Jump links

Bauhaus Dessau
Bauhaus Dessau:
Events
Simple language

Events

Events

Current events

Object Talk
Out of the Display Case: Walter Porstmann. Pioneer of standardisation and lowercase spelling
8 Apr 20265 pm
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Curator’s tour
Algae | Debris | CO2
8 Termine
10 Apr 202624 Apr 20265 pm22 May 20265 pm5 Jun 20265 pm19 Jun 20265 pm14 Aug 20265 pm28 Aug 20265 pm18 Sep 20265 pm
former Zeeck department store
Workshop
Open Workshop: Bent, Angled, Twisted.
Dance in Metal
11 Apr 202611 am – 2 pm
Bauhaus Building
Guided Walk
Invisible Bauhaus Dessau
14 Apr 202611 am
Around the city
Talks + Presentations + Discussion
Friday Group: Building Stock + Re-Use
17 Apr 20266 – 9 pm
Former Zeeck department store
Series of Talks
Material Talk: Glass
23 Apr 20264 – 5 pm
Bauhaus Building
Accompanying programme
Performative Public Rally.
Bricks | Roof | Power
1 May 202612 – 5 pm
Employment Office
Accompanying programme
Day Excursion.
Bricks | Roof | Power
15 May 202610 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: What Remains?.
A Stroll with Antje Schiffers
17 May 202611 am – 2 pm
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Guided Tours
International Museum Day 2026
17 May 20262 – 4 pm
Bauhaus Building

Past events 2026

Sat
28 Mar – 
11 am
Sun
29 Mar
11 am
opening
Centennial exhibitions
Sun
15 Mar
11 am
Family tour
Bauhaus time capsule.
Interactive journey through time combining listening, creativity and remembrance
Sat
14 Mar
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Understanding
Wed
11 Mar
6 pm
Object Talk
Out of the Display Case: Zwei Welten (Two Worlds).
Reading from the autobiography of T. Lux Feininger
Tue
10 Mar
4 pm
Artist Talk
Book presentation: Margret Hoppe. Pair / Unpair 
Sun
8 Mar
6 pm
Schauspiel / Uraufführung
Ehrlich.
Sun
8 Mar
2 pm
Special themed tour
Women at the Bauhaus.
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Sun
8 Mar
11 am
Special themed tour
Women at the Bauhaus.
Masters’ Houses
Fri
6 Mar
8 pm
Schauspiel / Uraufführung
Ehrlich.
Fri
27 Feb – 
Sun
15 Mar
Event
Kurt Weill Festival 2026.
In Bewegung
Sat
14 Feb
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Formwork.
Materials and Their Negatives
Thu
12 Feb
6 pm
Ausstellungseröffnung
Opening: Soda | Lentils | Fluff
Mon
2 Feb – 
10 am
Wed
4 Feb
3 pm
Workshop
Winter Workshop 2026.
Transparent, Muted, Vibrant
Thu
29 Jan – 
Sat
31 Jan
Public Conference
Discourse | Cracks | Narrative.
Bauhaus Matters: Materials of modernity
Sat
24 Jan
7:30 pm
Konzert
musica magnetica.
Raum für Klang. Neue Musik im Bauhaus Museum
Fri
23 Jan
7:30 pm
Konzert
musica magnetica.
Raum für Klang. Neue Musik im Bauhaus Museum
Wed
14 Jan
5 pm
Object Talk + Guided Tour
Out of the Display Case: The “Growing House” and the expansion of the Dessau-Törten Housing Estate

