Press Releases
Lee Mingwei: 禮 Li, Gifts and Rituals
In spring 2020, the Gropius Bau presents the first mid-career survey in Europe by the artist Lee Mingwei (*1964, Taiwan). The exhibition 禮 Li, Gifts and Rituals proposes a new way of looking at the artist’s work: as an exploration of art’s ability to act as a transformative gift, rooted in the space of intimate experiences and encounters with others.
10 February 2020
CONNECT, BTS: Rituals of Care
The Gropius Bau will host a series of performances as it begins its 2020 programme: an ongoing exploration of themes with particular contemporary urgency, including land and the Anthropocene, violence and repair.
14 January 2020
Akinbode Akinbiyi: Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air
The 2020 exhibition programme at the Gropius Bau begins with Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air, a photography exhibition showcasing works from various long-term series composed by Berlin-based Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi over four decades.
2 January 2020
Exhibition Programme 2020
The 2020 exhibition programme continues to explore themes of global and historic urgency: land, the Anthropocene, boundaries, global resources, trauma and their relation to the body.
7 November 2019
Open Calls for the Exhibition Lee Mingwei 2020
Lee Mingwei’s artistic practice is primarily concerned with rituals of giving and receiving. From 27 March to 7 June 2020, the Gropius Bau will present a solo exhibition by the artist, showing his installations and performances from the last thirty years. Central to the exhibition is an exploration of art’s potential to be a transformative gift.
23 October 2019
Wu Tsang: There is no nonviolent way to look at somebody
Wu Tsang’s solo exhibition There is no nonviolent way to look at somebody presents films in dialogue with her sculptural practice, working with the interaction of glass, light and text, and including a new stained-glass commission conceived for the Gropius Bau.
14 August 2019
Walking Through Walls
Walking Through Walls marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most symbolic events of the 20th century, interrogating the experience of vulnerability and anxiety caused by power structures that thrive on confinement and segregation.
8 August 2019
Gropius Bau Autumn 2019 Programme
Gropius Bau announces the autumn 2019 programme with two exhibitions, both responding to the unique architecture of the building, a solo presentation of film and site-specific sculpture by artist Wu Tsang along with a group show bringing together an array of international artists marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
24 June 2019
Garden of Earthly Delights
Running from 26 July to 1 December 2019, the Gropius Bau’s exhibition Garden of Earthly Delights will see over 20 international artists using the space of the garden as a metaphor for the state of the world, in an exploration of the complexities of our chaotic and increasingly precarious present.
30 April 2019
Bani Abidi: They Died Laughing
Bani Abidi is known for her distinctive approach to filmmaking, which derives from the dark absurdities of everyday life. Opening on 5 June 2019, They Died Laughing is an extensive presentation of Abidi’s works, bringing together moving image and print-based works that span two decades.
8 April 2019
The Black Image Corporation. Theaster Gates
The Gropius Bau presents The Black Image Corporation, an exhibition conceived by Theaster Gates, from 25 April to 28 July 2019. Theaster Gates has conceived a participatory exhibition highlighting the works of two photographers, Moneta Sleet Jr. and Isaac Sutton, which is on display on the first floor of the Gropius Bau.
26 March 2019
2019 Programme Highlights
The 2019 programme sees the Gropius Bau bring together local and international artists who push forward some of the most important conversations of our time, opening our minds to new possibilities.We start and end the programme with exhibitions that share a profound connection with the Gropius Bau’s heritage as an institution that is deeply rooted in the development of creativity in Berlin.