Press Releases
Dr. 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 2022Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera
The Gropius Bau is pleased to present Dancing with my Camera, the first major survey of the internationally renowned artist Dayanita Singh.
20 January 2022Exhibition Programme 2022
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.
16 December 2021Zanele Muholi
This November, Gropius Bau opens the first major survey in Germany of South African visual activist Zanele Muholi. Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that tell stories of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives in South Africa and beyond.
13 October 2021Emeka Ogboh. Ámà: The Gathering Place
From 20 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.
11 October 2021Ámà: 4 Days on Caring, Repairing and Healing
From 4 to 7 November 2021, the Gropius Bau will convene Ámà: 4 Days on Caring, Repairing and Healing.
30 September 2021The Cool and the Cold. Painting in the USA and the USSR 1960–1990. Ludwig Collection
Painting in the USA and the USSR 1960–1990. Ludwig Collection, exhibited at the Gropius Bau in collaboration with the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, is a substantial group exhibition bringing together art from the Cold War’s two duelling global powers, exploring the relationship between East and West from the perspective of art history.
25 August 2021Thea Djordjadze: all building as making
At the Gropius Bau, Thea Djordjadze to open an expansive solo exhibition exploring the mutability of space, memory and material
23 July 2021SERAFINE1369 and Ana Prvački are the Gropius Bau’s Artists in Residence 2021/22
The Gropius Bau is pleased to announce two Artists in Residence for 2021 working at the intersections of intuition, bodily knowledge and our experiences of site and history: SERAFINE1369 and Ana Prvački.
13 July 2021Zheng Bo: Wanwu Council 萬物社
“We cannot continue living in the fantasy that humans own this planet. How can art institutions move towards a more-than-human future?” – Zheng Bo, 2021
3 June 2021Takeover. Plastic Catches Mushroom
Kick-off for the project Takeover with Roberta Busechian and Tue Greenfort on the south terrace outside the Gropius Bau
27 May 2021Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective – A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe
Gropius Bau to open major Yayoi Kusama retrospective in April with her most complex immersive exhibition to date.
11 March 2021Hella Jongerius: Woven Cosmos
Over three decades, the artist and industrial designer Hella Jongerius has engaged with urgent topics such as sustainable innovation, responsible production and societal regeneration. With the solo exhibition Woven Cosmos, the Gropius Bau presents to a broad public this unique and path-breaking figure from the realm of design and applied arts.
3 February 2021