100 Years of Bauhaus One Million

Now living in Berlin, artist Uli Aigner produces wonderfully shaped and functional white receptacles, elegant and robust, art objects for daily use, to eat and drink out of. It is her life project and will go well beyond it, as she plans to complete one million of them during her lifetime. She consequently marks out a trail through the world with every form of passing on, gifting and sending the objects – every receptacle is registered, photographed and recorded on a world map. Via the artist this then produces a traceable network of people who owned, own and will own the art objects; the story of a constantly growing participation simultaneously becomes part of her social artwork. She sees her life plan as "total artwork", in which production, private life and the world form one entity.

For "100 years bauhaus. The opening festival" she presents a new world collection, with which she reacts to Bauhaus forms. The 206 receptacles, one for each country in the world, will be exhibited from 23 January 2019, and during the opening the artist will "feed" guests from these countries invited to the vernissage. On this evening, the shared meal out of 206 receptacles becomes the performance.

A production of "100 years bauhaus. The opening festival".

Concept: Uli Aigner
Documentation: Michal Kosakowski
Music: KP Werani

The Bauhaus opening festival invites 206 people from all countries of the world who live in Berlin and surroundings and fancy taking part in a performative evening meal to Aigner's opening on 23 Jan at 8 pm in the Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10. All participants will receive the pottery, a unique piece inspired by Bauhaus shapes, as a gift after the meal.

Please register via email (onemillion@bauhaus100.de) mentioning your name as well as your country of origin.
Participants will be chosen in chronological order.