Cover “International Competition for Kharkiv Mass Musical Theater from 1930” © Scan: Staastsarchiv Hamburg, 1930


NEB-Festival 2024 – Satellite Event in Berlin @ BHROX bauhaus reuse

ETOM NEB Lab Feature 01: Activating Trans-European Modernism

DOCOMOMO Journal Release and Vernissage Modernism in Ukraine Exhibition Chapter #6

Monday 15.04.2024
14:30
– Welcoming
15:00 – DOCOMOMO Journal Release DJ70: Presentation and workshop-talk «From Constructivism to Modernism in Kharkiv»
Feature-talk «ETOM NEB Lab – Activating Trans-European Modernism»
Keynote Lecture
18:00 – Vernissage «Modernism in Ukraine – International Competition for Kharkiv Mass Musical Theater from 1930»

The first event in line with the new ETOM NEB Lab features a Satellite Event in Berlin for the NEB-Festival 2024.

The feature presents three public events: Workshop-Talks, the DOCOMOMO Journal Release Special Issue «From Constructivism to Modernism in Kharkiv» and the Vernissage for the sixth chapter of the exhibition series «Modernism in Ukraine» examining «The International Competition for Kharkiv Mass Musical Theater with 4000 seats from 1930».

The programme will be held as a hybrid event, so guests will also have the opportunity to take part in the event via ZOOM:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81483963539?pwd=dWuXJvix1knFQYGlLqRL9c7f6rLjrA.1
(Meeting ID: 814 8396 3539 / Passcode: 241515)

The Satellite Event takes place in cooperation of the ETOM NEB Lab coordinating partners – including BHROX bauhaus reuse / zukunftsgeraeusche, The Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center (KEK), ICOMOS international, National Gallery Prague (NGP), Slovak Design Center (SDC),  Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) and Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE)– as official Lab-project of the «New European Bauhaus» and the «ETOM – European Triennial of Modernism» movement.

The event will be hosted at the BHROX bauhaus reuse on Berlin city west central square Ernst-Reuter-Platz, located in the middle of the large round-about. The BHROX is a public transdisciplinary center and urban lab – which serves as the physical hub for the ETOM NEB Lab.
The event will be held on-site as well as online (hybrid) for all ETOM and Lab partners, and participants abroad.

DOCOMOMO Journal Release and Vernissage Modernism in Ukraine Exhibition Chapter #6 © Photos: zukunftsgeraeusche, 2024

The event is being organised with the kind support of the Berlin Chamber of Architects.

The ETOM NEB Lab’s first feature will include as well a network summit for the cross-sectoral range of involved NEB and beyond NEB partners, which are incorporating cultural institutions, NGOs and GOs and as well will introduce the interdisciplinary advisory board.

Cover “From Constructivism to Modernism in Kharkiv – Journal Nr. 70 © Grafik: docomomo international, 2024

The event and chapter #6 of the exhibition series «Modernism in Ukraine» will be again presented together with DOCOMOMO international, ICOMOS and ETOM in the collaboration «Triangle for Modernism» for developing a dissemination platform between the major networks.
The exhibition is authored by Svitlana Smolenska, professor at Kherson State Agrarian and Economic University and associate researcher at Technical University of Berlin and OWL University of Applied Sciences as a fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation, and curated by Robert K. Huber (BHROX / zkg) and Ben Buschfeld (buschfeld.com).

As first feature of the ETOM NEB Lab and continuing on the topic of «Modernism in Ukraine» the event is a further contribution and best practice example to unlock knowledge and raise public awareness as well as to foster transnational exchange about the development of Modernism in Central Europe, addressing current planetary  challenges.

The exhibition runs from 15 April to 12 May 2024 and is open every Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 20:00.

Link to the program