When the Bauhaus departed Dessau in 1932, there was no Bauhaus collection left in its wake. Apart from the files in the city archive and some works in the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, which survived the wave of Nazi iconoclasm, as well as artworks in pr …

Yvon Chabrowski is a visual artist working in different media, ranging from photography and performance to the moving image as a form of sculpture. She analyses the visual formulas of different media and reveals their mechanisms and manipulation strate …

Lesebühne

The book 2000 is Henrike Naumann’s first comprehensive publication and provides an insight into the exhibition and reception history of her work series 2000. In it, she examined the year 2000 in Germany, burrowed through the remains of Expo 2000 in Han …

032c magazine is an English-language, bi-annual contemporary culture magazine that covers art, fashion, and politics. It was founded in 2001 by Joerg Koch and is published in Berlin.[1] It hosts exhibitions and events at its Workshop in the former brut …

Criticism has fallen into crisis, and today’s critical practice mistrusts its own tools—a development that also applies to critique in architecture. For a major part of the twentieth century, critique played an important part in what was considered “mo …

Konrad Wachsmann played an exceptional role among modern architects in helping to industrialize architecture and fostering the potential this contained for an architectural turn. Wachsmann’s universal wedge connector, invented in the shadow of World Wa …

1911 notierte Harry Graf Kessler in seinem Tagebuch, am Bauhaus suche man „vor allem den neuen Menschen“. Einer, der sich damals mit auf diese Suche begeben wollte, war der gebürtige Leipziger Karl Hermann Trinkaus. Anfangs künstlerisch ambitionierter …

erfurt, 2020

50 Innovative Fashion Projects + 8 Short Articles by Daniëlle Bruggeman, Jan Mahy, Rens Tap, Ben Wubs, Loe Feijs, Koen van Os, Gail Kenning, Lianne Toussaint, Stephan Wensveen, Anke Jongejan, Pauline van Dongen and Oscar Tomico. Despite technological a …

Spirituality Wolfgang Tillmans guest edits Aperture’s “Spirituality” issue, which features contributions by artists, scientists, and writers who examine the different ways photography has been used to represent humanity’s longing for spiritual connecti …

geist, liebe, freiheit

Welcome to your queer life. A life along a line, or several. A life through writing, images and objects. Life as a sticky, messy pile of narratives and emotions. Life not as singular and individual, but entangled and connected. [excerpt from editorial] …

I Seem to Live. The New York Diaries, 1950–2011 is Jonas Mekas’s key literary work. The first volume of this magnum opus, covering the period from 1950-69, appears posthumously one year after his death. It stands on an equal footing with his cinematic …

A full colour collage zine I made while watching a classy VHS called “Sex Dubbelpack 3”. Which is also the name I gave this lovely zine.

Filmrisse. So heißt das erste Buch des Autors Ronny Elstermann. Die aus dem Jugendlichen- und Heranwachsendenalter berichtende Autobiografie erzählt in sieben Kapiteln in authentisch kantiger Erzählweise von Erlebnissen nach intensivem Alkoholkonsum, m …

literaturmagazin, Leipzig 2016

Véhicule, Vehicle, Vehikel – that’s how the story goes, what has started as an experiment in 2013 has grown into a sequel, a trilogy so to say – a magazine saluting art and motion. We all use different modes of transportation – not only to comfortably …

Wir verbringen immer mehr Zeit mit unseren digitalen Geräten. immer mehr Bereiche unseres Lebens werden gegenwärtig digital. Im Zuge dessen erfährt der Körper als zentrale Oberflä che kultureller Einschreibung neue Aktualität: Wie sieht die Schnittstel …

Design for the Real World has been translated into over twenty languages since it first appeared in 1971; it has become the world’s most widely read book on design and is an essential text in many design and architectural schools. This edition offers a …

BAUHAUS MUSEUM DESSAU. Cahiers box: Shell. Ed. by Addenda Architects, Joachim Brohm & Valentina Seidel & Moritz Küng

Over 37 years, i-D has carved its position as the premier source for fashion inspiration, and in 2012, joined the VICE Media family to expand VICE’s reach into digital fashion content. i-D has come a long way since its beginnings as a hand-stapled maga …

Yohji Yamamoto photographed by Juergen Teller Very few designers can be talked about as revolutionaries who changed the course of contemporary fashion. Yohji Yamamoto is one. Fiercely independent, he still cherishes one thing above all else, fifty year …

Revue est un magazine français dédié à l’esthétique contemporaine. Inspiré par la littérature, tant pour la diversité de ses formes que pour ses références graphiques, Revue n’est pas contraint par l’actualité. Mode, art, musique, architecture, cinéma, …

For Document’s S/S 2019 edition, we scan the landscape, both past and present, to identify the power structures, technologies, and cultural forces that shape what we see and how we see it. In an age in which the internet can simultaneously give margina …

