Category: Culture

World Heritage Visitor Centre Wismar

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World Heritage Visitor Centre, Wismar

A model of the building at Lübscher Straße 23 explains the building’s different functions

Background

The new Visitor Centre in Wismar is dedicated to the city’s Hanseatic architecture and its classification as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Traces of the historical building periods uncovered during the building’s renovation have been prepared to explain the city’s architectural heritage to visitors. Together with the design of the exhibition and the communication concept developed by gewerkdesign and hneun, the building itself and its unique architectural history are the main exhibits in the Visitor Centre. In the centre of the rooms, multimedia tables present further issues connected to the world heritage of Wismar.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition scenography, graphic design, supervision of the production

Details

• Opening: June 2014
• World Heritage Visitor
FCentre, Wismar
• Client: DSK Deutsche Stadt-
Fund Grundstücksentwicklungs-
Fgesellschaft
• 600 m2

Related projects

• Preußen und Sachsen –
FSzenen einer Nachbarschaft
• Jüdisches Museum Rendsburg
• Tabak Collegium Oranienburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Thilo Albers
• Julia Junghänel

Communication concept and graphic design
• Volker Böhm, Raik Evert, Uta Bieger, hneun

Media
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Lighting
• Michael Flegel

Mounting and Production
• hertzer

Installation of the exhibits
• fissler Objekteinrichtung

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

Prussia & Saxony – Scenes from a Relationship between Neighbours

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Doberlug Castle, Doberlug-Kirchhain

Double portrait of John George II of Saxony and Friedrich Wilhelm Count Brandenburg by Johann Finks, around 1665

Background

After many years of planning and remodelling, the Brandenburg State Exhibition designed by gewerkdesign once again filled Doberlug Castle, which had temporarily fallen into disrepair, with ambience and atmosphere.

With its stage-like architecture, fabric prints and complex digital animations the cultural-historical exhibition gives an account of the relationship between the neighboring states of Prussia and Saxony. Apart from scientists, the exhibition also features animated historical characters recounting their very own take on Prussia and Saxony. The animations were created in cooperation with the Film University Konrad Wolf in Babelsberg.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition scenography, graphic design, supervision of the production, HAOAI 1-9, brand design exhibition

Details

• Opening: June 2014
• Exhibition site: Doberlug Castle,
FDoberlug-Kirchhain
• Client: House of Brandenburg-
FPrussian History, Potsdam
• 800 m²

Related projects

• TabakCollegium – Oranienbaum
• Friederisiko. Frederick
Fthe great
• Museum Wolfenbüttel –
FStrukturwandel

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Thilo Albers
• Jens Lohmann
• Carsten Saalmann

Mounting
• Falco Riepe

Photography
•  Marcus Müller-Witte
•  Ulrich Lange

Tabak Collegium Oranienbaum

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Collector’s residence, Oranienbaum Castle, Dessau

Mouth piece of a meerschaum pipe (Sepiolith), late 19th century

Background

Visitors to the »collector’s residence« are literally treated as if they had been invited into the home of a tobacco lover who in his private rooms and adjoining workshop collects machines, tools and memorabilia associated with the history of the tobacco industry in Oranienbaum.

As the host appears to have just left the building, visitors are free to relax in his living room while sitting in his elegant leather armchairs, browsing through his books, or admiring his collection. The private atmosphere is enhanced by black Dutch Design readymade-furniture assembled from both antique and new parts.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition scenography, graphic design, production management

Details

• Opening: December 2013
• Exhibition site: Collector’s residence,
FOranienbaum Castle, Dessau
• Client: Cultural Foundation
Fof the Garden Kingdom
Fof Dessau-Wörlitz
• 480 m²

Related projects

• Prussia & Saxony – Scenes
Ffrom a relationship between
Fneighbours
• Friederisiko. Frederick
Fthe great
• World heritage –
FVisitor centre Wismar

Design process

Team

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

Wood works
• Dirk Scheuerling und Peter Neumann, Zimmerservice Berlin

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Karibu Africa

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Übersee-Museum, Bremen

Lamp shade with Shoowa embroidery of the Kuba Kingdom

Background

Remodelling the Übersee-Museum’s African collection, gewerkdesign developed an exhibition that should appeal to both scientists and ordinary people, just like the Übersee-Museum’s founder Hugo Schauinsland envisioned some 100 years ago. Accordingly, the collections’s many precious artefacts are accompanied by many impressive dioramas and scale models.

