Category: Exhibition

NACHRICHTEN–NEWS

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Museum for Communication, Berlin

Reuters Kabel

Background

The special exhibition NACHRICHTEN-NEWS at the Museum for Communication Berlin, designed by gewerkdesign and realised in cooperation of the museum with the Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, takes place on the occasion of the Year of News 2024, in which the 75th anniversary of the dpa and the German Constitution with its Article 5 on freedom of the press are celebrated. In times of fake news and “alternative facts”, it was important to us to familiarise ourselves with scientific and curatorial perspectives on the topic of news, as well as a real inspiration to deal with this topic creatively and bring it into the space.

The basic design principle is based on a clear structure of colour and form. The main part of the exhibition, like the graphic appearance, is segmented in three colour-coded areas in the primary colours yellow, blue and red. The yellow area focuses on the question of “What we hear” by showing the historical development of news from marketplace rumours to real-time reporting. In the blue area with exhibits and stations relating to the craft of journalism and journalistic quality control, “How we trust” is conveyed. In the red area, milestones in communications technology such as the Morse telegraph are displayed to show “How we see the world”.

The spatial set-up of the exhibition is an increasing sorting of the cacophonic news flood that we are confronted with today, resulting in a clear overview and positioning within the diverse media landscape. The prologue is tightly packed with iconic news images in light boxes and on screens, the word “news” is visible in oversized letters in many languages of the world next to, above and below the image clusters, a news ticker runs newsflashes. In the course of the exhibition, visitors attain an ever clearer understanding, which is also furthered by the many hands-on stations. Finally, in the epilogue, a concrete result about what medium ideally suits one’s individual preferences is produced in the Media Match.

NACHRICHTEN–NEWS has a modular, sustainable and inclusive design and reflects the controversial relationship between the news and its users. The exhibition is dialogical throughout: Visitors are being asked their opinions station by station – in the exhibition space and beyond it, in the social media of the museum. The interactive exhibition is intended to make visitors explore and become conscious of what habits and needs motivate us to choose specific news channels. As we learn in the exhibition, it is today easier than ever to access news from all over the world, however, the general interest in them is paradoxically as low as never before. That is why the superordinate societal, political and media-related contexts in which we live and act are taken into account.

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, object presentation, hands-on development, implementation planning, exhibition production, project management, exhibition graphics, corporate design of the exhibition

Details

• Duration: 11 October 2024 to
F25 September 2025
• Location: Museum for
FCommunication, Berlin
• Client: Museumsstiftung Post
Fund Telekommunikation
• Area: 650 m²

Similar Projects

• On Air! The History of Radio and
FTelevision, Technoseum, Mannheim
• World of Media – Radio Bremen
F75 years, Bremen
• Out of Office – When robots and AI
Fdo our work for us, Museum der
FArbeit, Hamburg

Press

• General-Anzeiger Bonn
• Presseportal
• Menschen Machen Medien
• RBB radioeins
• RBB radio3
• Tagesspiegel

Design Process

Project Team

• Jens Imig
• Julia Junghänel
• Victor Reichert
• Sophia Bouveret
• Janine de Souza
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Adele Heymann

Exhibition Construction
• Raumsektor, Berlin

Media Design
• Framegrabber Medien, Hamburg

Graphic Production
• Rost: Werbetechnik, Berlin

Photography
© Museum für Kommunikation Berlin
Photos: Vincent Villwock

Blown Away. The Palace of the Republic

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Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, Berlin

The Glass Flower (deconstructed) © Reginald Richter and Richard Wilhelm

Background

The exhibition “Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic” at the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, which was designed and realised by gewerkdesign, is based on an approach of many perspectives. It is not a one-dimensional narration but it holds space for different positions and enables the visitors to change the physical standpoint as well as the mental perspective. The museum that is standing on the ground of the former Palace of the Republic offers a space for the memory of, the reflection on and the discussion of this iconic building. By way of the exhibition title, the museum aims at conveying that although the GDR representational building may de facto not exist anymore, it is ever more present in the minds of the people and talk of the town. In the program accompanying the exhibition and in various formats, the museum offers opportunities for effective dialogue and for the education of those for whom the topic is new. 

