Mon – Sun 10.00 – 5.00 (Mar – Oct)
Tue – Sun 10.00 – 5.00 (Nov – Feb)
Bauhausgebäude
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
bauhaus-dessau.de
Exhibition in the Bauhaus building
in the name of the environment - pedagogies of unrest
The participants of the Bauhaus Lab 2024 dealt with both the teaching and research activities of the institute and the cultural context of the time. The result is an exhibition that looks at the fragmented history of the Institut de l’Environnement along the lines of the question “What is the environment?” Like a common thread, this question connects three installative thematic clusters: Signs of Protest deal with the cultural context of the institute. A series of posters make connections to cultural and political events. The paper archive curtain offers insights into everyday teaching and research within the institute and represents the overwhelming wealth of archive material. The facade forms a membrane, it accentuates an intermediate space that is related to the school’s facade, but whose materiality also addresses the external impact of this controversial institute.
Tuesday – Sunday 10. a.m. – 5.00 p.m.
kunstHALLE Dessau
Ratsgasse
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Anhaltischer Kunstverein Dessau e.V.
Hobuschgasse 5
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Mail: info@anhaltischer-kunstverein.de
anhaltischer-kunstverein.de
Exhibition in the kunstHALLE
Simone Haack - new magical realism
At the beginning of the Bauhaus anniversary year the Kunsthalle Dessau is showing the pioneer of New Magical Realism, the Berlin artist Simone Haack, in dialogue with New Bauhaus. What, in the tension between magical realism and Bauhaus, had its starting point in the photography and painting of artists like Lucia Moholy-Nagy and artists like Theodor Lux Feininger and Herbert List almost 100 years ago, led to major debates in the struggle for modernity in the Bauhaus have not lost their relevance to this day.
The works of the 46-year-old Haack follow on from this. Because these always tell of the tensions of physical and psychological existence that go through her painterly psychoanalysis. According to their credo: to work with the means of realism, but not to depict reality.
12.04.2024 – 02.02.2025 The gesture speaks
12.04.2024 – 02.02.2025 Clément Cogitore
Tue – Sun, 10 am – 6 pm (March – Oct)
Tue – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (Nov – Feb)
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz 1
(at the Kavalierstraße)
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
bauhaus-dessau.de
Bauhaus Museum Dessau - Ground floor
Two special exhibitions
For the first time, the first floor of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau will be used for exhibitions.
A new feature is the substitute for the spatial stage in the foyer, which in future will enable different, simultaneous uses as well as changing exhibition situations and create a link to the spatial concepts of the historic Bauhaus.
Two exhibitions will be presented in the new special exhibition space in the southern part of the museum building. The exhibition “The Gesture Speaks” deals with the human body at the beginning of the 20th century as a medium of perception and expression and Clément Cogitore shows “Bodies in Sync“.
25.09.2024 – 01.03.2026
We – Sun 10.00 a.m. – 05.00 p.m.
The Museum is closed in December and January.
Museum of Natural History and Prehistory
Askanische Straße 32
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Museum of Natural History and Prehistory
Askanische Straße 32
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Museum of Natural History and Prehistory
Special exhibition “Animal Individual”
Whether sawflies or buzzards: animals deal with their environment individually. Researchers from different disciplines in the Collaborative Research Center NC³ at the Universities of Bielefeld and Münster have examined in more detail how they choose their own ecological niche, adapt to it and change it for various animal species. Their research results are clearly presented in the special exhibition “Animally Individual” on loan from Bielefeld. The exhibition invites visitors to follow in the footsteps of science themselves. At hands-on stations you can find out, for example, how experienced flour beetles protect themselves from disease or how the development of fur seal pups is influenced by the mother’s choice of beach. Research and exhibitions help to better understand animals and their behavior and thus contribute to effective animal and species protection.
permanent exhibition
Tue – Sun 10.00 a. m. – 05.00 p. m. (Nov – Feb)
Mon – Sun 10.00 a. m. – 05.00 p. m. (Mar – Oct)
Bauhaus Building
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Exhibition in the Bauhaus Building
The glass facade at the Bauhaus
The striking steel and glass facade of the workshop wing was a novelty when it was completed in 1926 and for a long time stood for modern building. Since its destruction due to the war in 1945, there have been repeated changes to the building. One of the most important was the reconstruction of the facade as an aluminum-glass construction in 1976. During this time, people learned to appreciate the Bauhaus again. It became (again) a place for design and architectural questions.
The exhibition traces the eventful history of the famous facade. Historical photographs show the interior and everyday life of the training center from the 1920s to the 1980s. Contemporary witnesses from different generations have their say in images and sounds.
permanent exhibition
Tue – Sun 10.00 a. m. – 05.00 p. m. (Nov – Feb)
Mon – Sun 10.00 a. m. – 05.00 p. m. (Mar – Oct)
Bauhaus Building
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Exhibition in the Bauhaus Building
Bauhaus learning place
The former architecture classroom becomes an exhibition and place for visitors to stay with the “Bauhaus Learning Site”. Against the background and context of the historic Bauhaus Dessau as a school (1926–1932), current forms of learning that are practiced today in the two departments of the Academy and the Curatorial Workshop of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation are presented here. This includes research and teaching on history and critical reflection of modern and current design discourses as well as mediation and playful-speculative reinterpretations of historical exercises, materials and ideas.
Using a selection of presented projects, visitors to this location are invited to take part in the multi-voiced conversations of these teaching programs, workshops, publications and other formats on the discourse and practice of design.
permanent exhibition
Tue – Sun 10.00 a. m. – 05.00 p. m.
Bauhaus Building
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Exhibition in the Bauhaus Building
Archaeology of Modernism. Building Research Bauhaus Buildings Dessau
Whether door handles and bath tubs or colour samples and concrete fragments, the scientists in the building research archive of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation collect and investigate building components and materials of the architecture of Modernism. A worldwide unique collection of original testimonies that have been almost unknown by now. The exhibition Archaeology of Modernism. Building Research Bauhaus Buildings Dessau in the Bauhaus Building presents a selection from the building research archive and demonstrates the interaction of material and the architecture of Modernism by presenting building components and building materials, drawing and contemporary records.
Over the past decades, much knowledge about the once modern, however meanwhile historical materials has been lost. Many materials proved to be useful and prevailed, some of them not. They were just replaced in later refurbishment activities, apparently unimportant items, e.g. electrical lines and floor covers, were disposed of. But they find their place in the building research archive. They are secured, investigated and again and again studied to answer still pending questions of the architecture of Modernism.
October 2023 until October 2025
The exact locations of the picture banks can be found on the map on the exhibition page.
If you have any questions, please contact the Tourist Information Dessau.
Downtown
Open Space Gallery
Take your time for a walk through the city and discover the most beautiful places of Dessau-Roßlau as photo impressions on an approximately 3.5 km long circuit between the train station and Kavalierstraße.
In this interesting format, the temporary exhibition presents appealing topics such as urban development, urban history and urban culture.
In the current exhibition, 14 photo banks compare city views from Dessau-Roßlau today with photos from the past 60 years. This results in an exciting testimony to urban development.
The impressive results can be viewed on a walk through the city, can also be experienced digitally and inspire people to visit the original sites.
Click here to go to the exhibition page.