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GEH8 2030 – Feasibility Study for GEH8
Long-term vision for GEH8 – a development concept emerges With funding from the Sociocultural Fund, […]
WERKRaum Ausstellung + Vernissage & Finissage // Matthias Bausch + Kerstin Franke-Gneuß – planeten
In der Ausstellung „planeten” finden abstrakte und surrealistisch anmutende Bildlandschaften zueinander. Das kraftvolle Schwarz-Weiß der […]
GEH8 Bühne
Ab 3. November, 18 Uhr, startet in der GEH8 ein neuer Theaterkurs für Erwachsene. In […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Opening Reception // Artists of GEH8 – ALL IN
with Bela Alvarez, Marleen Andreev, Andreas Bauer, Matthias Bausch, Tobias Bohnet, Thomas Judisch, Michael Merkel, […]
KG[O] Festivaltour in der GEH8
Am 02. Oktober 2025 setzt sich die Festivaltour in Dresden fort. Die Veranstaltungen sind ein […]
“Trashformers – when trash becomes art!” upcycling workshop for young people
Hast du Bock auf Kreativität mit echtem Impact? In unserem Workshop verwandelst du alten „Müll“ […]
WeinLese – GEH8-LitLabLoversClub: Sex sells reloaded!
Weinlese im LitLabLoversClub – Sex sells reloaded: Am Donnerstag, 04. September 2025 um 20.30 Uhr, […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte: Musik trifft Lyrik mit Munka & Niclas
Im Rahmen der Kunst.Raum.Konzerte verschmelzen Musik, bildende Kunst und Performance in interaktiven Veranstaltungen. Jedes Event […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte: Musik trifft Tanz mit Cocotá & Kristin Mente
Im Rahmen der Kunst.Raum.Konzerte verschmelzen Musik, bildende Kunst und Performance in interaktiven Veranstaltungen. Jedes Event […]
Colorful flea market (from clothing to knickknacks) at GEH8
Come to the 8th flea market on the GEH8 premises. You can sell anything from […]
WERKRaum Ausstellung + Vernissage & Finissage // WHO IS IN? LITTOPIA (Kathrin Assauer, Silke Tobeler) + Fehmi Baumbach & Christine Zureich – We are the Words
„We are the Words“ lädt ein, Sprache nicht nur zu sprechen, sondern zu formen. Worte […]
NE TRAVELLEZ JAMAIS – Das KloHäuschen München reist nach Dresden [auf Einladung von Heinz Schmöller]
Das KloHäuschen aus München reist nach Dresden … … und mit ihm über 50 Künstler/-innen […]
Pecha Kucha Pieschen
Auch 2025 geht es wieder in eine neue Runde der Pecha Kucha Nights in Pieschen! […]
“Barron” – the new book by Edgar Leciejewski published by GEH8-Verlag
A coming-of-age story about the limits of perception and communication. On 144 pages, Leipzig-based artist […]
GEH8 ist Mitglied beim Landesverband Soziokultur Sachsen
Seit 2025 ist die GEH8 Mitglied beim Landesverband Soziokultur Sachsen. Die Mission des Landesverbandes ist […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // August Willi Lange + Michael Merkel – TORE UND AMORE. Wie der Vater, so der Sohn
The exhibition “Tore and Amore. Like father, like son” invites you to explore the creative […]
5TH MEET&STREET – DAS STREETPHOTOGRAPHY TREFFEN
Das Meet&Street ist das größte Treffen der deutschsprachigen Streetphotography Community mit jährlich 200 – 300 […]
Exhibition + Vernissage „WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER”
In our time, social, political and economic differences are becoming increasingly visible and more intensively […]
Ausstellungsführung + Künstlergespräch // “We’re all in this together! Wir sitzen alle im selben Boot.” mit Edgar Leciejewski
The GEH8 group exhibition 2025 is dedicated to the current discourse on social cohesion and […]
Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Ausstellung ,,WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER” zum Thema: ,,Politische Freund*innenschaften: Postkolonial denken, politisch handeln” mit Nikita Dhawan & María do Mar Castro Varela
Immer wieder werden postkoloniale Studien mit »Identitätspolitik« und »Tribalismus« gleichgesetzt, obschon Gayatri Spivak bemerkt, dass […]
Brazzcalation Overtüre 2025
From July 4-6, eight activist brass bands from Italy, France, Austria and Saxony will meet […]
Bunter Flohmarkt (von Kleidung bis Kleinkram) an der GEH8
Kommt vorbei zum 7. Flohmarkt auf dem Gelände der GEH8. Es kann alles von Kleidung […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Stefan Lenke + Johann Husser – Schichten
Urban spaces and fragments of our everyday world become the source of Lenke and Husser’s […]
Groupexhibition: OBSERVING SYSTEMS – vom Beobachten und Beobachtet werden (Axel Obiger, Berlin, zu Gast in der GEH8)
Observing systems are systems that systematically and purposefully gather basic or supplementary knowledge. Often working […]
Open Studios 2025
Since 2007, the old Bahn-Halle in Gehestraße has been a creative melting pot – now […]
“Always forward, backward too—your story, your life.” An intergenerational biographical comic and writing workshop for young people and seniors.
Telling your own life story and sharing experiences plays an important role in all relationships […]
“We’re all in this together! Writing together, growing together.” A writing workshop for seniors
We’re all in this together! Writing together, growing together. The writing workshop offered seniors the […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Marleen Andreev + Amanda Bartak: LIAISON Kunst trifft Design – Ausstellung und Diskursfeld
Visual artist Marleen Andreev invites designer Amanda Bartak to the GEH8 workroom. Both share a […]
WERKRaum Exhibition+ Vernissage // Claudia Kleiner + Olicía – Kleine Töne
In January, February and March, the Werkraum presents the project “Kleine Töne”, in which the […]
OPEN CALL FOR THE DESIGN OF FLAGS ON THE TOPIC„WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER“
BACKGROUND With the 2025 annual theme “We’re All in This Together”, the GEH8 art and […]
OPEN CALL TO THE EXHIBITION „WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER“
BACKGROUND In the planned group exhibition “We’re All in This Together”, the GEH8 art and […]
That was our graffiti workshop ,,The winner takes it all? – Take it easy!”
