Kang Sunkoo
Kang Sunkoo
Aus meiner Beschäftigung mit dem historischen Erbe und der heutigen Institution des Bauhaus Dessau entsteht die Arbeit Sakristei. Sie ist eine Betrachtung unseres Wunsches nach Heiligkeiten und Untersuchung meines eigenen Glaubens und Unglaubens.
The sacristy (from Latin sacristia = church room; a storage and recreation room, from Latin sacer = consecrated, holy) is the room in the church where the ceremonial objects and materials for the liturgy are stored and prepared. This room is also used to prepare the church services. In his work, Kang Sunkoo draws a connection to the quasi-religious, mythically exaggerated charge and veneration of the historic Bauhaus, to traces of faith in the work of former Bauhaus members and to Kang’s own biography, his childhood in the Catholic Rhineland after his arrival from Seoul in the 1980s.
In preparation for the centennial To the Core. Bauhaus Dessau 100, Kang’s work turns the institution’s ritual calendar and the relic-like fragments of its history into artistic material.
Programme
6 pm: Opening of the exhibition
followed by an artist talk with Kang Sunkoo, Juliane Aleithe (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) and Barbara Steiner (Director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation)
Exhibition
Kang Sunkoo.
Sakristei
Sakristei
28 Feb – 19 Oct 2025
Tue – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (Nov – Feb)
Mon – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (Mar – Oct)
Mon – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (Mar – Oct)
Bauhaus Building