Category: Exhibition

Jewish Museum Rendsburg

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Jewish Museum, Rendsburg

The media station depicts the silhouettes of typical Jewish objects

Background

»What does Jewish mean, actually?« – after remodelling its permanent exhibition, the Jewish Museum Rendsburg has now dedicated its central room to this puzzling question. This room, as well as three more others presenting religious heritage and traditions, was designed and constructed by gewerkdesign.

For the exhibition gewerkdesign, together with Lotsenhaus Media, designed many interactive media stations; for instance, a humorous animation of the Tora’s myths and stories, and a chatbot conversing with the visitors about what the term »Jewish« actually means.

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

Details

• Opening: June 2014
• Exhibition site: Jewish Museum,
FRendsburg
• Client: Schleswig-Holstein
FState Museums Foundation
FGottorf Castle
• 140 m²

Related projects

• Jüdisches Museum Berlin
• Flucht und Verwandlung.
FNelly Sachs, Schriftstellerin
• Flucht und Verwandlung.
FNelly Sachs, Schriftstellerin
F(Katalog)

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Katharina Erben
• Julia Junghänel
• Tania Sívertsen
• Steffen Sendelbach

Media
• Karsten Ruschhaupt, Lotsenhaus Media

Photography
• gewerkdesign

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

The Enterprise of Opera – Verdi. Boito. Ricordi.

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First opening at the Bertelsmann representative office Berlin

Set design for the production of »Otello« by Boito – Verdi – Ricordi

Background

In less than six months, gewerkdesign developed and constructed an exhibition sculpture made of a curved steel pipe and cherry wood.

The sculpture can be viewed from all sides and guides the visitors into creatively interpreting musical motives like melody, staves, and composing. Despite the light appearance of the metal construction, the steel pipe contains the whole of the exhibition’s technical equipment. Thus »The Enterprise of Opera« is a »plug-and-play« exhibition resembling the scenic design of an opera set, which can be mounted and dismounted very quickly.

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

Details

• First opening:
F06. November 2013
• Exhibition site: Palazzo
FMorriggia, Museo del
FRisorgimento, Milan, Italien
• Client: Ricordi & C.S.r.l.,
FMailand, Italien
• ca. 180 m2

Related projects

• Cranach the younger
Fdiscovery of a master
• Friederisiko. Frederick
Fthe great

Design process

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Katharina Erben
• Nanna Funke
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Steffen Sendelbach

Prototype construction
• Paul Klier

Audio installation
• Harald Krewer, Vera Teichmann, speaklow

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

Berlin Marathon, SCC-Events

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SCC Events, Berlin

SCC Events hosts one of the largest sports events in the world: the Berlin Marathon

Background

In 2012 gewerkdesign created a new exhibition stand for the event management company SCC Events, which, among other things, hosts the Berlin Marathon – one of the World Marathon Majors, a touristic highlight of Berlin and one of the most popular running events in the world.
Thanks to its changeable graphic panels, the exhibition stand can be individually equipped for different SCC events, representing the client at sports fairs all over Germany.

Portfolio / Range of Services: design of the exhibition stand, detailed planning, graphic design, preparation and participation in the commissioning process, supervision of the production, media concept and video editing, updating of the graphic panels

Details

• First presented: September 2012
• Berlin Marathon and Half
FMarathon Running Fair
• Client: SCC-Events GmbH
• 30 m²

Related projects

• Two wheels – Freiherr of
FDrais and the cultural evolution
Fof the bicycle
• velotaxi – CityCruiser I + II
Fand Delivery Cruiser

Design process

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Isabell Fringer

Graphic design
• Volker Böhm, hneun

Mounting
• D4 Projekte

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

STASI. State Security in the SED-Dictatorship

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Training centre of the BSTU, Berlin

The STASI headquarters in 1990

Background

The catalogue’s nine narrative chapters document the history, ideology, structure and influence of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR.

It presets the paradigmatic life stories of six GDR citizens, each of whom had become targets of the STASI. The stories are supplemented by documents, photographs, drawings and 12 essays by distinguished experts.

