// 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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// Exhibitoin
Bauhaus Building, workshop wing

An artistic critique of the aseptic space of modernity.

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// Workshop, Ages: 8 – 14 years
Bauhaus Building
Admission free >> Registration required

How does a sheet of paper become a space? And, how can I enter this space with my body? Together we fold, find and create book spaces that are as big as we are or just like the nail of our little finger.

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

This Saturday workshop deals with the basics of analogue photography. We invite all photo-loving professionals, semi-professionals and those who would like to become one to the historic Bauhaus building. In the photo lab located there, the basics of negative enlargement will be taught in a 3-hour workshop. We will show you how to enlarge analogue photo negatives yourself and what you need to do it. Participants are welcome to bring their own negative strips to the workshop!

Workshop leader: Leo Speelmans Mediator / Cologne

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