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Annual ThemeMovement

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9 Exhibitions23 Stage, Festivals, Art35 Learning, Teaching, Research

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Annual Theme 2016: Movement

At the Bauhaus, everything and everyone is con-stantly on the move, motivated by the sublime aim of shaping a modern society and economy after the First World War.

In this day and age, speed and acceleration have generally positive connotations that are realised at the Bauhaus in various ways using movement as a creative medium. László Moholy-Nagy develops the art of “vision in motion” and Oskar Schlemmer works with movement on stage which he defines as mechanized processes of the industrial age.

Movement ordinarily stands for change, for new be-ginnings and progress. In its annual programme for 2016 the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation explores the phenomenon of movement at the Bauhaus from a historic perspective with regard to its current and future relevance. To this end, the programme pur-sues two main threads: the Bauhaus as part of a movement towards a new way of thinking and designing, and the Bauhaus as part of a major mi-gration movement, the influence of which is still de-tectable today. If these threads are followed for ex-ample to the Bauhaus Lab, which traces the exile history of Walter Gropius’s writing desk, or to the

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exhibition “Big Plans!”, which sheds light on the intensive modern exchange in Saxony-Anhalt, the degree to which the Bauhaus is a way of think-ing that consciously and continually moves in new directions soon becomes apparent.

We would like to invite you all to enjoy an access-ible and exciting year at the Bauhaus Dessau.

Dr. Claudia PerrenDirector, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

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Exhibitions

Große

Pläne!

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Big Plans! Modern men, visionaries and inventorsApplied Modernism in Saxony-Anhalt 1919 – 1933.

4 May 2016 to 6 January 2017Daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Bauhaus Dessaugrosse-plaene.de

Speed, acceleration, movement: Saxony-Anhalt had a very particular dynamic which catapulted the region into the modern age in the 1920s. A rural landscape with no structures or foundations what-soever for an industrialised society: this offered modern men, visionaries and inventors every pos-sible freedom to create new worlds. These were artists, architects, engineers, entrepreneurs and politicians who perceived life not as a succession of traditions, but in terms of freedom to think in new ways – a freedom underpinned by technology and design, accompanied by ideational models for learning and education.

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Gertrud Arndt,Photographer,Selfie pioneer

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László Moholy-Nagy, Artist, Light Visionary

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Dessau

Halle

Leuna

Magdeburg

Merseburg

Elbingerode

Quedlinburg

The exhibition leads its visitors through the major individual themes of the age:

H i g h - a l t i t u d e f l i g h t s

Big plans for a limitless expansion of the world. Technology and aviation.

S y s t e m a t i c s e t t l e m e n t

Big plans for a socially equitable housing policy. Architecture and housing development.

L e a r n i n g t o l e a r n

Big plans for a pedagogy geared to the renewal of society. Edu-cation and progressive educa-tion.

A d v e r t i s i n g m e c h a n i c s

Big plans for a modernised con-sumer culture. New Vision and advertising psychology.

Sponsored by:

Big Plans!

Modern men, visionaries and inventors Applied Modernism in Saxony-Anhalt 1919 – 1933 is a project of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in association withexhibitions in:

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Simultaneity of ModernityThe Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam and the Bauhaus DessauA modern dialogue that can still be experienced today

23 September 2016 to 6 January 2017Daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Bauhaus Dessau

The advantage of light luggage is freedom of move-ment. Walter Gropius and Leendert van der Vlugt visited one another many times. A dialogue evolved between Dessau and Rotterdam that is still reflec-ted in the simultaneity of the respective architec-tural idioms. The large Van Nelle Factory and the Bauhaus building, Villa Sonneveld and the Masters’ Houses, the Kiefhoek and Dessau-Törten estates: architectures that arose from parallel thinking and an analogous fundamental understanding of the world.

An exhibition project in cooperation with Stichting Vrienden Van Nellefabrik & Platform Rotterdam 100 jaar Modern!The exhibition opening will take place in the framework of the Triennale der Moderne.

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Bauhaus Museum DessauOpening 2019

In order to provide opportunities for up-and-coming offices, the architectural design competition for the Bauhaus Museum Dessau placed an international, open call for entries. There were 831 submissions and two jury sittings, resulting in the award of two first prizes, to the offices Young & Ayata from New York, USA and Gonzalez Hinz Zabala from Barcelona, Spain.

