100 years of Bauhaus: How do we want to live?

Encompassing a variety of cultural activities, ‘Berlin Lab’ – a two-day festival – will be held at LOT 613 in the Downtown LA Arts District on October 4th and 5th. ‘Berlin Lab’ is an immersive experience that celebrates the lineage and synergy between the sister cities with a unique cross-metropolis exchange, five decades in the making.

Almost 100 years ago, BAUHAUS was founded in Germany as a new approach to design the way we live and to teach a new, interdisciplinary way of thinking. Architects, artists and designers such as Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Gunta Stölzl, Luzia and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy coined modernism worldwide. The German exile culture, in particular at the West coast had a great impact on the cultural life in the US.

At the Berlin Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, the world’s largest collection of historic original Bauhaus objects and documents, in view of the centennial in 2019 and the Bauhaus-Archiv’s 2021 reopening on a new scale, the Bauhaus Council Berlin e.V. has been initiated as an interdisciplinary discursive future platform in order to ask again the old Bauhaus question: "How do we want to live“?

Creative Talk / Panel Discussion with

Thomas Willemeit, Graft Architects Berlin/Beijing/LA; co-curator of the Architecture Biennial in Venice 2018

Van Bo Le Mentzel, architect and activist, curator of the interdisciplinary „Tiny Bauhaus Campus“, at Bauhaus Archiv Berlin

Theresia Enzensberger, blogger and author of Blaupause (blueprint), a „historic“ novel on a creative woman experiencing the Bauhaus world (Summer 2017, Hanser, Germany)

Moderator: Alexandra von Stosch, program director Bauhaus Council Berlin e. V. and Board Member of VATMH

Supported by Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e. V., Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and Berlin Partner.