// Exhibition
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Black Box

In 2020, the artist Olav Westphalen (born 1963) initiated the Association for the Palliative Turn, a loosely connected group of international artists. Since then, its members have focused on the artistic potentials of dealing with death, palliation, and leave-taking in a range of media and event formats that make use of humour, generosity, delight, and reflection. In the practice of life, the human body is inevitably awarded the role of a medium. The various limitations that bodies impose on people are as much a part of this as all singular sensory perceptions and experiences.

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// Exhibition
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Black Box

With clothes that can be transformed into prayer rugs, the project examines the idea of the mosque space, its formal boundaries and its relationship to the human body. While respecting religious rules, the Nomadic Mosque aims to redefine the traditional forms and functions of mosques in a contemporary context.

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// Exhibition
Bauhaus Museum Dessau, Black Box

The physical body as a kind of learning tool straddling play, sport, and performance “on demand” forms the focal point of this experimental research and cooperation project. In collaboration with the Curatorial Workshop’s cultural outreach programme, Corina Forthuber and students from the Gestaltung: Technik.Textil course of study at the Mozarteum University Salzburg address the ideational history of the “learning body” and carry out experiments to explore the ability to remember, physical action, and the physical sensor system.

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// Exhibition
Bauhaus Building

In association with the dancer Celia Millan, Rosenberger invokes the experimental mood of the historic Bauhaus in the storage of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, turning it into a stage to explore – through film and dance – (forgotten) Bauhaus histories and the neglected stories of the women of the Bauhaus. In the process, Rosenberger asks general questions about the memories of museums and their responsibilities in the process of writing history.

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// Festival
https://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/en/bauhaus-festival-2023.html

The Mechanical Ballet by the Bauhaus student Kurt Schmidt provides the creative stimulus for the Bauhaus Festival 2023.

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// Activity Day
Bauhaus Building

Free admission to the historic Bauhaus buildings on Heritage Day

eeping with the theme of Heritage Day in Germany this year, Talent Monument, staff members of the construction and building department are conducting guided tours of the Bauhaus Building. These architectural tours place a focus on the building’s unique qualities, those which embody its architectural design and make it an unequalled Gesamtkunstwerk: the configuration of the buildings with multiple spatial interpenetrations and overlaps, the surfaces and volumes, the proportions, the layering, transparency, and reflections of the glass facades, the compositions of light and dark, the light and shadow plays, colour and space, artistic furnishings, and aspects of acoustics and comfort.

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