Exhibition

bauhaus imaginista

15 Mar 2019 – 10 Jun 2019

Regular hours

Friday
16:00 – 20:00
Saturday
12:00 – 21:00
Sunday
12:00 – 19:00
Monday
16:00 – 21:00
Wednesday
16:00 – 20:00
Thursday
16:00 – 20:00

Cost of entry

Admission 9€/7€

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bauhaus imaginista narrates the international histories of the Bauhaus. Since its foundation in 1919, the school was in contact with other avant-garde movements worldwide. bauhaus imaginsita proposes a rereading of the Bauhaus as a cosmopolitan project with global resonances: A major exhibition and two conferences trace transnational relations, correspondences, and narratives of migration, going beyond the years the Bauhaus was active as a school (until 1933). For the first time, the project tracks the translation of Bauhaus concepts into different political and geographical contexts.

The title bauhaus imaginista hints at the imaginative possibilities which were opened up by the Bauhaus, and the multilayered interpretations that the term still denotes today. Between archival findings and contemporary contributions, the project translates the historical perspective into a set of contemporary questions: How, in the spirit of the Bauhaus, might culture be reimagined as a social project today? What kinds of institutions would such a project need? And in what ways does the Bauhaus still stimulate visionary practices and discourses today?

The exhibition places the Bauhaus in context with like-minded schools in other parts of the world. It reflects the artistic exploration of craft techniques, materials, and practices; examines how Bauhaus concepts on socially integrated design were transformed, adjusted, and challenged; and uncovers how the innovative use of media at the Bauhaus influences art and pop culture even today.

Since March 2018, exhibitions, symposia, and workshops in Hangzhou, New York, Kyoto, and Tokyo, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Lagos, and Delhi have been realized in collaboration with the Goethe-Institutes and local partners. Now bauhaus imaginista culminates with an expanded overview at HKW.

CuratorsToggle

Marion von Osten

Grant Watson

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Alice Creischer

The Otolith Group

Hannes Meyer

Doreen Mende

Lygia Pape

Hélio Oiticica

Anni Albers

Lena Bergner

Takehiko Mizutani

Iwao Yamawaki

Paulo Tavares

Luca Frei

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Walter Gropius

Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Ahmed Cherkaoui

Gertrud Arndt

Nandalal Bose

Zvi Efrat

Kader Attia

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