30.03.2023 – 07.01.2024
Di – So, 10 – 18 Uhr (März – Okt)
Di – So, 10 – 17 Uhr (Nov – Feb)
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz 1
(on the Kavalierstraße)
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Intermezzi in the Bauhaus Museum - Blackbox
The Learning Body
With clothes that can be transformed into prayer rugs, the project examines the idea of the mosque space, its formal boundaries and its relationship to the human body. While respecting religious rules, the Nomadic Mosque aims to redefine the traditional forms and functions of mosques in a contemporary context. The project interprets the idea of the world as a mosque, as it was created by the prophet Mohammed, as portable architecture. The Nomadic Mosque can thus be regarded as a minimal volume mosque, its design based on the individual needs and experiences of the worshipper. But it is also a device that can transform any secular space into a room for prayer. It not only accommodates the liturgical necessities, but also serves as a prosthetic device for the devotee.
30.03.2023 – 07.01.2024
Di – So, 10 – 18 Uhr (März – Okt)
Di – So, 10 – 17 Uhr (Nov – Feb)
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz 1
(on the Kavalierstraße)
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Intermezzi in the Bauhaus Museum - Blackbox
The Learning Body
Our bodies absorb and exude, are part of our “expression”, be it through physical manifestation, creative dance, exercise, or work. Which capacities to store knowledge does the human body have? What does it remember? Which cognitive processes are first stimulated by movement in space?
The physical body as a kind of learning tool straddling play, sport, and performance “on demand” forms the focal point of this experimental research and cooperation project. In collaboration with the Curatorial Workshop’s cultural outreach programme, Corina Forthuber and students from the Gestaltung: Technik.Textil course of study at the Mozarteum University Salzburg address the ideational history of the “learning body” and carry out experiments to explore the ability to remember, physical action, and the physical sensor system. Through the modification of bodies, they examine and shift automated behaviours and transform tried-and-tested relationships between the body and space.
30.03.2023 – 07.01.2024
Di – So, 10 – 18 Uhr (März – Okt)
Di – So, 10 – 17 Uhr (Nov – Feb)
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz 1
(on the Kavalierstraße)
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Intermezzi in the Bauhaus Museum
The Art of the Palliative Turn Art for the End of Our Way of Life
In 2020, the artist Olav Westphalen (born 1963) initiated the Association for the Palliative Turn, a loosely connected group of international artists. Since then, its members have focused on the artistic potentials of dealing with death, palliation, and leave-taking in a range of media and event formats that make use of humour, generosity, delight, and reflection. In the practice of life, the human body is inevitably awarded the role of a medium. The various limitations that bodies impose on people are as much a part of this as all singular sensory perceptions and experiences.
30.03.2023 – 07.01.2024
Di – So, 10 – 18 Uhr (März – Okt)
Di – So, 10 – 17 Uhr (Nov – Feb)
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Mies-van-der-Rohe-Platz 1
(on the Kavalierstraße)
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Intermezzi in the Bauhaus Museum
The Art of the Palliative Turn Art for the End of Our Way of Life
In 2020, the artist Olav Westphalen (born 1963) initiated the Association for the Palliative Turn, a loosely connected group of international artists. Since then, its members have focused on the artistic potentials of dealing with death, palliation, and leave-taking in a range of media and event formats that make use of humour, generosity, delight, and reflection. In the practice of life, the human body is inevitably awarded the role of a medium. The various limitations that bodies impose on people are as much a part of this as all singular sensory perceptions and experiences.
01.06.2023 – 07.01.2024
during the opening hours of the Bauhaus Building Dessau
Bauhaus Building
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Exhibition in the Bauhaus Building
Isa Rosenberger: Manda
The dancer and ballet master Manda von Kreibig collaborated with Oskar Schlemmer from 1928 to 1929, but little is known about her life and work. She forms the starting point for the research conducted by Isa Rosenberger, the Bauhaus Dessau’s artist-in-residence 2022. As in her other work, Rosenberger examines historiography, with its abbreviations, omissions, and revisions.
For her new work, she went in search of traces in museum archives and publications. She frequently visited the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s museum storage, which now becomes the focus of attention. After all, storage and archives represent what is considered worth preserving and collecting and, at the same time, what is not collected, what is missing. But the museum storage is also a place of potential activation, which may bring the forgotten and neglected back into the light, to the public’s attention.
In association with the dancer Celia Millan, Rosenberger invokes the experimental mood of the historic Bauhaus in the storage of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, turning it into a stage to explore – through film and dance – (forgotten) Bauhaus histories and the neglected stories of the women of the Bauhaus. In the process, Rosenberger asks general questions about the memories of museums and their responsibilities in the process of writing history.
31.05. – 08.07.2023
Mo – We 9.00 a.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Thu 9.00 a.m.- 5.00 p.m.
Fri 9.00 a.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Federal Environment Agency (UBA)
Wörlitzer Platz 1
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Federal Environment Agency (UBA)
Wörlitzer Platz 1
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Please contact by email only
buergerservice@uba.de
Federal Environment Agency
Project PONGATA - a vision of the future
On the basis of a comprehensive vision of the future, Roland Klein presents in his works a view of our earth as it might look in the period between 2068 and 2096, which he has fictitiously defined.
This exhibition mainly shows the face of the maritime outstations and life along the coastal zones of Latin America, as it takes place near what is now the largest dry continent on earth.
This main continent has been called PONGATA since 2076. The situation is similar in other parts of the world during the same period.
18.02.2023 – 30.07.2023
We – Sun 10.00 a.m. – 05.00 p.m.
Town History Museum
Johannbau
Schlossplatz 3A
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Town History Museum
Johannbau
Schlossplatz 3A
06844 Dessau-Roßlau
phone: 0340-2209612
Town History Museum
Records, sheet music, instruments - musical socializing in Dessau
The “Musikhaus Olberg” was one of the most renowned in Dessau at the beginning of the 20th century. Even the young Kurt Weill was sometimes a client. Founded in 1904 and advertised in 1908 as “Anhalt’s largest specialty shop for gramophones and records”, it celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1929. Until the beginning of the 1960s, it was known to many music lovers under the nickname “Goldene 1” in the Ratsgasse. Anyone who wanted to buy sheet music or the latest sound carriers went there. Above all, Hermann Olberg offered a wide range of musical instruments such as accordions, harmonicas, guitars, zithers and pianos. Some of these instruments can be seen in the exhibition.
In addition, the small show uses selected exhibits to highlight the musical activities of the people of Dessau in the 19th and 20th centuries. Numerous instrument shops, venues for events and choral societies shaped musical life in Dessau and Anhalt. Last but not least, Dessau artists such as Erich Schmidt-Uphoff (1911-2002) and Carl Marx (1911-1991) staged dance and music.
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.
July 2021 until Summer 2023
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.
Local and regional photographers were asked to send in their very personal and most beautiful views of the sights of Dessau-Roßlau. 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.
The photo impressions will be on display until spring 2023. After that, the exhibition will change thematically.
Click here to go to the exhibition page.