Past events 2025

Fri
12 Dec
4 pm
Artist talk with Camelot
Sbstz.
Type as Continuum
Sun
7 Dec
6 pm
Dance Performance
staging the bauhaus XIV.
conSequenze: Luciano Berio
Sat
6 Dec
6 pm
Dance Performance
staging the bauhaus XIV.
conSequenze: Luciano Berio
Thu
4 Dec
6 pm
Exhibition Opening
Opening: Bakelite | Glaze | Colour.
Gifts to the Bauhaus Dessau
Fri
21 Nov
6 pm
Discussion + film + food and drink
Friday Group: Collective + Repair
Wed
12 Nov
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: The Bauhaus Album by Chanan Frenkel
Sun
9 Nov
2:30 pm
Dialogue + Workshop
The Bauhaus in the steel age
Sat
8 Nov
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: From the idea to the gift.
Crafting with wood
Thu
6 Nov
6 pm
Film Screenings
Nitrate | Silver | Light
Thu
6 Nov
6 pm
Vortrag
From country house to monument: the restoration of the Mies van der Rohe house 2000–2002
Tue
28 Oct
6 pm
Reading series
1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau: October
Fri
24 Oct
3 pm
Lectures + exhibitions + films
Library Day 2025.
Women in focus: pioneers, rebels and shapers
Fri
24 Oct – 
Sat
25 Oct
International Network Meeting of Designers
Study Rooms 2025: Learning Environments.
In the Workshop of Nature
Thu
23 Oct
7 pm
Film Screenings
UNCREDITED: /Things to come: László, Lucia and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy/.
Movie by Angela Zumpe
Mon
20 Oct – 
10 am
Wed
22 Oct
3 pm
Workshop
Autumn Workshop 2025.
Gifting the Bauhaus
Fri
17 Oct
6 pm
Discussion + film + food and drinks
Friday Group: Vacancy + Richness
Sun
12 Oct
2 pm
Guided Tour
Touching 100 Years of Bauhaus.
Tactile guidance as part of Sight Awareness Week
Sun
12 Oct
11:30 am
Guided Tour
Touching 100 Years of Bauhaus.
Tactile guidance as part of Sight Awareness Week
Sat
11 Oct
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Speedy Landscapes.
Experimental drawing
Wed
8 Oct
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Plastics – Innovations brought into shape.
Everyday goods made from Resopal by Christian Dell
Fri
26 Sep
5 pm
Triennale of Modernism
Opening Invisible Bauhaus Dessau.
Reading series 1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau
Sun
21 Sep
5 pm
Tanzabend / Uraufführung
Der Grüne Tisch.
Valses
Sat
20 Sep
5 pm
Tanzabend / Uraufführung
Der Grüne Tisch.
Valses
Sat
20 Sep
12 pm
Long Night at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau 2025.
KulTour from 12 to 12
Fri
19 Sep
7:30 pm
Dance Evening / Premiere
Der Grüne Tisch.
Valses
Sun
14 Sep
10 am
Event
Open Monument Day.
The Steel House + Visiting the settlers’ house with self-catering garden
Sat
13 Sep
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Bauhaus wrapping paper.
Stamping
Sat
6 Sep
9:30 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Bauhaus³.
Dance, Circus, Bauhaus
Fri
5 Sep – 
Sun
7 Sep
Celebrations
Centennial Launch
Sun
17 Aug
10:30 am
Guided tour
A flower emerges
Wed
13 Aug
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Flowers and Cactus
Fri
8 Aug
2 pm
Special tour
Gracious Hosts.
Interios of the Masters’ Houses
Sun
3 Aug
10:30 am
Interactive Tour
A flower emerges
Fri
1 Aug
2 pm
Special tour
Gracious Hosts.
Interios design of the Masters’ Houses
Thu
31 Jul
2 pm
Exhibition opening + Symposium
Bauhaus Lab 2025: After modern Brightness.
Ecologies of Light
Fri
25 Jul
2 pm
Special tour