The design makes use of the critical potential of the exhibition and transforms it into a spatial kaleidoscope. We have designed an open scenography that is not intended to function like a backdrop but rather like a participative whole with many special solutions. The components are modular like in a traveling exhibition and have a temporary character. The image of the Palace of the Republic constantly shifts: Objects become visible in varying constellations that are modified according to position changes. In this, the many perspectives of the topic as well as the layered subjectivity of memories is expressed. 

The exhibition expands across two rooms: the Open Space and the Basis Narration with the Memory Room.

The Open Space is simultaneously the prologue and the epilogue of the exhibition. The design of this room is, beyond some free-standing objects and a media installation, totally focused on the walls and the floor. A large floor graphic shows a reduced city map of Berlin’s centre, on which the ground plots of the Berlin Palace and the Palace of the Republic are both indicated on top of one another. The media installation is set up in a square layout on four stelas with four small screens each, on which an artistic video blends original film material from the GDR Palace’s era with digitally created motion design.

On large wall surfaces, the Open Space is decked out with copper-coloured, foil-coated coverings that are reminiscent of the glass facade of the Palace of the Republic. Prompted by the question “What should be remembered?”, visitors are invited to express their opinions, write down a contribution to the discussion or simply tag their names on the surface with white markers.

The Basis Narration is the main space of the exhibition. It is not structured in a didactic and linear way, but instead, the visitors can decide freely what to view in which order. Several themed areas are distributed across the space. The titles of the themed areas are concurrently open completions of the fragment above the entry doors in the foyer: “The Palace of the Republic is…”. Oppositional word pairs hang above the themed areas: for example “preserved or lost”, “for the state or for the people”, “magnificent or functional”. Also, large question marks hover above the themed areas to hint at the fact that many questions are still unanswered.  

In the middle of the room, also a central element of the design concept, is the so-called Memory Room. Slightly elevated over the surrounding space, it is visually shielded and acoustically dimmed by a curtain hanging from the ceiling that is open at the bottom. Light, cozy and protected, it is a podium for the personal thoughts expressed in audio interviews by contemporary witnesses and for the listeners, it is a calm place to internalise and to discuss. 

On their way from the exterior to the interior of the building, visitors traverse the traced contour of the Palace of the Republic’s ground plot and thereby get an impression of its former location in relation to the Berlin Palace. 

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design, planning and implementation, exhibition production, concept development for the display, project management, exhibition graphics, film concept and realisation at the Open Space

Details

• Duration: 17 May 2024 to
F16 February 2025
• Location: Humboldt Forum, Berlin
• Client: Foundation for the Humboldt
FForum in the Berlin Palace, Berlin
• Area: 1.290 m²

Similar Projects

• STASI. State Security in the SED
FDictatorship, Berlin
• 100! Universität Hamburg Past and
FPresent, Hamburg

Press

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung
• Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
• Sächsische Zeitung
• Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Südwestrundfunk
• Tagesspiegel
• WELT
• Westdeutscher Rundfunk
• Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
• Die Zeit

Design Process

Project Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Bianca Mohr
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Antoine Laurent

Installation
• Riepe Ausstellungsbau
• bbs production & design GmbH

Showcase Manufacturing
• Vitrinen- und Glasbau REIER GmbH

Media Development and Production
• Frank Schültge Blumm
• Crème
• Linon Medien KG

Media Technology
• Eidotech GmbH

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

Museum Forced Labor Under National Socialism

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Media table with a city map of Weimar

Museum Forced Labor Under National Socialism

Background

Our long-time travelling exhibition about forced labour under national socialism, which was shown first at the Jewish Museum Berlin in 2010 and then at six further locations, has now been permanently installed at the former Gauforum in Weimar. This complex of buildings, planned by the Nazis as a gigantean representational site (and then completed by the Soviet Military Administration after the war), now houses the Museum Forced Labor Under National Socialism with our exhibition.

The planning and the development of the newly created museum has been realised under the lead of gewerkdesign. The construction of the functional museum areas, among them the foyer with the cashier’s desk and lockers as well as two public rooms for workshops, was a special challenge in this building. The exhibition extends across several rooms, mainly across the one originally devised as a ceremonial hall. The built-in components of the exhibition densify more and more and turn the atmosphere of the space successively dark and importunate – a contrast that becomes apparent especially against the bulky feel of the hall.