As a result of the negotiation process, the office Gonzalez Hinz Zabala was awarded the contract for the museum building in December 2015. The museum is scheduled to open in 2019 to mark the centenary of the Bauhaus.

With the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau it will be possible to present a comprehensive account of the history of the school of design to visitors for the very first time. The focus will be on the presentation of the Foundation’s valuable collection, which with ca. 40,000 exhibits is the second-largest Bauhaus collection worldwide. The museum will however also be a venue for the themes and discourses of the Bauhaus in the context of the 21st century, realised by means of exhibitions, installations, performances and arts projects. Through its loca-tion in the city centre, the museum will serve as a gateway to the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau.

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Presentation of the CollectionSecond-largest Bauhaus collection worldwide

Year-round

The collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation has ca. 40,000 exhibits and is thus the second- largest Bauhaus collection in the world. Its holdings include objects and documents pertaining to the history of the Bauhaus from 1919 to 1933 and, first and foremost, pertaining to the Bauhaus Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and the history of reception of the institution, especially in East Germany from 1945 to 1989. The collection also includes some objects and documents relating to the prehistory of the Bauhaus and to parallel modern movements.

With the opening of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau it will be possible to see the full extent of the collec-tion for the first time. Until then, a small selection of objects that convey the diversity of the Bauhaus will be shown in a permanent exhibition in the basement of the Bauhaus building.

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Stage, Festivals, Art

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Bauhaus ResidencyGuest artists in Muche / Schlemmer House

Year-round

Artists’ collective, married artists, artist friends: The Bauhauslers live next door to one another in the Masters’ Houses and come to epitomize the 20th century artists’ colony. In 2016 the art, the artists and the free way of working will return to the complex. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites international artists and designers to live and work for three months in Muche/Schlemmer House.

The guests in 2016 will be bassoonist Alexandar Hadjiev (D) and drummer Mervyn Groot (NL) in cooperation with the Internationale Ensemble Mod-ern Akademie and the Kurt Weill Fest Dessau and Rudy Deceliere (CH), Rumble Chamber and Gabi Schilling (D), “Social Fabrics”, in cooperation with the exhibition “Europa”, U-Bahnhof Bundestag (cur-ators: Eggs & Bitschin (Sion), under the auspices of the Swiss Ambassador Christine Schraner Burgener).

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19th Bauhaus FestivalCircus, Circus – From Black To White.

2 to 3 September 2016

Playful, artistic and diverse: This year’s Bauhaus Festival starts with the theatrical utopias of László Moholy-Nagy and transports its visitors to the world of circus and cabaret – two art forms that were already extremely popular in the 1920s, also at the Bauhaus. In the tradition of the Bauhaus party, students of art, music, film, design and architecture will bring the festival to life with their project ideas, performances and light installations. Later on the momentum will be created by the visitors them-selves, dancing on the many stages.

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Triennale der ModerneWeimar Dessau Berlin

Opening weekend 23 to 25 September 2016triennale-der-moderne.de

In the words “You must go there …” Lillian Mowrer campaigned in 1928 for the Bauhaus. As the event’s host, the Bauhaus Dessau extends an invitation to attend the opening weekend of the Triennale der Moderne in Dessau.

The Triennale der Moderne is an initiative launched by the Bauhaus sites in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin for the development of a network dedicated to mod-ernism. The programme of the Triennale der Mod-erne 2016 focuses on Walter Gropius, whose creat-ive freedom will be the subject of events, guided tours and lectures in Berlin, Dessau and Weimar over three weekends in autumn.

The themes for the opening weekend in Dessau are the 90th anniversary of Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus buildings and its relationship with Dessau and the exchange of ideas, plans and discourses between Dessau and Rotterdam (see exhibition Simultanität der Moderne).

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AnniversaryA building celebrates its anniversary.The Bauhaus building is 90 years old

4 December 2016

The Bauhaus building in Dessau is renowned worldwide as an icon of modernism. 90 years old on 4 December 2016, it can look back at an event-ful past, which is intimately linked with the political developments of the 20th century.

To mark the 90th anniversary we can look forward to a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau and the publication of is-sue 8 of the magazine “bauhaus”, which focuses on the annual theme, “Movement” – all wrapped up with a small birthday party.

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zdf@bauhaus

C o n c e r t S e r i e s

21 to 23 March 201625 to 27 October 2016

If you want to be there, you have to be fast: the tickets for zdf@bauhaus usually sell out quickly. There’s a very special atmosphere when artists like Clueso, Stefanie Heinzmann or Wolfgang Niedecken chill and rock the Bauhaus stage. A pure live music experience.

