Press Releases
Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
The Gropius Bau is delighted to present Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora. The multi-chapter exhibition brings together works by contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and researchers.
10 March 2023Daniel Boyd: RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)
The Gropius Bau is delighted to present Daniel Boyd’s RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION), the most comprehensive show in Europe to date of the renowned artist, who lives and works on Gadigal and Wangal Country, Sydney.
17 February 2023Exhibition Programme 2023
We are pleased to announce the Gropius Bau’s exhibition programme for 2022. Key topics include establishing common ground, making space for one another, rituals of individual and collective caring and healing, and sites of memory and repair.
8 December 2022Wu Tsang: Of Whales
The Gropius Bau is pleased to present world-renowned artist Wu Tsang’s Of Whales (2022), a large-scale installation accessible free of charge in the institution’s historic atrium.
16 November 2022YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal
Featuring the diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives of 25 artistic positions, YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal addresses issues such as the politics of health, the resilience of Indigenous knowledge systems, forms of kinship, fair land use and its distribution, decoloniality and the rights of the non-human, all entangled with various concepts of care, repair and healing.
4 August 2022Ana Prvački: Apis Gropius. An Augmented Reality Experience in the Atrium of the Gropius Bau
The Gropius Bau is pleased to announce the launch of Apis Gropius (2022), a unique, site-specific augmented reality (AR) experience by Ana Prvački. Prvački is the Gropius Bau’s first Digital Artist in Residence 2021/2022.
23 June 2022Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child
The Gropius Bau is pleased to present The Woven Child, the first major retrospective of Louise Bourgeois to focus exclusively on the works that she made with fabrics and textiles during the final chapter of her storied career.
7 June 2022Takeover – exhibition with international artists curated by kids in the Gropius Bau
Takeover – exhibition with international artists curated by kids in the Gropius Bau
25 May 2022Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal appointed as director of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project
Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal, Director of the Gropius Bau, begins at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project on 1 September 2022.
13 May 2022Ayumi Paul is the Gropius Bau’s In House: Artist In Residence 2022
The Gropius Bau is pleased to welcome Ayumi Paul as In House: Artist in Residence 2022.
26 April 2022Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility
Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility revisits an exhilarating chapter in global modernism in Beirut.
8 February 2022