In five chapters – habituation, radicalisation, mass phenomenon, liberation, damaged justice – the ineffable stories of forced labourers are told, who have not only been abused for the purposes of the national socialists but also for those of German companies and households. The exhibition has in some parts been adapted to the city of Weimar and new content has been added. By means of partially intoned letters and diary entries, along with personal items and photographs, the people get a face and a voice. On an interactive media table with a city map of Weimar, visitors can select audible content and understand what events took place where in and around Weimar, in the vicinity of which the concentration camp Buchenwald is located. In the last room, contemporary witnesses await the visitors on screens, telling their stories on request. A large wall painting of a graphically designed timeline shows the development of forced labour and its consequences until today. 

Tasks / Range of Services
General contractor, implementation planning, exhibition architecture, planning and construction of the functional museum areas, project management and consulting, project development, exhibition design and planning, exhibition production, planning of the object presentation, development and production of the hands-on exhibits, media design, exhibition graphics, signage system

Details

• Opening: 8 May 2024
• Location: Museum Forced Labor
FUnder National Socialism, Weimar
• Client: Buchenwald and Mittelbau-
FDora Memorials Foundation, funded
Fby the Foundation Remembrance,
FResponsibility and Future (EVZ
FFoundation), the Thuringia State
FChancellery, and the Federal
FGovernment Commissioner for
FCulture and the Media
• Area: 2,000 m²

Similar projects

• Forced Labour: Berlin, Moscow,
FDortmund, Warsaw, Prague,
FHamburg, Steyr
• Munich Displaced: Munich

Press

• Bauwelt
• Deutsche Welle
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
• Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
• ND Aktuell
• Radio Lotte
• Thüringer Staatskanzlei
• WELT
• Die Zeit

 

Design Process

Project Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Ann-Christin Ahrens
• Julia Junghänel
• Carsten Saalmann
• Johannes Gotaut

Restoration
• Junk & Reich Architekten, Weimar

Installation
• Walther Expointerieur, Coswig
• Gränz Innenausbau, Weimar

Media Production and Coordination
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Audio Production / Sound Recordings
• speak low Krewer & Teichmann GbR

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

Nichts. Nothing. Riens.

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Museum of Communication Bern, Switzerland

Exhibition Poster

Background

The exhibition project “Nichts. Nothing. Riens.” takes on nothing. It casts a light on the small things in life that we otherwise hardly notice. While we normally are concerned with the act of filling, being constantly busy and pursuing something more, this exhibition is an unusual experience of the opposite. A particular challenge for gewerkdesign was to conceive and implement the nothing spatially as well as graphically.

Objects, stories, films, illusionary spaces, waiting rooms, and moments of surprise are associated with the term “Nothing” by integrating everyday observations and situations into the exhibition space. As part of a broad-based research for the exhibition, the exhibits were compiled during a series of workshops and subsequently distributed across the six areas of the exhibition: 1. A Lot of Nothing, 2. The Waiting Room, 3. Nothing for You, 4. All this Nothing, 5. Constructing Nothing, 6. Cinema Stage.

The exhibition architecture is not visible at first glance. It aligns with the architecture of the museum, supplementing it with additional windows, pillars, and doors. A trilingual transponder invisibly and magically guides the visitors through the exhibition set, leading to a filmic show of actors staging bizarre encounters. The exhibition is designed to be sustainable. Its individual elements were economically produced, minimising the overall consumption of resources. Wall panelling, old wine crates, cardboard tubes were recycled from previous exhibitions. The graphics were mainly printed on paper in order to minimise the use of plastic and composite materials.

Our exhibition graphics show several solutions for the special challenge to represent the nothing in an image. Five motifs visualise the nothing that we concurrently bring into the space. In the motifs of our poster series, the nothing becomes visually tangible by staging that which surrounds the nothing: flying newspaper pages, an empty train platform, a staircase into the empty cosmos. In these images, a facet of the charming and probably typical Swiss humor becomes obvious. To say it with the words of the museum: “Is it possible that the nothing is not nothing? The exhibition Nothing goes all-in and shows apparent nothingness in an unusual exhibition. We invite you on a journey with wonderfully surprising encounters – a journey to nothing!”

At 62,000 visitors, the Museum for Communication Bern sets a record in visitor numbers with “Nichts. Nothing. Riens.”. As many people as never before at the MfK Bern have seen this special exhibition.

