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Contact person Dr. Julia Glesner Klassik Stiftung Weimar P +!" #$!# %!%-!"#

Toska Grabowski Klassik Stiftung Weimar P +!" !"#! !"!-!!"

presse@ bauhaus!"".de Bauhaus Association !"#$ The coordinating body for the centenary and its tasks

The Bauhaus Association !"#$ is a coordinating body formed by the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Sachsen-Anhalt and Thuringia and by the German Government. Its members include representatives of the relevant ministries, representatives of the German Government and the directors of the three Bauhaus institutions in Germany that maintain collections. The German Federal Cultural Foundation also assumes a promotional and supporting role on behalf of the German Government. Its task is to prepare for the Bauhaus Centenary !"#$. Other federal states may join the Bauhaus Association !"#$.

The board of trustees of the Bauhaus Association !"#$ comprises one representative from each of the contributing federal states, from the German Government and from the German Federal Cultural Foundation. The chair is held alternately for one year at a time by the federal states of Berlin, Sachsen-Anhalt and Thuringia, the federal states in which the Bauhaus was originally based and in which the Bauhaus institutions that maintain collections are located. The board of trustees makes decisions on fundamental matters concerning the Bauhaus Association !"#$ such as activities across federal state boundaries and joint financing projects. In !"#$ it will be chaired by the federal state of Thuringia.

The main milestones for the Bauhaus Centenary !"#$ to which the members of the Bauhaus Association !"#$ will contribute include fourteen exhibitions throughout Germany, an international exhibition tour, an inaugural festival, the construction of three new Bauhaus museums and the German Federal Cultural Foundation’s multi- year cultural communication programme for these. The Bauhaus Association !"#$ also creates the framework for a Bauhaus centenary which will be brought to life by a office !"" years of bauhaus number of institutions and initiatives. In advance of the centenary, the Bauhaus Steubenstraße !" Association !"#$ is already raising public awareness of the Bauhaus centenary, both D-!!"#$ Weimar nationally and internationally. The online platform bauhaus!"".de networks Bauhaus Kooperation contributors and provides news and information about provisions and themes related Berlin Dessau Weimar to the Bauhaus Centenary. gGmbH Dessau-Roßlau c/o Bauhaus Dessau Foundation bauhaus!"".de