Gracious Hosts.
Interior design of the Masters’ Houses
Sun
20 Jul
10:30 am
Interactive tour
A flower emerges
Fri
18 Jul
2 pm
Special tour
Gracious Hosts.
Interior design of the Masters’ Houses
Sat
12 Jul
3 pm
Reading and talk
Nature Writing.
Writing about nature in times of climate change and species loss
Sat
12 Jul
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Balloon bouquets.
Modelling
Sun
6 Jul
10:30 am
Interactive tour
A flower emerges
Mon
30 Jun – 
10 am
Fri
4 Jul
3 pm
Workshop
Summer workshop 2025.
Metamorphoses of plants in light and colour
Tue
24 Jun
6 pm
Reading series
1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau: June
Fri
20 Jun
6 pm
Flower show + talk + food and drink
Friday Group: Flowers + Vases
Sun
15 Jun
10:30 am
Interactive tour
A flower emerges
Sat
14 Jun
3 pm
Veranstaltung
Ein Jubiläumsauftakt in der Neuen Nationalgalerie.
100 Jahre Bauhaus Dessau
Sat
14 Jun
3 pm
Event
An centennial kick-off at the Neue Nationalgalerie.
100 years of Bauhaus Dessau
Sat
14 Jun
3 pm
Lecture
Wilhelm Ostwald — Colour standards: Art, Science, Technology
Sat
14 Jun
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Green impressions.
Chlorophyll printing
Wed
11 Jun
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Otti Berger.
Upholstery and curtain fabrics for modern architecture
Sun
1 Jun
2 pm
Event
UNESCO World Heritage Day 2025.
Vermitteln, verbinden, begeistern
Sun
1 Jun
10:30 am
Interactive Tour
A flower emerges
Sat
31 May
11 am
Exhibition Opening
Margret Hoppe.
Pair / Unpair
Sun
18 May
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Blue meets nature.
Cyanotype printing
Sun
18 May
Event
International Museum Day
Sat
17 May
4 pm
Exhibition opening
Delphinium Maximum
Wed
14 May
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Brick
Fri
9 May
6 pm
Lecture + cactus market + talk + food and drink + films
Friday Group: Nature + Preservation
Sat
12 Apr
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Bauhaus bees.
Performing together
Thu
10 Apr
6 pm
Exhibition opening
Bauhaus Ecologies
Mon
7 Apr
6 pm
Artist Talk
The Bauhaus as a church?.
Kang Sunkoo in dialogue with Torsten Blume
Tue
25 Mar
6 pm
Reading series
1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau: March
Thu
20 Mar
6 pm
Exhibition opening
Intermezzi.
Anna Gille + Matthias Kaiser + Experimental Space
Sat
15 Mar
2 pm
Kurt Weill Fest
Closing concert Bauhaus Residency 2025.
with Lori Usai and Karo Lynn
Wed
12 Mar
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Concrete
Sat
8 Mar
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Feminist, creative, loud.
Screen printing
Thu
27 Feb
6 pm
Exhibition opening
Kang Sunkoo.
Sacristy
Thu
13 Feb
5 pm
Workshop
Colour Co-Creation.
Workshop on Natural and Synthetic Colours
Wed
12 Feb
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Glass
Sat
8 Feb
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Analogue enlargement.
Photo lab
Wed
29 Jan – 
10 am
Fri
31 Jan
3 pm
Workshop
Winter Workshop 2025.
Landscape Workshop
Tue
28 Jan
6 pm
Reading series
1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau
Fri
17 Jan
7:30 pm
New music at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Voices unbound: Facets of the vocal and the accordion through the centuries.
Room for sound 4
Sat
11 Jan
11 am
Artist Talk
Artist in Talk.
Kerstin Flake

