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The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation today
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is a centre of research, teaching and experimental design. In addition to conserving, researching into and passing on the Bauhaus heritage the Foundation focuses on cities – their contradictions and cultural strength in the face of demographic developments, globalisation and the technological revolution.
Bauhaus Graphic Designer 2012
The new annual graphic designer, who will define the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's visual appearance in 2012, has been appointed. Amsterdam based studio Our polite society will design two issues of the bauhaus magazine, the program flyers and all project graphics. We're looking forward to this collaboration!
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Kibbutz and Bauhaus
Exhibition at Bauhaus Dessau
25th November 2011 to 27th May 2012, daily 10 am to 6 pm
Opening on 24th November 2011 at 7 pm
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundattion shows an exhibition on the Kibbutz movement in Palestine/Israel. Many of its most influential planners and pedagogues came from Europe and some of its architects even studied at the Bauhaus. After leaving Nazi Germany they laid the foundation of modern architecture in Israel. In the kibbutzim the social ideals of the Bauhaus were realised in a unique way. Further information
Amos Gitai: Traces
Film installation at the Masters' House Muche/Schlemmer
25th November 2011 to 12th February 2012
Opening on 24th November 2011 at 5.30 pm
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation shows Amos Gitai's film installation "Traces" at the Masters' House Muche/Schlemmer. With "Traces" as with his entire oeuvre, Amos Gitai moves beyond the limitations of the purely historical or documentary form. With the artistic means at his disposal, he brings the viewer to a highly personal, ever-current emotional contemplation of the seismic impact that any form of racism, xenophobia or totalitarian regime has on the individual. This trace of the transformation of wholly individual, intimate experience into the overarching social themes of migration, exile and violence runs like a golden thread through Amos Gitai’s oeuvre and possesses a profound currency.
How will we live in the future?
Dessau Theses on Energy landscape 3.0
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation presents six theses on life in a postfossil civilization. They are a part of the exhibition Energy Landscapes 3.0 on the Festival Über Lebenskunst in Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The "Dessau Theses" are the outcome of a couple of projects on the field of climate and energy research initiated by the foundation. Amongst others this includes the International summer school Energy Landscapes 3.0 in July 2011 with participants of various disciplines coming from 25 countries all over the world.
New Infopoint for the Törten Estate
Permanent exhibition at the Coop Building
Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm
Together with the Siedlerverband Dessau-Törten and our Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses e.V. we proudly present a new permanent exhibition in Dessau-Törten's former Coop Building. The history of the experimental Törten Estate combined with our new colleagues, the famous Bauhaus "Loan Chickens" searching for a new temporary home!
After Levittown
Bauhaus Kolleg XIII
19th October 2011 to 6th June 2012
The new Bauhaus Kolleg will take Levittown, the role model of American suburbia, and the fate of its latest projects as the starting point of a comparative international study on the economic, social, ecological and cultural implications of a global suburbia. The dramatic fallout of the global financial crisis of 2008 can be seen the clearest in the suburbias – as well as a contemporary version of Bauhaus dwelling fantasies! Further information
After 80 years it's back
bauhaus – the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's new magazine
New: Issue 2, cover theme "Israel" has just been released!
The first issue of the bauhaus magazine was published in December 1926 to coincide with the opening of the Bauhaus building in Dessau. 80 years after the discontinuation of this periodical, we, as the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, are publishing a new magazine under the old name. Twice a year it will cover the present work of an instituition working at the same place where the historical experiment "Bauhaus" has happened – the Bauhaus building in Dessau. Further information
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation's new corporate design
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation has completely refreshed its corporate design together with the Berlin based agency Hort. Stationery, business cards and logo are all new, the website will be relaunched in the course of this year. Also new: The posters with great images by Finnish photographer Ola Kolehmainen – now available at Bauhaus Dessau and online! Further information
Bauhaus online!
A new portal for everything Bauhaus
Everything worth knowing about the past and present of the Bauhaus is now available on bauhaus-online.de. A comprehensive atlas provides information on people, locations and works, the calendar gathers events and exhibitions, and our magazine takes a fresh look at the Bauhaus cosmos – everything from everyday life to research. The new site is a joint project of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Bauhaus Archive Berlin.