Anyone who moves around in urban areas is inevitably confronted with vibrant colors and images […]
WERKRaum Group Exhibition + Vernissage // The winner
Marleen Andreev, Kathrin Assauer, Matthias Bausch, Claudia Kleiner, Thomas Judisch, Michael Merkel, Julia Pommer and […]
2nd Offline Market at GEH8
The Offline Market is coming back to GEH8! On December 7 and 8, 2024 from […]
Our New Green Façade Is Here!
In 2024, the eastern façade of GEH8 received a new green face! The winning design […]
Writingworkshop with Birthe Mühlhoff
Learn from the Pieschen author and translator Birthe Mühlhoff how to write inspiring texts, exchange […]
WERKRaum Exhibition+ Vernissage // LITTOPIA (Kathrin Assauer & Silke Tobeler) + Claudia Christoffel – BOSS* The winner takes it all
Claudia Christoffel studied media and visual communication at the HFBK in Hamburg. She received the […]
,,THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL? – TAKE IT EASY!” A graffitiworkshop for teens
Fancy graffiti and street art? Then come to our free, five-day graffiti workshop and […]
LIQUID LOVE. Ein performatives Konzert über die Flüchtige Moderne
Der Soziologe Zygmunt Bauman beschrieb in seinem Buch „Liquid Love“ (2003) die Tendenz zu einer […]
Pecha Kucha Pieschen at GEH8
A new round of Pecha Kucha Nights in Pieschen will start again in 2024! Open […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte presents: Music meets Painting! With Kravchenko Klees Duo and Isolde Leonhardt + Susann Brenner.
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. Music […]
Joint waste collection campaign by SchönerPieschen and GEH8
On October 26, 2024, the SchönerPieschen initiative, together with GEH8, invites you to its fifth […]
Konzert: Seventh Floor – “Chronicle” Release Tour
Are you ready to create memories for eternity? Because that’s exactly what the Dresden indie […]
KG[O] FESTIVAL TOUR DRESDEN IN DER GEH8
Mit einem erfolgreichen Auftakt startete die KG[O] Festivaltour im letzten Jahr. Im November 2024 gibt […]
Photography workshop “Introduction to photography: from theory to practice” with Christoph Lämmel
Learn from Christoph Lämmel how to take good photos, be introduced to photography and get […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Matthias Bausch + Ekkehard Tischendorf – NONPLUSULTRA
Matthias Bausch studied painting and graphic art at the Dresden Academy of Art and […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte presents: Music meets Cooking! With Peuker and Que Chévere.
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. Music […]
Fleamarket at GEH8
Come along to the 6th flea market on the grounds of GEH8. Everything from clothes […]
WeinLese – GEH8-LitLabLoversClub
WeinLese – GEH8-LitLabLoversClub The story behind the story – Vorglühen – Sex Sells WeinLese marks […]
7th international Elbe Dock Festival
The ELBE DOCK International Film Festival is a competitive showcase of the best short films […]
Druckwerkstatt “Dein Plakat – Deine Message” + “Mosaik – Ein Gewimmel an Sprachen” von Kultur Aktiv e.V.
Druckwerkstatt “Dein Plakat – Deine Message” in der GEH8 Gegeneinander – nebeneinander – miteinander – […]
Matthias Lorenz // Fremdbestimmt 4: Sound
Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau – Program compilation / Matthias Lorenz – Violoncello We all have an idea […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // REAL INSECT ESTATE
In February 2021, the GEH8 art and culture center launched a design competition for an […]
Neighborhood brunch at GEH8
Solidarische Aktion Pieschen invites you to a neighborhood brunch. It would like to introduce itself, […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Music meets Yoga! With Forest Roots & Anna Zepnick.
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. Music […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Tiziana Foit + Lea Weiß – Berührungspunkte. Betrachtungen zu Zärtlichkeit
Peach fuzz on skin, flowers in the kitchen, long sundays under the covers, laughing and […]
Exhibition + Vernissage „THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL!?”
“The winner takes it all!” is the title of the annual program of the GEH8 […]
Participation in the Green Culture Festival 2024 in Potsdam
On June 3, 2024, GEH8 took part in the Green Culture Festival at Sanssouci Park […]
It’s here! The project film for the performative reading of “*Topie – Space is the case” (2023)
Last year, *TOPIE was the title and occasion for the publication of an anthology by […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Lea Hoffbauer + Margarita Mednikova – leaking
It drips and flows when Lea Hoffbauer builds up her pictures layer by layer. Ink […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Thomas Judisch + Robert Vanis – Die Kubatur des Alltags
This year we are continuing our GEH8 + 1 concept, in which each studio tenant […]
KG[O] FESTIVAL TOUR DRESDEN AT GEH8 – ROUND TWO!
Saxony’s creative music scene in the spotlight On April 13, 2024, the second round of […]
Filmfest Dresden „Total Refusal: Everyday Daylight“
In a live gaming lecture, the media guerrilla Total Refusal takes us through the digital […]
Participation of GEH8 at the 9th Künstlermesse Dresden
The upcoming KÜNSTLERMESSE DRESDEN will take place from March 22 – 24, 2024 at the […]
3rd children’s flea market in the GEH8
Come along to the 3rd children’s flea market on the grounds of GEH8. It starts […]
Open Call to the Exhibition: THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL!?
