events
Visit entertaining events and interesting exhibitions at Haus Schulenburg in Gera. The unique ambience will inspire you.
Current exhibition
from Saturday, 01.02.2025
Exhibition “Getanzter Raum: zwei- und dreidimensionale Objekte” by Jean Kirsten, Dresden
More than 110 years ago, the architect and designer Henry van den Velde renewed the applied arts and the dancer and choreographer Rudolf von Laban the performing arts through their own actions, but also through their teaching. It is not entirely clear whether van de Velde and von Laban met in person, for example at the founding of the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907 or at the artists’ colony on Monte Veritá near Ascona/Switzerland. There was at least indirect contact via the sculptor and Art Nouveau artist Herman Obrist. In any case, there are analogies between their intellectual and artistic attitudes.
Rudolf von Laban schuf mit seinen grundlegenden Untersuchungen zur menschlichen Bewegung das Fundament für die Entwicklung des modernen Tanzes. Er schuf u. a. die Raum-Harmonielehre und die Labannotation, eine Tanzschrift. Beide benutzen die „platonischen Körper“ in Bezug zum menschlichen Körper. Zu den vielen berühmten Schülern von Laban zählen Mary Wigman, Sophie Taeuber-Arp und Kurt Jooss.
Since 2009, Dresden artist Jean Kirsten has been working with Rudolf Laban’s theory of spatial harmony and kinetography. His aim is to design spaces in the sense of an installation with his own two- or three-dimensional objects. In doing so, each sculptural object claims its own independence within a staging. The empty space that arises between the objects and is thus defined by them is also important to him.
“World cultural heritage manual glass production, Art Nouveau and Art Deco glass from private collections”
February 01, 2025 until December 20, 2025
Following its great success in 2024, the Henry van de Velde Museum is once again showing elaborately designed coloured glass from Art Nouveau (Art Nouveau 1890 – 1920) to Art Deco (1920 – approx. 1940). Pieces that are otherwise on display in the Grassi Museum Leipzig, the Bröhan Museum and Köpenicker Schloss Berlin, the Glas Museum Weißwasser or the Driehaus Museum Chicago. The glassware comes from large private collections.
Traditional glass production is part of the cultural heritage of mankind
The occasion for this remarkable exhibition is the inclusion of traditional manual glass production in Finland, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany on the UNESCO World Heritage List on December 6, 2023. The Lamberts glassworks in Waldsassen is one of the initiators of this recognition; Lamberts is one of only two companies in the world that still produce mouth-blown flat glass. This glass adorns the illuminated clock faces of Big Ben in London, the glass art of the Rockefeller Center in New York, the windows of the Frauenkirche in Dresden and the opalescent skylight of the Schulenburg House in Gera.