The exhibition offers many different approaches to historic and contemporary Africa, showing the continent’s changing political history as well as the everyday life of different people in today’s Nairobi. The intricate construction of the exhibition’s architecture also accommodates many works of art, which were created in cooperation with African artists, sculptors, filmmakers and musicians.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Service phases 6 – 9, signage, media stations (animations), planning of the exhibits’ presentation

Details

• Opening: October 2013
• Client: Foundation of the
FÜbersee-Museum Bremen
• 1.500 m2

Related projects

• Goodbye & Hello – A dialogue
Fwith the hereafter
• Science + Fiction – Between
Fnanoworld and global culture

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Christian Hoffmann
• Fabian Leffelmann
• Rita Rentzsch
• Carsten Saalbach
• Marten Suhr

Typesetting
• Klaus Böhm

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Friederisiko. Frederick the Great

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New Palace and Sanssouci Park, Potsdam

The castellan’s key

Background

The exhibition in Sanssouci Park’s New Palace invites the visitors to explore the approximately 6000 m2 of exhibition space and learn about the life and times of Frederick the Great. They are free to stroll along a mulberry coloured path, which has been installed on top of the palace’s historic floors. This path protects the floors against wear and tear and simultaneously provides space for the supply and utility lines necessary for the presentation of the more than 600 exhibits.

The New Palace was the last palace built by Frederick the Great. Having significantly contributed to the palace’s appearance himself, the building is thus an expression of his taste and character. In view of this, the design for each of the exhibition’s nine narrative chapters makes different kinds of comments on the surrounding architecture.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Service phases 1-9, exhibition design and implementation, approval planning, implementation planning, preparation and participation in the commissioning process, planning of the exhibits’ presentation, production, signage, project management and consulting project development, graphic design of the exhibition and the accompanying booklet

Details

• Opening: 28. April 2012
• Exhibition site: New Palace
Fand Sanssouci Park, Potsdam
• Client: Prussian Palaces and
FGardens Foundation
FBerlin-Brandenburg
• 6.000 m²

Related projects

• Prussia & Saxony – Scenes
Ffrom a relationship between
Fneighbours
• Tabakcollegium –
FOranienbaum

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Thilo Albers
• Isabell Fringer
• Christian Hoffmann
• Christine Kitta
• Haleh Najafi-Shoushtari
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Production management
• Rainer Kaufmann

Production
• Falko Riepe

Animation
• Jan Gabbert,  Ellen Stein,
FBuchstabenschubser

Architecture
• Johannes Gotaut

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

Goodbye & Hello – A dialogue with the hereafter

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Museum of Communication Bern, Switzerland

There are many different ideas as to what the afterlife may look like. The exhibition »Goodbye & Hello« presents an impressive collection of bizarre objects.

Background

There are many different ideas as to what the afterlife may look like, but most of these are rather vague. The special exhibition »Goodbye & Hello« does not try to present a definite image. Rather, it presents an impressive collection of photographs and audio material, interviews and bizarre objects that themselves attempt or dare to communicate with the afterlife.

Alluding to optical illusions, the exhibition has a very graphical appearance in order to evoke astonishment and incredulity. The iF International Forum Design in Hannover awarded »Goodbye & Hello: A dialogue with the hereafter« with the »iF Communication Design Award 2009«.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition dramaturgy, exhibition architecture, graphic design, exhibition media, construction management / supervision of the production

Details

• Opening: October 2008
• Client: Museum of
FCommunication Bern,
FSwitzerland
• 400 m²

Related projects

• Our Black forest –
FRomanticism and reality

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Susanne Kluge
• Rita Rentzsch
• Ann-Christin Warntjen

Fotografie
• gewerkdesign

Science + Fiction – Between Nanoworld and Global Culture

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Miraikan, Tokio

Background

The international travelling exhibition »science + fiction« contemplates the cultural relations between fine arts and science. Within a structure designed exclusively for the exhibition by gewerkdesing works of art and scientific facts are juxtaposed.

Just like a »Wunderkammer« from the Renaissance when the arts and sciences were not as separate as they are today, the exhibition uses artistic works in order to comment upon the essential accomplishments of science represented by images, objects, specimens and media reports.

Working together with scientists and artists gewerkdesign specified an architectural matrix consisting of identical modules for integrating the exhibits.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design, scenography, brand design, production and production management

Details

• Opening: December 2002
• Exhibition sites: Hannover,
FKarlsruhe, Bonn, Dresden,
FStockholm, Munich, Eindhoven,
FTokio
• Client: Volkswagen Foundation,
FHannover
• 700 – 1.200 m²

Related projects

• Sugars and beyond!
FFood – Matter – Energy

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Barbara Höffer
• Tobias Solcher
• Hendrik Unger

Curators
• Thomas Spring
• Stefan Iglhaut

Artists
• Atelier Joep van Lieshout
• Dellbrügge & de Moll
• Christoph Keller
• Mark Weis, Martin de Mattia, M+M
• Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau

Scientists
• Andreas Engel
• Eva Kimminich
• Jörg Kotthaus

Photography
• Herling/Gwose
• Ursula Böhmer
• Peter Cox