Author: Eingang Gewerk

75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia – The Mobile Museum

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Exhibition Opening, <b>Aachen</b>

Trimmy, Mascot of the German Sports Federation's "Trimm dich" movement

Background

Following the anniversary exhibition “OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia” at the House of History NRW, the Mobile Museum will tour the state as a mobile exhibition for at least four years. Visitors are invited to take part in writing the history of their state by contributing their own exhibits, sharing memories and entering into dialogue with each other. The interactive museum consists of three modules: the exhibition depot in a high-quality High Cube overseas container, equipment in the form of mobile showcases and hands-on stations, and pop-up elements for in-depth discourse. The centerpiece of the Museum Mobil, however, is the container. It is both an exhibition space and an object itself. With the key visual designed for the project in the national colors and a contemporary interpretation of the coat of arms symbols – horse, Rhine and rose – it also draws attention to itself during the journey from place to place and thus brings the museum into the public sphere. The Mobile Museum’s claim – transparency, openness, animation for participation and exchange – runs through the entire design. Inside the exhibition space, a display case system with varying depths constantly rearranges the collection of exhibits and thus also formally picks up on the dynamic character of the constantly growing archive as well as the diversity of the exhibits and their donors. With the help of specially developed Internet-based software, tablets ensure that the background information on the constantly added exhibits is digitally updated.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Exhibition design and architecture, implementation planning, exhibition graphics, media, general contractor, site management, concept development for the display

Details

• Opening: October 2022
• Where: All 53 districts and independent cities of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Client: House of History NRW, State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Size: 13 m² + 100 m² outdoor area

Similar Projects

• OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia, Anniversary Exhibition
• Willy Brandt, Traveling Exhibition

Press

• General-Anzeiger
• Presseportal
• Rheinische Post
• Die Zeit

Design process

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Julia Junghänel
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Janine Iser
• Antoine Laurent
• Sinem Özer
• Adele Heymann
• Carsten Saalmann

Production and Mounting
• Team 235 MEDIA
• Team P.O.S. Werbeproduktion GmbH & Co KG
• Team hertzer GmbH
• Team Artdepartment Berlin GmbH
• Team Zehnpfennig, Weber u. Taylor GbR

Photography
• gewerkdesign
• House of History NRW
• Andreas Lange

gewerk in the garden

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gewerk in the garden

Speaker Katharina Erben at gewerk in the garden #1: Immersion

Background

The event series gewerk in the garden serves as an exchange platform and resonance space for designers, culture professionals and other creative enthusiasts, taking place in the garden of our studio in Berlin-Friedenau.

We aim at one to three events of this series per year, each with a different thematic focus. Invited speakers from various areas offer theoretical or practical grounds for an interactive discourse with our guests by means of inspiring speeches, readings and workshops, making accessible new perspectives and developments.

Why is this important to us?

Design in general and exhibition design in particular are always an expression of societal developments and are also an opportunity to influence modes of action. Cultural, social and political processes are inscribed into all creative disciplines. Thereby, it becomes virtually indispensable to ask specific creative questions time and again. Questions such as: Who is being addressed? And maybe more importantly: Who isn’t? How is the creative message being communicated? Are ecologic and economic factors being considered sufficiently? How do current events, the discourse and trends alter creative disciplines, the creative industry and creative work?

As an interdisciplinary design studio, we need to pose these questions continually and discuss them, to transfer ideas and concepts to other areas, perspectives and contexts, to make them transparent for us and our audience. By exploratively thinking outside of the box of our own creative activity, we are searching for sustained inspiration.

Together with our guests, we would like to not only discuss current issues and tendencies, but beyond that, to jointly develop new topics and questions, in the hope of sparking a fruitful dialogue between different perspectives from various areas.

Following each event, we publish a summary with texts and images (in German), which is available as PDF at the top of this page in the theme archive. Find current news about gewerk in the garden in the news on our website and on Instagram.

Would you like to take part in the next event?
Write us at inthegarden(at)gewerk.com.

