Current & Upcoming
Akinbode Akinbiyi: Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air
7 February to 19 July 2020
The photography exhibition Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air brings together works from various long-term series composed by Berlin-based Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi, who has captured intimate scenes and communal life in cities such as Lagos, Berlin, Johannesburg, Bamako and Chicago, among many other locations.
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Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground
10 July to 13 December 2020
Otobong Nkanga’s interest lies in the complex relationship between humans and land. In her works, she explores this relationship within the tension between exploitative extraction processes and structures of care and repair. Following her one-year stay 2019 at the Gropius Bau, the solo exhibition will offer insights into the central issues of her work.
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Down to Earth
13 August to 13 September 2020
Down to Earth, our summer at the Gropius Bau: four weeks without electricity, loudspeakers, videos, screens, air travel or spotlights, but with daylight, heat, recycling, analogue music, dance and talks by experts on change, exhibits on the themes of the ocean, Gaia, puddles, the living earth, a sawn-up Porsche and modern rituals, in the spirit of Latour, Margulis, Lovelock and the Shipibo – 14 rooms and different overall every day.
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Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
16 October 2020 bis 10 January 2021
Featuring works by Laurie Anderson, Richard Avedon, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Annette Messager, a comprehensive group exhibition at the Gropius Bau titled Masculinities: Liberation through Photography explores the ways in which masculinity is experienced, performed and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day.
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2021
Yayoi Kusama
Postponed to March 2021
Yayoi Kusama is one of Japan’s most important contemporary artists. The Gropius Bau will devote the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany to Kusama’s work, offering an overview of every creative period from the last seventy years. The show features current paintings, a new Infinity Mirrored Room as well as several works specially conceived for the exhibition.
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The Cool and the Cold. Painting in the USA and the USSR 1960–1990.
Ludwig Collection
Postponed to April to September 2021
Under the title of The Cool and the Cold, the Gropius Bau will host a group exhibition uniting paintings created during the Cold War in both centres of global political power, including works by Andy Warhol, Il’ja Kabakov, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler and Erik Bulatov.
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Thea Djordjadze
Postponed to April to August 2021
Thea Djordjadze’s artistic practice can be understood as a process of continually reusing, reconfiguring and rearranging objects. Starting in April 2020, the Gropius Bau presents existing and newly created works by the Berlin-based artist, whose sculptures and interventions engage in a dialogue with the historic building.
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