Barbara Brukalska and Helena Syrkus: Polish women architects and the networks of the avant-garde
The event will discuss the contributions of modernist women architects, focusing on their role within avant-garde architectural networks. Drawing mainly on examples from Eastern Europe and the Bauhaus, the panel will reflect on the complex relationships between society, gender and space from a female-centred perspective.
The discussion is an open event as part of the Exercising Modernity Academy 2024.
Aleksandra Kędziorek is an art historian, curator and editor based in Warsaw. She works at the intersection of architecture, design and visual arts, and uses her skills in historical research to curate projects that bring inspiration from the past into contemporary debates. Interested in environmental issues, she has recently researched the seasonal use of textiles in domestic interiors before the advent of electricity (“The Clothed Home,” a traveling exhibition first presented at the London Design Biennale, with Centrala and Alicja Bielawska, 2021–23) and the historical use of aquatic plants in modernist architecture (“Nenúfars blancs,” an art intervention by Centrala at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, 2022–23). Her longest project at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw focused on the work of architects Oskar and Zofia Hansen and—in addition to a traveling exhibition, academic and public programs, and a series of publications—included the care of the Hansen summer house in Szumin (2013–17). She works both in art institutions and independently, and in her curatorial work seeks to confront historically dense and thought-provoking contexts.
Regina Bittner (PhD) studied cultural theory and art history at Leipzig University and received her doctorate from the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt Universität Berlin. As head of the Academy of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation she curates and teaches the postgraduate and crossdisziplinary programmes on transcultural modernism in design and architecture research. Her most recent curatorial project include Versuchsstätte Bauhaus. The collection, the permanent exhibition in the Bauhaus Museum Dessau opened in 2019. Her research interests combine cultural anthropological approaches in architecture and design studies with questions of decolonisation, critical heritage and its mediation in teaching and curatorial practice. Since 2019, she has been an honorary professor at the Institute for European Art History and Archaeologies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
Anke Blümm (PhD) is Curator and Research Associate at the Bauhaus Museum, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Germany. She studied church music, German literature, and art history in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 2013, she published her first book, “Degenerate Architecture?” Debates on New Building in Germany, 1933–1945 (text in German). From 2013 to 2016 she was a research fellow at Cottbus University, Germany, on the project “Networks in Motion: Bauhaus Members and their Ties in the 1930s–1940s” (https://bauhaus.community). As a research associate at the Bauhaus-Museum she developed several Bauhaus exhibitions, including the recent show on “Bauhaus and National Socialism”. She has extensively published on modern architecture and design, network research, and the Bauhaus.
18.09.2024, 18:30 | Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin | Registration: https://forms.gle/gxgatrYZPJS4qA2M7
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