Margret Hoppe

In her twelve-part series Pair/Unpair, Margret Hoppe shows pairings and neighbourhoods in Gropius House that are created through the deliberate merging of places and photo-technically created settings.

The artist achieves a clear change of perspective in her view of the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau. The double-exposure colour photographs were preceded by a study of the architectural plans and the functional approaches of the 90-degree rotated structures of the Masters’ Houses as well as an examination of the changes to the building stock over the decades. The photographer also focussed on Lucia Moholy’s black-and-white light images and thus on the most famous photographs of the Dessau buildings. This intensive examination of the past and present was made possible by a residency at the Muche House in 2024.

Supported by: Dessau Masters’ Houses Foundation