Events

Current events

Object Talk

Out of the Display Case: To make the bowl shine

11 Nov 20266 pm

Bauhaus Museum Dessau

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Workshop

Open Workshop: Glass Spectrum

14 Nov 202611 am – 2 pm

Bauhaus Building

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Workshop

Open Workshop: Glass Spectrum (Additional date)

14 Nov 20262 – 5 pm

Bauhaus Building

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Special public guided tour

Through the Queer Bauhaus

4 Termine

15 Nov 20263:30 – 5 pm10 Dec 20263:30 – 5 pm27 Jan 20273:30 – 5 pm28 Feb 20272:30 – 4 pm

Bauhaus Museum Dessau

Birthday celebration + Discussion forum

Projections | Promises | Echo

4 – 5 Dec 2026

Bauhaus Building
+ Bauhaus Museum Dessau

Accessibility +

Object Talk

Out of the Display Case: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – Is less always more?.
Gifts from the Neue Nationalgalerie

9 Dec 20266 pm

Bauhaus Museum Dessau

Accessibility +

Past events 2026

Material Talk: Concrete

Gong | Bang | Whistle. Astrup & Bordorff

Day of Libraries 2026.
„Regionale Transformationen: Industriekultur und Neues Europäisches Bauhaus“

Tue

20 Oct

11 am

Guided Walk (English)

Invisible Bauhaus Dessau

Autumn Workshop 2026.
Today I feel like…

Get in touch with the Bauhaus

Bauhaus time capsule.
Interactive journey through time combining listening, creativity and remembrance

Finissage: Algae | Debris | CO2

Through the Tube.
Raum für Klang #8

Open Workshop: Construction and Casting.
Concrete as a Composite Element

Out of the Display Case: A promotional film for Dessau

Special event: 1926 – The world discovers the Bauhaus.
Ise Gropius: Tagebuch 1924–1928

Sat

19 Sep

4 pm

Curator’s tour in german language

Gong | Bang | Whistle. Astrup & Bordorff

Fri

18 Sep

6 pm

Talks + Presentations + Discussion

Friday Group: Building + Technology

Sun

13 Sep

11 am

Guided Tours + Walks + Talks

Open Monuments Day 2026

Open Workshop: Building with clay – a material that bridges nature and the future

Out of the Display Case: Tubular steel chairs in wide use

Opening: Gong | Bang | Whistle.
Astrup & Bordorff

Sat

5 Sep

11 am

Guided tour with the artists

Gong | Schlag | Pfiff. Astrup & Bordorff

Kraftwerk.
Multimedia Tour

Fri

21 Aug

6 pm

Talks + Presentations + Discussion

Friday Group: Tradition + Transfer

Particula.
How can a place be interpreted through its particles?

Bauhaus Dessau × Modulor.
Materials experience

Open Workshop: Bricks | Roof | Power

Fri

17 Jul

6 pm

Talks + Presentations + Discussion

Friday Group: Algae + Energy

Finissage: Soda | Lentils | Fluff

Summer Workshop 2026: Stage Mobiles.
Tin Circus

The Bauhaus comes to town – Dessau 1926

Material Talk: Metal.
Where iron comes from and where it can be found.

Fri

19 Jun

6 pm

Vorträge + Vorführungen + Diskussion

Friday Group: Waste + Resource

In the footsteps of Paul Klee

Open Workshop: Formwork.
Materials and Their Negatives

Out of the Display Case: Kerstin Flake.
Photographic explorations

UNESCO World Heritage Day 2026

Bauhaus Dessau × Modulor.
Materials experience

Jürgen Beck.
Then leave the ornamentation of it to nature

Accompanying programme

International Summercamp. Irregular Circularities.
Bricks | Roof | Power

International Network Meeting for Designers

Study Rooms 2026.
Irregular Circularities: Foundations

V29.
Mobiles Sägekraftwerk

Fri

22 May

6 pm

Talks + Presentations + Discussions

Friday Group: Prefab Parts + Norms

Open Workshop: What Remains?.
An expedition through fabrics and stories

Sun

17 May

11 am

Workshops + Guided Tours + Open Lab + Centennial Raffle

International Museum Day 2026

Fri

15 May

10 am

Accompanying programme

Day Excursion.
Bricks | Roof | Power

Wed

13 May

5 pm

Regional Literature Festival

Friedrich Engemann: Vom Bauhauslehrer zum Burgdozenten.
Book presentation with discussion and reading

Sun

10 May

9:30 am

Regional Literature Festival

Breakfast and a reading with Feininger

Accompanying programme

Performative Public Rally.
Bricks | Roof | Power

Gracious Hosts.
Interios of the Masters’ Houses

Bus tour from Wolfen to Dessau.
The venues celebrating the Bauhaus centennial

Fri

17 Apr

6 pm

Talk + Film + Discussion + Art + Food and drink

Friday Group: Building Stock + Re-Use

Invisible Bauhaus Dessau

Open Workshop: Bent, Angled, Twisted.
Dance in Metal

Out of the Display Case: Walter Porstmann. Pioneer of standardisation and lowercase spelling

