Bauhaus-Weeks: Weimar Invites You to Join the Celebrations

During the Bauhaus-Weeks, students and instructors present their current projects, research and concepts. The event emphasises cooperation with partners of the university. Student works make up the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Kunstfest Weimar programmes and will be exhibited not just on campus, but across the city. The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s anniversary programme is based at the Schiller-Museum, where the nova space University Gallery has been hosting the »POWER HOUSE« anniversary exhibition since April 2023. The fourth episode of »reframing the future« will begin at the start of the Bauhaus-Weeks on 15 August at 8 pm. 

Bauhaus-Weeks on Campus at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

In 1923, the Director’s Room, in what is today the Main Building, was designed by Walter Gropius on the occasion of the Bauhaus Exhibition. 100 years later, students from the Faculty of Art and Design have taken it upon themselves to continue this legacy by developing new conceptual, design and material approaches using digital design and manufacturing processes. Visitors are warmly invited to allow themselves to be inspired by the results and to engage in an exchange with students. Individual miniatures will be machine produced on site and can be taken away as souvenirs. The Director’s Room itself will be open to the public during the Bauhaus-Weeks from Tuesday, 15 August to Saturday, 26 August at 6 pm each day and visitors will be accompanied by a Bauhaus Walks tour guide. Meeting point is the Bauhaus.Atelier, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6A.

Hannes Naumann, Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) student, highlights social and political hot button issues in his »Zorn des Wimmels« hidden object picture, which is prominently displayed in the Main Building. Iffat Mahmuda Khans and David Benjamin Beckerts from the Integrated Urban Development and Design programme present their awning made of recycled plastic shopping bags. The awning project, titled »ENOUGH« provides shade behind the experimental »x.stahl« building and addresses sustainable building practices. Architecture students Said Derkaoui and Olga Sulek are working together with other students to build a pavilion made of locally recycled materials. These materials will be used to create a transformable social space called »PLUSMINUSNULL – architektur im prozess«.

On 31 August, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Kunstfest Weimar invite you to a Bauhaus-Weeks highlight on campus: Starting at 7 pm, the »Bauhaus-Parade« will be making its way from campus through Park an der Ilm to the Haus am Horn. Artistic installations and yoga sessions will accompany the parade. The Haus am Horn itself was built 100 years ago on the occasion of the Bauhaus Exhibition as the only experimental Bauhaus house. This year, the façade will feature projections by students. The projections explore the contemporary private and shared aspects of living. In the last week of August, all interested parties are invited to create costumes and build props out of textiles, cardboard or wood for the »Bauhaus-Parade« in three of the university’s workshops. The workshops will take place from Monday, 28 August to Wednesday,30 August from 5 to 8 pm in the Bauhaus.Atelier at Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6A.

Student Projects in Urban Spaces

Student works will also be exhibited throughout the city of Weimar during the Bauhaus-Weeks: Public Art and New Artistic Strategies student Victor de Oral will be presenting his »Landscapes« rolling installation, which disseminates texts by various authors in public spaces as a reading sculpture, on 15 August at 2 pm in the Nietzsche-Archiv.

Students from Produktdesign (Product Design), Architecture and Urbanism, and alumni invite you to visit their exhibitions, workshops and garden concerts at Belvederer Allee 66 on 8 and 9 September from 2 to 8 pm. The »belvedere garden: belair« project shares the reality of campus life for students in Weimar with the public by presenting the housing project as a collaborative living, learning and working space away from seminar rooms.

Collaborative Projects with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and Kunstfest Weimar

The Klassik Stiftung Weimar invites visitors to a diverse programme in front of the Bauhaus-Museum Weimar from 15 to 20 August. One of the event’s main locations here is the Gropius Room Pavilion, a spatial installation that was created at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2019 and has toured Weimar’s partner cities since then. During the Bauhaus-Weeks, the pavilion will act as the starting point for workshop activities that students have developed for the anniversary as part of the »Kooperation ohne Konsens« module.

In the foyer of the Bauhaus-Museums, the »PERSPEKTIVEN« exhibition will be on display: Photography students will be presenting their work examining democratization processes in postcard formats and asking the question: Who is looking at whom or what, and how is the subject being perceived?

On 24 and 15 August from 12 to 6 pm, interested parties can experience an installative radio play created by Media Art and Design and Urban Studies students on the Monday demonstrations in Weimar as part of the Kunstfest Weimar: Conceived as a sort of self-help group for residents asking themselves how they can relate to the movement, whether they should be doing something about it, and to what extent dialogues can be useful, the radio play is based on observation of the Monday demonstrations and includes interviews with residents.

Together with Kunstfest Weimar, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s bauhaus.medien.bühnen lab invites you to the »Bauhaus Psychologie« workshop with theatre director, visual artist and architect Robert Wilson on 24 August. Register online at anmeldung.workshop.wilson[at]gmx.de. 

Bauhaus-Weeks
15 August to 10 September

Further information on the programme can be found at:
www.uni-weimar.de/23ideas/bauhaus-weeks 

Questions can be directed to Thomas Apel, Anniversary Coordinator (e-mail: thomas.apel[at]uni-weimar.de or by phone: + 49 (0) 36 43 / 58 20 19).