CENTURY. idee bauhaus im Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest

Ausstellung vom 25. Juni bis 27. August 2023 – Eröffnung am Samstag, 24. Juni 2023

Mit CENTURY. idee bauhaus zeigt die Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst ein herausragendes, 106-teiliges Konvolut der Sammlung Schroth.

Die Kuratorin Christiane Bail, und der Ausstellungsmacher Matthias Seidel von der Berliner Programmgalerie drj art projects haben »CENTURY. idee bauhaus« als Projekt zum Bauhaus-Jubiläumsjahr 2019 konzipiert und realisiert. Gemeinsam mit Museumsdirektorinnen Simone Schimpf und Sibylle Hoiman, Kunstwissenschaftler Frederik Schikowski sowie Architekt und Kunstsammler Frank F. Drewes wurden der Vielzahl internationaler Künstlerinnen und Künstler ausgewählt und eingeladen, ihre persönlichen Reflexionen über das Bauhaus in Form eines DIN-A4-Blattes einzureichen. Diese individuellen Beiträge beleuchten ein breites Spektrum künstlerischer Ansätze und Haltungen, das sowohl persönliche Nähe als auch kritische Distanz zum Thema umfasst.

Zum Auftakt der Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt 2023 wurde CENTURY. idee bauhaus im Rahmen der Kooperation »Kultur.Kontakt.Konkret« in Veszprém präsentiert und um sechs ausgewählte ungarische Positionen erweitert. Wie die ursprünglichen 100 Werke sind auch diese nach den festgelegten Parametern entworfen und ausgeführt.

Frisch aus Ungarn zurückgekehrt, wird dieses nun 100+6 Einzelwerke umfassende Konvolut im Kabinett des Museum Wilhelm Morgner parallel zur Ausstellung von Werken der ungarischen Sammlung Vass, die in Umgang und Raum Schroth zu sehen ist, präsentiert.

Please note:
To see all examples from a series of works, please scroll images sidewards. Arrows appear on hover.
One complete set of all the 100 works is reserved as a unit.

Six new entries: 2023 + [HU]

In the context of the exhibition in Veszprém, an idea was set to live that had already been part of the original 2019 concept: As the exhibition was meant to travel, it was intended to invite artists from the region, local area or even nation the respective venue would be located. Contacts to all continents had already been made, from Beijing/China through Rabat/Morocco, Melboure/Australia and Montevideo/Urugay. However, the Covid-19-Pandemic forced the complete cancellation of these plans.

The more, it was a real pleasure to be able and invite 24 Hungarian artists to make proposals for additional contributions to the 2023 exhibition. As a consequence, the organisers – SAMMLUNG SCHROTH, House of Arts, Veszprém and drj art projects, then had to make hard a choice to finally select six works for the extension of the CENTURY-project.

The new entries are to be seen here [ordered alphabetically by first name, as the complete project is]:

István Halmi-Horváth [*1973 · HU]. Colour Structure A4/1, 2023.

Colour Structure A4/1, 2023. Acrylic Painting on Paper, 29,7 x 21 cm.
1 + E.A. (Unique painting, 1 copy on paper)

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With the mapping, optical properties of the juxtaposed lines and stripes, I strive to represent reality and illusion together. My intention in this work was to show light and darkness, spatial depth, through different degrees of a colour, leaving free its philosophical, spiritual, scientific approaches. My aim is to show ambivalences, not to make statements, but to raise questions about the nature of the reality we experience, its receptivity.

Julia Nema [*1973 · HU]. 21, 2023.

21 4/1  artist paper + tracing paper
21 3/1  artist paper + tracing paper
21 2/2  watercolour paper + tracing paper
21 2/1  artist paper+tracing paper
21 1/3  washi paper + watercolour paper

Series of unique works. All 2023, 29,7 x 21 cm.

Four works available, 300 € net each.

A4 format is our most frequently used standard paper size. It is so ordinary that it is exciting. In recent years, I have made exclusive use of this format for a number of reliefs and collages, working with my own mix of paper and porcelain. This process serves me as a framework of both vision and haptics to elaborate on the conditions, dimensions and relations of white.
For CENTURY. idee bauhaus project, I chose to use blank paper only and created a set of A4 size paper works, each composed of two entire A4 format sheets, by folding, cutting and overlapping them. Each work includes, hides or reveals a square shape of 21×21 cm. The qualities of selected paper stocks range from soft to hard, thick to thin, solid to translucent, warm tone to cold.
This limited set of rules, however, opens up a wide range of possibilities where the difference between plane and space is dissolved. Through the interaction of tactile qualities and elusive color fields, the relativity of whiteness is awakened. Transparency makes a home for visibility and existence.
In this body of paper works entitled „21“, I evoke two Bauhaus Masters I admire the most – László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers.

CENTURY @ House of Arts Veszprém [HU]

Third time on display January 20 through April 2, 2023, at Palais Dubniczay in Veszprém, Hungary

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As part of the European Capital of Culture 2023, the exhibition CENTURY. idee bauhaus will be on view once again in Veszprém, Hungary in the municipal museum House of Arts.

