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Exhibition »bauhaus.film.expanded«

Kurt Schwerdtfeger, »Reflective Colour Light Plays«,1922/1967
Courtesy Paula Schwerdtfeger

The exhibition bauhaus.film.expanded takes up the idea of a Totaltheater – total theater – using large format projections, it creates the spatial effect of extended forms of films practiced at the Bauhaus. A tribute to the Bauhaus world of moving images!

Bauhaus director Walter Gropius designed this total theater in 1926/1927 for Erwin Piscator, which by using multiple film projectors also sought to “set the space under film.” The exhibition, curated by Markus Heltschl, Thomas Tode, and Peter Weibel, focuses on this visionary idea of immersion using simultaneous large scale projections of sixty films. Because the films are of different lengths new connections between them arise continually. New research has shown that 28 Bauhaus authors were engaged in work on films or light projections, including Ellen Auerbach, Ella Bergmann-Michel, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, and Kurt Schwerdtfeger.

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  • Photo of a projection screen with a ballet video in black and white - an impression of the exhibition »bauhaus.film.expanded« at the ZKM Karlsruhe.
    Exhibition view »bauhaus.film.expanded« at ZKM Karlsruhe
    © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Felix Grünschloß
  • A dark screen with a white text.
    Exhibition view »bauhaus.film.expanded« at ZKM Karlsruhe
    © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Felix Grünschloß
  • Photo of people in front of a projection screen with an abstract video in black and white - an impression of the exhibition »bauhaus.film.expanded« at the ZKM Karlsruhe.
    Exhibition view »bauhaus.film.expanded« at ZKM Karlsruhe
    © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Felix Grünschloß
  • The photo shows the exhibition room with a large projection of a black and white film.
    Impressions of »bauhaus.film.expanded«
    © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: Felix Grünschloß
  • Black and white graphics with the lettering »Moholy-Nagy« on a white ball.
    Exhibition view »bauhaus.film.expanded« at ZKM Karlsruhe
    © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Felix Grünschloß
  • black and white architectural photography with the lettering »How do we live healthy and economically?«
    Richard Paulick, »How do we live healthy and economically?«, 1926–28
    © Richard Paulick
  • Still from the black and white film "Alter Hafen in Marseille" by Moholy-Nagy from the 1930s.
    László Moholy-Nagy, »Old Habour in Marseille – Marseille Vieux Port«, 1929/1932
    Courtesy Hattula Moholy-Nagy
  • Kurt Schwerdtfeger, »Reflective Colour Light Plays«,1922/1967
    Kurt Schwerdtfeger, »Reflective Colour Light Plays«,1922/1967
    Courtesy Paula Schwerdtfeger
  • Kurt Schwerdtfeger, »Reflective Colour Light Plays«,1922/1967
    Kurt Schwerdtfeger, »Reflective Colour Light Plays«,1922/1967
    Courtesy Paula Schwerdtfeger
  • Heinrich Brocksieper, »Duck«, 1927–1930
    Heinrich Brocksieper, »Duck«, 1927–1930
    Courtesy Utz Brocksieper
  • Heinrich Brocksieper, Film crank, 1927–1930
    Heinrich Brocksieper, »Film crank«, 1927–1930
    Courtesy Utz Brocksieper
  • Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (l. at the piano), Theo Bogler (m.), Marli Heiman (r.) at the apparatus, at the performance of Kreuzspiel, c. 1924.
    Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Theo Bogler, Marli Heiman, »Kreuzspiel«, 1924
    © Kaj Delugan

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