In 2015, a group of international artists walked from Weimar via Dessau to Berlin, tracing the historic (and forced) movement of the Bauhaus. Their arrival marked the opening of the 2nd Herbstsalon at the Maxim Gorki Theater and the launch of Imaginary Bauhaus. Over the years, the project of imagining a Bauhaus of the future evolved across geographies and institutions. In 2025, we reunite at Gorki: What began as a collective experiment by students and teachers from the international Master’s programme Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is now growing into Imaginary Collective – a transnational network of artists, thinkers, and cultural workers. Its foundation aligns with the final Berliner Herbstsalon, marking not an end, but a beginning.
Kiosk For A Magic Future is a space for collective enchantment – an exhibition, meeting point, and open collage all at once. Inspired by the idea of the street kiosk, it offers not (only) magazines and beverages but artworks, exchange, and imagination – accessible, provisional, and deeply political.
The kiosk opens with a performative Reunion-Dinner – an edible and tangible manifesto shaped by one question: How can we move towards a common future? From there, it unfolds as a shifting site. Installations, performative lectures, film screenings, and micro-performances – such as coffee readings, karaoke, or stand-up comedy – invite the public to reflect with us.
