Experience Bauhaus in a new way: Exhibition in Potsdam invites you to creative discovery!

Experience Bauhaus in a new way: Exhibition in Potsdam invites you to creative discovery!

The Bauhaus movement, which ran from 1919 to 1933, left a lasting influence on art, design and architecture. It was founded by Walter Gropius and sought to eliminate the boundaries between art, craft and industry. The central question of the movement was: “How do we want to live in the future?” This question remains relevant in today's society and is taken up in the exhibition "UNBOXING BAUHAUS".

This exhibition is presented at the KunstHaus Potsdam and shows works that were created in an interdisciplinary context at the Bauhaus University Weimar. The preliminary presentation has already taken place, while the second part of the exhibition will take place live on site from August 5th to 15th, 2025. Visitors are invited to follow the creative process of the new works being developed by artists in Potsdam. The concept aims to critically examine current social, design and artistic narratives and to question how the ideas of the Bauhaus are interpreted today.

The visual concept and the invitation to participate

The visual appearance of the exhibition was designed by a three-person team from Visual Communications. This uses the motif of the moving box and exaggerates it to the point of absurdity in order to address the transformation of space and design. The project invites Potsdam residents and other visitors to take part in the vernissage, the residency and the final exhibition block. The aim is to address the significance of the Bauhaus and its influence on today's art.

Bauhaus art is characterized by its characteristics such as functionality and geometric abstraction. These aspects are reflected through the use of simple geometric shapes in complex compositions and underline the interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, designers and craftsmen. Personalities such as Wassily Kandinsky, who is known for his individual color and form language, as well as Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer, who portrayed complexity in simplicity, were particularly influential.

Bauhaus and the art market

Bauhaus works of art are timeless classics that have both aesthetic and material value. Record prices prove this impressively: Kandinsky's “Study for Improvisation 8” was auctioned in 2013 for around 23 million US dollars, while a tubular steel club chair by Marcel Breuer changed hands for 3.5 million US dollars in 2009. The high popularity of Bauhaus objects has led to platforms such as arttrade.io offering opportunities to invest in Bauhaus artworks, including tokenization to facilitate the acquisition of shares in these masterpieces.

The Bauhaus idea that art and craft go hand in hand is still relevant today and continues to influence artistic practices worldwide. The “UNBOXING BAUHAUS” exhibition is a further step in demonstrating these historical and contemporary connections and celebrating the ongoing importance of this outstanding movement.

The artistic explorations carried out as part of this exhibition not only offer insights into current issues, but also into the dead ideas of the Bauhaus, which still appear fresh and stimulating. Visitors are invited to take part in this exploratory journey and to engage in the discourse about art and society.

For more information on the characteristics of Bauhaus art and its influence on today's art market, you can read the articles on arttrade.io and artvise.me read up.

In summary, the “UNBOXING BAUHAUS” exhibition provides an important forum for contemporary discussions about the legacy of one of the most influential schools of modern art, while at the same time opening up new perspectives on the social function of art and design.