Simon Starling, Burn Time, 2000
Artist: Simon Starling (born 1967 in Epsom, England; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark). Materials: Hen house, brick stove, eggs, egg cookers, cooking pot, saw, tarpaulin; dimensions variable. Description: Wilhelm Wagenfeld created his classic egg coddler design while working at the Bauhaus. Seeing this design became the the starting point for Starling to rebuild a […]
Iza Genzken, “Fuck the Bauhaus” series, 1999-2000
Artist: Iza Genzekn (born 1948 in Bad Oldesloe, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Description: A series of six assemblages built with plywood, all on pedestals. “Laura Hoptman… interprets this composition, which Genzken called ‘Fuck the Bauhaus,’ as a critique of modernist hubris—a Teutonic ideal of control, order, and rationality that collapsed under Hitler […]
Sam Durant, Chair #1 – #6, 1995
Artist: Sam Durant (born 1961 in Seattle, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles, USA). Materials: C-print; each print 41 x 51 cm. Description: “The artist posed classic mid-century modern chairs in compromising positions. Documented with their feet in the air in such a way that any appraisal of their best features, [such […]
Tobias Rehberger, Untitled “Chairs” Series, 1994
Artist: Tobias Rehberger (born 1966 in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany; lives and works in Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany) Documentation: Above: Untitled (Breuer), Untitled (Aalto), Untitled (Judd), Untitled (Rietveld), and Untitled (Breuer), all 1994. Description: “German artist Tobias Rehberger spent two weeks in Yaoundé, Cameroon, at the invitation of the Goethe Institut. He took with him perspective drawings of […]
Günther Förg, Bauhaus Stairs, 1993
Artist: Günther Förg (born 1952 in Füssen, Germany; died 2013 in Freiburg, Germany). Description: Photograph of the Bauhaus Dessau staircase. “Förg addressed the Bauhaus Dessau building in a manner that subverts the grandeur of the architectural project, offering a series of fragmentary images of a singularly monolithic structure.” —Zachary Baker, “Günther Förg,” Tate, last modified December […]
Candida Höfer, Bauhaus, Dessau, 1995
Artist: Candida Höfer (born 1944 in Eberswalde, Germany; lives and works in Cologne, Germany). Materials: C-print; 38.2 x 38.3 cm. Description: Color photograph of the interior of the Bauhaus in Dessau. Typical of Höfer’s work in that it shows an interior space, rather than the exterior totality. “Time appears frozen. The cracks in the floor contrast curiously […]
Langlands & Bell, The Bauhaus, 1995
Artist: Langlands & Bell [Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell] (duo formed 1977 in London, England; work in London). Materials: Silkscreen ink on poster paper, plywood, softwood, steel, paint; 420 x 610 x 35 cm overall. Description: Commissioned as part of The Green Room, a multi-part public art project that took place in Bath as part […]
Julião Sarmento, “Bauhaus” Series, 1995
Artist: Julião Sarmento (born 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal, 1948; lives and works in Estoril, Portugal). Materials: Mixed media and graphite on canvas. Documentation: Top: Eppoi sono superstizioso (Dessau, 1926). Bottom: Tender after the Goods Engine (Dessau, 1926). Description: A series of drawings depicting Bauhaus architecture on blue backgrounds. “Against a blue background, a collection of work produced […]