In the museum shop of the MfK Bern, our posters, a special edition in shape of a collector’s folder (both limited editions) as well as a card game on the topic are available (in German and French only).

 

Tasks / Range of Services
Workshop conception and content, exhibition design and exhibition architecture, exhibition and media graphics, communication design, production monitoring

Details

• Duration: 10 November 2023
Fto 21 July 2024
• Where: Museum of Communication FBern, Switzerland
• Client: Museum of Communication FBern, Switzerland
• ca. 650 m²

Related Projects

• Out of Office, Hamburg
• The future quality of living, FHamburg
• Riots + New Beginnings, Bremen

Press

• BärnerBär
• Bärn Today
• Der Bund
• Museumsfernsehen
• Nau
• Radio Bern
• SRF Kultur
• SRF Tagesschau
• Thuner Tagblatt
• WIRED Italia

Design Process

Project Team

• Jens Imig
• Antoine Laurent
• Bianca Mohr
• Birgit Schlegel
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Photography:
• gewerkdesign

Interactive Content System:
• iart– Studio für mediale Architekturen, Basel

Multimedia:
• Jean First
• Zita Bauer
• Alexandra Heini
• Kurt Stadelmann
• Franz Szekeres

Film:
• Sibylle Heiniger

Graphics, Layout & Typesetting:
• gewerkdesign

Exhibition Production:
• Patrik Ammann
• Daniel Bucheli
• Arjen Damen
• Giacomo Feurich
• Jean First
• Aurelio Galfetti
• Urs Hochuli
• Coline Jud
• Gratschi Josef Jud
• Theo Kämpfer
• Stefan Käsermann
• Basil Kraus
• Andreas Manecke
• Erich Marty
• Timo Müller
• Stefan Schmidlin
• Jan Stadelmann
• Roland Steiner
• Andri von Moos
• Paul von Moos
• Ueli Zingg

Munich Displaced

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Jewish Museum Munich, München

Munich City Museum

Background

The exhibition project “Munich Displaced” is dedicated to the research of a blank space in German Remembrance Culture: the history of the so-called Displaced Persons (DPs). This term refers to all those foreign civilians who, after 1945, found themselves outside their homeland as a result of the Second World War and were unable to return to it without further ado. The group of DPs is complex and diverse, including political prisoners, concentration camp inmates, civilian Eastern European workers, former forced laborers, and collaborators. The documentation of their history was compiled in a broad research for the city of Munich and edited for two different exhibitions in the city.

With the exhibition “Munich Displaced. After 1945 and without a Homeland”, the Munich City Museum sheds light on the history of this group from a local perspective and shows how these migrants lived and worked in Munich after 1945 with the will to shape their own destiny. With the exhibition “MUNICH DISPLACED. The Surviving Remnant”, the Jewish Museum Munich is focusing on the history of the Jewish DPs in Munich.

A special challenge for gewerkdesign was to conceive and realize two exhibitions at two locations, both graphically and spatially. The exhibitions, which run in parallel, place the history of the DP communities in an interrelated context, which also comes to bear in terms of design, through an overarching graphic and design concept. The two museums on opposite sides of Munich’s Sankt-Jakobs-Platz were connected and put into a dialogue by including the outdoor space in the design. In the Jewish Museum, the exhibition architecture traces the local infrastructure of the Jewish DP communities along Möhlstraße. Exhibition design and graphics of both exhibitions evoke the image of fleetingness and sketchiness. Temporary buildings, staggered or fading dots and letters, abstracted maps, and interrupted lines characterize the aesthetics of both exhibitions and also refer to the work-in-progress nature of the unfinished research project.

Furthermore, the exhibition is designed to be sustainable. The individual exhibition elements were produced cost-effectively, with low overall material consumption. The graphics have been printed predominantly on paper or cotton textiles to keep the use of plastics and composites as low as possible.

