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Dekoloniale
“Dekoloniale” is a programme comprised of various research projects, exhibitions and events on colonialism and post-colonialism of the present-day. These will be developed and presented by civic and cultural organisations in Berlin from 2020 to 2024....
The National Socialist Genocide of the Sinti and Roma
It took a long time for Germany to officially recognise the genocide of the Sinti and Roma – the memorial commemorating the Sinti and Roma murdered by the Nazi regime just recently opened in 2012. Today, they represent the one ethnic minority in...
POSTWEST
East or West? Or rather post-East West? What exactly do such categories signify and does using them still make sense in a united Europe? This festival at the Berlin Volksbühne wishes to artistically investigate Europe’s East-West divide and the...
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...
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....
The Total Dance Theater
“The Total Dance Theater. A Virtual Reality Human-Machine Laboratory” transports Oskar Schlemmer’s and Walter Gropius’s dance experiments to the digital age. In a sensual, playful manner, it exploits the possibilities of virtual reality to explore...
Bauhaus and Photography
In conjunction with trends described as “ Neues Sehen ” (New Vision) in painting, architecture and design, Bauhaus photography found itself pervaded by a reformatory spirit which found its expression in a new visual language. Artists began diverging...
Initiative to Process Colonial History
With its large-scale project “Initiative to Process Colonial History” (2022-2023), Hamburg aims to shed light on its colonial past and make its lasting consequences visible.
Bauhaus Agents
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/Museum für Gestaltung plan to launch a broad-based educational programme which will shape the future pedagogical activities in their new museums. In this joint...
For The Phoenix To Find Its Form In Us
Germany has recently seen increasingly heated debates on the restitution of collection pieces from ethnological museums, in particular, on their return to those communities from which the items originated. The current possibilities of provenance...