MDR Music Summer

W h a t i s a v a n t - g a r d e s o u n d ?

5 August 20167.30 p.m.

Music, light and movement – the Bauhaus stage is just the place to bring all of these together. During the MDR Musiksommer, Wolfgang Heisig and Steffen Schleiermacher search for audio impressions in Oskar Schlemmer’s world of sound and link the mov-ing light images in László Mo-holy-Nagy’s silent films with John Cage’s works for prepared piano. The idea is not too far-fetched, because the two artists were good friends.

Steffen Schleiermacher, piano and moderation

Wolfgang Heisig, Phonola

Works by Paul Hindemith, Ernst Toch, Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, Josef Matthias Hauer, George Antheil, Marco Enrico Bossi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Steffen Schleiermacher and Wolfgang Heisig

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staging the bauhaus

G u e s t p e r f o r m a n c e s b y t h e A n h a l t i s c h e s T h e a t e r

3 December 2016

The Anhaltisches Theater Dessau is a frequent guest at the Bauhaus in December, with a fresh programme developed espe-cially for the Bauhaus stage every year. While the focus in recent years has been on the in-teraction of music and light, this year the theatre’s perform-ance will be inspired by the Foundation’s annual theme for 2016, “Movement”.

Theme Days

I n t e r n a t i o n a l M u s e u m D a y

22 May 2016

U N E S C O W o r l d H e r i t a g e D a y

5 June 2016

H e r i t a g e D a y

11 September 2016

We offer special guided tours and events for the international theme days. The programme will be available soon on our web-site.

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Learning, Teaching, Research

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Bauhaus Master ProgrammeCOOP DESIGN RESEARCH

Year-round

Those who came to the Bauhaus were ready to relinquish their vested knowledge in order to gain new experiences in a community of teachers and students and to learn to think about design in a different way.

The MSc. programme COOP DESIGN RESEARCH transfers this fundamental approach of research- based design into the 21st century. The coopera-tion between the Bauhaus, the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Excellence Cluster Image Knowledge Gestaltung) allows young designers from all over the world to study design at the Bauhaus Dessau. The programme structure is based on three mod-ules: Design as research, Design as education, Design as projection. The study year will end with a master thesis, which can form the foundation for a doctoral study.

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Bauhaus LabGlobal Modernism Research

Desk in exile – the transatlantic journey of Bauhaus furnishings

May to August 2016, exhibition from 5 August

The Bauhaus is a migrant with a global range of movement. In the Bauhaus Lab, young profession-als research the global migration movements and exchange processes of the Bauhaus from the perspective of a globalised present.

The Bauhaus Lab 2016 researches the transat-lantic journey of Walter Gropius’s writing desk and in doing so makes the desk itself a player in a con-tinually shifting arena of locations and social envir-onments. The Lab will produce artistic and curat-orial concepts for the communication of object-related stories of exile.

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Bauhaus Open Studios 2016Teaching Models Platform

Year-round

The Bauhaus is a unique laboratory for art and design education.

A teaching model in which learning occurs through creativity and experimentation: The Bauhaus wel-comes classes from universities worldwide to the Open Studios, in which professors and students collectively engage in innovative pedagogical ex-periments. The work is project-based and takes place in the historic workshop wing of the Bauhaus Dessau.

The following universities will participate in the Open Studios 2016:

University of California, Berkeley, USA, Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design Prof. Greg Castillo and Prof. René Davids

University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia, Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building, Interior and Spatial Design, Prof. Dr. Thea Brejzek (UTS)

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Berlin University of the Arts, International Joint Master’s Programme of European Architecture, Prof. Rhys Martin, Prof. Dr. Dagmar Jäger

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WorkshopSmart Materials, Mobility, City Farm

All-year experimental laboratory

The Bauhauslers were united by the aim of ques-tioning traditional knowledge and rethinking and reforming the way of living. The current workshop brings to life projects that formulate and address questions relevant to the 21st century and presents the findings for debate.

Smart Materials

The field of material innovations is developing at a pace unparalleled in other sectors. But how can the awareness of technological innovations be improved so that their market acceptance is also increased? Does the design sector offer any methods that could be implemented here?

Mobility

The 21st century is described as a digital and post-fossil age. What does this transformation mean for forms of locomotion, for our mobility, in dense and sparsely populated urban areas? Increasingly, public mobility is taking place through digital communication.