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design and architecture, exhibition and media graphics, communication design, production management

Details

• Opening: July 5, 2023
• Where: Munich City Museum, Jewish Museum Munich, Munich
• Client: Munich City Museum, Jewish Museum Munich
• ca. 400 m² und ca. 600 m² m²

Similar Projects

• A Memorial made of Paper: Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen
• Our Courage. Jews in Europe 1945-1948, Frankfurt
• Riots + New Beginnings. Bremen after 1968, Bremen

Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Janine Iser
• Antoine Laurent
• Bianca Mohr
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Birgit Schlegel
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Photography:
• gewerkdesign

Media Design:
Claudius Schulz

Graphics, Layout and Typesetting (Jewish Museum):
vogelfrei design, Lissabon: Claudia Wagner

Exhibition Production (Jewish Museum):
• Thomas Sensburg
• Peter Friedel
• Hasan Güneri
• Sabine Menges
• Lorant Brendea
• wulff & fischer dekorationsbau GmbH, Eschenlohe

Exhibition Production, Technical Team (Munich City Museum):
• Marcus Gora (management)
• Peter Armbrüster
• Ronny Hausmann
• Stephan Juttner
• Bernd Mollenhauer
• Raymond Wetzelaar
• Christian Ziegler

Lighting and Media (Munich City Museum):
• Martin Ries

110 Years of Behrensbau. Architecture and History

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Behrensbau, Düsseldorf

Model of the building by Peter Behrens

Background

Düsseldorf looks back on more than 100 years of German history at a historic building: the exhibition “110 Years of Behrensbau” sheds light on the eventful chronicle of the Behrens Building on the banks of the Rhine, its alternating uses and its famous architect Peter Behrens, which is closely linked to the Mannesmann Group. German economic policy, art and architectural history intersect at this historic site, the latter of which has been significantly influenced by the builder, who is also regarded as an exemplary pioneer of modern industrial and graphic design. However, the exhibition not only focuses on the Behrensbau as a milestone in German architectural history, but also on the future of this unique building. As a contemporary history museum for the House of History of North Rhine-Westphalia, it addresses the democratic, cultural and educational potential of the Behrens Building.
A fundamental motive for gewerkdesign’s work on this project was the concern to design and realize an exhibition as efficiently as possible in terms of environmental compatibility.The construction principles of the preserved exhibition elements of the anniversary exhibition “OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia”, which was designed by gewerkdesign and realized in the Behrensbau in 2021, enabled a resource-saving conversion and reuse for this exhibition. Modular substructures, demountable panel cladding, flexible showcase bases and large-scale dioramas could be adapted, reassembled, clad and furnished for this purpose.
Great emphasis was placed on energy conservation and the use of environmentally friendly materials. For example, the existing panels were used as graphic panels and covered with printed textile, while the physical didactics of the exhibition were designed to allow visitors to experience Behrend’s spatial concept by allowing daylight to illuminate the exhibition spaces, thus saving artificial lighting and energy. Applying principles such as multiple use, low material consumption in production, reusability of individual exhibition elements through minimal redesign, and a design approach that works with, rather than against, the existing architecture of Peter Behrens, the result is an exhibition that is highly sustainable, while creating an impressive exhibition experience visually and spatially.

Tasks / Range of Services
Basic evaluation, exhibition design, exhibition graphics, information graphics, dismantling and reconstruction planning, implementation planning, production management, participation in awarding contracts, construction management

Details

• Opening: May 24, 2023
• Where: Behrensbau, Düsseldorf
• Client: Foundation House of History of North Rhine-Westphalia
• approx. 530 m²

Similar Projects

• OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

Process

Team

• Adele Heymann
• Janine Iser
• Julia Junghänel
• Victor Reichert
• Stefan Rothert

Production
• i.xpo GmbH & Co. KG (exhibition construction)
• Zehnpfennig, Weber & Taylor GbR, Berlin (procurement of exhibits)
• vogelfrei design, Lissabon & Kommunikationskontor, Düsseldorf (graphics, layout and typesetting)
• Tinetronics, Köln & M-Create GmbH, Düsseldorf (exhibition media)
• Radebeuler Machwerk e.K., Radebeul (print production)

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Fit in the Forest – Health Trail in Berlin’s Grunewald Forest

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Forestry district Dachsberg, Grunewald Forest

FiF Logo

Background

In cooperation with the Berlin Forests (Berliner Forsten) and sports scientists of the Sports Health Park Berlin (Sport-Gesundheitspark Berlin e.V.), gewerkdesign has designed a 1.4 km long public health trail with 14 outdoor devices made of sustainable materials in the Dachsberg forest district in Berlin’s Grunewald.
At the time of the commission, the fitness trail, formerly known as “Trimm-dich-Pfad” (Trim Yourself Trail), was almost 20 years old and in urgent need of redesign. The former name also conveyed problematic body images and social claims. The newly designed trail “Fit im Forst” (Fit in the Forest) however, is primarily intended to prevent the most common diseases caused by lack of exercise, to encourage spending time in nature and to promote a generally health-conscious lifestyle.