Portfolio / Range of Services: brand design of the exhibition and all printed materials, catalogue design, layout and final artwork, supervision of the production

Details

• Published: January 2011
• Catalogue accompanying the
Fexhibition with 12 essays
• Editor: Federal Commissioner
Ffor the Records of the State
FSecurity Service of the former
FGerman Democratic Republic,
FBStU
• 222 pages

Related projects

• STASI. Die Ausstellung zur
FStaatssicherheit der DDR
• Feind ist, wer anders denkt
• Berliner Mauerweg – Außenring
• Berliner Mauer

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta

Photography
• gewerkdesign

STASI. State Security in the SED Dictatorship

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Training centre of the BStU, Berlin

Erich Mielke’s red suitcase

Background

The permanent exhibition of the BStU illustrates the consequences of the secret police’s activities on individuals and society. Its nine narrative chapters document the history, ideology, structure and influence of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR.

The exhibition consists of an anteroom with a multivision, a passage room with a filing cabinet illustrating the STASI’s working methods and an exhibition room presenting an array of documents and other materials.

Hovering above the ground, visitors see an intricately designed »biographer« with the paradigmatic life stories of nine GDR citizens, each of whom had become targets of the STASI. Each of the stories has been supplemented by a short film and an object. A labyrinth of grey vitrines appearing to grow from the ground and movable doors covered with fabric illustrate how the STASI’s working methods seamlessly fit into citizens’ everyday life.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition dramaturgy, exhibition architecture, graphic design, media design, production, printed material, outdoor advertising material, signage, interior design of the training centre

Details

• Opening: January 2011
• Exhibition site: Training
Fcentre of the BStU, Berlin
• Client: Federal Commissioner
Ffor the Records of the State
FSecurity Service of the former
FGerman Democratic Republic,
FBStU
• 535 m²

Related projects

• The dissenter is the enemy
• Forced labour. The germans
Fthe forced labourers and the war
• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (catalogue)

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Thilo Albers
• Christian Hoffmann
• Christina Kitta
• Marten Suhr

Fotografie
• Markus Müller
• Susanna Hufsky

Forced Labour. The Germans, the Forced Labourers and the War

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Industrial Museum Zeche Zollverein, Dortmund

Logotype of the exhibition »Forced Labour«

Background

Having visited Berlin, Moscow, Dortmund, Warsaw, Prague, Hamburg and Steyr, the traveling exhibition introduces 60 representative case studies of forced labour during WWII. It aims to show how the occupied territories were exploited by National Socialist Germany in its abduction of more than 20 million people that it forced into providing labour.

Within a metal frame encompassing all technical equipment in use, the exhibition creates linearly structured compartments, which have been individually coloured, lit and substructured.

In order to visualize the brutality and imminence of forced labour as a system, throughout the course of the narrative the exhibition’s modular compartments become steadily larger, narrower and darker. The exhibition ends with a series of video interviews with contemporary witnesses.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition architecture, media design, graphic design, production, production management, supervision of the exhibition at the different exhibition sites

Details

• First opening: October 2010
• Exhibition sites: Berlin, Moscow,
FDortmund, Warsaw, Prague,
FHamburg, Steyr
• Client: Memorial Foundation
FBuchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora,
Finitiated and supported by the
Ffoundation »Memory, Responsibility
Fand Future«
• 1.000 m²

Related projects

• Wolfenbuettel prison –
FRemodelling of the former
Fexecution site
• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (catalogue)
• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (exhibition)
• The dissenter is the enemy

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Klaus Fermor
• Julia Junghänel
• Christine Kitta
• Marten Suhr
• Marie-Luise Uhle
• Ann-Christin Warntjen

Architektur
• Johannes Gotaut
• Jan Leisse

Ausstellungsbau
• Walther Expointerieur

Schriftsatz
• Klaus Böhm

Druck
• Radebeuler Machwerk e.K., Radebeul

Fotografie
• Christoph Musiol