Rhythmic Gymnastics: Yin-Yang on the Gable
By Hella Kemper
In the garden town of Hellerau, near Dresden, music educator Émile Jaques-Dalcroze raised his ‘rhythmic gymnastics’ to an educative art.
Unfinished Metropolis
Berlin | Exhibition | until 3.2.2021
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The New Municipality of Berlin, also called Greater Berlin, was created one hundred years ago on 1 October 1920. It was a once-in-a-century event! The old Berlin was consolidated with seven cities, 59 rural communities and 27 agricultural estates. The exhibition uses exemplary locations, projects and plans to explore topics that have shaped and changed the metropolis of Berlin.
Urban Landscapes
Reutlingen | Exhibition | until January 31, 2021
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The exhibition Urban Landscapes. City and Architecture in Art on Paper from Max Beckmann to Wolfgang Mattheuer shows prints by artists who deal with the phenomenon of the city as an architectural and social entity in their work.
Masters and weavers
In this Bauhaus centenary, one often gets the impression that this laboratory of modernism was a trailblazer for pretty much everything. Its combination of industry, art and craft, its teaching methods, publications, the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk... And last but not least, a holistic understanding of aesthetics, which many architects still value today as their personal guiding principle.
Plastics in the Bauhaus: Preserving Modernism
Conservators at the Bauhaus Dessau do not only handle steel, glass, or concrete, but also plastics such as Triolin. How far are they willing to let plastics show their age? And what does the centenary imply for future conservation work?
The Bauhaus Perspective on Green Spaces
The Bauhaus shifted perspectives further afield. Modernism turned familiar perforated façades into glass envelopes – thereby providing an unobstructed view of the outside world. What role does the outdoors play in the Bauhaus? What is its understanding of the countryside and green areas we live in? And how does the Bauhaus period inspire the design of open spaces today?