By choice of materials and the location of production, the project pursues a sustainable approach, and a social mission of health education and participation. The health trail was built in an area of Berlin’s Grunewald forest that is a designated landscape conservation area as well as a flora-fauna-habitat (FFH) and bird sanctuary (SPA). The use of reversible ground anchors, instead of concrete foundations, as fixation for the sports equipment, ensures the protection of the landscape, as there is no permanent interference with the soils, and thus flora and fauna. Graphic figures, explain the exercises and in each case specific disease prevention. Their illustration style is gender-neutral and physically rather average-looking, the didactics low-threshold and through the accompanying mascot of the district, the badger, easy going in terms of mediation.
The natural oak wood comes from sustainable and regional forestry in Brandenburg. The unvarnished stainless steel is extremely durable and 100% recyclable. Synthetic and composite materials are dispensed with entirely. The extended relaxation phases between the stations invite the visitors to explore the nature reserve and recreation area and also contribute to mental relief.

Tasks / Range of Services
Determination of basic principles, management of workshops, conception of sports equipment and exercises, equipment design, graphic design, implementation planning, guidance system

Details

• Opening: May 15, 2023
• Where: Forestry district Dachsberg, Paulsborn, Berlin
• Client: Berlin Foresters, Sports Health Park Berlin
• Length: 1.4 km

Similar Projects

• Wald.Berlin.Klima., Berlin

Press

• Berlin.de
• RBB
• Tagesspiegel
• Zehlendorf Aktuell

Design Process

Project Team

• Julia Junghänel
• Antoine Laurent
• Stefan Rothert
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Production and Mounting
• Team Falko Riepe

Photography
• gewerkdesign

House of the Princess – A Whole State as a Garden

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House of the Princess, Wörlitz

Bust of Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi

Background

The House of the Princess, also known as the Grey House, is the exhibition centre of the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation. It was built in 1789 as the private retreat of Princess Louise Henriette Wilhelmine von Anhalt-Dessau, wife of Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz. Before being inaugurated as exhibition centre in 2023, it was thoroughly modernized. Today, the House of the Princess contains a permanent exhibition showcasing 18th century landscaping as well as the princess’s significant art collection that not only conveys her deep understanding of art but also reflects her humanistic education and her knowledge of the discourse going on during her time, the enlightenment period. Numerous documents, letters and artworks prove her vast intellectual and societal activities. 

In addition to the permanent exhibition, changing special exhibitions take place at the House of the Princess. For this reason, gewerkdesign has devised the permanent exhibition with moveable elements so that it is possible to easily deinstall and reinstall the exhibition in accordance with current conservation standards and to store it efficiently. Maximal flexibility and highest-quality presentation of the exhibits were central factors in the exhibition design. gewerkdesign developed a discrete visitor routing, compact exhibition furniture, object cases and carts. The furniture enables the easy deinstallation of the exhibition and concurrently functions as depot architecture that ensures the storage to be in line with conservation standards. The graphic, material and colour concepts are based on historic styles, reflecting the feudal taste of the royal residence in a contemporary manner. A web-based app with audio guide explains the exhibition content with in-depth information in German and English as well as in a children’s version. The app was developed specifically for this commission by gewerkdesign in collaboration with the Berlin-based design studio Kulturbanause.

