Where to celebrate the centenary of Bauhaus in 2019

In 2019, lovers of design and architecture can celebrate the centenary of the founding of Bauhaus – the German school that sparked modernist movements and has had a lasting influence around the world.

While the Bauhaus School in Germany was only active for 14 years, its emphasis on functional design and modern architecture sparked innovative works in architecture, design, dance, theatre and more. With three campuses in Germany, the school was founded in Weimar in 1919, developed further in Dessau, but was quashed by the Nazis in Berlin in 1933.

Now, the 2019 centenary is one of the reasons that Germany made it to second place on Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel list of top countries. Bauhaus 100 is a year-long celebration that will feature events in Germany and in countries like Brazil, Russia, Japan, the US and more. According to the organisers: “the de-centralised centenary celebrations will provide numerous opportunities to travel and explore Germany – and to track Bauhaus and the roots of the Modernist movement at a variety of known and lesser-known places”.

Travellers in Germany can head to the Opening Festival at Berlin’s Akademie der Künste (Arts Academy) from 16 to 24 January, 2019. The event will track the works, theories and experiments from leading Bauhaus artists. It will look at the link between historical and contemporary artists’ practices and feature concerts, plays, dance, film, lectures, radio programmes and workshops.

If you are travelling around Germany next year, you can take the Grand Tour of Modernism, where travellers can explore the roots of Bauhaus whether travelling by train, car or bike, through Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart or Bernau and more. This Germany-wide project brings together maps, a website and more to help travellers take a tour of the country, visiting individual buildings and residential estates, icons and disputed projects and more. Find out more about the variety of events being held around the world here.

There are also three new museums being built in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin to help create more space to present collections of Bauhaus work. A new building for the Bauhaus Museum Weimar will be complete and inaugurated on 6 April, the new Bauhaus Museum Sessay will be inaugurated on 8 September, and a new Bauhaus museum building is also being built in Berlin and in 2022 it will be turned over to the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung. Find out more about the centenary here.

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