Centennial exhibitions

Open Workshop: Understanding

Out of the Display Case: Zwei Welten (Two Worlds).
Reading from the autobiography of T. Lux Feininger

Book presentation: Margret Hoppe. Pair / Unpair

Sun

8 Mar

6 pm

Schauspiel / Uraufführung

Women at the Bauhaus.
Bauhaus Museum Dessau

Women at the Bauhaus.
Masters’ Houses

Fri

6 Mar

8 pm

Schauspiel / Uraufführung

Kurt Weill Festival 2026.
In Bewegung

Thu

12 Feb

6 pm

Ausstellungseröffnung

Opening: Soda | Lentils | Fluff

Winter Workshop 2026.
Transparent, Muted, Vibrant

Discourse | Cracks | Narrative.
Bauhaus Matters: Materials of modernity

musica magnetica.
Raum für Klang. Neue Musik im Bauhaus Museum

musica magnetica.
Raum für Klang. Neue Musik im Bauhaus Museum

Wed

14 Jan

5 pm

Object Talk + Guided Tour

Out of the Display Case: The “Growing House” and the expansion of the Dessau-Törten Housing Estate

Past events 2025

Fri

12 Dec

4 pm

Artist talk with Camelot

Sbstz.
Type as Continuum

staging the bauhaus XIV.
conSequenze: Luciano Berio

staging the bauhaus XIV.
conSequenze: Luciano Berio

Opening: Bakelite | Glaze | Colour.
Gifts to the Bauhaus Dessau

Fri

21 Nov

6 pm

Discussion + film + food and drink

Friday Group: Collective + Repair

Out of the Display Case: The Bauhaus Album by Chanan Frenkel

The Bauhaus in the steel age

Open Workshop: From the idea to the gift.
Crafting with wood

Nitrate | Silver | Light

From country house to monument: the restoration of the Mies van der Rohe house 2000–2002

1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau: October

Fri

24 Oct

3 pm

Lectures + exhibitions + films

Library Day 2025.
Women in focus: pioneers, rebels and shapers

International Network Meeting of Designers

Study Rooms 2025: Learning Environments.
In the Workshop of Nature

UNCREDITED: /Things to come: László, Lucia and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy/.
Movie by Angela Zumpe

Autumn Workshop 2025.
Gifting the Bauhaus

Fri

17 Oct

6 pm

Discussion + film + food and drinks

Friday Group: Vacancy + Richness

Touching 100 Years of Bauhaus.
Tactile guidance as part of Sight Awareness Week

Touching 100 Years of Bauhaus.
Tactile guidance as part of Sight Awareness Week

Open Workshop: Speedy Landscapes.
Experimental drawing

Out of the Display Case: Plastics – Innovations brought into shape.
Everyday goods made from Resopal by Christian Dell

Fri

26 Sep

5 pm

Triennale of Modernism

Opening Invisible Bauhaus Dessau.
Reading series 1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau

Sun

21 Sep

5 pm

Tanzabend / Uraufführung

Der Grüne Tisch.
Valses

Sat

20 Sep

5 pm

Tanzabend / Uraufführung

Der Grüne Tisch.
Valses

Sat

20 Sep

12 pm

Long Night at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau 2025.
KulTour from 12 to 12

Fri

19 Sep

7:30 pm

Dance Evening / Premiere

Der Grüne Tisch.
Valses

Open Monument Day.
The Steel House + Visiting the settlers’ house with self-catering garden

Open Workshop: Bauhaus wrapping paper.
Stamping

Open Workshop: Bauhaus³.
Dance, Circus, Bauhaus

Out of the Display Case: Flowers and Cactus

Gracious Hosts.
Interios of the Masters’ Houses

Gracious Hosts.
Interios design of the Masters’ Houses

Thu

31 Jul

2 pm

Exhibition opening + Symposium

Bauhaus Lab 2025: After modern Brightness.
Ecologies of Light

Gracious Hosts.
Interior design of the Masters’ Houses

Gracious Hosts.
Interior design of the Masters’ Houses

Nature Writing.
Writing about nature in times of climate change and species loss

Open Workshop: Balloon bouquets.
Modelling

Summer workshop 2025.
Metamorphoses of plants in light and colour

1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau: June

Fri

20 Jun

6 pm

Flower show + talk + food and drink

Friday Group: Flowers + Vases

Ein Jubiläumsauftakt in der Neuen Nationalgalerie.
100 Jahre Bauhaus Dessau

An centennial kick-off at the Neue Nationalgalerie.
100 years of Bauhaus Dessau

Wilhelm Ostwald — Colour standards: Art, Science, Technology

Open Workshop: Green impressions.
Chlorophyll printing

Out of the Display Case: Otti Berger.
Upholstery and curtain fabrics for modern architecture