Details

• Start: May 2022
• Frequency: 1 to 3 times per year
• Location: our studio garden, Berlin

 

Theme Archive

#1 Immersion (2022)

#2 Nachhaltigkeit (2022)

#3 Kollektive (2022)

#4 Design und Kapitalismus (2023)

#5 Natur als Gestalterin (2024)

Establishment of Georgium Palace as the museum of the Anhalt Painting Gallery

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Georgium Palace, Anhalt Picture Gallery, <b>Dessau-Roßlau</b>

Dutch cabinet from the 17th Century

Background

Georgium Palace in Dessau has not always accommodated the Anhalt Painting Gallery. It only moved into the palace in 1959, after being housed in the Palais Reina in Dessau, which was destroyed in the war. The history of the palace and that of the painting collection could not be more different: here a palace, first built as a small summer palace for Prince Johann Georg von Anhalt-Dessau (who gave the Palace its name) and intended for private living, there a collection that grew together from several estates into a great treasure for Dessau as a public collection.

When it was decided to modernize Schloss Georgium and adapt it to the current standards of a painting gallery, gewerkdesign was brought in as a consulting partner for the gallery’s refurbishment in 2014. The result is a museum concept that divides the three levels of the building into different usage concepts: On the first floor, functional rooms such as the checkroom, toilets, a lecture hall and reception await the visitors supplemented by a “historical tour” through the history of the house, the Georgen-garden and the history of the collection. The main part of the painting collection will be exhibited on the 1st floor, while graphic works will hang mainly in the mezzanine. In order to keep the hanging of the paintings in the landmark castle flexible, colored wear walls have been hung on the existing walls, which slow down the climate change from the exterior to the interior and protect the paintings by providing a stable temperature. The furniture of the house is part of a series designed by gewerkdesign. The substructure made of delicately processed metal as well as the colored upholstery of the seats takes up the historical furnishing of the house.

A minimalist sign system guides the way through the house. The thematic division of the rooms is also designed in a restrained manner; the paintings are to be the focus. Each room is given a lettering of the respective period in milled letters. Information on the artistic works can be obtained by the visitors from object signs, which are mounted underneath the wear walls. This ensures the greatest possible auratic effect of the paintings in interaction with the color scheme of the walls surrounding them. The thematic rooms on the ground floor have been equipped with media tables. Interactive stations and hands-on exhibits invite active participation. The corporate design with a strong signet and word brand in black on white or yellow leaves room for the great collection. In the future, further information about the castle and the collection will be available individually via a web-based app.

Portfolio / Range of Services:
Design and consulting of exhibition architecture and utilization concept, design and planning of thematic rooms, execution planning, exhibition production, project management, hands-on development (media) and production, exhibition graphics, guidance system in the castle, corporate design, design web and webAPP

Details

– Opening: autumn 2022
– Location: Georgium Palace, Anhalt Painting Gallery, Dessau
– Client: Foundation, Office for Culture Dessau-Roßlau
– Size: 1.989 m²

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Birgit Schlegel
• Carsten Saalmann
• Thilo Albers
• Julia Junghähnel
• Jens H. Lohmann
• Michael Lorenz, Graphscape (cashier system, media, website)
• Claudia Wagner, vogelfrei-design (illustrations)

Exhibition production and mounting
• Gemelo GmbH (media)
• Tischlerei Carsten Gräubig
• Rost Werbetechnik (print)
• Joseph Hirsch (metal signs)
• Büchner Möbel (furniture)
• Team Falko Riepe (wear walls)
• Janusz Kruszewski (model)
• Paul Göschel (light)

Architecture
• cuboidoo architects BDA

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

The Gardener’s Museum Wolfenbüttel

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Historic Farmhouse (Streckhof) Gärtnermuseum, Wolfenbüttel

You have to water them regularly!

