27 Aug– 12 Sep
Festival
Kunstfest Weimar
27 August – 12 September 2027
Late August into early September
Central Germany's largest festival of contemporary arts, closing the city's summer at the turn from August into September.
FestivalEvery year
NEW bauhaus
Two September days for people rethinking how we build and live together — congress, fair and meeting place in one.
A weekend in early September
2–3Sep
The next edition has not been announced yet
About NEW bauhaus
Two days in early September on how we build and live together next — part congress, part trade fair, part meeting place, in the town where the Bauhaus started.
Three things at once
The organisers put a congress, a trade fair and an open meeting place into the same weekend, and claim the combination is what makes ideas get built rather than only debated. Whether two days can deliver that is the question to arrive with — but the mix is at least an honest attempt at the problem.
The name is a lot to carry
The original Bauhaus was founded in this town in 1919 and had left it by 1925. Borrowing that name for a festival about the future of building sets a bar most events would not risk being measured against, and the town is the one place where everybody in the room knows it.
Dates
- 2–3 September 2026
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Concert
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Theatre
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One day in September, opening the season
The DNT opens its season with a day-long party across the house — opera gala, One-Minute-Show, new formats.
Where
Places and people
Historical figures
Walter Gropius
1883–1969 • architect • founder and director of the Bauhaus • teacher
Gropius founded the Bauhaus here in 1919.
Historic sites
Bauhaus Museum WeimarMuseum
Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1, 99423 Weimar
The museum holds the collection this weekend argues with.
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8, 99423 Weimar
The university that descends from the Bauhaus and carries its name — the institutional heir, not the ancestor.