Category: Culture

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.

Tasks / 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.

Tasks / 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.

Tasks / 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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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.

Tasks / 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

Implementation of typesetting and texts
• vogelfrei design, Claudia Wagner, Berlin

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Open Up! – How Digitalisation changes Science

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The second site of „Open Up!“ at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Berlin

Data(book) - Tower

Background

The exhibition presents the ZBW’s leading role and exemplary solutions for the »Library of the Future«, raising awareness for the changes to come. For presenting these future demands in an authentic fashion the modularly built travelling exhibition features interconnected »Towers of Information« (data stacks) as a key image – accessing a source of information enables the accessing of further sources. This key image elaborates on the existing concept image for the development of the ZBW: following the spirit of »Open Science« and evolving from a »dusty« library into a digital, interconnected, and open access science library of the 21st century. The travelling exhibition presents these developments as a three dimensional space and as architecture. It creates a physical, tangible image of the ZBW’s evolution into a »Library of the Future« by visualising the tasks that ensue these changes. It illustrates the challenges attached to these tasks and the changing process, gives project examples, and allows a vision of the future by presenting current achievements and their future potential. The exhibition’s content and architecture is centred on the ZBW and its leading role in tackling one of society’s key questions: what does the library of the future look like?

Tasks / Range of Services
Workshop for compiling and developing the exhibition’s content, exhibition design and planning, general contractor, exhibition production, exhibition graphics, pictograph design

Details

• Opening: 11. March 2019
• Where: Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm- FZentrum, Berlin
• Client: ZBW – Leibniz Information FCentre for Economics, Kiel
• 300m²

Related projects

• Sugar and Beyond!, Berlin
• Out of Office, Hamburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Henning Humml
• Victor Reichert
• Sebastian Franke

Production and Mounting
• Falko Riepe

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Out of Office – When robots and AI do our work for us

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Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg

What differences are there (still) between humans and machines?

Background

The special exhibition discusses the future changes in our working habits, brought about by the increasing competition humans encounter from artificial intelligence. Will we find new modes of cooperation, enabling us to work more freely, or will human employees be made more and more redundant? The joint exhibition project by the Bucerius Lab of the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin and the Museum der Arbeit discusses in eleven chapters the fundamental changes AI and robots have already brought about in our working environment and which developments might be in store for us. The exhibition weighs chances and risks of these developments and encourages reflection about our position in the future working world. The exhibition’s scenography elaborates on the connection between humans and machines, drawing a line from the past to the present, and spying into the future. The exhibition commences in the lobby – furnished with paintings showing a romanticised idea of work, and doused in a warm and dim light. In the exhibition hall, a former industrial site, a sharp contrast follows: here the visitors find themselves entangled in a »neural network«, resembling the human brain and its organic connections, nerve cords, and synapses, but resembling also the core of an artificial intelligence – straight, cool, technical, and fast. Cords span the whole room, lead to the different narrative chapters, and create connections. Everything is connected to everything in this simplistic, concentrated, and dynamic design. The last exhibition chapter is an interactive and participatory »Forum« – a place for entering the discussion about one’s experiences and one’s own point of view.

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, preparation/participation in the commissioning process, design, concept development for the display, exhibition production, visiual signage system, project management and consulting project development, exhibition graphics

Details

• Opening: 6. November 2018
• Where: Museum der Arbeit,
FHamburg
• Client: Stiftung Historische
FMuseen Hamburg in cooperation
Fwith Zeitstiftung Ebelin and
FGerd Bucerius
• 650 m²

Related projects

• Sugars and Beyond!, Berlin
• Science + Fiction,
FTraveling Exhibition

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Franziska Müller
• Victor Reichert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Ida Flik
• Anna Priese

Light and Mounting
• Team Museum für Arbeit
• Uwe Sinkemat

Photography
• Pablo Hassmann

The future quality of living in Altona – Urban development in the 20th and 21st century

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Hamburg Historic Museums Foundation Altona Museum

Hands-on station: building your own city

Background

The special exhibition of the Altona Museum thoroughly examines house-building and urban development in an innovative way. Taking the Hamburg district Altona itself as a starting point, the exhibition’s appealing scenography, its striking graphics, and vivid colours (as a reference to the art of Piet Mondrian) guide the visitors through more than 100 years of house-building in Altona. The topics described in the exhibition range from the housing shortage of the 1890s, the National Socialist housing policy, the idea of car-friendly cities from the 1950s and 60s, the urban development spurred by the citizens of the 1970s, and current developments. A signage system in the shape of a black and white „roadmap“ along the walls and floors guides the visitors through the different chronological chapters. Thematic displays through the tour complement the chronological narrative and accentuate the design. Their vivid, monochrome scenography resembles the rooms of an apartment and creates a strong visual focus. These room-in-a-room installations invite the visitors to come inside, reflect, and take action. These thematic displays correspond to the topics emphasized by the tour. Tenancy laws, for example, are discussed in the “bedroom”, the topic of mobility in the “garage”. Exhibits like doll houses from different periods and architectural models are supplemented by portrait features of the architects or interviews with the tenants. Interactive stations and hands-on exhibits invite the visitors to get involved and start designing themselves. After all, the exhibition pursues the difficult question of how to create new living spaces for a growing city without diminishing the quality of living or the community interaction.

