SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 2025

Over 80 exhibitors from the fields of jewellery, ceramics, glass, metal, paper and toys will once again be presenting their unique pieces and small series this year.

All objects can also be purchased.

The museum presents an fascinating selection from the immense and exciting repertoire of new acquisitions in recent years.

In the face of global challenges, designers and artists are increasingly concerned with aspects of possible "futures". The exhibition explores the question of what role design can play in these futures.

The museum showed the impressive photo series CONTEST by Leipzig photographer Erasmus Schröter (1965-2021). The series showed portraits of young people at the Wave Gothic Meeting in Leipzig from 2011 to 2018. His photographs play with and make us reflect on themes such as identity and social positioning.

The Dresden artist Hermann Naumann has spent five decades artistically exploring the work of Franz Kafka. The museum presented a small selection of prints and printing plates.

In the 1920s and 1930s, basic geometric shapes were typical motifs in all areas such as architecture, fashion and everyday objects. Circles, triangles and squares also repeatedly appeared as decorations or formal elements on the boxes produced by the porcelain manufacturers of the time. The geometric paintings on Rosenthal boxes are of particularly high quality and a whole series of them were presented in the exhibition.

The foyer exhibition showed works by Alfred Schäfter, who was influenced by Burg Giebichenstein and Bauhaus Dessau, his son Wolfgang Schäfter and his daughter-in-law Erika Schäfter - from the 1920s to the early 21st century. Three manuscripts in a range of materials from silver and gold to copper, brass and acrylic.