Margret Hoppe
Margret Hoppe
Exhibition
Margret Hoppe.
Pair / Unpair
Pair / Unpair
1 Jun 2025 – 11 Jan 2026
Tue – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (Nov – Feb)
Mon – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (Mar – Oct)
Mon – Sun, 10 am – 5 pm (Mar – Oct)
Masters’ Houses
Haus Gropius
Haus Gropius
In the series Pair / Unpair I try to show the different temporal and spatial layers of the architecture of the Bauhaus Dessau. This resulted in exterior and interior shots of the famous Bauhaus Buildings, which move away from the classic architectural shots of the 1920s through the use of colour film, new perspectives and double exposures. By moving and turning the camera, space and time are condensed in the image.
Margret Hoppe was a resident artist at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in 2024. The conceptual starting point of her photographic work was the examination of duplications. In addition to the Muche | Schlemmer House – where the artists in residence live and work – two reference images of the Masters’ Houses form the framework: a photograph by Lucia Moholy and a two-part image by photographer Benjamin Subtil. In correspondence with the Masters’ Houses, in each of which one half of the building is rotated 90 degrees, Hoppe has also rotated the back of the camera 90 degrees, creating double exposures. In her twelve-part series, Hoppe forms pairs. This happens through the double exposure in the pictures themselves or through similarities and neighbourhoods between the shots. At the same time, these pairs are repeatedly uncoupled by single images (unpair).
Exhibition opening
Sat, 31 . 5. 2025, 11 a.m.