Bauhaus: Art as Life
Sun 01 Apr to Wed 01 Aug
Barbican Art Gallery
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
T: 020 7638 8891
Visitor Information
Open daily 11am-8pm (except Wed until 6pm and Sat 10am-8pm)
Thu until 10pm
Final dates tbc
The largest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years, this major new show at the Barbican explores the world’s most famous modern art school. From avant-garde arts and crafts beginnings to a new model uniting art and technology, the Bauhaus’ utopian vision sought to change society in the aftermath of the First World War, to find a ‘new way of life’.
Bauhaus: Art as Life explores the cross-arts, pioneering and diverse artistic production that make up its turbulent 14-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the life and art, politics and society, culture and the changing technology of the time. The exhibition traces the life of the school from its founding in 1919 to its dramatic closure in 1933 and features painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and installation. Works from Bauhaus Masters such as as Josef and Anni Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Gunta Stölzl are presented alongside works by lesser-known artist Masters and Bauhaus students.
Workshops, talks, films and performances will accompany a major Creative Learning initiative, the Bauhaus Summer School, an intensive two-week school held at the Barbican and led by leading practitioners from all artistic backgrounds.