UNESCO World Heritage Day 2025.
Vermitteln, verbinden, begeistern

Margret Hoppe.
Pair / Unpair

Open Workshop: Blue meets nature.
Cyanotype printing

Sun

18 May

Event

International Museum Day

Out of the Display Case: Brick

Fri

9 May

6 pm

Lecture + cactus market + talk + food and drink + films

Friday Group: Nature + Preservation

Open Workshop: Bauhaus bees.
Performing together

The Bauhaus as a church?.
Kang Sunkoo in dialogue with Torsten Blume

1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau: March

Intermezzi.
Anna Gille + Matthias Kaiser + Experimental Space

Closing concert Bauhaus Residency 2025.
with Lori Usai and Karo Lynn

Out of the Display Case: Concrete

Open Workshop: Feminist, creative, loud.
Screen printing

Kang Sunkoo.
Sacristy

Colour Co-Creation.
Workshop on Natural and Synthetic Colours

Out of the Display Case: Glass

Open Workshop: Analogue enlargement.
Photo lab

Winter Workshop 2025.
Landscape Workshop

1925 – The Bauhaus comes to Dessau

Fri

17 Jan

7:30 pm

New music at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau

Voices unbound: Facets of the vocal and the accordion through the centuries.
Room for sound 4

Artist in Talk.
Kerstin Flake

Past events 2024

Out of the Display Case: Tubular steel composition for plants in the room

staging the bauhaus XIII*.
Blue

staging the bauhaus XIII*.
Blue

Jun Yang.
More than real

Out of the Display Case: Jewellery by Hans Przyrembel

Open Workshop: Small castling.
An introduction to chess

Fri

8 Nov

6 pm

Talk + film + discussion + interaction + food and drink

Friday Group: Living + Remodelling

Campus series for the Day of Libraries.
AI in the context of academic work

Walk through the exhibition Planet B House

Fri

18 Oct

6 pm

Talk + discussion + film + material sample + food and drink

Friday Group: Monument + Repair

Open Workshop: The Gesture Speaks

Autumn Workshop 2024.
“I am me … Come dance with me!”

Sat

28 Sep

12 pm

Long Night at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau.
KulTour from 12 to 12

Open Workshop: Architectural scenographies

Out of the Display Case: A bed by Carl Fieger.
About furnishing and growing old

Sun

8 Sep

11 am

Open Monument Day: Landmarks.
Witnesses of history

Bauhaus Festival 2024.
The Bauhaus dances!

Sat

31 Aug

3 pm

Action day on the occasion of the Bauhaus Festival.
Before the festival is already a festival

Films on the occasion of the Bauhaus Festival.
Before the festival is already a festival

Fri

16 Aug

7:30 pm

guest: MDR Music Summer 2024.
Classically modern

Out of the Display Case: Starfish.
Photographs from the Bauhaus

Thu

8 Aug

2 pm

Exhibition opening + final symposiu

Bauhaus Lab 2024: On behalf of the environment.
Pedagogies of unrest

Open Workshop: From head to toe

Gracious Hosts.
Interior design of the Master’s Houses

Summer workshop 2024.
The book on expedition

Sat

15 Jun

3 pm

Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses e. V.
100th anniversary ceremony

Fri

14 Jun

6 pm

// Lecture + talk + food and drink + performance + film

Friday Group: Art + Environment

Out of the Display Case: Kasia Fudakowski.
Who can touch me where when I can no longer do so?

Open Workshop: Linocut

UNESCO-World Heritage Day.
The Dessau Masters’ Houses and Their Grounds

International Network Meeting of Designers

Study Rooms 2024: After Industry.
Productivities of Transition

Fri

24 May

6 pm

Lecture + film + discussion + interaction + water tasting + food and drink

Friday Group: Water + Water Purification

End Expo.
A Consumer Fair for Mortals

Open Workshop: Photo lab – Part IV

Fri

19 Apr

6 pm

Lecture + Film + Discussion + Performance + Food and Drink

Friday Group: Innovations + Regulations

Open Workshop: From image and word to page to book

Sat

13 Apr

Curator’s tour

The modern romantic Feiningers

Bodies and Gestures.
Three new special exhibitions at the Bauhaus Museum

Out of the Display Case: Hannes Meyer.
Bauhausler, leftist and cosmopolitan

Sat

23 Mar

Curator’s tour

The modern romantic Feiningers

Anna Meyer.
Planet B Haus

Out of the Display Case: Experience Museum.
How do we impart knowledge?

Open Workshop: Practising democracy

Sat

2 Mar

Curator’s tour

The modern romantic Feiningers

Kurt Weill Festival 2024.
Leuchten im Schatten

Out of the Display Case: Growth and motion.
The films for the opening of the Bauhaus building in Dessau

Open Workshop: Stencil

Winter Workshop 2024.
Photo workshop – build, test, experiment

Past events 2023

Internationales Netzwerktreffen von Gestalter*innen

Study Rooms 2023: DesignActs.
Gestures of Performative Research

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