Past events 2024

Wed
11 Dec
6 pm
Object Talk
Out of the Display Case: Tubular steel composition for plants in the room
Sun
8 Dec
5 pm
Performance
staging the bauhaus XIII*.
Blue
Sat
7 Dec
7 pm
Performance
staging the bauhaus XIII*.
Blue
Sat
16 Nov
11 am
Exhibition opening
Jun Yang.
More than real
Wed
13 Nov
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Jewellery by Hans Przyrembel
Sat
9 Nov
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Small castling.
An introduction to chess
Fri
8 Nov
6 pm
Talk + film + discussion + interaction + food and drink
Friday Group: Living + Remodelling
Thu
24 Oct
3 pm
Event
Campus series for the Day of Libraries.
AI in the context of academic work
Wed
23 Oct
6 pm
Artist talk
Walk through the exhibition Planet B House
Fri
18 Oct
6 pm
Talk + discussion + film + material sample + food and drink
Friday Group: Monument + Repair
Sat
12 Oct
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: The Gesture Speaks
Mon
7 Oct – 
9 am
Wed
9 Oct
2 pm
Workshop
Autumn Workshop 2024.
“I am me … Come dance with me!”
Sat
28 Sep
12 pm
Long Night at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau.
KulTour from 12 to 12
Sat
14 Sep
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Architectural scenographies
Wed
11 Sep
6 pm
Object Talk
Out of the Display Case: A bed by Carl Fieger.
About furnishing and growing old
Sun
8 Sep
11 am
Open Monument Day: Landmarks.
Witnesses of history
Fri
6 Sep – 
Sat
7 Sep
Bauhaus Festival 2024.
The Bauhaus dances!
Sat
31 Aug
3 pm
Action day on the occasion of the Bauhaus Festival.
Before the festival is already a festival
Thu
29 Aug – 
Thu
12 Sep
Films on the occasion of the Bauhaus Festival.
Before the festival is already a festival
Fri
16 Aug
7:30 pm
guest: MDR Music Summer 2024.
Classically modern
Wed
14 Aug
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Starfish.
Photographs from the Bauhaus
Thu
8 Aug
2 pm
Exhibition opening + final symposiu
Bauhaus Lab 2024: On behalf of the environment.
Pedagogies of unrest
Sat
13 Jul
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: From head to toe
Fri
5 Jul – 
1:30 pm
Fri
26 Jul
1:30 pm
Special guided tours
Gracious Hosts.
Interior design of the Master’s Houses
Mon
24 Jun – 
10 am
Fri
28 Jun
3 pm
Workshop
Summer workshop 2024.
The book on expedition
Sat
15 Jun
3 pm
Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses e. V.
100th anniversary ceremony
Fri
14 Jun
6 pm
// Lecture + talk + food and drink + performance + film
Friday Group: Art + Environment
Wed
12 Jun
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Kasia Fudakowski.
Who can touch me where when I can no longer do so?
Sat
8 Jun
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Linocut
Sat
1 Jun – 
11 am
Sun
2 Jun
5 pm
UNESCO-World Heritage Day.
The Dessau Masters’ Houses and Their Grounds
Sat
1 Jun – 
Sat
15 Jun
International Network Meeting of Designers
Study Rooms 2024: After Industry.
Productivities of Transition
Fri
24 May
6 pm
Lecture + film + discussion + interaction + water tasting + food and drink
Friday Group: Water + Water Purification
Sat
18 May – 
10 am
Sun
19 May
5 pm
Event
End Expo.
A Consumer Fair for Mortals
Sat
11 May
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Photo lab – Part IV
Fri
19 Apr
6 pm
Lecture + Film + Discussion + Performance + Food and Drink
Friday Group: Innovations + Regulations
Sat
13 Apr
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: From image and word to page to book
Sat
13 Apr
Curator’s tour
The modern romantic Feiningers
Thu
11 Apr
6 pm
Exhibitions opening
Bodies and Gestures.
Three new special exhibitions at the Bauhaus Museum
Wed
10 Apr
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Hannes Meyer.
Bauhausler, leftist and cosmopolitan
Sat
23 Mar
Curator’s tour
The modern romantic Feiningers
Thu
21 Mar
6 pm
Exhibition opening
Anna Meyer.
Planet B Haus
Wed
13 Mar
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Experience Museum.
How do we impart knowledge?
Sat
9 Mar
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Practising democracy
Sat
2 Mar
Curator’s tour
The modern romantic Feiningers
Fri
23 Feb – 
Sun
10 Mar
Event
Kurt Weill Festival 2024.
Leuchten im Schatten
Wed
14 Feb
6 pm
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Growth and motion.
The films for the opening of the Bauhaus building in Dessau
Sat
10 Feb
11 am
Workshop
Open Workshop: Stencil
Wed
7 Feb – 
10 am
Fri
9 Feb
3 pm
Workshop
Winter Workshop 2024.
Photo workshop – build, test, experiment