“The winner takes it all!” is the title of GEH8’s 2024 annual program. In a […]
Georgic cooking evening for all generations at GEH8
This evening aims to bring together different people from Pieschen. In cooperation with the Georgians […]
WERKRaum Exhibition+ Vernissage // IN CASE
Marleen Andreev, Matthias Bausch, Thomas Judisch, Stefan Lenke, Michael Merkel, Julia Pommer, Heinz Schmöller, Sara […]
GEH8 in „111 Orte in Dresden, die man gesehen haben muss”
“What happened to Europe’s largest abattoir? What does the molar of a woolly rhinoceros […]
Teilnahme der GEH8 am Projekt „GREEN CULTURE INDEX” mit eigener Klimabilanz
2023 nahm die GEH8 am Projekt „Green Culture Index Sachsen“ (GCI) teil, um erstmals überhaupt […]
ANNUAL REVIEW 2023 AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Dear friends of GEH8, An eventful year full of diverse experiences and encounters is coming […]
Offline Market at GEH8
In cooperation with the GEH8 café, the offline store will take place on December 9 […]
5th Verstärker Art-Film-Festival: The winners have been announced!
THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED! This year, the Verstärker Art-Film-Festival took place on October 7. […]
KG[O] FESTIVALTOUR
On November 11, 2023, the festival will start in Dresden and continue its spectacular […]
“Traces of Jewish Life in Hellerau in the 1930s and the Rediscovery of the Garden City as a Nazi Place of Longing” – Lecture Commemorating the 85th Anniversary of the 1938 Pogroms.
“Traces of Jewish Life in Hellerau in the 1930s and the Rediscovery of the Garden […]
PECHA KUCHA PIESCHEN
Open stage for inspiration & networking Cultural professionals present current projects in 6:40 min each […]
WERKRaum Exhibition+ Vernissage // Stefan Lenke + Christoph Wüstenhagen (Hamburg) – Anbetracht des Mondes
The moon serves both artists as a fixed instance in a constantly changing world. It […]
Holger Kasten Grauberg – Gallwespen (Soundcollage and Paperinstallation)
Holger Kasten Grauberg likes to stage things, objects and images. In his new, wall-sized collage […]
Summergarden Concert: Heated Land
Heated Land, an Americana band project around singer and songwriter Andreas Mayrock, who lives in […]
5th Verstärker Art-Film-Festival: participating entries
The selection is ready! Here you can find all participants of our 5th Verstärker Art-Film-Festival, […]
Colorful flea market (from clothes to odds and ends) at GEH8
Come by for the 4th flea market on the grounds of GEH8. Everything from clothes […]
The three-part project “*Topie – Space is the Case” – Publication – Performance – Exhibition
follows an interdisciplinary approach and interweaves different artistic genres -literature, performance, visual arts and music- […]
*TOPIE – SPACE IS THE CASE: A PERFORMATIVE READING & WERKRaum Exhibition „*TOPIE” with Pop-up-Reading for the DCA-OPEN-Gallery-Tour
*TOPIE – SPACE IS THE CASE: A performative reading Foto: AuditivVokal *TOPIE is the title […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte presents: crimejazzorchestra meets Matthieu Anatrella
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. In […]
6th Intenational Elbe Dock Festival
The ELBE DOCK International Film Festival is a competition for the best short films from […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Dell Lillinger Westergaard meets Matthias Gruner (presented by Dresdner Drum & Bass Festival)
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. In […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte presents: Peter Piek
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. In […]
Extend! 5th Verstärker Kunst-Film-Festival: Call for Entries
On the 7th of October the GEH8 Art and Culture Center in Dresden will host […]
OF CHICKENS AND PEOPLE – exhibition, film and exchange around our favorite country animal.
For years, Swedish artist Lovisa Lesse photographed friends on her small farm in Östergötland (Sweden) […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Michael Merkel + Pictoric (Ukraine) – MAKE ART NOT WAR
The Pictoric Illustrators Club is a community of Ukrainian illustrators, graphic designers and artists founded […]
Exhibition + Midissage: Energiekulturfabrik
The region around Chemnitz used to be one of Germany’s industrial heartlands, a region on […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Marleen Andreev + Juliane Schmidt – Justthetwoofus
Just as lines meet in a drawing, the paths of the visual artists Marleen Andreev […]
OPEN STUDIOS 2023
Since 2007, the old Deutsche Bahn hall in Gehestraße has been a new home for […]
Exhibition + Vernissage „SPACE IS THE CASE”
Space is the Case is the title of the 2023 annual program of the GEH8 […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Thomas Judisch + Susanne Ring – Über Kinderträume und andere Weisheiten
Wishes are spaces of experience – vessels in which thoughts, once conceived, can manifest themselves. […]
Matthias Lorenz // Fremdbestimmt 3: Wissenschaft
For his current concert series, Matthias Lorenz has given six composers a content-related task and […]
2nd children’s clothes flea market in the GEH8
Come to the 2nd children’s flea market on the grounds of GEH8. It starts at […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Nilsson Samuelsson + Svea Duwe – KRITISCHE MASSE
CRITICAL MASS – Space installation by Svea Duwe and Nilsson Samuelsson on activism, art and […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Tiziana Foit + Franz Burkhardt: Poetics of Cities – analoge Architekturfotografien im urbanen Raum
The exhibition shows a selection of photographs taken in recent years on forays through large […]
Seed-exchange
Are you looking for rarities and treasures for the coming gardening season? You have seeds […]
Open Call “Space is the case”
From April 29 to June 04, the GEH8 Art and Cultural Center is organizing an […]
Review of the year 2022
Dear friends of GEH8, with fast steps we are approaching the end of the year […]
Announcement publication children’s book: GEH8 – Was machen die da eigentlich?