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City Farm

Urban society is changing. Developing and test-ing strategies for locally sourced and self-suffi-cient supplies of food and renewable energies has become a feature of innovative cities. But especially in shrinking cities, new open spaces are being created which, despite their low market value, are valuable resources. The City Farm in Dessau is an experimental farm in which the creation of economic value is combined with education and social work in collaboration with local residents.

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Education: Bauhaus Camp

S u m m e r S c h o o l

7 June to 10 August 2016

The Bauhaus Camp is designed for young people, apprentices and young students from all over the world who are interested in work in design, art and/or craftsman-ship.

The participants will live col-lectively in the Bauhaus for six weeks and experiment and learn together.

In the spirit of the annual theme, “Movement”, the summer school 2016 will offer three workshops:

B a u h a u s g a m e s

Playing with the design elements light, colour and form, etc., working towards new environ-mental models. Development of games in the narrowest and broadest sense, from urban games and traditional toys to computer games and basic board games.

F u r n i t u r e t h a t m o v e s m e – m o b i l e f u r n i t u r e

From the cantilever chair to other furniture that fosters the desire for movement and mobility (also with sports scientists and movement therapists): human vitality as a sustainable resource, exemplified by the exercise room beneath the Bauhaus stage, the Bauhaus grounds and the Elbe riverside.

D y n a m i c c o n s t r u c t i o n k i t s

From Walter Gropius’s architec-tonic “large-scale construction kit” to Oskar Schlemmer’s “Game with building blocks”: designing and constructing possible worlds, designing personalised working environments with a focus on aesthetic aspects.

Sponsored by the IKEA Foundation.

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Day Visitors

B a u h a u s D e s s a u

Daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Bauhaus Dessau has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1996. Guided tours of the Bauhaus building are on offer to visitors several times a day, every day. Rooms for overnight stays are also available in the studio building.

Research, library

A c a d e m i c l i f e t h r o u g h o u t t h e y e a r

The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation has an artistic-scientific man-date. It has an interdisciplin-ary and international orienta-tion and focuses on investigat-ing the Bauhaus, its historical ideas and themes and their per-spectives in the 21st century. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s library is open to the public for research into the Bauhaus and its reception.

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Imprint

Editing and text Helga Huskamp, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

Concept and designHerburg Weiland, Munich

TranslationRebecca Philipps Williams

Publication dateJanuary 2016

PrintingMUNDSCHENK Druck + Medien

Last-minute changesreserved in the program.

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Credits

U 2/3 SBD (I 14306 F) / photo Erich Consemüller / © (Consemüller, Erich) Stephan Consemüller / photo (repro) photo studio Louis Held, Weimar p 3 SBD (I 46516) / photo László Moholy-Nagy / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2016 p 4 photo T. Lux Feininger, Estate of T. Lux Feininger p 7 photo Kiên Hoàng Lê p 8 Leibniz-Institut für Länder-kunde, Archiv für Geographie / photo Ernst Wandersleb p 12 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin (i.nr. 2006.80.1) / photo Gertrud Arndt / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2016 p 13 Bauhaus- Archiv Berlin (i.nr. 7896) / photo Lucia Moholy / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2016 p 14 Stadt-geschicht liches Museum Leipzig / photo Eduard Krömer p 16 © 2006 CV Van Nelle fabriek/Rotterdam p 19 SBD / © Gonzalez Hinz Zabala p 21 SBD / photo Felix Förster p 22 SBD (I 14313 F) / photo Erich Conse-müller / © Stephan Consemüller p 25 SBD / Anna Teuber and Franzi Kohl-hoff / photo Doreen Ritzau / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2016 p 26 SBD (I 21305 G) p 29 photo grapher un-known p 30 photo Sebastian Gündel p 35 SBD (I 1028 F) / photo grapher unknown / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2016 p 36 photo Gwok-Wei Ch-eung / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2016 p 39 SBD (I 46222/1-2) / photo Erich Consemüller / private col-lection / Klassik Stiftung Weimar / © Stephan Consemüller / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2016 p 40 photo Doreen Ritzau / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2016 p 45 SBD (I 46163) / architect Walter Gropius / photo Erich Consemüller / private col-lection / © Stephan Conse müller / photo (repro) Klassik Stiftung Weimar. SBD = Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

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The annual themes of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

2015 / Collective2016 / Movement2017 / Materials

Annual Programme 2016Bauhaus DessauFoundation

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