daily 10. am – 6.00 pm
(closed on Tuesdays)
Schloss Georgium
Am Georgengarten 18
06846 Dessau
Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie
Puschkinallee 100, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Phone: 0340 6612600
gemaeldegalerie.dessau-rosslau.de
Special exhibition at Georgium Palace
KINDSKÖPFE - Portraits of children from the Baroque to the Romantic period
The Anhalt Picture Gallery in Georgium Palace has been accessible again since this year. After several years of renovating its main building, one of the most important collections of Old Masters in Central Germany is literally being shown in a new light. The highlight of the year is the special exhibition “KINDSKÖPFE” in the fall. Masterpieces from Anthonis van Dyck to Philipp Otto Runge take us back to a time when the ideas of the Enlightenment significantly changed not only the image of childhood, but also the genre of children’s portraits.
The exhibition, which extends from the 17th to the first half of the 19th century, focuses on the Age of Enlightenment. With its new pedagogical ideas, it brought about a fundamental re-evaluation of childhood as an independent phase of life, distinct from adulthood. This was associated with a fundamental change in the perception of the portrait of a child in the 18th century. The new image of childhood as an independent phase of human development, in which the carefree and “natural” education of a young person was to take place, found expression in new types of portraits. From then on, the social role of the sitter was less in the foreground than the developing personality, which appealed emotionally to the viewer with demonstrative naturalness.
The exhibition on the transformation of children’s portraits between the Baroque and Biedermeier periods is embedded in a jubilee year in Dessau-Roßlau in 2024 to celebrate the founding of the Philantropinum by Johann Bernhard Basedow 250 years ago. As an important building block of the Dessau-Wörlitz reform movement, this model school of the Enlightenment was causally linked to modern ideas on child education and the re-evaluation of childhood as an intrinsically valuable phase of life.
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
Anna Meyer. Planet B House
Anna Meyer, residency artist 2023, is showing new paintings and models in the former weaving mill under the title “Planet B Haus”. The dividing lines between nature and culture, environment and in-world are slipping, spatial and temporal boundaries are dissolving. They are replaced by floating, fluid identities and hybridizations of animals, humans, technoid beings, the animate and inanimate. Meyer combines feminist and ecological aspects in her work. In doing so, she equally highlights political, social, economic and cultural asymmetries and entanglements. Bauhaus modernism and the Enlightenment, Dessau and the Wörlitz Garden Kingdom merge into the present day, a visual axis through the ages.
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
Martin Oswald - Drawn country
The topos landscape is a central field of reference for the illustrator Martin Oswald. Behind the supposed idyll lies the daily tragedy of the present.
Last but not least, everyday life saturated with war constantly provides us with images of natural and urban landscapes that need to be interrogated.
The exhibition therefore shows highly current graphic analyzes of our landscape.
Martin Oswald (*1960) has been a professor of art in Weingarten since 2004. Numerous publications and exhibitions as an illustrator, curator and author. The works shown are drawings and image montages with pencil and chalk on 300gr paper, cardboard, canvas and transparency paper.
08.09. – 31.12.2024
Mon – Wen 09.00 a.m. – 05.00 p.m.
Thu 09.00 a.m. – 06.00 p.m.
Sat 01.00 p.m. – 05.00 p.m.*
*only 28.09., 12.10., 26.10., 09.11., 23.11.
free entry
Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt
Abteilung Dessau
Heidestraße 21
06842 Dessau-Roßlau
Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt
Abteilung Dessau
Heidestraße 21
06842 Dessau-Roßlau
Tel. 0340/519896-0
Exhibition in the Dessau archive network
Caution! - Agents write along
The very word agent stimulates our imagination. We automatically think of James Bond or the mysterious Mata Hari, who spied for the French secret service. But what does their reality look like? What do we know most about women who have worked for secret services in the past? The bilingual traveling exhibition “Caution! Agents write along!” gives an insight into their lives. The focus is on two agents who revealed military secrets from Germany to the Czechoslovakian Intelligence Service in the 1930s.
In the traveling exhibition “Caution! Agents write!” visitors immerse themselves in the mysterious world of espionage. Interactive contemporary witnesses, which visitors can access using a QR code on their cell phone, provide an additional look at these two unusual women’s biographies.
The Starnberg exhibition and filmmaker, graphic designer and author Petra Dombrowski, whose maxim is to bring history to life, tells a true agent thriller in her exhibition project, which, among other things, took place very close by.
The exhibition in the lecture room of the Old Water Tower is a cooperation project between the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, the Association for Anhaltische Landeskunde e.V. and the State Archives.
12.04.2024 – 02.02.2025 The gesture speaks
12.04.2024 – 02.02.2025 Clément Cogitore
12.04.2024 – 06.10.2024 Christina Werner
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
Three special exhibitions
For the first time, the first floor of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau will be used for exhibitions.
Another 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. The work “Rhythm Is a Dancer” by artist Christina Werner will be on display here.
Two further exhibitions will also 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“.
A film excerpt by Niels Bolbrinker will be shown, there will be talks with the artists and a performance by those involved in Christina Werner’s work.
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.