In spite of being active for only 14 years, the Bauhaus school set the course of history by becoming one of the foundations of architecture and design. The celebrations of the first 100 years of this school will begin on January 16th, 2019.
The Bauhaus Foundation celebrates its centenary through a commemorative year, where festivals and exhibitions will honor the movement. For the first edition, Bettina Wayner-Bergelt, artistic director, has invited artists from all over the world to Berlin, in order to relive the Bauhaus style in the ways of Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and many others. The main topic will revolve around art, light, technology, sound, color, movement, and the relationship between man and machine.
The opening event will be inspired by the Bauhaus week held in 1923. Its purpose revolves around learning, experimentation, research, and teaching; reason why it will offer concerts, installations, puppet shows, and theatrical plays, dance, cinema, workshops, reading sessions, games, and parties, so enthusiasts and newcomers can rediscover the testimonies of this current.
The program boasts a great number of events and each one of them will dazzle the audience through innovation, taking an essential place in technology. The virtual reality installation Das Totale Tanz Theater, is a collaboration between Interactive Media Foundation, choreographer Richard Siegal, and Artificial Rome (digital design and visual communication studio), the installation explores the relationship between man and machine in the form of dance, allowing attendees to enter this world.