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Bauhaus Today Fund
In 2016 the Federal Cultural Foundation established the application-based Bauhaus Today Fund to emphasise the contemporary relevance of the Bauhaus one hundred years after its founding. Institutions in all artistic areas are invited to apply for...
The Bauhaus Comes from Weimar
In 1925 Walter Gropius established a collection of Bauhaus works with just 168 workshop pieces. Since then the Bauhaus Collection has steadily grown to 13,000 items. These include the famous table lamp by Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Carl Jakob Jucker, the...
original bauhaus
What is “typically Bauhaus”? Today Wagenfeld lamps, Breuer chairs or Marianne Brandt’s tea service represent trademarks of the famous school of design. However, many of the objects considered “original Bauhaus” became icons only after it was closed....
SoliPolis
NEW HAMBURG festival – financed through the Bauhaus Today Fund One hundred years ago the Bauhäusler worked together in an interdisciplinary community to establish a new concept of design that would impact all areas of life, society and the political...
SENSEfactory
Hybrid eccentricity – financed through the Bauhaus Today Fund SENSEfactory is a new version of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s radical concept of “mechanical eccentricity” for our present era of sensor technology, big data and artificial intelligence. An...
Spinning Triangles
“Spinning Triangles” not only celebrates the founding moment of the Bauhaus, but also offers a gesture of change. The aim is to establish a new “School of Design” which is capable of addressing the challenges of our time. The new school will not be...
The Weisswasser Model or the Measure of All Things
A performative use of the town Weisswasser – financed through the Bauhaus Today Fund The performative and participative urban project “The Weisswasser Model” will stage five workshops to explore new uses for the town and tie into the artistic work...
Light Air Shit
"Light Air Shit” investigates the history of the environmental question in the 20th and 21st century in connection to current urban gardening and agricultural movements, self-sufficiency, recycling, self-construction and sustainable urban...
The Treachery of Images
La trahison des images – financed through the Bauhaus Today Fund Is it truth if it occurs before our eyes – because someone happened to place it there? Or do we knowingly allow ourselves to be deceived by iconic images in spite of and especially...
100th Anniversary of Pausa and Bauhaus
The mechanical weaving plant Pausa was founded by the Löwenstein brothers in 1919. And with it came the Bauhaus idea to Mössingen. Here in this provincial Swabian town, the interplay of artistic excellence and master craftmanship produced...
