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Gropius House is one of the New Masters‘
Houses in Dessau. © Bauhaus Dessau Foundation / Photo:
Doreen Ritzau |
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the GfZK –
Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig are searching for artists
working collectively for the Bauhaus Residency 2021 Gropius
House || Fictional via a joint open call. They can live and work
for three months in the Masters’ House Muche/Schlemmer. Closing
date for applications is 30 October 2020.
Bauhaus
Residency 2021 – Gropius House || Fictional
The focus of the Bauhaus Residency is on the Masters’ Houses,
which are not just a reminder of the past but continue to serve
as a starting point for contemporary debates and positions. New
ideas, experiments and work developed during the residency are
all accessible to the public through presentations, studio
visits, discussions, concerts and more – even during their
initial development.
The programme is aimed at international artists whose work
relates to the historical disciplines represented at the Bauhaus
and the subsequent developments of these core disciplines –
among them painting, product design, textile design, music,
theatre, performance, architecture and photography.
Artworks and artistic processes create specific new ways of
seeing the world; in this sense, they are fictional. The meaning
of fiction is revealing in this regard: originally derived from
the Latin verb fingere, it means nothing other than to shape,
form, invent. Fiction thus does not entail first and foremost
the creation of a separate world, but can likewise denote
shaping the existing world, the real. Fiction is thus also a way
to gain distance, to interrogate realities, to see and recognize
them anew.
In their work, artists also explore how meaning and value are
constituted in a specific present. What is narrated for what
reason and in what way? And what differences, points of friction,
and overlays arise when fictions are dedicated to the same topic,
but realized by different artists with different means? With a
focus on this examination, Gropius House || Fictional presents
collective forms of artistic work in various disciplines.
Participation
requirements
The Open Call is aimed at artists working on their own or
collectively (up to a maximum of 5 people). Of particular
interest are works that engage and reflect on social contexts in
novel ways as well as other approaches to modernity. In the
spirit of the programme’s emphasis on the fictional (that is,
the shaped, formed and invented), the main focus will be on a
critical examination of the working process itself. Therefore,
we are looking for innovative ways of presenting the processes
of art making and development.
A connection to the 2021 theme of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation:
Infrastructure is desirable. Infrastructure is the underlying
prerequisite for much of modernity, especially in architecture
and city planning. The Masters’ Houses stand for such a model of
modern comfort, based on the outsourcing of resources and the
exploitation of nature. Today, after revealing the multifaceted
agencies of infrastructures in the last couple of decades and in
the face of climate change on a planetary scale, infrastructural
projects are radically questioned in their problematic alliance
with epistemologies of development and western universalism.
A p p l i c a t
i o n ( G e r m a n o r E n g l i s h )
> Curriculum vitae (of all members of the collective, if more
than 2 applicants)
> A portfolio (with examples representing each member’s work or
group work)
> A proposal of a concrete project that can be completed during
the residential period and which has a relation to Bauhaus (maximum
of two pages). Preferable is also a reference to the
foundation’s topic for 2021 “Infrastructure” and a concept for
how to include the production process in the presentation
> Preferred time of residency (15 April – 15 July or 1 September
– 31 November).
C l o s i n g d
a t e f o r a p p l i c a t i o n s
> 30 October 2020
> Email (pdf file, max. 5 MB) to opencall@bauhaus-dessau.de
J u r y
> Two collectives will be selected for the year 2021. This will
be announced on our Website in December 2020.
> The jury consists of:
Prof Dr Regina Bittner, director a. i., Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation
Franciska Zólyom, director and curator, GfZK Leipzig
Marion von Osten, artist and curator
Susanne Weiß, curator
Dr Florian Strob, research associate and curator, Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation
T h e f o u n d
a t i o n ’ s p e r f o r m a n c e s
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation will provide the selected artists with
the following for three months:
> Living and work space in the Muche / Schlemmer House
> An expense allowance for three months of 4,800 euros in total
> Opportunities for giving presentations and performances and
engaging in discussions during their stay
> Support in their research work, in organising events along
with technical assistance and public relations activities
> Public presentations of their work in the Gropius House for a
period of up to 6 months
A r t i s t s ‘
o b l i g a t i o n s
> Medical and indemnity insurance
> Visa
> Living expenses, provisions
With the assistance of Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, the artists
are free to apply for additional external funding for their stay.
A r t i s t s –
i n – R e s i d e n c e t i m e p e r i o d
In consultation with the foundation, the three-monthly
residencies will take place between 14 April and15 July or 1
September and 31 November. You are expected to be present in
Dessau.
C o n t a c t
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Bauhaus Residency
Gropiusallee 38
06846 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
opencall@bauhaus-dessau.de
Life and Work in
the Masters’ Houses
In the 1920s the ensemble of Masters’ Houses in Dessau came to
embody the quintessential artist colony of the 20th century.
Here artists like Walter Gropius, Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Muche,
László Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul
Klee lived side by side with their families. They were joined by
friends and guests; soon artist collectives, couples and
friendships formed.
For the first time in 90 years, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
has, since February 2016, opened the Muche / Schlemmer duplex to
international artists as a living and working space. The Bauhaus
Residency seeks to advance contemporary research and engagement
with the legacy of the Bauhaus, revive the Masters’ Houses and,
in this context, promote artworks of international significance.
Release:
Bauhaus Dessau