A Play Space for Kids

Playing, laughing, making noise, letting off steam, doing nothing – all in an exhibition venue! From 4 September 2024, BAUBAU invites children to do exactly that. The artist Kerstin Brätsch designed an admission-free play space for kids, where more is allowed than forbidden. On the Gropius Bau’s ground floor, colourful wallpapers, structures, objects and open-ended material called “loose parts” configure flexible spaces that are shaped by children’s activities. They set the tone and decide what happens in this place, as it becomes a space for possibilities that can change from one day to the next.

BAUBAU will open in September 2024 in a prototype version. In the years to come it will continue to evolve and grow both inside and outside the Gropius Bau. This will happen in close consult

BAUBAU is inspired by The Model – an adventure playground installed at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet in 1968, which was devised by the artist and activist Palle Nielsen and the journalist and activist Gunilla Lundahl. Following the principles of adventure playgrounds, the everyday rules of art institutions don’t apply here: children have free reign and can have fun.