Bauhaus Residency 2017 – Substance
“First we seek contact with material…” stated Josef Albers, looking back at his pedagogical work at the Bauhaus. In his preliminary course, students worked freely with all kinds of materials in order to develop a new approach to form and design. He had students actively refine their senses through tactile experiments in order to discover the world anew.
In 2017 the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation focuses on the dialogue between material and design in its approach to the theme Substance: It addresses the substance of ideas, substance as matter and material, substantial forms, the conservation of substance and the substance of the Bauhaus as an institution. Each Bauhaus Residency takes an artistic-investigative approach to substance in the current digital age.

Špela Mastnak
2 Feb – 31 Mar 2017
// Shared Residency with the
Kurt Weill Fest Dessau

Paul Beckett
2 Feb – 31 Mar 2017
// Shared Residency with the
Kurt Weill Fest Dessau

Markus Hoffmann
1 Feb – 10 Mar 2017 and 11 Sep – 23 Sep 2017
// Invitation

Clemens Krauss
20 Mar – 31 May 2017
// Invitation

Wagehe Raufi
1 June – 15 Aug
// Shared Residency with the
SYN Foundation Halle

Marit Wolters
15 June – 30 Aug
// Shared Residency with the
SYN Foundation Halle

Jakob Gautel
17 July – 11 Aug

Amor Muñoz
14 Aug – 31 Oct
// Open Call

Andrea Canepa
14 Aug – 31 Oct
// Open Call