Still looking for the perfectgift for you and your loved ones? Get a copy of […]
Filmscreenings to the Football World Championship 2022
No World Cup in the tournament’s nearly century-long history has been as controversial as this […]
WERKRaum Exhibition+ Vernissage // Brot und Spiele
Thomas Judisch Michael Merkel Heinz Schmöller et al. No World Cup in the tournament’s nearly […]
Pecha Kucha Night at Zentralwerk Pieschen
Pecha Kucha (Japanese for “chatting all the time”, registered word mark) is a lecture technique […]
Space is the case
On Friday, December 9, the Institut für räumliche Resilienz e.V. and GEH8 Kunst Raum Ateliers […]
Dear Future – Dresden Sustainability Festival
Our world is constantly changing and it is primarily in our hands what the future […]
Pecha Kucha Night at Galvanohof in Pieschen
Eleven creative artists present their current projects at the Galvanohof in Pieschen at the Creative […]
Exhibition „UNDER CONSTRUCTION” – Opening with Come Together & DCA-Tour
“Construction time again” is the motto for the artistic program of GEH8 in Dresden in […]
Colorful flea market (from clothes to odds and ends) at GEH8
Come by for the 2nd flea market on the grounds of GEH8. This time everything […]
Matthias Lorenz // Fremdbestimmt 2: Werk/Prozess
The concert on 28.9. continues the series “fremdbestimmt” of cellist Matthias Lorenz. This year Benjamin […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Organ Clash meets Kumo
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. In […]
If paradise is half as nice IPIHAN#12
Last year, GEH8 Kunst Raum Ateliers launched the project Frei.Raum.Direkt., a multi-layered examination of the […]
Winning designs of the call for entries: Hanging gardens or: Nobody intends to green a wall
GEH8 wants to combine environmental protection with design and was looking for unusual and fresh […]
Fête macht mobil! The Open-Air at your doorstep.
Fête makes mobile! On September 09 and 10, it’s Fête macht mobil again! – The […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Heinz Schmöller – LOOPS
Sculptor and video artist Heinz Schmöller [b. 1975] primarily creates video loops among his video […]
4th Verstärker Art Film Festival: The winners have been announced!
THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN DETERMINED! From June 17 – 18, 2022, GEH8 organized the 4th […]
Pecha Kucha Night at GEH8
Open stage for inspiration & networking: Actors from the fields of art, culture, sports and […]
Open Studios – GEH8
Since 2007, the old Deutsche Bahn wagon repair hall in Gehestraße has been a new […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Julia Pommer – DUG unplugged
“The Neverending Story” by Michael Ende is probably familiar to most. The GEH8 workroom takes […]
MARIUPOL, I LOVE YOU: Movie Night / Benefit PEACE FOR UKRAINE!
What do you know about Mariupol? Mariupol is a port, a resort, home to a […]
Colorful baby and children flea market in the GEH8
Come by for the 1st baby/children flea market on the grounds of GEH8. It […]
Cello Concert by Sofia von Freydorf & Tobias Bäz
In November 2021, the two young cellists Sofia von Freydorf and Tobias Bäz met for […]
4th Verstärker Art-Film-Festival: participating entries
From June 17 – 18, 2022, the GEH8 Art and Culture Center in Dresden will […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Johannes Gerstengarbe meets Tim Schreiber
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. In […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Tolyqyn meets Susanna Großmann
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. In […]
Concert Kronenquartett
In June 2020, four Dresden-based musicians meet and immediately a musical symbiosis with a common […]
5th International Elbe Dock Festival
The ELBE DOCK International Film Festival is a competition presenting film students and debut and […]
Outside the Bounding Box – junge Designpositionen zu künstlicher Intelligenz
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now the ubiquitous pace-setter of automation. At the same time, it […]
50 Uhr [das DU im ICH]
A tribute to Matthias Kornetzky (1957 – 2019). Matthias Kornetzky was a central figure in […]
Open Call to the exhibition „under construction“
“Construction time again” is the motto for the artistic program of GEH8 in Dresden in […]
RauschKörper: Dance piece for teenagers from 14 years
RauschKörper thematizes the allure of intoxication, but also the decay of body and soul through […]
GEH8 supports ARTISTS IN WAR program of Jam Factory Art Center, Lviv, Ukraine
Dear friends of GEH8! Today we turn to you with a special and important request. […]
Summergarden OPEN AGAIN
Dear visitors of the GEH8, it is finally time again! The summer garden opens again […]
We become greener! III
This year, too, the grounds of GEH8 will be given a helping hand, because we […]
Talk + Reading: “LIEBE SVENJA” VON NILSSON SAMUELSSON
On December 1, 2021, the book “Dear Svenja – 46 Postcards to the Federal Environment […]
Signing of the Dresdner Charta für Nachhaltigkeit im Kultursektor
On Friday, March 25, 2022, we as an arts and cultural center and 24 other […]
Replacement of the flags on the installation “G? Flags” by Saeed Foroghi
“We all ask ourselves, why is the noise of war swelling again? Another war besides […]
Exhibition ,,REITER#STAND#BILD OR AN EQUESTRIAN STATUE“
The theme of the exhibition is the equestrian statue. “The ruler on horseback” in its […]
Participation of GEH8 in the eighth artists’ fair in Dresden
Also this year the artist fair Dresden takes place for the eighth time! The […]
Win at teilAuto’s 2021 christmas promotion!
