Exhibitions 2023
Daniel Boyd: RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)
24 March to 9 July 2023
RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION) is the most comprehensive exhibition of Daniel Boyd’s artistic practice in Europe to date. It provides an overview of Boyd’s image-making that counters the colonial narrative of Australia’s history, engages transnational networks of resistance, Indigenous knowledge production and personal family histories, which he reflects in relation to the context and architecture of the Gropius Bau.
Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
6 April to 13 August 2023
Taking the stories and histories of the Indian Ocean as its departure point, the group exhibition Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora brings together several contemporary artists, musicians, writers and thinkers to investigate, unpack and shed light on some of the smaller and bigger historical, cultural and linguistic links between the continents of Africa and Asia.
General Idea
22 September 2023 to 14 January 2024
Challenging both the art world and society at large, General Idea remain a lastingly influential artist group whose groundbreaking practice spans 25 years. In the most comprehensive retrospective on the trio ever produced, the Gropius Bau presents more than 200 works from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
Spectres of Bandung: A Political Imagination of Asia-Africa
6 October 2023 to 14 January 2024
Spectres of Bandung is a research-based exhibition exploring the first large-scale Asian-African Conference that can be considered a catalyst of already existing political and cultural affiliations. Bringing together photographs, paintings, films and archival material, the group show at the Gropius Bau unpacks the spirit of self-determination prevailing during the Bandung Conference.
Artist in Residence
Pallavi Paul: How Love Moves*
2023
How does the post-pandemic world test the lover and their breath? In the second half of 2023, an exhibition of the Gropius Bau’s Artist in Residence 2023 Pallavi Paul will move across the mystical, medical, political, ecological and erotic life of breath.
*Working title
Preview: Artificial Intelligence at the Gropius Bau
2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the society we live in. In 2023, the Gropius Bau focuses on tackling AI’s potential for an art institution from two directions: evaluating how it works as an artistic tool, as well as working with AI as a structural support to develop a tool for accessibility.