Background

The new conception of the Gardener’s Museum comprehensively deals with the history of vegetable cultivation in Wolfenbüttel. The exhibition design arose from the architecture of the historic farmhouse (Streckhof) that accommodates the museum and the property that surrounds it. In a minimalist scenography, that comments on the different rooms and elaborates on their functions, rather than furnishing them, visitors are guided through more than 500 years of history of vegetable cultivation in Wolfenbüttel: From the Duke’s cropland to his move to Brunswick, the takeover of the vegetable gardens by farmhands (the so called “Gartenknechte”), the establishment of horticulture as a profession, the purchase of additional land in the 19th century, the heyday of vegetable cultivation in Lower Saxony in the 1950s to current developments.
The exhibition also deals with the history of downright gardening dynasties that developed locally, some of which are still active today. Inspired by nature, the content is translated into form as “cuttings”, cleverly bypassing the walls of the landmark farmhouse. An exhibition system consisting of colorful wooden poles stuck in perforated concrete foundations is guiding the visitors through the various rooms of the museum. Audio narrations of illustrated protagonists supplement the tour in terms of content and design. Each room is assigned a main theme. The “kitchen”, for example, provides information about the working community of men and women, the “shed” deals with trade and marketing. Exhibits such as the “Kuhversicherungs-Sterbecasse” (an insurance fund in case a cow deceases), or a tin can from the Busch canning factory are supplemented medially by audio stations and hands-ONs.
Media stations in the “barn” explain the handling of traditional tools and machines. The outdoor area will be opened in spring and introduces visitors to forgotten types of vegetables, which are cultivated by members of the association Gärtnermuseum Wolfenbüttel e.V.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Organizing, presenting and hosting of 3 workshops, concept development in terms of content, text composing for the audio stations, exhibition design and planning, executive planning, general contractor, planning of object presentation, exhibition production, media development and production, exhibition graphics, corporate design of the museum, design and production of print media

Details

• Opening: April 2022
• Where: Gärtnermuseum, Wolfenbüttel
• Client: Gärtnermuseum Wolfenbüttel e.V.
• 250 m² museum, 1000 m² garden

Similar projects

• Maritime Museum, Unterweser
• World Heritage Visitor Centre, Wismar
• Signage System, Brodowin
• Wald, Berlin, Klima, Berlin

Design Process

Team

• Katharina Erben
• Sebastian Franke
• Henning Hummel
• Jens Imig
• Antoine Laurent
• Viktor Reichert
• Birgit Schlegel

Production and mounting
• Team Tischlerei Paelecke
• Team Artavi (media)
• Team speaklow

Print Production
• Roco Druck (print media)
• Rost Druck (exhibition media)

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Close-Up – Hamburg’s History of Film and Cinema

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Exterior view of the Altona Museum

Exhibit: film camera

Background

With the exhibition „Close-Up“, the Altona Museum presents 120 years of Hamburg’s film and cinema history. The exhibition design focuses on the cinema screen as a partition between the auditorium and the backstage area. It comprises five different cinema environments furnished with posters, photos, film clips, and props, opening spectacularly with the original film set of Fatih Akin’s “Der Goldene Handschuh”. The exhibition architecture elaborates on the transient qualities of film making: materials such as cinema velvet, wooden scaffolding, and printed black cardboard evoke the atmosphere of a film set. Film-up! 3D becomes 2D becomes 3D. On a separate stage, the so-called “Trickkiste”, the exhibition presents the world of animation and animated films from Hamburg.

Portfolio / Range of Services

Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, general contractor, exhibition production, project management, exhibition graphics, signage system

Details

• Opening: 08 December 2021
• Where: Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
• Client: Stiftung Historische Museen FHamburg, Altonaer Museum
• 1.050m²

Similiar projects

• New Bauhaus Chicago, Berlin

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Costanza Rossi
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Antoine Laurent
• Marie Teigler

Media and programming
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Construction and mounting
• Team Uwe Sinkemat
• Rudi Poetsch

Photography
• Giuliani / Von Giese Fotografie

Visitor Centre of the Nuclear Power Plant Gösgen

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  • © Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG

Exterior view of the nuclear power plant Gösgen, Switzerland

Yellow Cake

Background

The Gösgen nuclear power plant went into service in 1981 and is scheduled to be decommissioned in the next five years. After the decommissioning the plant will be dismantled over a period of twenty years. A visitor centre on site explains to visitors (school classes, residents, tourists) how a nuclear power plant works, how the atomic phase-out is planned to proceed and allows a glimpse into the future of energy management without nuclear power. Presenting interviews with plant employees, functional models of nuclear fission, models of fuel rods, a collection of minerals, and historical films, the exhibition show the visitors how a nuclear power plant works. At the end of the tour, the visitors have the opportunity to playfully test their knowledge about their own energy needs and to let cars and trains race against each other in a digital future landscape by pedaling on a bicycle ergometer.

