Current & Upcoming
Zanele Muholi
26 November 2021 to 13 March 2022
Zanele Muholi self-identifies as a visual activist and has been documenting the life of Black LGBTQIA+ communities since the early 2000s in intimate and powerful photographs across South Africa and beyond. From 26 November 2021 to 13 March 2022, the Gropius Bau will host Muholi’s first major survey in Germany.
SERAFINE1369: A Continual Cry
4 November 2021 to 28 February 2022
The video installation A Continual Cry explores liveness in the absence of the performer’s live presence.
Emeka Ogboh
Ámà: The Gathering Place
20 October 2021 to 6 March 2022
From October 2021, a site-specific installation by artist Emeka Ogboh will occupy the Gropius Bau’s vast atrium – the heart of the institution’s historical architecture, which is freely accessible without an entry price, welcoming all visitors to the very center of the building.
2022
Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera
18 March to 7 August 2022
Since the 1980s, Dayanita Singh has pioneered a genre-defying approach to photography that pushes the limits of the medium. Dancing with my Camera presents the major phases of the internationally renowned artist’s oeuvre, from her earliest works through today. Along with key past works, including her “museums”, the new project, Let’s See, is especially realised for the Gropius Bau exhibition.
Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility
25 March to 12 June 2022
Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility revisits a dazzling yet disconcerting chapter in Beirut’s modern history bookended by the late 1950s and the late 1970s, corresponding to the Lebanon crisis of 1958 and the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. The exhibition traces the complicated relationship between Beirut’s artistic cosmopolitanism and the surrounding trans-regional and political antagonisms.
Takeover
6 June to 14 August 2022
With Kids Curate_Takeover. A project by the Stiftung Brandenburger Tor and the Gropius Bau, Berlin primary school pupils realise their own exhibition on-site at the Gropius Bau. The exhibition explores how to see and understand the world through children’s eyes, through such sensory themes as movement and shadows; the exhibition as a game; interactions between light and water; and the interplay of sound and nature.
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child
22 July to 23 October 2022
The Woven Child is the first major survey to focus exclusively on Louise Bourgeois’ fabric-based works. The exhibition charts the artists’ lifelong connection to textiles, and the memories they conjure, through a diverse body of sculptures, installations, drawings, collages, books and prints.
On Caring, Repairing and Healing
16 September 2022 to 15 January 2023
In autumn 2022, the Gropius Bau hosts a large-scale exhibition centering on caring, repairing and healing. Through installation, painting, audio and an extensive performance programme, On Caring, Repairing and Healing is a call to change. The ambitious exhibition aims to establish common ground on a matter whose relevance for individuals, communities and institutions is all the more acute in the pandemic age.
