The Bauhaus was a School

by Rose | March 4, 2020 | exhibition, museum, d.i.y.

Can you mirror-write your name? What might be the opposite of a Wagenfeld lamp? Enrol now for the famous Bauhaus ‘Vorkurs’ in our interactive exhibition in the temporary bauhaus-archiv and exercise your creativity.

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

The interactive track runs the whole length of the gallery.

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

Johannes Itten liked his students to loosen up at the beginning of a lesson.

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How to exhibit a school? Let visitors become its pupils!

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Draw a line from a to b without touching a point.

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Do not forget: Repetition is the mother of learning.

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

Consult the workbook for additional information on the historic exercises.

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

Draw the chair in one go – with an etch-a-sketch.

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

Emboss the material. Hang it up.

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

Fold your own ‘Hypar’. Folding instructions: Eric Gjerde

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

See what other visitors leave behind

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

How do you feel now? Stamp an emoticon.

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

Join in from Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. – entry is free.

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Photo: Dorothea Tuch

The show builds on historic exercises compiled in the ‘original bauhaus workbook’.

The Bauhaus was a school of art and design that did many things differently. An important innovation was the VORKURS  – a preliminary course which all students were required to complete. The experience students gained in exercises was deemed far more important than the material results.

Now it is your turn to learn by doing. For the interactive trail we reinterpreted historic exercises by Johannes Itten, László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers and paired them with contemporary tools and notions. Hopefully you will not only take away an impression of what it was like to be a Bauhaus student, but leave something behind as well.

Thank you to the thousands of visitors which have contributed to our interactive exhibition so far!  

the bauhaus was a school interactive exhibition
27.11.2019 – 09.05.2020
the temporary bauhaus-archiv / museum für gestaltung
Knesebeckstraße 1-2 | Berlin-Charlottenburg
Mo–Sat, 10–18 hrs | Free entry