hage – took part in a day of meetings and institutional activities in Skopje in recent days, with the aim of sharing the results achieved and making expertise and experience available to support Skopje’s bid for the title of European Capital of Culture 2028.

At its extraordinary meeting on 25 March, the Supervisory Board of Kulturhauptstadt Europas Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH unanimously appointed Josephine Hage as the new Managing Director with effect from 1 October 2026.

The European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 will bid farewell to the programme year this weekend with an outstanding (preliminary) result: the motto "C the Unseen" no longer applies - Chemnitz is now a fixed, visible point on the map of Germany, Europe and the world.

The opening of a work by the world-famous US land art artist James Turrell on Friday 28 November 2025 in Oelsnitz/Erzgeb. will be the glowing finale of the Capital of Culture year. Turrell's light sculpture "Ganzfeld - Beyond Horizons 2025" will be installed as part of the PURPLE PATH art and sculpture trail  on the site of the former coal mine.