Category: Culture

The Whole Estate a Garden – House of the Princess

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House of the Princess, Wörlitz

Portrait of the princess by Angelika Kauffmann

Background

The House of the Princess, also known as the “Grey House,” is the planned exhibition center of the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation and is currently undergoing extensive modernization measures. Built in 1789/90 in neo-Gothic style, the building was once the retreat and private residence of Princess Louise Henriette Wilhelmine (1750-1811), the wife of Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau. The so-called Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, with its English-style landscaping, spacious parks and buildings, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000 and is now also a subject of the planned permanent exhibition, which invites visitors to discover and explore this unique landscape.

The focus of the exhibition, however, is on Princess Louise and her impressive art collection, which not only provides information about her accomplished understanding of art, but also bears witness to her humanistic education and connoisseurship of Enlightenment discourses of her time. Numerous exhibits, such as written correspondence with influential friends and artists as well as the collected works of art itself document her rich intellectual and social life. She was friends with artist Angelika Kauffmann, who even portrayed her. The exhibition also shows high-quality facsimiles of important architecture and works of art from the cosmos of Prince Franz and his cultural circle, which also included Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Intended for the entire year after the opening of the house and the winter months, which are not reserved for special exhibitions, the exhibition design conceived by gewerkdesign is based on the principles of the greatest possible flexibility and mobility while maintaining an adequate standard of exhibit presentation.
In addition to a simple guidance system, compact exhibition furniture, slide boxes and trolleys for exhibits were developed, which guarantee a smooth dismantling of the exhibition and at the same time function as depot architectures, which allow storage according to highest conservation requirements. The graphic, material and color concept pick up on the color schemes of the house from the construction period and reflect the feudal style of the princesses’ domicile in a contemporary staging. A web-based app, that also features an audio guide, explains the exhibition content optionally in a child-friendly format as well as for adults and provides further information in German and English. The app was developed by gewerkdesign in collaboration with the Berlin design agency Kulturbanause.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Exhibition design and planning, exhibition graphics, media graphics, production of exhibition production, exhibition booklet, concept development for the display, implementation planning, app development, general contractor

Details

• Opening: July 7, 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

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.

Portfolio / 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

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

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

Atlas – Art project by Aris Fioretos, sound artist Peter Imig & gewerkdesign

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Moderna Museet Stockholm

Atlas carrying a cloud

Background

»Atlas« is a three-dimensional cosmos, an imaginary world of literature. »Atlas« is an extensive work of art in the form of a book. The project is a cooperation between the Swedish writer Aris Fioretos and the design company gewerkdesign. Additionally, 24 selected chapters of Fioretos’ book were translated into sound collages by the musician Peter Imig. The project examines how events from history can be converted into stories, how fiction can become a fact. Evidence and prose, insight and argument are being intertwined into something resembling a pair of rolled-up socks, of which Walter Benjamin once said, that their form and content couldn’t be separated from one another. The elaborate book as well as the illustrations of the numerous protagonists were designed by gewerkdesign.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, general contractor, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management, exhibition graphics, sound production and sound installation, logistics and transport

Details

• Opening: 25. October 2019
• Where: Moderna Museet, FStockholm
• Material: wood pulp, finnboard and Fpaper, beechwood, wood glue, Felectronic elements
• 75 m²

Related projects

• Aris Fioretos: Mary, book design
• As long as I’m alive death won’t get Fme, book design
• Flight and Metamorphosis, Nelly FSachs, catalogue and print design

Design process

Team

• Katharina Erben
• Jens Imig
• Peter Imig
• Takaya Kobayashi
• Birgit Schlegel
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Production and mounting
• Jörgen Pisarz
• Riccardo Falletta
• Aufbauteam Moderna Museet

Photography
• gewerkdesign

100! – Universität Hamburg Past and Present

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  • Foto: Karin Plessing u. Reinhard Scheiblich, Hamburg

Main hall at the Universität Hamburg

Holy scripture of the Sikh religion from the department of culture and history of India

Background

The University of Hamburg is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019. Honouring this anniversary, a 300 square metre permanent exhibition about the scientific institution’s eventful past was put on display at the university museum’s main building. The exhibition approaches the past and present of the university in two different ways: on the one hand through a timeline with many previously unpublished photographs of everyday university life. In addition to this, numerous thematic displays present the topic from a different angle. Exhibits from the university’s different departments bear witness to the many different aspects of university life. An interactive column in front of the main hall welcomes the visitors with a sound collage assembled from 100 years of the university’s history. The exhibition itself also is interactive: the visitors can influence exhibits, people, and sounds from the university presented to them via sensors. A media guide supplements the exhibits and exhibition texts, offering a digital tour and a plethora of background material. gewerkdesign won the design competition for design and the mounting of the exhibition as well as the design of the exhibition catalogue.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, planning of the statutory approvals, implementation planning, preparation/participation in the commissioning process, design, concept development for the display, exhibition production, exhibition graphics, graphics exhibition catalogue

Details

• Opening: 24. September 2019
• Where: University Museum FHamburg
• Client: Universität Hamburg
• 350m²

Related projects

• ZBW – “Open Up!”, Kiel
• Out Of Office, Hamburg
• Sugars and Beyond!, Berlin

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Riccardo Falletta
• Bianca Mohr
• Costanza Rossi
• Birgit Schlegel
• Franziska Schuh
• Claudia Wagner
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Media and programming
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Photography
• gewerkdesign