The centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019 is casting its shadow. Not only the three Bauhaus institutions on German soil – the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, the Bauhaus Museum Weimar and the Bauhaus Archive Berlin – are preparing an extensive cycle of events. In addition, the international initiative “projekt bauhaus” has been founded in Berlin as an open platform explicitly dedicated not to the legacy, but to a critical revision of Bauhaus ideas. At the intersection of art, design, architecture and society, projekt bauhaus aims to pose a question for discussion at the beginning of each year, which will be addressed in various event formats – open calls, workshops, debates, public discussions, competitions and exhibitions – as well as in research projects. The results of the collaboration of an open network will be published in a themed issue of the ARCH+ magazine at the end of each year.
The Berlin-based projekt bauhaus e.V. for the promotion of architectural and urban discourse is coordinated by Jesko Fezer, Nikolaus Kuhnert, Anh-Linh Ngo, Philipp Oswalt and Jan Wenzel; a total of 34 architects, designers, artists, curators and academics from seven countries, as well as several universities, the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and ARCH+ are involved in the initiative to date. The project sees itself as an open platform that also offers opportunities for participation to those who have not previously been involved, and expressly not as competition to the established Bauhaus institutions, but as a complement. On March 26 at 7 pm, the entire project will be presented to the public in Berlin and introduced to the 2015 annual theme “Can design change society?” (KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69). A website is currently still in the development phase, and a moderated forum is also planned for the future. Subscribe to the newsletter: news@projekt-bauhaus.de
Photo: The five coordinators of “projekt bauhaus”, from left to right: Nikolaus Kuhnert, Anh-Linh Ngo, Philipp Oswalt, Jan Wenzel, Jesko Fezer; Photo: Oliver G. Hamm