Almost 30 is a magazine about togetherness. An international collective of contributors, a mix of professional writers and artists but also people who’ve never been published before share their personal stories in essays, poems, photographs and illustr …

international photography magazine

Nicht Funktion und Gebrauch zeichnen das Bauhaus aus, sondern Symbolik. Ob Quadrat, Dreieck oder Kreis, ob Wagenfeld-Lampe, Schlemmer-Kopf oder weisse Kuben mit Flachdach: Das Bauhaus hat ikonische Bildzeichen und einen Stil kreiert, der weder funktion …

Vergleicht man die Jahre 1989 und 1990, zeigt sich, dass sie in der kollektiven Erinnerung höchst unterschiedlich präsent sind. Die Meisten können sich das Jahr ’89 rasch ins Gedächtnis rufen. Auch mit dem Abstand von knapp dreißig Jahren fällt es leic …

Im Internet stoßen wir tagtäglich auf neue Artefakte rund um das Bauhaus — zum 100-jährigen Jubiläum haben diese zahlenmäßig einen Höhepunkt erreicht. Surfing Bauhaus stellt sich der Informationsflut und nähert sich der Institution Bauhaus auf zeitgemä …

In seiner Autobiografie verwebt Nikolaus Kuhnert, Mitherausgeber der ARCH+, auf zugängliche Weise seine Lebensgeschichte mit der Architekturgeschichte. 1939 als Kind einer jüdischen Mutter in Nazi-Deutschland geboren, durchlebte er schon als Kind die E …

Weltweit gilt Wien als Hauptstadt des sozialen Wohnungsbaus. Die österreichische Metropole hat seit den 1920er Jahren abseits des „freien“ Marktes ein einzigartiges System des geförderten Wohnungsbaus etabliert, in dem heute mehr als 60 Prozent seiner …

For one year Thomas Demand photographed a flower every day and put the pictures online. Now the floral splendour appears as a book in printed form. The unusual artist’s book was developed in close collaboration with the renowned Dutch designer Irma Boo …

With its beginnings in 2009, Crack Magazine has, over a 10-year trajectory, photographed some of the most vital and groundbreaking voices in music. From SOPHIE to Arca, MF Doom to J Hus, and Slayer to M.I.A., the photography has evolved between each is …

(RE)PICTURE is an independent magazine with the intention of reproducing the visual imagination. Featuring images by a selection of guest artists, the magazine is designed without the use of words and packaged as printed matter. In contrast to the unpr …

Matter lies like the skin, it moves between genres. Hand Smoothed by Coin is a collection of works that combine and intertwine to form an accumulative portrait of objects moving between art and design. The book presents material extracted from three ev …

Between November 1989 and December 1990, photographer Manfred Paul, who lived near the Wall in East Berlin, travelled along the line of the old border with a plate camera and a Polaroid camera in order to photograph this stone-faced witness not only as …

For issue #7 of Hearts, we’re exploring the ideas and concepts around the role illusions play in our everyday life through social media, art, and fashion. Featuring exclusive stories with American photographer Merry Alpern that explores the subjects of …

»How one tilts the camera, holds it with both hands in front of the waist. How one looks through the viewfinder, gazes one-eyed into the world. How one hides it in stockings, behind the back, and how one lets it peep out from behind the corner of a bui …

HERO 22: LOST ROMANCE Lakeith Stanfield, star of breakout success Sorry to Bother You, award-winning series Atlanta and Get Out, is the talk of Hollywood. Special collector covers featuring an interview with Dior menswear designer Kim Jones, two covers …

Balkrishna V. Doshi (*1927, Pune) zählt zu den einflussreichsten Pionieren der modernen Architektur in Indien. Sein Lebenswerk wurde 2018 mit dem renommierten Pritzker-Preis geehrt. Doshi hat über 100 Projekte realisiert, darunter Verwaltungs- und Kult …

Was ist Erinnerung? Welche Bilder bleiben uns? Christoph Liepach mischt sein Gedächtnis neu. Vergangene Momente, aber auch Orte, können in Fotografien verewigt sein. Christoph Liepach (* 1990, Gera) nutzt diese, um für unsere Gegenwart neue Vergangenhe …

1952 wird Gera Bezirksstadt. Damit hält moderne Architektur Einzug in die Stadt. Die ostmodernen Bauten haben jedoch seit den 90er und 2000er Jahren ein Imageproblem und so verschwanden viele spannende Einzelbauten, städtebauliche Ensembles und Kunstwe …

The cult of self-care is ever growing. Forest bathing, spa days for one, alone time, days free from digital technology (which must be announced pre- and post- break on social media—where else?): the desire to take considered care of ourselves with help …

Das Böse – Thema dieser neuesten Ausgabe von TEXTE ZUR KUNST – wird oft einfach als das Gegenteil des “Guten” verstanden. Als Unmoral ist das Böse heute überall, und irgendwie auch nirgends anzutreffen. Es ist das “Andere” par excellence; etwas, das wi …

fragments of a street

The magazine Bauhaus No. 11 appears at the end of the major Bauhaus anniversary year. A review as preview. What was, what remains, and, most importantly, what is to come at the Bauhaus Dessau after “100 Years of Bauhaus”? The magazine looks back at an …