The Whole World a Bauhaus

How did the Bauhaus manage to become such an innovative force in design and teaching, and in societies? The ifa exhibition The Whole World a Bauhaus is devoted to this theme. Divided into eight different chapters, the exhibition focuses on aspects of work and life at the Bauhaus between 1919 and 1933: The section on “Floating” explores the Bauhaus interest in motifs of weightlessness and also looks at how glass and skeleton frameworks dematerialized architecture, or how the cantilever chair resting on air became symbolic of an entire design movement. The chapter on “Experiment” presents objects that were the result of new research into materials and space, and whose dimensions, proportions, and testing of materials were also designed to make mass production possible. While the “Total Work of Art” looks at the synthesis of all the arts, and also of art and science and of art and life, the chapter on “Community” presents key objects documenting everyday life at the Bauhaus, including the famous parties. The chapter “New Man” shows that the Bauhaus was not just based on utopian left-wing politics, but also explored other radical new political and philosophical identities. The chapter “Art, Crafts, Technology” presents the Bauhaus workshops and the products they made, while “Radical Pedagogy” looks at the organisation of the Bauhaus and its teaching practice. Crosscultural relations are explored in the chapter entitled “Encounters.” 

Programme 
Lecture: “The Metal Processing Workshop of the Bauhaus”
Saturday, July 9, 2022, 2pm  
Weng Meng Ruan, metalwork artist 

Lecture: “On Bauhaus Weaving: from Needlework to Modern Design”
Saturday, July 16, 2022, 2pm 

Pei-Shan Wu, Assistant Professor of the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts 

Get insights in the transcultural entanglements of the Bauhaus artists: The catalogue The Whole World a Bauhaus is published for the first time in Chinese. 

Catalogue
978-3-948205-53-9 (cn)
978-3-948205-10-2 (en)
978-3-948205-06-5 (de)
hammerbacher [​at​] ifa.de 

About ifa  
As an independent intermediary organisation, ifa—Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen plays a leading role in international artistic and cultural exchange, and its work helps to shape Germany’s international cultural relations. ifa is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, the state of Baden-Württemberg and the state capital Stuttgart.