Paper and Press: Three Centuries of Dutch Type
Punches, matrices and proofs from Enschedé, laid out beside the machines that cut them.
Blue Hour: Cyanotypes from the Raval
Forty prints made with river water and morning sun, hung in a former dye works on Carrer de Joaquín Costa.
Form Follows Feeling: A Bauhaus Retrospective
One hundred objects that taught the century how to sit, read and pour. Curated with the Dessau archive.
Spiegelgasse Salon: Four Evenings of New Music
Four evenings in a first-floor room that seats sixty, with the composer in the third row each time.
Chromatic Studies: Albers to Now
Homage to the square, continued. Colour interaction from 1950 to the present in twelve rooms.
Refshaleøen Winter Market
Forty stalls in an unheated shipyard hall, open four hours a day for three weekends.
Nocturnes at the Glass Pavilion
Chopin and Glass after dark, performed for ninety listeners under a single suspended light.
Minimal Notes: Piano Series
Twelve pianists, one Steinway, no programme notes. Sunday mornings at Studio Nord.
Squero Nights: The Boatyards Stay Open
Five working gondola yards open after hours, with the hulls up on the slip and the tools still out.
Sablon Antiques Night
Ninety dealers keep their doors open until one in the morning, and the square eats outside.
Werkstatt Week: The Workshops Reopened
Seven days in which the Dessau workshops are run as workshops again, with people at the benches.
Weissensee Design Days
Four days of open studios, object auctions and long tables on the lake, the city’s quietest festival.
Höhenstraße Trail Run
Twenty-two kilometres above the city, a thousand metres of climb, and a brass band at the top.