The backdrop is the personal contact of the collector and initiator of the Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst Soest, Carl-Jürgen Schroth, with the collector László Vass, who himself runs a private museum in Veszprém that is a venue of the House of Arts. Its focus is close to Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst Soest in terms of content. Carl-Jürgen Schroth acquired the original edition of CENTURY in 2020 for his collection. Together with other selected works from his extensive art collection of minimal, conceptual and concrete art, it will be on display in Veszprém from January 20, 2023 through April 2, 2023. Moreover, there will be an exchange with works from the László Vass Collection, which will then be shown in the Schroth Artroom at the Wilhelm Morgner Museum in Soest.

For the press release in English and German, Click here…

CENTURY. idee bauhaus – Special exhibition in Tempelhof

Second edition on display from September 12 through 15, 2019, at POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Berlin

Hangar 4, Flughafen Tempelhof
Columbiadamm 10
10965 Berlin 

 
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C E N T U R Y. idee bauhaus

100 perspectives on 100 years of the Bauhaus — 100 international artists reflect their personal attitude on the idee bauhaus

Anyone who works in the fields of art, architecture, or design has inevitably engaged with the Bauhaus at some point, and in most cases, has developed a position on it.

As a programme and project gallery for conceptual and minimal contemporary art + architecture, drj initiated a project of its own to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’ founding which will be shown as a special exhibition at the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair during Berlin Art Week.

100 international artists were invited to submit their personal reflections on the Bauhaus in the form of a DIN A4 sheet of paper. These individual contributions have been brought together in the exhibition CENTURY. idee bauhaus, which illuminates a broad spectrum of artistic approaches and attitudes, encompassing both personal closeness and critical distance to the subject.

The exhibition is an exemplary visual answer to the question of whether [and if so, how] the legacy of the Bauhaus, which itself existed for only fourteen years, can still be recognized in contemporary artistic approaches. 
Or is it perhaps more the decades of reception history that were formative— whether continuing and adapting Bauhaus ideas or rejecting them?

The exhibition is an official contribution to the jubilee programme and was shown for the first time in the drj exhibition rooms in Berlin-Schöneberg from April to June 2019.

C E N T U R Y. idee bauhaus
Special exhibition at the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair
September 12 to 15 2019, Hangar 4, Tempelhof Airport
Columbiadamm 10
10965 Berlin 
U6 Platz der Luftbrücke
Bus 104 + 248 Columbiadamm, Platz der Luftbrücke

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CENTURY. idee bauhaus – a drj project with 100 international artists

First edition on display from April 28 through June 23, 2019, at drj art projects, Berlin

Anyone who works in the fields of art, architecture, or design has inevitably engaged with the Bauhaus at some point, and in most cases, has developed a position on it.

As a programme and project gallery for conceptual and minimal contemporary art + architecture, drj initiated a project of its own to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’ founding, forming a curatorial team and inviting 100 international artists to submit their personal reflections on the Bauhaus in the form of a DIN A4 sheet of paper.

These individual contributions have been brought together in the exhibition CENTURY. idee bauhaus, which illuminates a broad spectrum of artistic approaches and attitudes, encompassing both personal closeness and critical distance to the subject.

The exhibition is an exemplary visual answer to the question of whether [and if so, how] the legacy of the Bauhaus, which itself existed for only fourteen years, can still be recognized in contemporary artistic approaches.

Or is it perhaps more the decades of reception history that were formative—whether continuing and adapting Bauhaus ideas or rejecting them? The curatorial team consists of museum director Simone Schimpf, MKK Ingolstadt, curator Sibylle Hoiman, Bauhaus Archiv Berlin, art scientist Frederik Schikowski, Berlin/Basel and architect and art collector Frank F. Drewes, Berlin/ Bielefeld, as well as drj directors Christiane Bail and Matthias Seidel.

An overview of all 100 works is available as downloadable pdf file: CENTURY_A1_Poster__A4_Folder_.pdf

