October 2025 until October 2027
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.
The current open space exhibition invites you to get to know personalities from the Bauhaus era in Dessau. On the tour you will meet directors, masters, students and supporters of the Bauhaus, whose work has shaped and carried forward the ideas of modernism.
The picture benches tell their story in text and images and make the diversity of the Bauhaus period in the urban space tangible.
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06.03. – 28.03.2026
We – Sun 10.00 a.m. – 05.00 p.m.
City History Museum
Johannbau
Schlossplatz 3A
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Anhaltischer Kunstverein Dessau e.V.
Hobuschgasse 5
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
City History Museum
Uwe Hoyer - Bauhaus city and garden kingdom
The Dessau native has essentially dedicated himself to watercolor painting since 2014. He finds plenty of inspiration and motifs in the city and the surrounding landscape. He is attracted to old and new architecture. Capturing them on paper and canvas in the context of culture and city history is part of his work.
With watercolor, it is always exciting and challenging at the same time to capture what you see in nature as quickly as possible and to implement it in color. The exciting thing about this technique is to bring out light, shadows and reflections and to allow the play of colors to run wild. The focus of the works on display are the landscape and the buildings of the Georgengarten, as part of the garden kingdom and the buildings of our city in the year of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus.
Uwe Hoyer has been a member of the German Watercolor Society since 2013, where he takes part in competitions and exhibitions throughout Germany. He lives and works in Dessau-Roßlau.
Tue – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm
kunstHALLE Dessau
Ratsgasse
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Anhaltischer Kunstverein Dessau e.V.
Hobuschgasse 5
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Mail: info@anhaltischer-kunstverein.de
Exhibition in the kunstHALLE
Kerstin Grimm - Painting, drawing, sculpture
Kerstin Grimm oscillates artistically between the possibilities of drawing and sculpture and has been at home in each of the two areas since studying at the art college in Berlin-Weißensee. She started with the drawing, left the surface of the picture and returned to it. The sculptures, which are mostly bronze and in a few cases mixed media, accompany the works on paper anecdotally and expand the horizon of artistic possibilities, especially in the figurative.
The timeless, transcendent nature of the figuration promotes thinking of the old, fragile stocks of graphic cabinets – which, more than the depicted present, are still believed to have secrets. Many of the sheets consist of layered papers that are not only collaged, but also reworked, glued and condensed in many processes – in order to ultimately appear, like the miniatures of old manuscripts, wrapped in an aura of great preciousness.
Kerstin Grimm lives and works in Berlin.
13.02.2026 – 12.07.2026
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 Museum Dessau
Soda I Lentils I Fluff. Antje Schiffers.
Artist Antje Schiffers and her partner Thomas Sprenger have been invited by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation to go on a search for traces. They are exploring the origins and production of building materials. They are contacting producers, geologists and industrial museums, establishing relationships and making them contributors to the exhibition. On their travels through Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg, to Anatolia and Cuba, they visit cement plants, flat glass production facilities, open-cast mines and historic and contemporary brickworks. Painting and drawing are used as tools to engage in conversation with the local people. But they are also a medium for storytelling, documentation and works of art.
05.12.2025 – 31.01.2027
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 Museum Dessau
Bakelite | Glaze | Colour
Since the Bauhaus Museum Dessau opened in 2019, more than 3,000 objects from over 150 donors have been added to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s collection – ranging from art, design and everyday objects to photographs and elements from the building’s construction period, such as historic Bakelite light switches.
The exhibition presents a selection of these objects and shows how diverse the gifts are that enrich the collections of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in material, historical and narrative terms. The stories of the donors are also told: their personal motives and memories bear witness to their lively relationship with the Bauhaus in Dessau – both then and now.
01.12.2025 – 02.03.2026
We – Sun 10.00 a.m. – 06.00 p.m.
Anhalt Art Gallery Dessau
Orangery near Georgium Pallce
Puschkinallee 100
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Anhalt Art Gallery Dessau
Puschkinallee 100
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Anhalt Art Gallery Dessau
From Baroque to Bauhaus. Collection stories
In the winter of 2025/26, the Anhalt Art Gallery Dessau will provide an insight into its collection history and thus also into the stories surrounding the collections and collector personalities to whom it owes its valuable holdings from the Middle Ages to modern times.
During their presentation, the “collection (hi)stories” replace the permanent exhibition in Georgium Palace, which will be closed during these three months. As there, the museum’s major works from Lucas Cranach to Wassily Kandinsky are presented in the Orangery. In addition, works of art can also be seen, which are usually kept in the depots. Be it large-format canvases from the 20th century by Paul Riess, Georg Lührig and Carl Marx. Or works on paper by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya and Paul Klee, which can only be shown for a limited time. The selection is intended to reflect the breadth of the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie’s collections.
A particular focus of the presentation is on the question of which older collections the museum received its works from (Ducal Collections, Amalien Foundation, Joachim Ernst Foundation, Municipal Art Collections, Anhalt State Collections), and thus also the question of the tradition, identity and future development of the collection.
05.11.2025 – 12.07.2026
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 Museum Dessau
Sbstz. A Font Software
Experimental type design and the potential of digital-dynamic metamorphoses are themes of the type design collective Camelot and their multimedia installation on the spatial stage in the Bauhaus Museum Dessau. Letter forms shapeshift between different states; formal and ideological principles collide, compete and dissolve.
01.08.2025 – 01.03.2026
Mon – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (Mar – Oct)
Tue – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (Nov – Feb)
Bauhaus Building
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
bauhaus-dessau.de
Exhibition in the Bauhaus Building
After modern Brightness. Ecologies of Light
Designed by Marianne Brandt in 1926, the ME 94 lamp is the result of complex interactions between scientific and technological developments, capitalism, cultural changes caused by mass production and advertising, and ecological changes associated with the electrification of Germany.
After modern brightness. Ecologies of light illuminates these invisible interconnections by examining key environments in which electricity is generated, distributed and used. Not only is the ME 94 lamp considered in its historical context, but it is also shown how design responds to technological and social developments – from the ventilation openings in Brandt’s design to the externalized environmental costs of energy production.
A closely interconnected geography of electrification runs through the entire exhibition. Places like Dessau, Zschornewitz, Berlin and Weißwasser are connected to each other via infrastructures of extraction, energy production and consumption.
25.09.2024 – 01.03.2026
We – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm
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 am – 5 pm (Nov – Feb)
Mon – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (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 am – 5 pm (Nov – Feb)
Mon – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (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 am – 5 pm (Nov – Feb)
Mon – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (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.