Tasks / Range of Services
General contractor, implementation planning, exhibition production, exhibition design, planning of the object presentation, exhibition graphics, information booklet, media graphics, app development

Details

• Opening: August 14, 2023
• Where: House of the Princess, Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
• Client: Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation
• Size: 1.000 m²

Similar Projects

• Georgium Palace, Dessau
• JMB on.tour, nationwide
• The Mobile Museum, all 53 district and independent cities of North-Rhine-Westphalia
• Eutin Castle, Eutin

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Costanza Rossi
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Birgit Schlegel

Production and Mounting
– Team Falko Riepe
– Team Rost (printing)
– Team Karo König (frame construction)
– Team Artavi (media)

App Development
• Team Kulturbanause Berlin

Photography
• gewerkdesign

On Air! The History of Radio and Television

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TECHNOSEUM, <b>Mannheim</b>

Historic Microphone

Background

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of German broadcasting in the fall of 1923, the Technoseum Mannheim is presenting an extensive special exhibition on the history of radio and television. In addition to tracing the development of technology and programming and the political role of broadcasting over the past 100 years, the exhibition is devoted in particular to the cultural and socio-historical dimensions of broadcasting history.
The exhibition’s scenographic centerpiece is a frequency band that acts as a physical thread guiding visitors along a vividly illustrated chronological scale through hundred years of radio and television history, literally “broadcasting” it.
It thus functions as an aesthetic narrative and organizing principle at the same time. Along both sides of the frequency band, the history of technology and historic perspectives of the broadcasting audience are staged in a vivid and informative manner. These narratives are divided into five time periods and staged like cabinets according to the epochs.

Acoustically, they are accompanied by a sample of the respective contemporary historical broadcasting highlights. The exhibition design allows visitors to discover the various stages of media history and its social impact in an interactive and audio-visual manner.
Furthermore the design is aiming to be sustainable:
Many exhibition elements, such as showcases, and lighting elements were reused and rearranged, but still conform to a style guide conceived for the exhibition, to which all graphic, cinematic, and digital mediation formats are also subject.

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, execution planning, project management and consulting, project development, exhibition graphics, general contractor, planning of object presentation, media and information graphics, sound collages

Details

• Opening: November 17, 2022
• Where: Technoseum, Mannheim
• Client: State Museum of Technology and Labour Mannheim, Technoseum
• Size: 850m²

Similar Projects

• Close-Up, Hamburg
• Visitor Centre of the Nuclear Power Plant Gösgen, Gösgen

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Antoine Laurent
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Birgit Schlegel
• Janine Iser
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Yunus Kleff

Production and Mounting
• Team Frankewerk
• Team Messegrafik & Messebau Schreiber

Media
• Peter Imig (sound collages)
• Jörgen Pisarz (media planning and production)

Photograpgy
• gewerkdesign

JMB on.tour

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JMB on.tour van, <b>Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff</b>

Cap "No Kippah? No Problem!"

Background

The mobile exhibition “JMB on.tour” is part of the Jewish Museum Berlin’s outreach program and will visit schools and youth centers nationwide with a revised concept. The aim of the project is to introduce children and teenagers, who do not have the opportunity to visit the actual museum, to Jewish culture, history and modern jewish life in a contemporary, playful manner. By placing greater emphasis on the history of relationships and diversity within Jewish history and culture – for example, with regard to religion, gender, sexuality and Jewish biographies – as well as experiences of discrimination, the exhibition content, jewish perspectives and experiences become more relatable, even to participants without any contact to jewish people or culture.
The design of the mobile exhibition aims to be as accessible as possible and to encourage participation. The multisensory exhibition modules offer playful, surprising and easy-to-understand access and still leave room for the experiences and comments of the workshop participants. Texts in simple language explain what each module is about. By means of magnets the exhibits are attached to metal graphic panels, which supplement them with explanatory texts. This allows participants to touch and interact with them, while ensuring that everything stays in place when the exhibition is transported. The exhibition elements are produced sustainably, easy to transport and designed to be long-lasting. They can be set up quickly and adapted to the respective local conditions. Thus, with little effort, they generate a mobile pedagogical-museum space.

Tasks / Range of Services
Basic evaluation, exhibition concept, exhibition design and planning, execution planning, participation in awarding contracts and production management, construction management, hands-on development, exhibition graphics

Details

• Opening: September 2022
• Where: Nationwide
• Client: Jewish Museum Berlin
• Size: 40 m², Packing volume: 2,5 m³

Similar projects

•  Mobile Museum, North Rhine-Westphalia
•  Our Courage, Frankfurt and Berlin

Design Process

Team

• Victor Reichert
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Jens Imig
• Sebastian Franke
• Sinem Özer
• Marie Teigler

Production and Mounting
• Team Falko Riepe

Photography
• gewerkdesign
• Jewish Museum Berlin, Yves Sucksdorff