bauhaus imaginista exhibition at SALT Beyoğlu

One hundred years after its foundation, bauhaus imaginista, a major international project that marks the centenary of the Bauhaus by focusing on its global reception, offers a new interpretation of the Bauhaus as a globally connected institution and as a proposition of modernity, of the kind that drew its impulse from encounters and exchanges with various cultures.

Consisting of an exhibition in four chapters along with a series of publications, panel discussions and symposiums, bauhaus imaginista is represented by the chapter "Moving Away" at SALT Beyoğlu in Istanbul. "Moving Away," which details the diverse approaches to Bauhaus in separate sociopolitical contexts, is accompanied by the "Collected Research" on the project's international explorations and the "Pedagogical Adaptations in Turkey," an archival display and a workshop program by SALT for further introduction of local cases to this final edition.

The Bauhaus was founded in Weimar in 1919 after the end of the First World War as a school for a new kind of design. By transforming education and combining art, handicraft, design and architecture, the founders thought existing social conditions could also be reformed.

The new creative practices, ways of working and ways of living developed at the Bauhaus were all aimed at liberating people from Germany's nationalistic and authoritarian past.

The Bauhaus was a cosmopolitan project from its inception, forging connections across the globe. The school's pedagogy and practice were international and heterogeneous, and at different times adopted principles from the movements Arts and Crafts and Neues Bauen (New Building) in addition to socialism, communism, spiritualism, and Soviet Constructivism.

In 1933, the school was closed by...