Thursday, 8 October 2026, 6 pm

an event organised by the State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg
as part of the lecture series ‘UNESCO World Heritage Sites Visit’

Lecture
‘Le Corbusier and the Weissenhof Estate’

by Verena Lebherz, Director of the Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House

At Maulbronn Monastery, the State Palaces and Gardens of Baden-Württemberg are inviting representatives from other UNESCO World Heritage Sites to speak about the cultural monuments under their care, as well as their unique features and challenges.

The series kicks off with a lecture on the architect Le Corbusier, whose houses in the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site for ten years.

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Please register at info@kloster-maulbronn.de.

The lecture will be held in German.

Venue
Maulbronn Monastery
Information Centre, Media Room (2nd floor)
Klosterhof 5
75433 Maulbronn

Photo: Semi-detached house by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Stuttgart’s Weissenhofsiedlung
© Brigida González / Weissenhof Museum in the Le Corbusier House

Sunday, 18 October 2026, 10 am

Special guided tour
‘20 Years of the Weissenhof Museum – An Anniversary Tour’

For 20 years, the Weissenhof Museum in Le Corbusier House has been a special place to discover the history of the Weissenhof Estate and the work of the architect Le Corbusier. To mark this anniversary, the museum invites you to a guided tour that takes a look behind the scenes.

On a tour of the Le Corbusier House, you will learn about the fortunate circumstances two decades ago that helped bring the museum into being, why archaeologists and building researchers prepared the restoration, and how this internationally renowned institution has developed since then.

The tour will be led by Friedemann Gschwind, the former initiator and project manager for the City of Stuttgart; Arne Fentzloff, who, with his practice ARCHITEKTUR 109, carried out the heritage-sensitive restoration on behalf of the Wüstenrot Foundation; and Anja Krämer, who took over as director of the Weissenhof Museum in 2006.

This 45-minute anniversary tour offers the opportunity to discover the Weissenhof Museum from a new perspective and to hear stories that are not usually told during the regular museum tour.

The tour will be given in German.

Tue 10 November 2026 – Sun 10 January 2027

THE EXHIBITION

An exhibition by the Choi class, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart

Students from the sculpture class are presenting sculptural works at the Weissenhof Workshop in the Mies van der Rohe House. The title is a reference to the poster designed by Willi Baumeister in 1927 for the Werkbund exhibition ‘DIE WOHNUNG’.

The starting point is the historical function of the Weissenhof Estate as an exhibition and showcase for new forms of living and building. This relationship between art, architecture and presentation is explored spatially in the exhibition.

As a central element, a room-filling plinth is created for DIE AUSSTELLUNG, upon which the artists’ individual works are displayed. The plinth presumes to be read as an architectural design for the Weissenhof Estate itself and compels visitors to navigate the space in an entirely new way.

Within this spatial context, the students’ individual works enter into a dialogue with one another and with their architectural surroundings. Thematically, they engage in various ways with the Weissenhofsiedlung, the Bauhaus and the associated concepts of architecture, housing and life, and transpose these into a new context.

Exhibiting artists:
Jerry Ahn, Antonia Behr, Sunah Choi, Ai Margareta Globas, Birk Hinnersmann, Katharina Mack, Lorenzo Mastrosimone, Jan-Lucas Müller, Michelle Neumann, Chiara Sgarzi, Elisabeth Spengler Castillo, Hanna Stäble, Lennon Toeche-Mittler, Lisa Helene Wedler, Ava Will, Daniel Zadro

Curated by Prof. i.V. Sunah Choi

Opening
Tue, 10 November 2026, 7 pm
Welcome address: Verena Lebherz, Director of the Weissenhof Museum at the Le Corbusier House
Introduction to the exhibition: Prof. Dr. Michael Lüthy, ABK, History of Modern and Contemporary Art

Duration
Tue 10 November 2026 – Sun 10 January 2027

Opening hours
Thu, Sun, public holidays: 12 pm–5 pm
(closed on 24 December and 1 January)

Location
Weissenhof Workshop in the Mies van der Rohe House
(Am Weissenhof 20, 70191 Stuttgart)

Free admission