The exhibition of photographs by renowned Czech architecture photographer Filip Šlapal will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the famous art school Bauhaus (1919–1933). The installation will also include unique films showcasing the buildings and personalities of Bauhaus, the iconic ballet scenography of Oskar Schlemmer, documentaries about New Frankfurt and the so-called Frankfurt kitchen and existential minimum, as well as the Tugendhat villa in Brno, among others. As part of the accompanying program, there will be lectures and moderated debates by historians of architecture, art, and design, as well as aestheticians.
Markéta Svobodová: The Female Element and Bauhaus March 12, 7 PM The lecture will be dedicated to women who influenced the operation of Bauhaus – those who actively participated in selecting educators or in shaping the educational systems themselves, such as Alma Mahler, Gertrud Grunow, or those who promoted the school (photographer Lucia Moholy). In the second part, the speaker will focus on successful graduates of the school (Gunta Stölzl, Otti Berger, etc.) and students who came to Bauhaus from former Czechoslovakia. Last but not least, women who were behind the promotion of this school or its products in Czechoslovakia will be introduced.
Vladimír Šlapeta: Architectural Echoes of Bauhaus March 28, 7 PM Villa Rabe in Zwekau near Leipzig, 1930, (Adolf Rading and Oskar Schlemmer); post-war works of Bauhaus architects in America, etc.
Markéta Svobodová: Foreign Students of Bauhaus in Interwar Czechoslovakia April 2, 7 PM During the interwar period in Czechoslovakia, several Bauhaus graduates worked here, initially for economic reasons and later also for political and racial reasons. The lecture will focus on more well-known artists, such as designer and architect Friedl Dicker and graphic artist and photographer Werner David Feist, but also on lesser-known figures and their activities and professional contacts in the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Moderated Debate / Bauhaus: Culture and Politics prepared as part of the lecture cycle Aesthetics of Space, Space of Aesthetics by the Katharsis association and in collaboration with the political science association Polis April 3
MODERATED DEBATE / INFLUENCE AND LEGACY OF BAUHAUS Petr Kratochvíl, Markéta Svobodová (Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Vladimír Šlapeta (FA CTU Prague), Jindřich Vybíral (UMPRUM Prague), Maroš Schmidt (Slovak Museum of Design, Bratislava) April 9
The co-organizer is the Goethe Institute in Prague. The accompanying program is supported by the Slovak Institute and in collaboration with the Katharsis and Polis associations.