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bauhausTWINS
Thu 16/5/2019–Sun 5/1/2020

Archive

11’19

Tue 17/9/2019–Wed 20/11/2019

Fri 1/11/2019
Educational Project:

School of Thinking
Experimental school for 20 participants from among students of Secondary Art School Ostrava (Střední umělecká škola v Ostravě).

Mon 7/10/2019–Wed 13/11/2019

Fri 1/11/2019
Educational Project:

School of Forgetting
Experimental school for 20 participants from among students of Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Ostrava.

Tue 5/11/2019

Tue 5/11/2019 at 6.00 pm
Lecture:

Radim Labuda: An artist in post-practice
Artistic post-practice isn’t about abandoning art; it generates questions about the position of art in capitalism and about its potential as a tool of social change in the time of environmental crisis.

Wed 13/11/2019

Wed 13/11/2019 at 6.00 pm
Lecture:

Black Mountain College is our Bauhaus
Evening dedicated to the history of one of the most influential experimental art schools & prepared by composer Petr Bakla and Marek Pokorný, the director of PLATO.

Fri 15/11/2019

Fri 15/11/2019 at 7.00 pm
Friday Cinema:

Bauhaus – Modell und Mythos (Germany, 2009)
The documentary shows how the Bauhaus school started after World War I, how it became revolutionary and tells the true story about the closing and the enmashment of some of the Bauhaus-people during Nazi-Germany.

Sat 16/11/2019

Sat 16/11/2019 at 10.00 am–Sat 16/11/2019 at 6.00 pm
Reservation
"Bauhausian" Workshop:

Jewellery Making sold out
The third of our special series of full-day crafts workshops for the public, launched in the year of the Bauhaus Art School’s 100th anniversary.

Wed 20/11/2019

Wed 27/11/2019–Thu 28/11/2019

Wed 27/11/2019
Symposium:

Critical Styling
The importance of style: contemporary practices and strategies in relation to art. International symposium in honour of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus school.

Sat 30/11/2019

Sat 30/11/2019 at 10.00 am–Sat 30/11/2019 at 6.00 pm
Reservation
"Bauhausian" Workshop:

Typography sold out
The fourth and last of our special series of full-day crafts workshops for the public, launched in the year of the Bauhaus Art School’s 100th anniversary.

10’19

Tue 17/9/2019–Wed 20/11/2019

Tue 1/10/2019
Educational Project:

School of Thinking
Experimental school for 20 participants from among students of Secondary Art School Ostrava (Střední umělecká škola v Ostravě).

Wed 2/10/2019

Wed 2/10/2019 at 6.00 pm
Gallery Talk:

Lucie Králíková (Efemér): Sacraments
An evening dedicated to reviving traditions in the urban setting and to searching for new religiosity.

Sat 5/10/2019

Sat 5/10/2019 at 10.00 am–Sat 5/10/2019 at 6.00 pm
Reservation
"Bauhausian" Workshop:

Rhetoric
The second of our special series of full-day crafts workshops for the public, launched in the year of the Bauhaus Art School’s 100th anniversary.

Mon 7/10/2019–Wed 13/11/2019

Mon 7/10/2019
Educational Project:

School of Forgetting
Experimental school for 20 participants from among students of Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Ostrava.

Thu 10/10/2019

Thu 10/10/2019 at 6.00 pm
Presentation:

Franck Apertet Introduces the Work of les gens d’Uterpan
A presentation of the work of Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan, FR); by means of their initial practice as choreographers they set up a critical dialogue between usual practices in performance and visual arts.

Fri 11/10/2019

Fri 11/10/2019 at 10.00 am–Fri 11/10/2019 at 10.50 am
Reservation
Meeting point:

For parents and children / workshop BatoPLATO
A huge space for drawing, a variety of brushes, rollers, or large foam rubber stamps. You can even paint with your small hands and feet. Dating event and workshop for parents with children led by Hana Volkmerová and Tomáš Volkmer.

