Accompanying the exhibition
„Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios“ the National Gallery of Ireland and the Goethe-Institut Irland present a series of talks about the Bauhaus and its legacy.
With the exception of the evening lecture by Regina Bittner on Thursday, 7 November 2019, the talks will take place on Sunday afternoons following
12:30 pm film screenings about the Bauhaus.
Sunday, 6 October 2019, 3.00 pm
Prof. Dr. Kathleen James Chakraborty, School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin:
From the Local to the Transnational: Situating the Bauhaus
This lecture will give an overview of the Bauhaus School and movement, looking at its effects locally and further afield.
Kathleen James Chakraborty is a historian of early modern and modern architecture and has published widely on the subject, including the book “Modernism as Memory; Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany” (Minnesota, 2018).
Admission free
Sunday, 13 October 2019, 3.00 pm
Sara Donaldson, Lecturer, Visual Culture and History of Art and Design, Griffith College, Dublin:
Women of the Bauhaus
The Bauhaus school wished to create a new way of living. Art and fashion historian Sara Donaldson will discuss the movement with particular reference to women artists, as well as to dance, theatre and textiles.
Admission free
Sunday, 3 November 2019, 3.00 pm
Jan Frohburg, School of Architecture, University of Limerick:
Dessau Berlin Chicago – Mies van der Rohe and the Bauhaus
Jan Frohburg will discuss how Mies van der Rohe managed the forced transition of the Bauhaus from a public institute of design to a privately run architecture programme in Berlin, until it was dissolved in 1933. Following his emigration to Chicago, he found his approach at the Illinois Institute of Technology challenged by the New Bauhaus as both programmes laid claim to the Bauhaus legacy. Jan Frohburg is a graduate of the Bauhaus University Weimar. He lectures in architectural history and design at the University of Limerick.
Admission free
Thursday, 7 November 2019, 6.30 pm
Dr. Regina Bittner, Director of the Akademie Stiftung Bauhaus, Dessau/Germany:
Tracing the Modern Metropolis at the Bauhaus
The rigidly ordered urban designs of town planning schemes proposed by Ludwig Hilberseimer are commonly conceived as Bauhaus Dessau`s approach towards the modern urban condition: informed by the “Großstadtkritik” those plans strove to overcome the disastrous unhealthy housing and living conditions of the old metropolis. On the other end of the spectrum László Moholy Nagy`s film script “Dynamics of the Metropolis” suggests the medium film as the only mode to capture the complexity of the modern globally integrated city. Both artistic articulations offer insights into the contradictory reactions to the characteristic inherent to cultural modernism worldwide, which permanently removes cultural artefacts from their respective local contexts and places them in new constellations. The talk tries to sketch out lines of conflict between the urban cosmopolitan habitus of the Bauhaus art school and its local place: The radical uncertainty of the spatial relationships in which we now live has many parallels with the Bauhaus. Its complex history provides insights into the difficulties of cultural production under conditions that lack stability.
Admission: €10/€5 (students)
Sunday, 10 November 2019, 3.00 pm
Jennie Taylor, Education Department, National Gallery of Ireland
From Bauhaus to Black Mountain College: The Influence of the Bauhaus on American Art
Jennie Taylor’s lecture will explore the impact of the Bauhaus on North American post-war art, particularly through the work of Josef and Anni Albers at Black Mountain College (1933- 1957), North Carolina, U.S.A.
Jennie Taylor is a writer of speculative art history, art criticism and flash fiction. She works in the Education Department at The National Gallery of Ireland.
Admission free
Sunday, 17 November 2019, 3.00 pm
Dr. Sabine Kriebel, Department of History of Art, University College Cork:
Production/Reproduction: Photography at the Bauhaus
Sabine Kriebel has published widely on photography and photography theory, political photomontage, Dada tactics, artists' magazines and social intervention and gender politics. This talk will focus on the photography of the Bauhaus, which became a key part of the dissemination of the school’s ideas.
Admission free
The accompanying cultural programme to the exhibition
"Bauhaus 100: The Print Portfolios" also comprises a
cine-concert and a
documentary film programme. The events brochure is available
here.
Presented by the National Gallery of Ireland and the Goethe-Institut Irland
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