We are pleased to announce the winners of teilAuto’s 2021 Christmas campaign! 15 winners […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Stefan Lenke – Painting
Six photographs are the starting point of Stefan Lenke’s new exhibition. Perpetuated in passing as […]
The final documentary on Frei.Raum.Direkt. 2021 is here!
It’s done! We are pleased to announce the completion of the documentation of our project […]
Call for entries: 4th Verstärker Art-Film-Festival
Apply now until 5/8/2022! From June 17 – 18, 2022, the GEH8 Art and Culture […]
WERKRaum exhibition + vernissage // Claudia Kleiner
“[…] A central aspect of the working process in Claudia Kleiner’s works is stillness. […]
Review of the year 2021
Dear friends of GEH8, for the second time a year comes to an end, which, […]
Announcement! Book launch: Real Insect Estate
OUT NOW! It’s finally here. Under the title REAL INSECT ESTATE, GEH8 2021 launched a […]
eku – FUTURE PRIZE idea: Hanging Gardens. Facade greening at the art and culture center GEH8
In recent years, GEH8 has taken various measures to make its own contribution in the […]
WERKRaum exhibition + vernissage with shop window // Thomas Judisch – Dear Good
INFO: Due to the current situation, the exhibition will only be visible through the new […]
Review OURSPACE Fall Course 2021
For the last time, young people from Pieschen and the Hechtviertel were able to give […]
Frei.Raum.Direkt. Documentation-Video
We are happy to announce the completion of our documentary video as a review of […]
WERKRaum exhibition + vernissage // Susanne Engelhardt: Treasure Islands – Altars, Vases and Bowls made of Ceramics
For more than 10 years Susanne Engelhardt’s studio in GEH8 has been a center of […]
Anmeldung zum OURSPACE Herbstkurs 2021
Five-day workshop – October 18-22, 2021 at GEH8, Gehestr. 8, 01127 Dresden For the last […]
Review OURSPACE Sommercamp N°2 & N°3
At the last two summer camps it was once again: build, saw, spray & nail […]
3rd Verstärker Art-Film-Festival: Award Winners
The winners have been announced! As part of the “Verstärker Program” to support young artists, […]
Announcement: Graphic Novel by Nilsson Samuelsson – Liebe Svenja
On December 1, 2021, the book “Liebe Svenja – 46 Postcards to the Federal Environment […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Sara Hoppe – Fragments
With the upcoming exhibition in the WERKRaum of GEH8, the artist Sara Hoppe shows new […]
Umundu Festival – CLIMATE OF CHANGE (Guided Tour & Film + Talk)
Global climate change is arguably the greatest challenge facing our world today. The risks and […]
Shaping Europe! Participation formats in the EU
Europe is shaped from Brussels? Not true: Europe is everywhere and much closer than is […]
WERKRaum Exhibition + Vernissage // Michael Merkel – Einhundertachtundfünfzig Krankenwagen
In October 2021, Michael Merkel will present works from his medical repertoire in the WERKRaum […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Gomringer & Scholz
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. In […]
The Reading Club Festival: Ally Klein – The Whale
“Literature as a dare – Ally Klein shows how it can be done.” Wolfgang Huber-Lang […]
3rd Verstärker Art-Film-Festival: participating entries
As part of the Verstärker Program to support young artists, GEH8 is hosting the 3rd […]
Frei.Raum.Direkt. Young Satellites – DIY Building Workshop
young satellites / DIY – Building Workshop Here we saw and build! We design the […]
Frei.Raum.Direkt. BRAIN WALK WITH AFTER WALK PARTY
BRAIN WALK Old Leipzig Station with After-Walk-Party We invite you next Wednesday from 5 pm […]
Esther Kokmeijer / Rotterdam – Artist Residency #3 – Frei.Raum.Direkt.
August 17 – 20, 2021 Frei.Raum.Direkt. Artist Residency #3 Esther Kokmeijer (Rotterdam) From August 17-20, […]
REVIEW OURSPACE SUMMER CAMP N° 1
From July 26 to July 30, OURSPACE SUMMER CAMP N° 1 was all about being […]
real insect estate – award winners
The winners have been determined! In February 2021, GEH8 launched a design competition for an […]
Frei.Raum.Direkt.
With the project Frei.Raum.Direkt. we were able to test artistic practices as tools for […]
Windkanal – New music for recorders and accordion
For the concert project we have chosen an unusual instrument duo: Accordion and recorders. Both […]
WERKraum Re-Opening
Already last year, the WERKraum created a showcase for the studio tenants of the GEH8, […]
Concert Kronenquartett
In June 2020, four Dresden-based musicians meet and immediately a musical symbiosis with a common […]
Pecha Kucha Night
Eleven creative artists present their current projects in GEH8 – each contribution lasts 6:40 minutes. […]
Fête makes mobile! – The open air on your doorstep
Fête makes mobile! – The open air on your doorstep – special edition 2021 More […]
OURSPACE summer camps
At our summer camps in July and August we are on the road on brownfields […]
Exhibition + Finissage-Brunch: Grüner wird’s nicht!?
