Utopia has long been a subject of investigation for artists, as well as a model for artistic communities, where an ideal society has sometimes been more easily realized than in a larger governmental context. Utopian groups evolved during the early 19th century and optimistically endeavoured to recraft society through art and design. They encompass brotherhoods, such as that of the German Nazarenes in Rome, the English Pre-Raphaelites, the rural family collective Camille Pissarro established at Eragny in the 1880s, up to the Bauhaus of the 1920s, which was predicated upon the utopian tenet of “building of the future”. Other movements addressed are Les Barbus, William Morris and Arts and Crafts, the Cornish Colony, Neo-Impressionism, De Stijl, and Russian Constructivism. This exhibition is organized together with Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin where it will be presented from January 22 – April 11, 2010.