daily 10. am – 6.00 pm
(closed on Tuesdays)
Schloss Georgium
Am Georgengarten 18
06846 Dessau
Anhalt Picture Gallery
Puschkinallee 100
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Phone no.: 0340-6612600
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.
Alte Schultheißbrauerei Brauereistraße 1-2 /
at the corner to Elisabethstraße
06847 Dessau-Roßlau
brau.ART e. V.
15th edition of the art exhibition
brau.ART 2024
The last theme of the brau.art annual exhibition in the boiler and machine hall of the former Schultheiss brewery in Dessau, “Art makes visible”, was intended to raise awareness of the hidden. In 2024, the invitation to reflect on the visible now follows. Reflections” refers to the artistic transformation of a reality into the virtual, into the form of a work of art.
Before reflection is increasingly taken away from us by artificial intelligence, the exhibitions want to practise the sensual, direct experience of actual existence. Graphics, painting and collage offer a variety of colour and form phenomena; sculpture, installation and figuration also create a tangible counterpart in the atmospheric light space of the Kunsthallen. The artwork has a direct effect, and one or the other will trigger intense reflections in exhibition visitors.
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
Sandro Porcu - "33 degrees"
Born in Caltanissetta (Italy) in 1966, Sandro Porcu has lived and worked in Upper Lusatia since 2011. Before that, he spent 15 years as a freelance artist in the Bauwollspinnerei Leipzig. Porcu himself loves to play provocatively with the zeitgeist. With the help of clever border crossings and ambiguity, he critically, but never judgmentally, questions current conditions and the roles of people in the process of civilization. His witty and self-critical art likes to subversively infiltrate the modern art world.
His main protagonists are hyper-realistic and true-to-scale figures depicted in everyday street scenes. They drink beer sitting on a park bench (Trinkwinkel 2006), urinate against walls (Richy 2005), sleep sitting on suitcases (O.T.2008) or stretch out towards sparsely dripping water to quench their thirst (Drop Catcher 2010). In reality, he had a Ypsilon-shaped soccer pitch built on which three teams can challenge each other at the same time. In June 2010, the first trilateral Trikick game between a Polish, a Czech and a German team took place with great success in Kirschau – a world premiere that is to be followed by further tournaments. In his figurative sculptures and installations, Sandro Porcu tells of the tragicomedy of existence and, in a socially critical manner, represents resigned, tired and insecure contemporary witnesses of a society that is constantly under pressure to compete.
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.
28.04.2024 – 11.08.2024
Sun 12.00 – 5.00 pm
Guest house at Georgium Castle
Am Georgengarten 18
06846 Dessau
Project by Büro Otto Koch im Kiez e. V.
Kiez e.V. Dessau
Cultural information and residents’ center
Bertolt-Brecht-Straße 29/29a
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Exhibition in the Fremdenhaus at Georgium Castle
Olaf Wegewitz: Nature... With respect
As a draughtsman, painter, poet and book artist, Olaf Wegewitz (born 1949) is primarily concerned with the relationship between human culture and nature. He is concerned with man’s perception of nature, with the sociology of nature and also practically with fruit growing and beekeeping.
The approach of his art is based on his reflective attitude to life. He usually finds the starting points for his thinking at the edges of our usual attention in order to direct our gaze there too – in the knowledge that everything contributes to the whole and is absorbed into it, which is the case even when our senses barely perceive it. In a work by Olaf Wegewitz you can read: Stone, plant, animal, human, land – Nothing can be excluded.
Many of his unique artist’s books can be found in the artists’ book collection of the Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek Dessau in the Palais Dietrich.
The exhibition is sponsored by the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the city of Dessau-Roßlau and supported by the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie.
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 2024
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.