Bauhaus Dessau Design Earth and Judith Raum exhibit at Bauhaus Dessau
Press release After a long Covid-19 break, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation opens two exhibition projects in the context of the annual theme "Infrastructure" on Thursday, 24 June 2021: In the Intermezzo Design Earth. Climate Inher- itance at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, the Design Earth team shows ten UNESCO World Heritage Sites as figures in the climate crisis. And under the title Textile territories, artist Judith Raum explores Otti Berger's textile works in her installations at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau and in the Bauhaus P r e s s c o n t a c t Building.
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Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Design Earth. Climate Inheritance Gropiusallee 38 Intermezzo 06846 Dessau-Roßlau >> Bauhaus Museum Dessau Germany bauhaus-dessau.de 24 June – 3 Oct 2021 facebook.com/bauhausdessau twitter.com/gropiusallee Corona has brought global tourism and its infrastructures to a near standstill. What has emerged is a moment that gives space for reflection: on ways to deal with the collective responsibility of inheriting a planet in climate crisis. El Dessau-Roßlau, Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn of Design Earth look at ten UNESCO World 22 June 2021 Heritage Sites as figures in the climate crisis and try to concretely locate the abstract of climate change in these iconic places. The case studies show a broad spectrum of climate impacts: from rising sea levels to species extinc- tion and melting glaciers. The interlude visualises events that divide and de- fine the planetary past and future - including systemic patterns of violence, racism and displacement.
Design Earth is a project by Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn. Rania Ghosn is an architect and geographer. She works at the Massachusetts Institute of 1 Technology (MIT) School of Architecture + Planning. El Hadi Jazairy is an ar- von chitect and teaches at the University of Michigan. 2 More information: design-earth.org
The Intermezzo Design Earth. Climate Inheritance at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau is sponsored by IDT Biologika.
Ilulissat-Eisfjord, Denmark, West Coast Greenland, Ilulissat district, 2004 / © Design Earth
Bauhaus Dessau Textile territories (1) Otti Berger Press release (2) Otti Berger + Lilly Reich Installations by Judith Raum >> (1) Bauhaus Museum Dessau + (2) Bauhaus Building
24 June – 3 Oct 2021
P r e s s c o n t a c t After Otti Berger’s murder in the Auschwitz concentration camp, her textile work was scattered incoherently in archives throughout the world. Berlin art- Ute König ist Judith Raum has developed two installations for the Bauhaus Dessau P +49-340-6508-225 Foundation formed of fragments of this oeuvre. In the Bauhaus Museum [email protected] Dessau she juxtaposes four of Berger’s original designs from the thirties to designs that were still created at the Bauhaus Dessau. In this way she pur- Bauhaus Dessau Foundation sues the question whether fragments of a once continuous practice might be Gropiusallee 38 reassembled into a cohesive narrative. For the largescale installation in the 06846 Dessau-Roßlau former textile workshop in the Bauhaus Building Judith Raum, after complex Germany research and collaborative work, had one of Berger’s curtain fabrics rewoven bauhaus-dessau.de out of the last Bauhaus collection, creating a stage for the yardage together facebook.com/bauhausdessau with new video works that reflect conflicts and setbacks encountered during twitter.com/gropiusallee the work.
The idea for Textile territories came about after a generous donation. In Dessau-Roßlau, 2020, Yael Aloni and Monika Stadler, the daughters of Gunta Stölzl, donated 22 June 2021 four original fabric samples for upholstery and curtain fabrics by textile de- signer Otti Berger to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. The Bauhausler had once donated the fabric samples from the early 1930s to her colleague Gunta Stölzl.
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Fabric design made of artificial silk and cotton, attributed to Otti Berger, ca. 1932-34, The Intermezzo Design Earth. Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, donation of Gunta Stölzl's daughters, photo: Judith Raum Climate Inheritance at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau is sponsored by IDT Biologika.
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