
Gropius House || Fictional
Alexis Lowry, Hannes Bajohr and Rita Evans
Where?
Dessau-Roßlau, Meisterhäuser (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau)
When?
30.09.2021 - 26.06.2022
What?
Exhibition
Residents Alexis Lowry, Hannes Bajohr and Rita Evans have been working intensively on the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Masters' Houses during their stay in Dessau in recent weeks and months.
For the annual theme “Infrastructure”, curator Alexis Lowry chose modular, sculptural and industrially manufactured objects by artist Charlotte Posenenske as the focus of her work, which defy the notion of domination in favour of the participatory.
The writer, philosopher and literary scholar Hannes Bajohr drew on archival texts to approach the invisible infrastructure of the Masters’ Houses. He selected passages from administrative documents and correspondence between tenants and the magistrate, arranged them and placed them in the places to which they refer.
Artist Rita Evans has been working at Haus Muche since September, experimenting with materials and forms and exploring what sound they produce when played and moved by a group or audience from the public. She will be in contact with the people of Dessau to discover new ways of playing with her sculptures.
Works of art and artistic working processes create specific new approaches to the world and in this sense are fictional: the term is derived from the Latin verb “fingere” and means nothing other than “to shape, form, imagine”. Fiction therefore does not primarily entail the creation of a world of one’s own, but can just as well mean the shaping of the existing world, the real. Fiction is thus also a way to gain distance, to question realities, to see them anew.
In their work, artists also explore how meaning and value are constituted in a specific present. What is told, why and how? And what differences, points of friction and overlaps arise when fictions are dedicated to the same theme but realised by different artists with different means?
Target
All
Address
Meisterhäuser (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau)Ebertallee 59–71
06846 Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
Opening hours
open daily 10 am to 5 pm Please inform yourself about the applicable access and hygiene regulations on site.
Directions by local public transport
Nächstgelegener Bahnhof der Deutschen Bahn: Hauptbahnhof Dessau; nächstgelegene Haltestelle ÖPNV (Bus, Straßenbahn o.ä.): Gropiusallee