Exhibition + Finissage-Brunch „Grüner wird’s nicht!?” In the discussion of the annual theme 2021 of […]
This is how it went at the graffiti workshops
Well equipped with plenty of spray cans, OUR SPACE started into the summer of 2021. […]
Opening – G? Flaggschiffe
G? Flaggschiffe Opening of Saeed Foroghi’s art in construction project. July 3, 2021, 6 pm […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Olicía trifft mDura
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. In […]
Graffiti workshop in June and summer preview
Learn in three afternoons the 1×1 of Urban Art and design together with us the […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Laurent de Schepper Trio meets David Pinzer
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte provide a platform for the fusion of sound, image and space-based arts. There […]
eku – FUTURE AWARD 2020 for the project REAL INSECT ESTATE of GEH8
For the project REAL INSECT ESTATE the GEH8 receives the eku – Future Award 2020 […]
We are becoming greener! II
Sustainability at GEH8. As an arts and cultural centre, we take the issue of sustainability […]
open call real insect estate
Call for proposals for the artistic conception and realization of an insect hotel The cultural […]
3rd Verstärker Art Film Festival: call for entries
In May 2021, the GEH8 Kunstraum will host the 3rd Verstärker Art Film Festival and […]
We are art – That was the motto of the fall course
Spontaneity and courage were in demand when it came to creating art in the district […]
Made in Pieschen
Exhibition. Urban planning ideas for urban production, common good and culture in Pieschen. What is […]
Free spinning with OUR SPACE – new autumn holiday course
Free spinning with OUR SPACE! Autumn holiday course from 26-30 October in the GEH8 Because […]
“MOD HELMY” – Talk with Igel Avidan
In his book “Mod Helmy” (dtv, 2017), the Israeli author and journalist Igal Avidan traces […]
Ya-Wen Fu “Metamorphose”
Ya-Wen Fu “Metamorphose” Interactive installation performance Metal, wood, leather, acrylic glass, motor and sensor 2019-2021 […]
UMUNDU – Trash with Brain II: “Ideocracy”
Film presentation with UMUNDU-Festival! We have teamed up with Filmgalerie Phase IV and continue the […]
SoCell – New Music for Sopran and Violoncello
A concert project of the Sächsischer Musikbund e.V. in cooperation with musik21 e.V. (Düsseldorf) The […]
Brot_lose_Kunst III: Solo, Duo, Kollektive? Forms of artistic collaborations
Conversation over bread and dips with Paul Elsner (visual artist), Cindy Hammer (choreographer) & Prof. […]
2nd Verstärker Art-Film-Festival
Under the title “Verstärker” the GEH8 presents projects and exhibitions of students of the HfBK […]
Die Sehnsucht nach dem Jetzt
We take the NOW, as well as the desire for it, as a sequence of […]
Günter „Baby“ Sommer meets The Saxonz
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. Thereby […]
Matthias Lorenz // Fremdbestimmt 1: Politik/Gesellschaft
The concert on September 14 marks the start of Matthias Lorenz’s new concert series “fremdbestimmt”, […]
OURSPACE Summercourse
Our summer vacation courses from August 17 to 21 in the GEH8 KUNSTRAUM The summer […]
DESIRABLE TIMES
an exhibition by students of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden Contemporary perception of aesthetics, […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Josephin Bunde paints to Kid Be Kid
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. Thereby […]
Corona-Denkzettel
Reading by Ulrike & Nilsson Samuelsson, Max Loeb on the guitar The year 2020 was […]
3rd international Elbe Dock Festival
3rd International Documentary Film Festival ELBE DOCK The documentary film festival for debuts of Czech […]
So waren die Sommerkurse
In der vorletzten Sommerferienwoche wurde es kreativ im OUR SPACE Atelier: die Teilnehmer*innen unserer Ferienworkshops […]
We are becoming greener!
A lot has happened in the past year. The area of the GEH8 Kunstraum has […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: JOHANNES ZINK & EZÉ WENDTOIN
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offers a platform for the fusion of sound-, image- and space-based arts. The music is […]
LAGE LAGE LAGE III
As a scholarship holder of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the […]
Textile Raumnahme – ornamental structure transformation
The two artists Freya Schweer (Halle) and Anne Reiter (Hamburg) use freely suspended, space-consuming textile […]
GEH8 TV – INTERVIEW#2
THOMAS JUDISCH Specializing in three-dimensional design, Thomas, who lives in Dresden by choice, creates sculptures […]
GEH8 TV – INTERVIEW#1
SUSANNE ENGELHARDT Susanne is a ceramist and has been with us at the Atelierhaus for […]
André und Christian – unsere Kursleiter kurz vorgestellt
The most important thing about our courses and activities is, of course, you as participants, […]
Wasserkränze – Multimedia room installation by Constanze Kresta
Multimedia room installation by Constanze Kresta, Leipzig Welcome, sister. Welcome brother. “We do not touch […]
G?-Flaggschiffe – Saeed Foroghi
An art project by the artist Saeed Foroghi for the GEH8. BACKGROUND Under the title […]
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
We look back to an exciting, diverse and intense year 2019 of which we would […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Linebug & Selma Juhran
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte offer a platform for the fusion of sound, image and space-based arts. Music […]
FILMS NEVER MADE, PART 1: 8919 – ALWAYS CRASHING IN THE SAME CAR
– Performance, installation, and reading – SATURDAY, 21.9.2019, 19:30, 10:30 pm AFTERPARTY GALLERY TOUR, Fred […]
Kunst.Raum.Konzerte present: Amore Meow und Annie Quinn
The Kunst.Raum.Konzerte provide a platform for the fusion of sound, image and space-based arts. There […]
Summit and metamorphosis
Gipfeltreffen – Aus Rücksicht auf die Zukunft The extensive modernisation and setting the course for […]
GEH8 SOMMERGIPFEL
PROGRAM Saturday, August 31 In cherished tradition, the GEH8 celebrates its summer festival again this […]
Final presentation: KUNTERBUNT – Minimal Art Gallery
In a Minimal Art Gallery the young participants of our workshop curate their own artworks, […]
GEH8 is a member of TEH
Since May 2019, GEH8 is a proud member of Trans Europe Halles, a network of […]
Veranstaltungen im Rahmen der Raumkonferenz 2019
Wir mischen mit! Gemeinsam mit dem Konglomerat e. V. finden bei uns im Rahmen der […]
The Future of Time
»The Future of Time« is dedicated to the artistic examination of contemporary issues. Whether historical […]
Alte Meister – Epilog
Thursday, July 4, 8 p.m. With the “sonate for cello solo” by Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, composed […]
KATALYZATOR – New cross-border network and cultural catalyzer
SAVE THE DATE Symposium and Launch Session: KATALYZATOR – New cross-border network and cultural catalyzer […]
1st Verstärker Art-Film-Festival: Winners announced!
