28.02.2025 – 19.10.2025
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
Kang Sunkoo. sacristy
In preparation for the anniversary “To the substance. “Bauhaus Dessau 100” in Kang Sunkoo’s exhibition, relic-like fragments from Bauhaus history become artistic material for a prelude to what is to come. The artist dedicates himself to the quasi-religious, mythically exaggerated charge and veneration of the historic Bauhaus. He also traces the faith in the Bauhaus and links this with his own biography. Kang grew up in Seoul, in the Christian, Buddhist and shamanistic South Korea, and in the Catholic Rhineland.
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
Anna Franziska Schwarzbach - iron art casting
Anna Franziska Schwarzbach with her iron art castings is something special. There are only a few sculptors who have dealt with iron casting as specifically as she has. In addition, in the KUNSTHALLE we will be showing some works from the important iron cast collection of a Dessau collector, which the city of Dessau-Roßlau acquired with the support of the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung.
Anna Franziska Schwarzbach, born in Rittersgrün in the Erzgebirge. 1964-1968 Bertolt-Brecht secondary school in Schwarzenberg, high school diploma, skilled worker as a cattle breeder. As the daughter of the sculptor Hans Brockhage (1925–2009), Anna Franziska Schwarzbach then initially studied architecture with Selman Selmanagić at the art college in Berlin-Weißensee. After working in this profession for two years at the Berlin Palace of the Republic, she studied portrait sculpture, also in Berlin-Weißensee. She has been working as a freelance sculptor since 1977.
21.03.2025 – 19.10.2025
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 - Intermezzi
Anna Gille + Matthias Kaiser + Experimental Space
At the same time, three new Intermezzi are opening at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau. The Intermezzi are exhibitions within the exhibition: current and historical positions from art and design intervene at three locations within the permanent exhibition and create new approaches and relationships to the legacy of modernism. The Intermezzi in 2025 focus, among other things, on representations of nature in our post-digital age and the material knowledge contained in ceramics and fired objects.
In Intermezzi, Anna Gille shows charcoal drawings of vegetation in analogue and digital landscapes. She stages these in an object installation that is reminiscent of the presentation of devices in apple stores.
The ceramics that Matthias Kaiser produces in his studio are subtle experiments in form and materiality. Their surfaces are often coated with specially produced glazes made from natural materials he has collected himself, such as mussel shells or quartz sand, and are reminiscent of pottery traditions from different cultures.
The experimental space is dedicated to the role and the various relationships between material, music and sound in the artistic processes of the illustrator Anna Gille and the ceramicist Matthias Kaiser. On display are various interactions between sound and material, which become clear in the works of both artists.
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.
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
Yun Yang. More than real
In his work More than real, Jun Yang presents famous Bauhaus furniture of various origins in the historic Bauhaus building. The Vienna-based artist uses various rooms with a precise selection of furniture produced true to the original, translations and free imitations. It addresses the further developments and changes that the design heritage of the Bauhaus, specifically furniture design, has undergone over the past decades. Jun Yang’s work for the Bauhaus Dessau is about interpretations and transfers: from industrial furniture to design icons, to fetishes, to copies and to works of art. With the selection of furniture, Jun Yang rejects a strict concept of authenticity and at the same time invites people to continually renegotiate ideas of authenticity. What is authentic that needs to be preserved?
On the occasion of the centenary of the Bauhaus in Dessau, Tecta and Jun Yang are starting the experiment of developing a new, completely recyclable Wassily edition. The name “Wassily” was introduced in the 1960s by Dino Gavina as a marketing name for the Breuer B3 armchair. Tecta produces the foldable armchair under the name D4.
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.
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.