Category: Exhibition

The Dissenter is the Enemy

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First opening at the Hamburg Chamber of Trade and Commerce

Background

The travelling exhibition of the Stasi Records Agency (BStU) has been travelling across Germany and Europe since 2008.
On 200 m² of exhibition space luminous cubes resembling the metal filing cabinets of the Stasi explain the administrative machinery behind the assault. A table with a timeline defines important events in the history of the GDR. Biographical display stands recount the individual fates of people who were monitored by the Stasi.

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design, exhibition graphics, graphic design of printed and supplementary material (catalogue, materials for journalists and students), production of the travelling exhibition

Details

• First opening: November 2008
• Exhibition sites: Hamburg Chamber
• Other sites: Europewide
• Client: Federal commissioner for
Fthe Records of the State Security
FService of the former German
FDemocratic Republic, BStU
• 200 m²

Related projects

• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (catalogue)
• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (exhibition)

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta
• Susanne Kluge
• Stefan Schöbinger

Metallarbeiten
• Paul Klier

Fotografie
• Bert Brüggemann
• Ursula Böhmer

Goodbye & Hello: In dialogue with the beyond

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Museum of Communication, Bern

Background

People’s ideas about the afterlife vary greatly but are mostly vague. The exhibition »Goodbye & Hello« does not intend to create a concrete image; rather, it presents an impressive collection of audio recordings, photographic material, interviews, and bizarre objects that attempt or represent the communication with the beyond. With its graphic structures reminiscent of optical illusions, the immersive scenography and exhibition architecture, as well, oscillate between amazement and disbelief.

The International Forum Design in Hannover honored the exhibition with the iF communication design award 2009.

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

Details

• Duration: 17 October 2008
Fto 5 July 2009
• Location: Museum for
FCommunication, Bern
• Client: Museum for
FCommunication, Bern
• 500 m2

Related projects

• Our Black forest –
FRomanticism and reality

Design Process

Team

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

Fotografie
• gewerkdesign

Berlin Wall

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Background

Starting point for gewerkdesign’s logotype for the Berlin Wall was a rectangle mirroring the proportions of the wall and corresponding with the words »Berliner Mauer«. Omitting one segment of the rectangle in between the words makes reference to the former division of Berlin into an eastern and western part, yet also the opening of the wall. The missing segment is repeated a little below the rectangle and can be used for including additional information like a place, an event, or a date.

The logotype was selected in an elaborate selection procedure by the Federal Government of Germany. It identifies all institutions subject to public law that are dedicated to the research and information about the Berlin Wall or the history of the German division. It is also used as a certificate for quality approved products and services of non-governmental institutions.

The Berlin Wall logotype was awarded the European Design Award in Stockholm 2008.

Tasks / Range of Services
Logotype design, brand design

Details

• Published: September 2008
• Client: The Federal Government
FCommissioner for Culture
Fand the Media

Related projects

• Berliner Mauerweg – Außenring
• Stiftung Berliner Mauer

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Susanne Kluge

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Berlin Wall Memorial

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Marienfelde Refugee Center Museum, Berlin

Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße 111, Berlin

Background

The logotype by gewerkdesign for the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße 111 was first published in 1999.

It consists of the three delicate numerals 1 and the words »Berliner Mauer – Dokumentationszentrum«, alluding to the address of the memorial and the division of the Berlin Wall into three parts: the eastern wall, the death zone, and the western wall. The logotype is very flexible because the space in between the numerals is variable and responds to the width of the print product.

As the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial were combined by a superordinate institution in 2009 – the Foundation of the Berlin Wall – their respective logotypes were redesigned and made to fit together harmonically.

Tasks / Range of Services
Logotype design, style guide, print materials (office equipment, basic layout of flyers), catalogues, posters

Details

• Published: August 1999,
Fredesign 2009
• Client: Foundation of the
FBerlin Wall with the Berlin
FWall Memorial and the
FMarienfelde Refugee Centre
FMemorial

Related projects

• Berliner Mauer Logo
• bcc – Berliner Congress Center

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta
• Susanne Kluge

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Berlin Wall Trail

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Background

In 2006 gewerkdesign created a signage system for the the Berlin Wall hiking and bike trail, which traces the course of the former GDR border fortifications encircling West Berlin.

During the course of the 160 km long train gewerkdesign’s simple orange signs point out historical sites and, similar to the well known »stolpersteine«, honour the memory of the 46 people, who were kille trying to cross the border.

Tasks / Range of Services
signage system, design, planning, supervision of the implementation

Details

• Opening: April 2006
• Berlin Wall Hiking and
FBike Trail
• Client: Grün Berlin Park
Fund Garten GmbH
• ca. 60 posts, continually
Fexpanded

Related projects

• Gartenregion Hannover,
FInformations- und Leitsystem

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Andreas Baumbach
• Julia Junghähnel
• Rita Rentzsch
• Tobias Solcher

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Science+Fiction. Between Nano World and Global Culture

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Miraikan, Tokio

Background

The scenographic art exhibition »Science+Fiction« deals with the cultural connections between the arts and sciences and is being shown as an international travelling exhibition in both art museums and science museums. Similar to a cabinet of curiosities from the Renaissance, when the arts and sciences were not yet clearly separated, images, objects, and media reports on science are juxtaposed with works of art.

The design and presentation aesthetics of the exhibition must fit well into the ambience of the different museum spaces. To this end, gewerkdesign developed an architectural grid system that staged the exhibition as an experiment and invited scientists and artists to integrate their topics and ideas into a kind of formal matrix.

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design, scenography, brand design, production, production management

Details

• Start: December 2002
• Locations: 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