As part of its “Verstärker” program, GEH8 organizes the 1st Art Film Festival and awards […]
Annual topic 2019: OUT OF FOCUS ON THE FUTURE
In its self-image as a place of artistic exploration of social issues, the GEH8-Kunstraum dedicates […]
Happy christmas and a wonderful new year!
We look back on an exciting, diverse and intensive year 2018, from which we would […]
Cooperation forum for culture
With the German-Czech exchange and cooperation platform we bring together independent art and cultural organizations […]
Workshop : Multicolor – children meet artists
In September 2018 the project “multicolor – children meet artists” started, an educational opportunity initiated […]
Soirée Électrique Au Café Américain: HOBO UFO meets “ ”
In cooperation with DAVE Festival New York-based musician, artist, and publisher James Hoff, […]
DEM VATERLAND ZU ZIER UND EHR
With works by: J. Tobias Anderson (SWE), Annette Hollywood (DE), Neuen Berliner Kunstverein & Dan Perjovschi […]
Alte Meister 4 – Balance
The composition “sonate for cello solo” of 1960 by Bernd-Alois Zimmermann started a new era […]
Verstärker
“Verstärker” is a new format by GEH8 to present projects and exhibitions by students of […]
Over 400,000 euros for our roof, new windows and house electrics
With 403,390 euros from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), first the roof and then […]
BIGASSO BABY
The solo exhibition BIGASSO BABY includes two video installations of the Berlin artist Annette Hollywood. Hollywood […]
GEH8 makes SUMMER!
Summer time @ GEH 8 ! Let’s go! Enjoy nice weather, blue skies, sunshine AND […]
Artisttalk with Juliane Stiegele/UTOPIA TOOLBOX
As part of the exhibition “Stairway to Heaven” Initiated by Juliane Stiegle in 2010, UTOPIA TOOLBOX is […]
Stairway To Heaven
A group show with Margit Greinöcker (AT), Juliane Stiegele and UTOPIA TOOLBOX (DE), Philipp Gloger […]
A warm invitation to an artist talk with Pawel Kowalski (Breslau, PL) Tuesday – 10. April, 19:30 Uhr – at the GEH8 Art Space!
Since the beginning of this week our first resident of the new exchange-programme for curators […]
annual topic 2018: “Model artists” – human, role and artist models
„Let’s say, the art system is a small model, a test field. Other industries are […]
The fellows for the curator exchange program (Wroclaw/Dresden) have been announced!
This year, for the first time, GEH8 initiates a travel grant for curators between the […]
OPEN CALL! Exchange for Curators 2018 (Wroclaw/Dresden)
Bewerbungsfrist verlängert / Deadline extended: 25.01.2018! This post is also availabe in English: Curators Exchange […]
Between self-organisation and organisation
In 2014, the conditions that had been unfavourable for the GEH8 changed for the better. […]
OPEN CALL! Exhibition participation
In addition to invited international positions, GEH8 Kunstraum & Ateliers e.V. also promotes the work […]
Alte Meister 3 – Leichtigkeit
Matthias Lorenz (cello) plays and comments on works by Helmut Lachenmann, Klaus Huber and Benjamin […]
GEH8 at the Industry Culture Parcour
How can former industrial sites be revitalized? The Spinnerei in Leipzig is a good example: […]
FALL
GEH8 Kunstraum & Ateliers e.V. invites you to FALL, an international group exhibition by the […]
Final presentation “I map my body”
The exhibition shows results of seven workshops, a cooperation project of GEH8 Kunstraum with young […]
Winners of the ideas competition Metamorphose GEH8
The environment of GEH8 is changing. This offers us the chance to realign ourselves. We […]
MULTIPOLIS – Images of the City / Dresden
A group exhibition with results of interventions in public space in Sofia (BG), curated by […]
International art scholarship
For the seconde time the foundation “Stiftung Kunst & Musik für Dresden” awards the International […]
Dokumentarism
Symposium accompanying the exhibition “Fictions are useful”. Beginning on August 19, 11 a.m. – 11 […]
Fictions are useful
International exchange project and group exhibition of artists from Austria and Germany as guests at […]
Artist talk at GEH8
Founded in 1995 by the Greater Columbus Arts Council and the Saxon State Ministry for […]
Visit from the Czech Republic in the art room of GEH8
We have visitors from Ústí nad Labem! On 21.7. from 14 to 17 o’clock young […]
Intermediate use / further building / rebuilding
An evening about architectural strategies between the preservation of historical monuments and building in the […]
Artistic ideas competition: Metamorphosis GEH8
GEH8 is based in a former wagon repair workshop on a wasteland in Dresden Pieschen. […]
our new offices
GEH8 has never had a classic association office in Gehestraße. With support from the Kreativraumförderung […]
Artist exchange with Columbus / Ohio
The artist exchange program between “Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen” and “Greater Columbus Arts Council”, Columbus/Ohio, […]
Open Call: Workshop I-map-my-body
Kostenloser Workshop für geflüchtete junge Erwachsene zwischen 18 und 25 Jahren Free Workshop FOR REFUGEES between 18 […]
Open Call: Artistic Ideas Competition “Metamorphosis GEH8
GEH8 is based in a former wagon repair workshop on a wasteland in Dresden Pieschen. […]
Artist in Residence Program launched in cooperation with Zentralwerk
Das ZENTRALWERK und GEH8 laden gemeinsam KünstlerInnen, KuratorInnen und WissenschaftlerInnen ein, für einen Zeitraum von […]
Zwischen Selbst und Organisation – Publication on the Reorganization of GEH8
After the first few years of start-up and build-up, it was time to develop a […]
GEH8 receives concept funding from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
In December 2016, the board of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony […]
OPEN CALL! Application for an exhibition participation in 2018/2019
The GEH8 Kunstraum und Ateliers e.V. is a non-profit association for contemporary art in Dresden. […]
Hands-On Urbanism. About the right to green.1850 – today.
