Bauhaus Expositions in Germany

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

Programme of exhibitions and events April – September 2009

The Bauhaus has a greater presence in Dessau than anywhere else: In Dessau, the world famous Bauhaus buildings of Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Carl Fieger, Georg Muche and Richard Paulick are sought out by over 100,000 visitors a year. Here, in this anniversary year, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and cooperation partners from Germany and abroad will hold over 20 events: workshops, exhibitions, symposiums, radio performances, theatre and dance projects, artistic installations, lectures, festivals, a Summer School and much more. Some of the events focus on mediating the Bauhaus legacy; others update the Bauhaus’s concepts in work on topical themes. With mixed experimental formats, the programme of events integrates all the Bauhaus buildings. Other events by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation will take place in Berlin. The Stiftung Moritzburg in nearby Halle will dedicate a large exhibition to the late work of the Bauhaus Master Lyonel Feininger.

 

EXHIBITIONS

Bauhaus in action

 Film exhibition and reconstruction of

“Raum der Gegenwart”

Tue 9th June – Sun 4th October 2009

(“Raum der Gegenwart” until Wed 24th September),

exhibition area and Bauhaus Stage, Bauhaus Building

 Large-scale projections of original films breathe new life into the work of the historic Bauhaus, and show the work and working methods of Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schwertfeger, Kurt Kranz, Heinrich Brocksieper and Werner Graeff. The programmatic prologue shows three films – on architecture, sport and natural science – that reconstruct the film programme devised by Walter Gropius for the inauguration of the Bauhaus Building in Dessau. The epilogue features interviews with both teachers and students at the Bauhaus. The film exhibition is accompanied by a revival of Moholy-Nagys “Raum der Gegenwart” on the Bauhaus Stage. To mark this anniversary year, Kai-Uwe Hemken and Jakob Gebert realise this visionary project by the Hungarian Bauhaus Master, dating from 1930, for the first time. The Light-Space Modulator, kinetic walls, film projections, undulating glass walls and much more shape a spatial artwork that revolutionised the history of exhibition design, the art of the environment and the new media.

 

Modell Bauhaus. The exhibition

Wed 22nd July – 4th October 2009

Daily 10 am to 8 pm

Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin

On the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Staatliche Bauhaus, the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are showing a first joint large exhibition on the history and impact of the Bauhaus. With over 1,000 exhibits, the largest Bauhaus exhibition to date paints a sophisticated picture of the school from 1919 to 1933. An installation by the American artist Christine Hill and a video interview project also provide an up to date look at the Bauhaus.

www.modell-bauhaus.de

 

Permanent exhibition

“Bauhaus Dessau – Workshop of Modernism”

The revised permanent exhibition in the basement of the Bauhaus Building, as a brief introduction to the history of the Bauhaus, gives insight into the work carried out in the historic Bauhaus workshops. It presents a selection of the products made in the workshops, in dialogue with a new medial panorama of the Bauhaus’ history.

  

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