Gintersdorfer / Klassen

This new work by Gintersdorfer/Klaßen concerns the interplay of opposites: the politically motivated design principles of the left-leaning (Communist) Bauhaus under Hannes Meyer and those of the apolitical form specialist and Meyer antagonist Josef Albers. A further focus are the extended trips taken by Bauhaus members to Mexico starting in the late 1930s. Gintersdorfer/Klaßen have recreated the pavilion that Hannes Meyer designed in the 1930s in Mexican exile with his wife, Lena Mayer-Bergner, and will be installing it on the Kampnagel piazza as a temporary institute representing political and formalist positions – a space for performance, discourse, display, material dance, visual communication, furniture design, cuisine and festivity.