Last weekend, together with designers Katrin Greiling, Kerstin Bruchhäuser, Thomas Schnur and Tobias Groß, we took part in the opening of the exhibition ‘More than real’ by artist Jun Yang. The day was characterised by inspiring lectures, exciting tours of the Bauhaus and the Bauhaus Museum as well as an intensive exchange, which was enriched by Jun Yang’s lively discourse.

In his introductory lecture, Jun Yang explains: ‘Modern design classics, collector’s items, luxury goods and industrial mass taste – that’s the spectrum that interests me.’ Following in the footsteps of renowned designers in the vicinity of the World Heritage Site, Jun Yang arranges seating furniture from a wide variety of origins – leaving it up to the viewer to examine the details and form their own judgement. In this way, he puts the relevance of original and unique, series, copy and reproduction up for discussion.

In addition to the originals and faithfully reproduced objects, the licensed re-editions and very free interpretations, exciting creative developments such as the D4 with belts made of tapestry fabrics by Kerstin Bruchhäuser will be on display.

As part of the ‘more than real’ installation, our re-edition of the Gropius armchair in the director’s room of the Bauhaus Dessau meets its ancestor. Interior designer Katrin Greiling brought her lecture on approaching the original in the context of 1921 to a trenchant conclusion: »I didn’t want to touch Walter Gropius. I just wanted to add some Gunta Stölzl«.


Juliane Aleithe (Research assistant), Katrin Greiling, Thomas Schnur, Christian Drescher, Dr. Barbara Steiner (Director Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau), Jun Yang

As part of the art project, the café of the Bauhaus Museum was also furnished with red B40 chairs and foldable D4 armchairs by Marcel Breuer. Films at this location provide insights into the production process at Tecta and show how much the production has remained a manufactory operation to this day.