Melbourne Launch next week 25 July, details below.
The anthology Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond, soon to be launched in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane alongside a series of talks and exhibitions, is a major contribution to the centenary of the Bauhaus in 2019. The book, exhibitions and accompanying public events are the culmination of a three-year research project that brought together the region’s leading experts in modern art, design and architecture and has uncovered untold stories of how European modernism’s revolutionary ideas on art, design and architecture came to Australia and New Zealand. Bauhaus Diaspora starts with the Australian reception of the Bauhaus as ‘a spirit that is strange, distorted, and stern’ before tracing key international figures of art, architecture and design as they arrive into the internment camps and end up influencing top institutions. The artists featured led the interrupted lives of refugees and migrants who fled the Second World War, continued to teach art in difficult conditions, and changed Australian and New Zealand cultures forever.
The Editors
Philip Goad is Chair of Architecture, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and co-director of the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne.
Ann Stephen is an art historian and Senior Curator of the University Art Gallery and Art Collection at the University of Sydney.
Andrew McNamara teaches art history at the Queensland University of Technology.
Harriet Edquist is Professor of Architectural History and Director of RMIT Design Archives at RMIT University.
Isabel Wünsche is Professor of Art and Art History at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany.
Events
The Power Institute is hosting internationally renowned Bauhaus expert Éva Forgács, who will be giving talks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
Éva Forgács is an internationally renowned expert in movements of 20th century art, examining their different trends as they migrated across countries. She has long specialised in the Bauhaus, writing the definitive title The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics in 1993 (since translated, reprinted and updated) and can speak with authority on the impact of Central European avant-gardes globally and how these will be celebrated everywhere from Europe and the United States to Asia in this anniversary year. She teaches at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena/California. She was professor of Art History at the László Moholy-Nagy University in her native Budapest, until 1994. Her books include: The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics (1991, 1995); the co-edited Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes (2002); and Hungarian Art.
Melbourne Events
Opening of Bauhaus Now! and Book Launch at Buxton Contemporary
Date: 25 July 2019, 6–8pm
Venue: Buxton Contemporary, Cnr Southbank Boulevard & Dodds St, Southbank, VIC
Register: Buxton-contemporary@unimelb.edu.au
Sydney Event
Roundtable Event at UTS: Why study modernism and the Bauhaus today?
Date: 30 July 2019, 11:00am–12:15pm: Panel 1
12:15pm: Lunch (provided)
1:15pm–2:30pm: Panel 2
2:30pm–3:30pm: Drinks to celebrate Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond
Venue: Room 06.06.38, Johnson Building, 702 Harris St, University of Technology Sydney
Register: www.eventbrite.com.au
Brisbane Events
Keynote Lecture/Book Launch and a Roundtable at the Museum of Brisbane
Date: Keynote Lecture and Launch 1 August, 6–7:30pm; Roundtable Discussion 3 August, 1–3pm
Venue: Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Hall, 64 Adelaide St, Brisbane City, QLD
Register for the Lecture and for the Roundtable
Upcoming Bauhaus Now Exhibitions
Three exhibitions will be taking place between 2019 and 2021:
Bauhaus Now! Buxton Contemporary
26 July – 20 October 2019
Curated by Ann Stephen
In the year of its centenary the Bauhaus returns to haunt our museums. How do contemporary artists re-imagine a relationship to this legendary school? Are they scavengers raiding the ruins of modernism, appropriators of ‘good design’ kitsch or acolytes of an unholy sect? Bauhaus Now! explores its legacy in Australia—both for contemporary artists and for art education—highlighting its visionary, collectivist ideals and its radical practices.
Bauhaus Now, Museum of Brisbane
9 May – 25 October 2020
Curated by Ann Stephen and Andrew McNamara
Museum of Brisbane will present Bauhaus Now from 9 May – 25 October 2020. Curated by Dr Ann Stephen and Professor Andrew McNamara, this exhibition will focus on the legacy of three former Bauhäusler who came to Australia: Gertrude Herzger-Seligmann, Georg Teltscher and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack. There will also be a strong local components, such as architectural section highlighting architect Harry Seidler and his major projects in Brisbane developed by Professor Philip Goad and McNamara as well as another section focusing on the Viennese exiles, Karl and Gertrude Langer, who arrived in Brisbane at the beginning of the Second World War.
Bauhaus Now! Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
Dates TBC, 2021
Senior Curator Ann Stephen oversees the third iteration of this project in exhibition form, which will take place at the forthcoming Museum.
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