Portfolio / Range of Services

Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting, development and production of the HandsOn displays, exhibition graphics

Details

• Opening: November 2021
• Where: Nuclear power plant Gösgen
• Client: Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-FDäniken AG
• 900 m²

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Janine Iser
• Sebastian Franke
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Antoine Laurent
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Construction and mounting
• Rudolf Nützi AG
• Atelier Lorraine GmbH
• Schaer Modellbau AG

Photography
Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG

OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia

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Exterior view of the Behrensbau (© Stiftung Haus der Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalen, Axel Thünker)

Window of St. Lambertus Church in Erkelenz-Immerath

Background

That one of the most modern office buildings of its time – rationally built, light and flexibly divisible – would house an exhibition a good 110 years after it was constructed, this is something that architect Peter Behrens probably wouldn’t have thought likely. The design concept’s proposition for NRW’s anniversary exhibition: an environment in which visitors can relax and engage with the exhibition can only be created according to, not against, the original architectural concept. This means that fixtures and signs are allowed to have a temporary appearance – flexible like the former office floors – that lines of sight remain unobstructed and that the path through the exhibition is clear.

Visitors enter the rather sober looking building on the Rhine promenade through a bright green portal. They enter a foyer that even today achieves an “artistic effect … with simple material and simple design” (*1). Elaborating on this idea, a 270° media installation about places and current everyday life in NRW, projected directly onto the marble surfaces below the gallery, sets the mood for visiting the exhibition.

On the 1st floor gallery, large, backlit images fitted into the wall niches introduce challenges which the federal state of NRW currently faces. Following this introduction, these challenges are discussed in the 8 exhibition chapters. The gridded appearance of the images is characteristic for the introduction as well as the subsequent chapters: it provides orientation and marks spatial and thematic changes.

The scenography of the 8 exhibition areas matches their respective narrative focus. For example is the “Danger” area furnished with intersected walls, thus supporting the chapter’s deconstructive atmosphere. The fixtures of each area are of the same colour spectrum – the colour concept comprises a total of 33 different colours – and by this combine information and narrative media with the area’s individual colour and impression. The exhibition is structured by its main texts, printed in the exhibition’s overall colour “luminous green”, the exhibit labels, printed on panels of the areas’ individual colours, and info graphics, which are designed in a consistent style throughout the exhibition. The distinctively gridded image style is also repeated in the exhibition’s key visual featuring the symbols of NRW’s coat of arms. Thus, the exhibition’s historical content is presented in a modern graphic style. Developed in cooperation with the client, the exhibition’s holistic design concept combines space, graphics, and external presentation. It subtly supports the visitors’ feeling of having successfully mastered the challenges of the last 75 years.

*1: from Peter Behrens’ inaugural address, Festschrift Mannesmann Röhren Werke, 1912

Portfolio / Range of Services

Commissioned as general contractor for all services, exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, concept development for the display, interior design of the service areas, exhibition production, project management and consulting project development, multimedia design, design and user interface of the media guide, concept and design of the media installation on the front of the building, development and production of the HandsOn-displays, exhibition and media graphics, signage, tactile guidance system

Details

• Opening: 26 August 2021
• Where: Behrensbau, Düsseldorf
• Client: Parliament of North Rhine-FWestphalia
• 1.200 m², incl. service areas ca F2.000 m²

Similiar projects

• 100! Universität Hamburg Past and FPresent , Hamburg
• The Luther Effect , Berlin
• Friederisiko. Frederick the Great , FPotsdam

Design process

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Janine Iser
• Julia Junghänel
• Yunus Kleff
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Antoine Laurent
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Exhibition production and mounting
• i.xpo, Kaarst

Lighting
• lichttransfer, Berlin

Media production and technical support
• Eidotech GmbH, Berlin
• 235 Media, Köln
• framegrabber GmbH, Hamburg
• Kulturbanause, Berlin

Graphics production
• MegaLab GmbH, Köln
• i.xpo, Kaarst

Showcase set-up
• Zehnpfennig und Weber, Berlin

Typography composition and picture editing
• vogelfrei Design, Berlin

Media editing
• Larissa Blau, Berlin

Translation
• David Ward, Berlin
• Ingrid Dixon, Gloucestershire, UK

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

Our Courage. Jews in Europe 1945–1948

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Jewish Museum Frankfurt, external view

Photo album of the »Katset Teaterim«, a Yiddish theatre project founded 1945 at the DP camp Bergen-Belsen