Featuring: Alain Biltereyst [BE] • Albert Weis [DE] • Alicja Gaskon [PL] • Alison Hall [US] • Anette Haas [DE] • Angelika Schori [CH] • Anna Kubelik [CH] • Anna-Maria Bogner [AT] • Annegret Hoch [DE] • Annett Zinsmeister [DE] • Antje Dorn [DE] • Arne Schreiber [DE] • Astrid Schindler [DE] • Bignia Wehrli [CH] • Carles Valverde [ES/CH] • Carlo Battisti [IT] • Caroline Kryzecki [DE] • Carsten Sievers [DE] • Christina Kubisch [DE] • Christoph Brech [DE] • Daniel G. Hill [US] • Daniel Göttin [CH] • Daniela Comani [IT] • Deb Covell [GB] • Denise Winter [DE] • Dieter Balzer [DE] • Douglas Allsop [GB] • Dusa Jesih [SL] • Emily Hass [US] • Esther Stocker[IT] • Fernanda Fragateiro [PT] • Fiene Scharp [DE] • Frank Badur [DE] • Friederike von Rauch [DE] • Fritz Horstman [US] • Gerhard Frömel [AT] • Gilbert Hsiao [US] • H. Frank Taffelt [DE] • Haleh Redjaian [DE/IR] • Hansjörg Schneider [DE] • Hartmut Böhm [DE] • Heather Jones [US] • Hellmut Bruch [AT] • Horst Bartnig [DE] • Ioannis Lassithiotakis [GR] • Irina Ojovan [MD] • Jan Klopfleisch [DE] • Jan Maarten Voskuil [NL] • Jan van Munster [NL] • Jaromír Novotný [CZ] • Jason Karolak [US] • Jasper van der Graaf [NL] • Joan Waltemath [US] • José Heerkens [NL] • Juliane Schmidt [DE] • Julius Stahl [DE] • Käthe Kruse [DE] • Lars Breuer [DE] • Laura Mietrup [CH] • Leo Zogmayer [AT] • Lienhard von Monkiewitsch [DE] • Lindsay Packer [US] • Lorenza Sannai [IT/US] • Lucía Simón Medina [ES] • Lucio Pozzi [US] • Maik Teriete [DE] • Mandy Cano Villalobos [US] • Marguerite Hersberger [CH] • Mariángeles Soto-Díaz [VE/US] • Mary Schiliro [US] • Matthew Deleget [US] • Matthew Hawtin [CA] • Mauro Giaconi [AR] • Max Cole [US] • Michael Rouillard [US] • Mitsuhiro Yamagiwa [JP] • Nadine Fecht [DE] • Peter Weber [DE] • Rainer Splitt [DE] • Ray Malone [IE] • Regine Schumann [DE] • René Zäch [CH] • Richard Caldicott [GB] • Richard Roth [US] • Rita Ernst [CH] • Rob de Oude [NL] • Russell Maltz [US] • Samantha Bittman [US] • Sarah Alexander [DE] • Siegfried Kreitner [DE] • Sigmund de Jong [NL] • Stephan Ehrenhofer [AT] • Susan York [US] • Tess Williams [GB] • Timm Ulrichs [DE] • Willem Besselink [NL] • Wolfgang Berndt [DE] • Wolfgang Ritter [DE] • Yasuaki Kuroda [JP] • Zora Kreuzer [DE]

Installation views at drj art projects

CENTURY. idee bauhaus — PORTFOLIO. 14 Reproduktionen ausgewählter Beiträge

Unter den 100 Arbeiten der Ausstellung hat das kuratorische Team die Zahl von 14 Werken bestimmt, die als Destillat des gesamten Projekts in einem Portfolio, in Form von hochwertigen Reproduktionen, zusammengefasst sind.

Die Zahl ist angelehnt an die 14 Jahre, die das Bauhaus von 1919 bis 1933 real an den drei Standorten Weimar, Dessau und Berlin existierte. Im Gegenüber zu den 100 Originalen des Gesamtprojekts ist durch diese Auswahl in gewissem Sinne auch physisch erfahrbar, wie kurz diese Zeitspanne eigentlich war, insbesondere von heute aus besehen, einhundert Jahre nach der Gründung des Bauhaus.

Die Mappen sind in einer limitierten Auflage von 14 nummerierten Exemplaren sowie sechs weiteren, als Épreuves d‘Édition gekennzeichneten produziert worden. Vertrieben werden sie über die drj angegliederte edition ROTE INSEL.

Die ausgewählten Arbeiten sind oben abgebildet.

CENTURY. idee bauhaus — PORTFOLIO

Arne Schreiber [DE] • Caroline Kryzecki [DE] • Fernanda Fragateiro [PT] • Fritz Horstman [US] • H. Frank Taffelt [DE] • Haleh Redjaian [DE/IR] • Ioannis Lassithiotakis [GR] • Jan Klopfleisch [DE] • Jaromír Novotný [CZ] • Lars Breuer [DE] • Lindsay Packer [US] • Nadine Fecht [DE] • Susan York [US] • Willem Besselink [NL]

14 Fine–Art Drucke, 12 Farben Pigmenttinten Druck, 1200 dpi, mit lösemittelfreier, UV–beständiger Tinte, auf Hahnemühle Foto Matt Fibre 200 g/m² . Inklusive Werkkommentaren der Künstler/innen auf 90 g/m² Transparentpapier, gefasst in Pergaminhülle, eingeschlagen mit Faserseidentuch in einer Mappe aus rauer Terrapappe mit Schnurverschluss. Edition 14 + 6 E.E., nummeriert und mit Prägestempel markiert

Angebot in Staffelpreisen:
1/14 – 3/14 für 350 € + 7% = 327 € -> nicht mehr verfügbar / no longer available
4/14 – 8/14 für 400 € + 7% = 428 € -> noch zwei mal verfügbar / two available
9/14 bis 14/14 für 470 € + 7% = 503 € -> verfügbar / available