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Neues Bauhaus in DessauPhoto (detail): Lelikron, Dessau Bauhaus neu, CC BY-SA 3.0

Bauhaus Open House

With the public Bauhaus school in 1919 in Weimar, one of the earliest and most important schools of art and design was founded. Almost no other movement has influenced modern art and architecture as much as Bauhaus. And yet, it was not formed through a universal aesthetic theory, but specifically through the social-democratic politics of the Weimar Republic. More...

Events

  • Bauhaus Open House – touring exhibition Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Maria Neophytou
    bauhaus imaginista – collected research
  • Bauhaus Open House – touring exhibition Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Maria Neophytou
    bauhaus imaginista – collected research
  • Bauhaus Open House – touring exhibition Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Andreas Loucaides
    bauhaus imaginista – collected research
  • Bauhaus Open House – Conference Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Yiannis Zouris
    Bauhaus Open House – Conference
  • Bauhaus Open House – Conference Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Yiannis Zouris
    Bauhaus Open House – Conference
  • Bauhaus Open House – Dance performance Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Andreas Loucaides
    Bauhaus and dance
  • Bauhaus Open House – Dance performance Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Andreas Loucaides
    Bauhaus and dance
  • Bauhaus Open House – Dance performance Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Andreas Loucaides
    Bauhaus and dance
  • Bauhaus Open House – Film screening Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Andreas Loucaides
    Bauhaus Open House – Closing event
  • Bauhaus Open House – Film screening Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Andreas Loucaides
    Bauhaus Open House – Closing event
  • Bauhaus Open House – Film screening Photo: Goethe-Institut Cyprus/Andreas Loucaides
    Bauhaus Open House – Closing event
BAUHAUS 19 Photo: Goethe-Institut

Series of events
 Bauhaus Open House

On the occasion of 100 years of Bauhaus, Goethe-Institut Cyprus is organizing a series of events with its partners and invited experts, composed of exhibitions, a conference, as well as a dance performance.

About Bauhaus

Bauhaus studio in Dessau © Hans Engels

100 years Bauhaus
 Bauhaus, viewed from the southeast

The preparations for the anniversary year, 2019, are in full swing. Three new museum buildings and a marathon of activities are planned. To get a complete picture in the run-up to the anniversary year, a group of architects, curators, art and architecture historians from Southeastern Europe traveled to historical locations of the Bauhaus, at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut.

 

Form follows function: Some of the Bauhaus’ maxims have found their way into everyday speech as well. Photo: © Tobias Schrank

Celebrating 100 years of Bauhaus
In a nutshell: six sentences that encapsulate the Bauhaus

We run into the Bauhaus more often than we know – and not just while out shopping for furniture. Some of the design school’s maxims have found their way into everyday speech as well.

Group photo of Bauhaus masters in Dessau (1926): f. l. t. r: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl und Oskar Schlemmer. Photo (detail): © picture alliance akg images

Celebrating 100 years of Bauhaus
Eight things you should know about the Bauhaus

Minimalist design, simplicity and efficiency – how the Bauhaus aimed to change the way we live.

Visitor to the Bauhaus Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photo (detail): © picture-alliance/dpa/Sara Lemel

Bauhaus centenary hype
 “The Bauhaus should be understood, not just indiscriminately celebrated.”

Arne Winkelmann, an architecture expert based in Frankfurt am Main, would like to see more a more critical approach to the Bauhaus school: an interview. 

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