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, general contractor, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting project development, concept and production of the hands-on exhibits, exhibition graphics, signage system through the exhibition

Details

• Opening: 28. September 2018
• Where: Altona Museum, Hamburg
• Client: Hamburg Historic Museums
FFoundation, Altona Museum
• 1.235 m²

Related projects

• Riots + New Beginnings,
FBremen
• Civil Museum,
FWolfenbüttel

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Janine Iser
• Franziska Müller
• Ida Flik
• Takaya Kobayashi

Production and Mounting
• Team Uwe Sinkemat
• Team Falko Riepe

Photography
• Pablo Hassmann

Museum rework at Eutin Palace

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View of Eutin Castle

new Logo

Background

The museum of the Eutin Palace has by stages reworked its permanent exhibition as well as its graphic identity – created and accompanied by gewerkdesign.

First to be reopened were the redesigned Royal Loge, the Palace Chapel and the Antependium Room. The antependium, a precious altar hanging, is the sole focal point in the design concept of its room. The redesign of the antependium room is created around the exhibit itself. An intricate lighting concept guides the visitors’ gaze in the darkened and sparsely furnished room – with only the antependium to focus on.

The design of the new permanent exhibition including a modern signage system was inspired by the reflections and crystalline shapes of the luxurious chandeliers that are found throughout the palace. Taking this idea as a starting point, gewerkdesign developed a variety of design elements that guide the visitors from the inner courtyard to the newly staged first floor of the palace. In cooperation with the light designer Ulrike Link, indoor steles were created with colours matching the room they are positioned in. These textile polygons not only inform about the history of the rooms but also serve as lighting screens. Crystalline shapes – as the key element of the design – are also found in the new palace’s logo that was reworked by gewerkdesign.

An animated welcome film, produced together with the artist Larissa Blau, reflects the element of mirroring in its kaleidoscopic style. A digital media guide, developed with our project partners Graphscape and speak low, provides the visitors with additional material such as video, audio and text, while guiding them through the museum.

Tasks / 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, visual signage system, project management and consulting project development, media concept and media graphics, exhibition graphics, graphics booklet

Details

• 2017 Opening of the Royal Loge,
FPalace Chapel and Antependium
FRoom
• 2018 Opening of the permanent
Fexhibition, part 1
• 2019 Opening of the permanent
Fexhibition, part 2

• Where: Eutin Castle
• Client: Stiftung Schloss
FEutin
• Area: 1.660 m²

Related projects

• Cranach the Younger,
FWittenberg
• Prussia & Saxony,
FDoberlug-Kirchhain

Design Process

Project Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Janine Iser
• Julia Junghänel
• Franziska Schuh
• Sebastian Franke
• Volker Böhm

Lighting design
• Ulrike Link

Media
• Graphscape
• speak low
• Larissa Blau

Photography
• Jacintha Nolte

Georg Forster and the South Seas Collection

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Wörlitz Castle, Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz

Poster

Background

The permanent exhibition in Schloss Wörlitz opening 2019, the »Georg Forster Year«, will present one of Germany’s most impressive ethnographic collections. It is centred on the natural scientist Georg Forster, who at the end of the 18th century accompanied James Cook on his voyage around the world. During this trip Forster gathered a unique collection of objects from the Pacific region. The first part of this exhibition, titled »Georg Forster – Explorer of the World in Wörlitz«, opened in May 2018. gewerkdesign’s exhibition design was inspired by historical Polynesian nautical charts. We found these nautical masterpieces and their fragile aesthetics very fascinating. The exhibition’s elements are built on these light, almost floral basic designs and are combined with a delicate shadow play.

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, preparation / participation in the commissioning process, design, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting project development, exhibition graphics, graphics for flyer +and poster

Details

• Opening: 6. Mai 2018
• Where: Schloss Wörlitz,
FOranienbaum-
FWörlitz
• Client: Kulturstiftung
FDessau-Wörlitz
• 200 m²

Related projects

• Friederisiko, Potsdam
• Prussia & Saxony,
  Doberlug-Kirchhain
• Karibu Afrika, Bremen

Design process

Team

• Costanza Rossi
• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Julia Junghänel
• Ida Flik
• Jori Kehn

Photography
• Lucie Behrens
• Francisco Pablo Hassmann

New Bauhaus Chicago: Experimental Photography and Film

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  • © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Hans Glave

Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin

Plastics, colours, and transparencies

Background

To show the »New Bauhaus Chicago« school’s creativity and keenness to experiment was the exhibition design’s primary objective. The entrance to the exhibition makes reference to one of the institute’s most important tools: designed like a bellows camera, a darkened hallway calmly introduces the visitors to the »New Bauhaus Chicago’s « programme. The seclusion and the special lighting add to the concentrated atmosphere. Like a camera, the entrance gate leads to a large film projection. From there the visitors enter a wide open space – exuberant with lively motion. Here the protagonists and their films and photographic works are paramount. The architecture follows the design of the »New Bauhaus« and plays with its materials, colours, and motives. The exhibition design repeats the transparencies, reflections, and colourful plastics often used in its experimental films and photographs. One of these design elements is »blurriness«: resulting from a lack of technical possibilities at the time or the learning process itself, blurriness is a defining feature of many exhibits. The design quotes this blurriness and actively enhances it. The coarse grid in print graphics translates it into a coherent visual language. Combined with luminous typography and film projections floating in the room, the different elements merge into a diverse and translucent landscape. A colouring concept organizes the different impressions. The visitors can either relax in one of the chairs and contemplate on a detail or allow themselves to be engrossed by the buzzing blur of the ensemble.

Tasks / Range of Services
Joint conception, exhibition design, exhibition scenography, exhibition graphics, media design, planning concept, supervision and budget planning of the production, services 1-9 Hoai

Details

• Opening: 15. November 2017
• Where: Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
• Client: Bauhaus-Archiv e.V.
• 570 m²

Related projects

• Goodbye & Hello, Bern

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Bianca Mohr
• Marie-Luise Uhle

Promotional film / Media
• Larissa Blau
• Peter Imig

Photography
• Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Hans Glave