An exhibition of the Architekturzentrum Wien in cooperation with the 8. Umundu-Festival Dresden Exhibition Period: 20.10. – […]
Supporting program: Hands-On Urbanism. About the right to green
Curatorintroduction: 27. 11., 11 o’clock Curator: Elke Krasny
Supporting program: Hands-On Urbanism. From the right to green
Curator Lecture & Shortfilm to the exhibition 26. 11., 18 Uhr Curator: Elke Krasny
Umundu Kneipenquiz
Kneipenquiz: 26. October, 20 o’clock An event in the framework of the 8th Umundu Festival. […]
Stadtgärten – Gestern, Heute, Morgen
Fishbowl & Lecture: 26. October, 16.30 – 18.30 o’clock An event in the framework of […]
Doug Saunders „Arrival City“
An event of the Ecumenical Information Center in the framework of the 8. Umundu-Festivals Dresden. Reading […]
About GEH8
GEH8 Kunstraum and Ateliers e. V. is a non-profit association in Dresden that promotes contemporary […]
High-Rise – Im Bann der unsichtbaren Städte
Reading and Music: 24. October, 20 o’clock Entrance: 5,- € An event in the framework […]
The Human Scale – Perspektiven einer bürgernahen Stadtpolitik (OmU)
Filmpresentation: 20. October, 20 o’clock An event in the framework of the 8th Umundu Festival. […]
Le Pot: HERA
Saturday, 8. Oktocer 20 o’clock Manuel Mengis (tr), Martin Schütz (vcl), Hans-Peter Pfammatter (keys), Lionel […]
Toprak
Friday, 23. September 20:00 o’clock a Butoh dance solo by Seda Büyüktürkler with Helga Kölle-Köhler […]
BAHNEN
Tina Beifuss, Anja Kempe, Isabelle Krieg Period: 09 – 25.09.2016 Opening hours: Thu-Sun, 15 – […]
build and work
Period: 14.-28.8.2016 Openingtimes: Th-Su, 15-18 o’clock Vernissage: Sa, 13.8.2016, 19.00 o’clock
Artist Talk and OPEN STUDIO
Janis Mars Wunderlich, Austauschkünstlerin / residency exchange artist, Columbus/OH / USA Paul Scott Page, Fotograf / […]
EVERYBODY BODYMAP!
Intercultural workshop and exhibition project with people of all backgrounds by Marleen Andreev, visual artist. […]
! ! ! O P E N C A L L ! ! !
CA. 50 PARTICIPANTS OF ANY ORIGIN WANTED FOR BODYMAPPING-WORKSHOP! Age limit up to approx. 30 […]
GEH8 summerparty
Saturday, June 11 from 16:00: Exhibition opening EVERYBODY BODYMAP! from 21:30: geh8 SUMMER PARTY The […]
Theater Choochoo presents Kalif Storch
On Whitsunday, 15. 5. the theater Choochoo Berlin plays Kalif Storch freely after the fairy […]
Nancy Huenger reads „Wir sind golden. Wir sind aus Blut“
On Saturday, April 23 at 6 p.m. Nancy Huenger will read from her book “Wir […]
DAY IN DAY OUT – Disturbances of the digital
Exhibition from 26.09. – 18.10.2015 Opening: 26.09, 18.00 clock Opening hours: Thu-Sun 16-19 h
HEIMAT – Das Bild als Ort der Identität
Opening: 04.09.2015 19:00 Exhibition: 04.09. – 06.09.2015 Opening hours: 10 -18 h
MEETING PLACE FOR EVERYBODY
Thursdays from 17:00 to 20:00 (25.06, 02.07 and 09.07.2015)
Holy Independent Space | Exhibition
Holy Independent Space Sunday 21st June – 12th July 2015 Opening Sunday 21st Juni 3 […]
8990 WENDEKUNST ERLEBEN
May 2 – May 10, 2015 Mon-Fri: 5pm-2pm Sat & Sun: 14-20 h Vernissage on […]
GEH8 Seasonstart with Muzik
The geh8 opens the exhibition and concert season 2015! Saturday, 28.03.2015, 19:00 h Admission on […]
Winterschlafstörung
Vernissage: Saturday, 24.1. 2015 from 16 to 22 hrs. open also Sunday, 25.1. 2015 from […]
Българска Pабота | Bulgarian Work
Ausstellungszeitraum: 6.9.-27.9.2014 Vernissage: Fr 5.9.2014, 17 Uhr
Open Call for the bulgarian and german exhibition project “Same Standing /183”
END of application: 20. August 2014
Bilder der Wiedereröffnung am 21. Juni 2014
Fotos © Thomas Kemnitz: Fotos Konrad Behr (Lizenz: CC BY-SA 3.0 DE):
calendar-edition 2014
Dear friends and supporters of geh8 Art Space and Studio e.V., The new year has […]
600 x 10 Euro für die Erhaltung der GEH8
Herzlichen Glückwunsch Freunde! In nur 4 Wochen haben wir es Dank Eurer Hilfe geschafft, die […]
situation of the GEH8 art space
Dear friends and supporters of geh8, We are constantly receiving questions about the current situation […]
