Our Funding Projects:Bringing Art to Life. Supporting What Creates the Future.
YVA & Her Time – Exhibition on the 80th Anniversary of the Photographer’s Death
In May 2025, the LIVING BAUHAUS Art Foundation supported the exhibition of the YVA Archive Berlin, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the death of avant-garde Berlin photographer YVA. As the teacher of Helmut Newton, she is regarded as one of the most significant fashion photographers of the 1920s. Between 1942 and 1945, YVA was murdered during the Shoah. The foundation contributed to the exhibition at Galerie Mond, Bleibtreustraße 17 — the very place where YVA lived and worked freely before 1933 — with loans from its photography collection and by supporting the exhibition design of TEWAC. More about the exhibition and the work of the YVA Archive.
Foundation Supports the Children’s Choir of the Staatsoper
To support the Children’s Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, under the direction of Vinzenz Weissenburger, the LIVING BAUHAUS Art Foundation — mediated by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden e.V. — signed a sponsorship agreement for the 2025–2028 seasons in the amount of €25,000 per season. The aim of this support was, and continues to be, to enable music-enthusiastic children to perform professionally on a major stage — thereby strengthening cultural participation and musical education.
“Images in Light and Shadow” – Jewish Photographers in Berlin’s Fashion District
As part of the exhibition “Images in Light and Shadow”, the LIVING BAUHAUS Art Foundation, in cooperation with the project initiative “2021 – Jewish Life in Germany”, commemorated Jewish women photographers of the 1920s and 1930s. The foundation’s building in Berlin-Mitte became a site of remembrance for the persecution of Jewish artists and entrepreneurs who had once shaped the fashion district around Kleine Jägerstraße, Hausvogteiplatz, and Spittelmarkt. A Jewish fashion elite worked here until the National Socialists systematically destroyed their livelihoods after 1933. The vernissage on 11 November 2021 also marked the unveiling of a memorial plaque dedicated to the former garment manufacturers of Kleine Jägerstraße 3. The exhibition was curated by Dr. Kirstin Buchinger, who published an accompanying volume in 2024.