Category: Contemporary history

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.

Portfolio / 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

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

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

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: expected in 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

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

Boundless – Colonialism, Industry and Resistance

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Museum of Work, Hamburg

Exhibition graphic

Background

This exhibition at the Museum of Work in Hamburg tackles a current and controversial topic. Its title, “Boundless – Colonialism, Industry and Resistance” highlights the close ties between Hamburg’s industry and European colonialism and the long-term consequences of colonial structures of rule. The exhibition takes a look at the entire history of German colonial and post-colonial structures, from its beginning around 1830 until today. The processing of raw materials is illustrated by four Hamburg factories. The show demonstrates how the products exhibited here and their consumption are connected to the working and living conditions in the countries supplying the raw materials. The visitors are greeted with a film installation created in collaboration with filmmaker Sonja Collison. The footage, in reference to the exhibition, spans a cinematic arc between the past and present of colonial history and today’s debate on racism. The appearance of the alley of raw materials following the film presentation is dedicated to museum depots: high shelves filled with both historical and current everyday products made from various colonial raw materials. Here, visitors learn how a hard rubber comb and a stearin candle from a manufacture in Barmbek are connected to the exploitation of people and natural resources in Congo or Samoa. They also see the faces of resistance to these colonial structures and their consequences. Printed on long pieces of fabric hanging from the ceiling, the visitors are repeatedly confronted with silhouettes of anonymous and well-known resistance fighters, current black authors, scientists, and artists.

In addition to exhibition design and layout, gewerkdesign conceived the graphics accompanying the exhibition with illustrations by artist Diana Ejaita.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, commissioning to subcontractors as a general contractor, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting project development, exhibition graphics; graphics for key visual, flyer and poster

Details

• Opening: 29. September 2020
• Where: Museum of Work, Hamburg
• Client: Foundation Historische FMuseen Hamburg
• 650 m²

Related projects

• Out Of Office, Hamburg
• The future quality of living in Altona, FHamburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Bianca Mohr
• Franziska Schuh
• Costanza Rossi
• Amelie Neb
• Sinem Özer
• Antoine Laurent
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Illustration
• Diana Ejaita

Film installation
• Sonja Collison

Exhibition production and mounting
• the workshop team of Museum of Work
• Uwe Sinkemat
• Rudi Poetsch

Photography
• gewerkdesign: Kate Riep

Our Courage. Jews in Europe 1945–48

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Jewish Museum Frankfurt

Zeilsheimer DP camp newspaper Undzer Mut, December 1946

Background

With its eleven essays, city portraits, personal portraits, and numerous illustrations, the catalogue describes the diversity of Jewish experiences in the years following the war. Taking a pan-European, transnational perspective, the book gives an account of how Jewish survivors and refugees actively took their fate into their own hands after the breakdown of civilizations. It relates their search for surviving relatives, their organising their emigration, rebuilding their social networks and their communities, as well as their demanding justice, restitution, and the documentation of the Nazi crimes.

Portfolio / Range of Services
cover and flyleaf design, typography concept, layout

Details

• published: September 2020
• publishing House: De Gruyter FOldenbourg
• editor: Jewish Museum Frankfurt
• catalogue accompanying the Fexhibition »Our Courage. Jews in FEurope 1945-48« at the Jewish FMuseum Frankfurt
• 358 pages, ca. 200 illustrations Fprinted in duplex mode
• containing essays by Kata Bohus, FWerner Hanak, Mirjam Wenzel and FAtina Grossmann

Related projects

• Flight and Metamorphosis, Nelly FSachs, writer, Berlin
• STASI, State Security in the SED-FDictatorship
• Pills and Pipettes, The chemical Fpharmaceutical industry

Design process

Team

• Birgit Schlegel

Photography
• gewerkdesign

World of Media – Radio Bremen 75 years

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Focke Museum, Bremen

Historical microphone from the early days of the broadcasting agency

Background

The year 2020 will be a celebration for the Hanseatic City of Bremen: Radio Bremen turns 75! The Focke Museum contributes to the festivities with a special exhibition: „Medienwelten – The World of Media“ shows the development of the regional public broadcasting agency Radio Bremen – its past, present, and future – and gives an analysis which can be applied to all the media development in Germany. The exhibition also contemplates what media means to us: on average, we spend seven hours a day with radio, television, and internet. The way we use these media varies widely. Statistics of current media usage can be accessed on interactive HandsOn exhibits, encouraging the visitors to reflect on their own media consumption and habits. With its 800 sqm, the participatory and inclusive exhibition is divided into three chapters. An elaborate walk-in media centre made of sound, film, light, and original documents takes the visitors on a journey through 75 years of Radio Bremen’s programs. Another chapter is the so-called “Schnittstelle” – an open intersection with numerous HandsOn exhibits inviting the visitors to dig deeper into the material. The third chapter, the Studio, offers audio and media exhibits, a green screen, an assembly of facts on a large wall, and the “Talking Heads”: four life-size monitors. On all levels, the visitors are encouraged to become media experts themselves and blend into the interactive exhibition.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, exhibition graphics, planning concept, commissioning to subcontractors as a general contractor, design and planning of media, exhibits’, and HandsOn exhibits’ display, project and production management, graphics

Details

• Opening: 25. September 2020
• Where: Focke-Museum, Bremen
• Client: Focke Museum, Bremer FState Museum for Art and Cultural FHistory
• 800 m²

Related projects

• 100! Jahre Uni HH, Hamburg
• Open Up!, Berlin
• Out Of Office, Hamburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Julia Junghänel
• Victor Reichert
• Sinem Özer
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Cooperation
• Uwe Sinkemat
• Jean Fürst
• Raudies

Photography
• gewerkdesign: Alexandra Zackiewicz