Sun 20/10/2019

Sun 20/10/2019 at 10.00 am–Sun 20/10/2019 at 10.50 am
Reservation
Workshop for children:

BatoPLATO
A huge space for drawing, with a variety of brushes, rollers and large foam rubber stamps and. Or paint with your small hands and feet. Led by Hana Volkmerová and Tomáš Volkmer. New! A “Bauhausian” art workshop for children aged 1.5–3.

Wed 23/10/2019

Wed 23/10/2019 at 6.00 pm
Performance:

Avatar Zet
Live event/performance dealing with the essence of the research on artist Miloš Zet’s (1920–1995) legacy, which took place last year.

9’19

Mon 2/9/2019–Sun 8/9/2019

Mon 2/9/2019
Reservation
Educational Project:

School of Expressions
A summer school for 18 participants from among young artists, theoreticians, curators and students of selected humanities disciplines.

Tue 17/9/2019–Wed 20/11/2019

Tue 17/9/2019
Educational Project:

School of Thinking
Experimental school for 20 participants from among students of Secondary Art School Ostrava (Střední umělecká škola v Ostravě).

Wed 18/9/2019

Wed 18/9/2019 at 7.00 pm
Concert and presentation:

Jonáš Gruska: Field Recordings, Polymetric Compositions and LOM
From compositions about bats through polymetric imaginary folklore to underwater cultures. Presentation of the work of Jonáš Gruska and LOM, a publishing house and space in Bratislava.

Sat 21/9/2019

Sat 21/9/2019 at 10.00 am–Sat 21/9/2019 at 6.00 pm
Reservation
"Bauhausian" Workshop:

Working with Wood
The first of our special series of full-day crafts workshops for the public, launched in the year of the Bauhaus Art School’s 100th anniversary.

8’19

Mon 5/8/2019–Fri 9/8/2019

Mon 5/8/2019
Reservation
City camp for children (age 12–14):

Art Kemp 2019
First year of the camp for older children (12-14 years), subtitled “B is for Bauhaus”.

Mon 12/8/2019–Fri 16/8/2019

Mon 12/8/2019
Reservation
City camp for children (age 7–11):

Kreativ Kemp 2019
5th year of the popular camp for children (7-11 years).

Wed 28/8/2019–Thu 29/8/2019

Wed 28/8/2019
Educational Project:

Summer Academy of Contemporary Art for Teachers 2019
A two-day educational programme for kindergarden, primary and secondary school teachers and students, on the application of the ideas of Bauhaus in society and art now.

5’19

Wed 15/5/2019

Wed 15/5/2019 at 6.00 pm
Exhibition opening:

bauhausTWINS
A spatial installation by the Berlin architect Robert K. Huber and the zukunftsgeraeusche. We are launching a programme marking the centenary of the Bauhaus.

Thu 16/5/2019

Thu 16/5/2019 at 5.00 pm–Thu 16/5/2019 at 8.00 pm
Panel discussion:

The Weimar Constitution. A Century Full of Questions.
A debate on the legislative, political and historical significance of the Weimar Constitution (1919–33), which is considered one of the most democratic documents of its kind.

Press

Initiator of the festival re:bauhaus:
Goethe-Institut

Main supporters:
Federal Foundation of Baukultur, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Moravian-Silesian Region

Cooperation partners:
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Competence Center for Sustainable Building in Cottbus, Technical University of Berlin

Supporters:
DLW Gerflor / Berliner Ausbau, Dr. Schutz Group, MAPEI, RSB Rudolstädter Systembau, SWT Stahlwerk Thüringen, Zinkpower / Industrieverband Feuerverzinken

re:bauhaus – modern emancipation, education, exchange – is a transnational festival exploring the origins of Functionalism and Bauhaus in Central Europe, the political and societal conditions that gave rise to the movements, and how these are perceived today. The festival is a joint initiative of Goethe-Institut in cooperation with bauhaus reuse, curatorial collaborative, National Gallery in Prague, PLATO Ostrava and zukunftsgeraeusche. Supporters include the Czech-German Future Fund, German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Federal Foundation of Baukultur, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the city of Ostrava and Moravian-Silesian Region.

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