Background

 

Portfolio / Range of Services

Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning and management, management of the restricted tendering process, concept development and implementation of media installations, exhibition graphics, posters, brochures, catalogue and digital formats

Details

• Opening: 31. August 2021
• Where: Jewish Museum Frankfurt
• Client: Jewish Museum Frankfurt
• 600 m²

Related projects

• Boundless, Hamburg
• 100!, Hamburg
• A Memorial made of Paper, Bad FArolsen

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Bianca Mohr
• Takaya Kobayashi
• Alexandra Zackiewicz
• Costanza Rossi
• Franziska Schuh

Sound

• Peter Imig

Multimedia
• Graphscape

Construction and Printing
• Fa. Schreiber, Frankfurt

Photography
• Jewish Museum Frankfurt: Norbert Miguletz

Münchner Platz Memorial, Dresden

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Münchner Platz Memorial, external view

After his release from prison 1934, the communist artist Fritz Schulze (1903 – 1942) created the linocut „Gefängnisrundgang“, Prison Tour.

Background

As a former place of trial, a prison and an execution site, the Münchner Platz Memorial in Dresden commemorates the victims of political criminal justice during the National Socialist dictatorship, the Soviet occupation, and the early GDR. Since 2012, the memorial presents to its visitors the permanent exhibition Verurteilt. Inhaftiert. Hingerichtet. Politische Justiz in Dresden, which is dedicated to the role of the judicary during 1933-1945 and 1945-1957, and to the events on this particular site. A visitor information and signage system on the grounds and in the surrounding buildings, designed by gewerkdesign, provides information about the history of the different buildings on this site, thus marking historical traces and pointing out where the events described actually took place. The 19 text and picture panels report on the function of the specific buildings at the time, on how the memorial came about, and on the biographies of the convicts. All texts are in both German and English.

Portfolio / Range of Services

Design, planning and implementation of the visual visitor information system and reference system, supervising and coordinating the production of the graphics and printings, brochures, preparation / participation of the commissioning process

Details

• Opening: August 2021
• Where: Münchner Platz Memorial, FDresden
• Client: Stiftung Sächsische FGedenkstätten
• 5800 m²

Related projects

• Ökodorf Brodowin, Brandenburg
• Berlin Wall Trail, Berlin
• Hannover Garden Region, Hannover

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Costanza Rossi

Print production
• Hertzer GmbH

Photography

• Münchner Platz Memorial Dresden: Ellen Schwalbe

Up to Space

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Universum Bremen

Moon dust

Background

»Hurrah ! Hurrah!« exclaimed Michel Ardan and Nicholl in one voice. Indeed, this thick darkness proved that the projectile had left the earth, for the soil, brilliantly lit by the moonbeams, would have been visible to the travellers, if they had been lying on its surface. This darkness also showed that the projectile had passed the atmospheric strata, for the diffused light spread in the air would have been reflected on the metal walls, which reflection was wanting. This light would have lit the window, and the window was dark. Doubt was no longer possible; the travellers had left the earth. (Jules Verne, Around the Moon, 1869)

The special exhibition „Up to Space“ at the Universum® Bremen presents the future and present state of astronautical space travel. Virtual journeys into space and to the moon, everyday-life at the International Space Station (ISS), real moon dust, and the sensation of zero gravity can be experienced during a visit to the exhibition. Interactive exhibits facilitate the learning experience. The aesthetic materials, coloured lights, and real space technology create an atmosphere, in which the boundaries between exhibition and its visitors vanish. They are being sent on a journey to space and back. From Bremen, the exhibition will travel to the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Paris.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, exhibition graphics and info graphics, implementation planning, concept development and design of the display, preparation / participation in the commissioning process, project and production management, preparation of the exhibition tour

Details

• Opening: 27. October 2020
• Where: Universum Bremen, Bremen
• Client: Universum Managementges. FmbH
• 650 m²

Related projects

• Science + Fiction, Hannover and Fother cities
• Out Of Office, Hamburg
• Open Up!, Berlin and Kiel

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Victor Reichert
• Julia Junghänel
• Janine Iser
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Exhibition production and mounting
• Falko Riepe

Print production

• Radebeuler Machwerk

Photography

• gewerkdesign: Kate Riep