Yayoi Kusama, “Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field”, 1965

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Yayoi Kusama
A Retrospective

A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe

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Hella Jongerius Woven Cosmos – Woven Window, 2020

Digital Exhibition

Hella Jongerius
Woven Cosmos

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Gropius Bau Journal

The Event of a Fibre

By Regine Hengge & Karin Krauthausen

New Essay

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The Gropius Bau is closed from 24 April 2021

Unfortunately, due to the health situation and new emergency corona measures signed into effect on 22 April 2021, the Gropius Bau will be forced to close as of Saturday, 24 April 2021. Ticket-holders for the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective will be refunded their money automatically.

Until circumstances permit our re-opening, please explore our digital exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective.

The Gropius Bau will re-open as soon as we are permitted and we look forward to welcoming you on-site then.

Gropius Bau Journal
Hella Jongerius, Woven Brick (detail), 2019

Gropius Bau Journal

The Gropius Bau Journal is an online platform that aims to explore entangled futures, and ways of thinking and living together, using the broad themes of the exhibition programme as a lens to look at the wider world. Publishing new writing from artists, writers and thinkers, it looks to range across disciplines and to consider the role of an art institution in the 21st century.

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Yayoi Kusama, “Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field”, 1965

Exhibition

Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective

23 April to 15 August 2021

Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most important contemporary artists. In April 2021, the Gropius Bau will devote the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany to Kusama’s work. Presented across almost 3000 m², the exhibition will offer an overview of the key periods in her oeuvre, which spans more than 70 years, and feature a number of current works as well as a newly realised Infinity Mirror Room.

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Hella Jongerius Woven Cosmos – Woven Window, 2020

Exhibition

Hella Jongerius: Woven Cosmos

29 April to 15 August 2021

At the heart of Hella Jongerius’s artistic practice is the connection between industry and craft as well as traditional knowledge and technology. In spring 2021, the Gropius Bau will present a solo exhibition devoted to the artist and designer that will continue to develop over the course of time.

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Zheng Bo: „What Do the Trees Want?” 24.10.2020

Exhibition

Zheng Bo: Wanwu Council 萬物社

21 June to 23 August 2021

As In House: Artist in Residence 2020, the artist and theoretician Zheng Bo embarked on the question of how plants practice politics. In 2021, his exhibition Wanwu Council 萬物社 will expand upon themes that Zheng Bo worked on during his one-year residency at the Gropius Bau.

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Artist in Residence 2021
SERAFINE1369

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Following in the footsteps of Wu Tsang, Otobong Nkanga and Zheng Bo, SERAFINE1369 / Jamila Johnson-Small (previously known as Last Yearz Interesting Negro) will take up a studio in the Gropius Bau in 2021 as part of the In House: Artist in Residence programme. As an artist and dancer, SERAFINE1369 engages deeply with intimacy, movement and boundaries.

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SERAFINE1369, 2020
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The Gropius Bau is one of Europe’s most important exhibition venues. With its acclaimed contemporary and archaeological exhibitions, the Gropius Bau has consistently opened up new realms of experience and established its international reputation. In view of its eventful history and the variety of institutions that have been active here over the years, the Gropius Bau is organised as an open framework for addressing a broad variety of artistic modes of thinking and their social implications. Through active collaboration with contemporary artists involved the programme, creative processes are revealed, new perspectives opened up and the possibilities of the institution reflected.

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