Anyone who works in the fields of art, architecture, or design has inevitably engaged with the Bauhaus at some point, and in most cases, has developed a position on it.
As a programme and project gallery for conceptual and minimal contemporary art + architecture, drj initiated a project of its own to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’ founding, forming a curatorial team and inviting 100 international artists to submit their personal reflections on the Bauhaus in the form of a DIN A4 sheet of paper.
These individual contributions have been brought together in the exhibition CENTURY. idee bauhaus, which illuminates a broad spectrum of artistic approaches and attitudes, encompassing both personal closeness and critical distance to the subject.
The exhibition is an exemplary visual answer to the question of whether [and if so, how] the legacy of the Bauhaus, which itself existed for only fourteen years, can still be recognized in contemporary artistic approaches.
Or is it perhaps more the decades of reception history that were formative—whether continuing and adapting Bauhaus ideas or rejecting them?
The curatorial team consists of museum director Simone Schimpf, MKK Ingolstadt, curator Sibylle Hoiman, Bauhaus Archiv Berlin, art scientist Frederik Schikowski, Berlin/Basel and architect and art collector Frank F. Drewes, Berlin/ Bielefeld, as well as drj directors Christiane Bail and Matthias Seidel.
An overview of all 100 works is available as downloadable pdf file: CENTURY_A1_Poster__A4_Folder_.pdf
Featuring [in alphabetical order by first name]: Alain Biltereyst [BE] • Albert Weis [DE] • Alicja Gaskon [PL] • Alison Hall [US] • Anette Haas [DE] • Angelika Schori [CH] • Anna Kubelik [CH] • Anna-Maria Bogner [AT] • Annegret Hoch [DE] • Annett Zinsmeister [DE] • Antje Dorn [DE] • Arne Schreiber [DE] • Astrid Schindler [DE] • Bignia Wehrli [CH] • Carles Valverde [ES/CH] • Carlo Battisti [IT] • Caroline Kryzecki [DE] • Carsten Sievers [DE] • Christina Kubisch [DE] • Christoph Brech [DE] • Daniel G. Hill [US] • Daniel Göttin [CH] • Daniela Comani [IT] • Deb Covell [GB] • Denise Winter [DE] • Dieter Balzer [DE] • Douglas Allsop [GB] • Dusa Jesih [SL] • Emily Hass [US] • Esther Stocker[IT] • Fernanda Fragateiro [PT] • Fiene Scharp [DE] • Frank Badur [DE] • Friederike von Rauch [DE] • Fritz Horstman [US] • Gerhard Frömel [AT] • Gilbert Hsiao [US] • H. Frank Taffelt [DE] • Haleh Redjaian [DE/IR] • Hansjörg Schneider [DE] • Hartmut Böhm [DE] • Heather Jones [US] • Hellmut Bruch [AT] • Horst Bartnig [DE] • Ioannis Lassithiotakis [GR] • Irina Ojovan [MD] • Jan Klopfleisch [DE] • Jan Maarten Voskuil [NL] • Jan van Munster [NL] • Jaromír Novotný [CZ] • Jason Karolak [US] • Jasper van der Graaf [NL] • Joan Waltemath [US] • José Heerkens [NL] • Juliane Schmidt [DE] • Julius Stahl [DE] • Käthe Kruse [DE] • Lars Breuer [DE] • Laura Mietrup [CH] • Leo Zogmayer [AT] • Lienhard von Monkiewitsch [DE] • Lindsay Packer [US] • Lorenza Sannai [IT/US] • Lucía Simón Medina [ES] • Lucio Pozzi [US] • Maik Teriete [DE] • Mandy Cano Villalobos [US] • Marguerite Hersberger [CH] • Mariángeles Soto-Díaz [VE/US] • Mary Schiliro [US] • Matthew Deleget [US] • Matthew Hawtin [CA] • Mauro Giaconi [AR] • Max Cole [US] • Michael Rouillard [US] • Mitsuhiro Yamagiwa [JP] • Nadine Fecht [DE] • Peter Weber [DE] • Rainer Splitt [DE] • Ray Malone [IE] • Regine Schumann [DE] • René Zäch [CH] • Richard Caldicott [GB] • Richard Roth [US] • Rita Ernst [CH] • Rob de Oude [NL] • Russell Maltz [US] • Samantha Bittman [US] • Sarah Alexander [DE] • Siegfried Kreitner [DE] • Sigmund de Jong [NL] • Stephan Ehrenhofer [AT] • Susan York [US] • Tess Williams [GB] • Timm Ulrichs [DE] • Willem Besselink [NL] • Wolfgang Berndt [DE] • Wolfgang Ritter [DE] • Yasuaki Kuroda [JP] • Zora Kreuzer [DE]
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