CAFx at CPH:DOX: Archiving Legacy -Bauhaus Forever
How do we tell today’s stories through the icons of the past? At Designmuseum Denmark, we will screen Bauhaus Forever and host the conversation Archiving Legacy exploring the curatorial choices and responsibilities that come with presenting living cultural heritage through archives, movements, and historical figures.
Designmuseum Denmark and CAFx invites you to a conversation exploring how curatorial strategies, exhibition design, and archival materials can create stories that speak to the present while maintaining a connection to the past. Archives are never neutral. They select, stage, and activate history. But how can iconic movements and historical figures be made present in a contemporary context that asks new questions about legacy, relevance,
and representation? How does one balance documentation and interpretation, authority and
openness?
The conversation follows the screening of Bauhaus Forever.
This conversation will be in Danish
The ticket grants access to the entire museum (closes at
18:00) Doors open at 12:30.
About Bauhaus Forever
The main character in Nico Weber’s cinematic essay is not a person, but a site. The combined Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin houses the world’s largest collection of materials on Bauhaus and is currently undergoing renovation, while a new extension is taking shape. The fact that the place is currently both an archive and a construction site is entirely in keeping with the original spirit. Here we meet the people who today manage Gropius’ legacy. And like the archivists and architects of the place, Weber does not compromise on integrity. Around the site, the rest of Berlin is also undergoing rapid change.
