Exhibition opening: 30.07.2024, 18:00
Opening hours
Tuesday: 10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday - Saturday: 10:00 - 7:00
Sundays: 14:00 - 18:00
How did the Bauhaus succeed in becoming the epitome of radical social, design and didactic renewal?
The exhibition "The whole world a Bauhaus" is dedicated to this topic. Eight chapters focus on the years 1919 to 1933 from an inside perspective in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin: "The Floating" shows how weightlessness was explored as a motif. The "Experiment" chapter presents objects that are the result of material and spatial research. The "Gesamtkunstwerk" section focuses on the synthesis of all the arts, as well as art and science and art and everyday objects. Under the heading "Community", central historical objects show the festivities and life at the Bauhaus. The ideological orientation of the Bauhaus becomes clear in the chapter "The New Man". While "Art, Craft, Technology" presents the workshops and their products, "Radical Pedagogy" shows the structure and teaching at the Bauhaus. Transcultural references become clear in the "Encounters" section.
The exhibition title "The whole world a Bauhaus" is based on a quote by Fritz Kuhr from 1928. He was a student at the Bauhaus from 1923 to 1927, worked in the mural painting workshop from 1928 to 1929 and then taught drawing at the Bauhaus until 1930.
Curator:
Boris Friedewald
Co-operation partner:
Goethe-Institut Colombia
With over 20 touring exhibitions currently travelling across the globe and with its diverse event programmes on contemporary art, the ifa links the German art scene with internationally active cultural creators and forms cooperations and networks. The projects, many of which were developed in co-creation with local partners, cover the various disciplines of modern and contemporary fine arts – from current themes in architecture, photography and design to Bauhaus and monographic exhibitions such as Rosemarie Trockel or Marcel Odenbach. These projects generate local meeting platforms and allow international perspectives on topics of global relevance. The ifa also provides loan exhibits to interested museums.
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D-70173 Stuttgart
