// Exhibition
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Black Box

In 2020, the artist Olav Westphalen (born 1963) initiated the Association for the Palliative Turn, a loosely connected group of international artists. Since then, its members have focused on the artistic potentials of dealing with death, palliation, and leave-taking in a range of media and event formats that make use of humour, generosity, delight, and reflection. In the practice of life, the human body is inevitably awarded the role of a medium. The various limitations that bodies impose on people are as much a part of this as all singular sensory perceptions and experiences.

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// Exhibition
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Black Box

With clothes that can be transformed into prayer rugs, the project examines the idea of the mosque space, its formal boundaries and its relationship to the human body. While respecting religious rules, the Nomadic Mosque aims to redefine the traditional forms and functions of mosques in a contemporary context.

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// Exhibition
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Black Box

The physical body as a kind of learning tool straddling play, sport, and performance “on demand” forms the focal point of this experimental research and cooperation project. In collaboration with the Curatorial Workshop’s cultural outreach programme, Corina Forthuber and students from the Gestaltung: Technik.Textil course of study at the Mozarteum University Salzburg address the ideational history of the “learning body” and carry out experiments to explore the ability to remember, physical action, and the physical sensor system.

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// Concerts
Bauhaus Building, stage
>> tickets required (on sale from 23 May 2023, 3 p.m.)

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// Concerts
Bauhaus Building, stage
>> tickets required (available 23 May 2023, 3 p.m.)

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// Exhibitoin
Bauhaus Building, workshop wing

An artistic critique of the aseptic space of modernity.

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// Workshop, Age: 14 – 114 years
Bauhaus Building
Admission free >> Registration required

During his time as head of the stage workshop at the Bauhaus Dessau between 1926 and 1929, Oskar Schlemmer worked together with students on various movement and stage studies, which he later called "Bauhaus dances". Based on these small scenes, in which experimental movement sequences were tested in the field of tension between body, objects and space, the Open Workshop offers a movement workshop in May. On the historical Bauhaus stage, participants will try out how certain materials influence their movements.

Workshop leader: Matthias Lipeck and Kilian Gärtner, Mediator / Leipzig

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// "18kg performance"
at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau (Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz)

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// Action day + free admission + workshop
Bauhaus Museum Dessau

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