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.
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
Anna-Maria Kursawe - Transformation landscapes
Anna-Maria Kursawe’s paintings are characterized by dense colors and a close interlocking of image space and image surface. Her works often show architectures, interiors or situations that we encounter in modern functional locations such as airports, hotels, in urban fringe areas or in digital space.
The main pictorial design element is the connection between space, time and surface and their interactions. Your figures in the picture become part of the rooms and are treated painterly like their surroundings, without any specific milieu.
Anna-Maria Kursawe’s pictures reflect current living conditions, which are often characterized by interchangeability and rapid change.
She lives and works in Leipzig.
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.
01.06.2025 – 11.01.2026
daily 10 am – 5 pm (Mar – Oct)
Tue – Sun 10 am – 5 pm (Nov – Feb)
Entrance fee Haus Gropius
Haus Gropius
Ebertallee 57
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
bauhaus-dessau.de
Masters' Houses - Gropius House
Margret Hoppe. Pair / Unpair
Margret Hoppe was a resident artist at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in 2024. The conceptual starting point of her photographic work was the examination of duplications. In addition to the Muche | Schlemmer House – where the artists in residence live and work – two reference images of the Masters’ Houses form the framework: a photograph by Lucia Moholy and a two-part image by photographer Benjamin Subtil. In correspondence with the Masters’ Houses, in each of which one half of the building is rotated 90 degrees, Hoppe has also rotated the back of the camera 90 degrees, creating double exposures. In her twelve-part series, Hoppe forms pairs. This happens through the double exposure in the pictures themselves or through similarities and neighbourhoods between the shots. At the same time, these pairs are repeatedly uncoupled by single images (unpair).
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.
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.