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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

On Air! The History of Radio and Television

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TECHNOSEUM, <b>Mannheim</b>

Historic Microphone

Background

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of German broadcasting in the fall of 1923, the Technoseum Mannheim is presenting an extensive special exhibition on the history of radio and television. In addition to tracing the development of technology and programming and the political role of broadcasting over the past 100 years, the exhibition is devoted in particular to the cultural and socio-historical dimensions of broadcasting history.
The exhibition’s scenographic centerpiece is a frequency band that acts as a physical thread guiding visitors along a vividly illustrated chronological scale through hundred years of radio and television history, literally “broadcasting” it.
It thus functions as an aesthetic narrative and organizing principle at the same time. Along both sides of the frequency band, the history of technology and historic perspectives of the broadcasting audience are staged in a vivid and informative manner. These narratives are divided into five time periods and staged like cabinets according to the epochs.

Acoustically, they are accompanied by a sample of the respective contemporary historical broadcasting highlights. The exhibition design allows visitors to discover the various stages of media history and its social impact in an interactive and audio-visual manner.
Furthermore the design is aiming to be sustainable:
Many exhibition elements, such as showcases, and lighting elements were reused and rearranged, but still conform to a style guide conceived for the exhibition, to which all graphic, cinematic, and digital mediation formats are also subject.

Portfolio / Range of Services:

Exhibition design and planning, execution planning, project management and consulting, project development, exhibition graphics, general contractor, planning of object presentation, media and information graphics, sound collages

Details

• Opening: November 17, 2022
• Where: Technoseum, Mannheim
• Client: State Museum of Technology and Labour Mannheim, Technoseum
• Size: 850m²

Similar Projects

• Close-Up, Hamburg
• Visitor Centre of the Nuclear Power Plant Gösgen, Gösgen

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Bianca Mohr
• Antoine Laurent
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Birgit Schlegel
• Janine Iser
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Yunus Kleff

Production and Mounting
• Team Frankewerk
• Team Messegrafik & Messebau Schreiber

Media
• Peter Imig (sound collages)
• Jörgen Pisarz (media planning and production)

Photograpgy
• gewerkdesign

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

gewerk in the garden

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gewerk in the garden <b>#1 immersion</b>

Speaker Katharina Erben

Background

The event series gewerk in the garden serves as a platform for culture enthusiasts, designers and cultural workers and takes place in the garden of our studio in Berlin.
In the summer of 2022, a total of three events are planned, each with a different thematic focus.
We will invite various speakers from different cultural fields, who offer impulsive lectures, readings or workshops as a theoretical or application-related basis for an interactive discourse with our guests, and point out new perspectives or developments.

Why is this important to us?

Design in general and exhibition design and architecture in particular are, as we know, always an expression of social developments and can, on the other hand, influence our modes of action and the way we perceive things. Cultural, social and political processes affect every design discipline. This makes it crucial to ask certain questions in design continuously.
Questions such as: Who is being addressed? And maybe even more important: who is not?
How is design communicating? Are ecological and economic factors sufficiently taken into account? And how do current events, discourses and trends change the design disciplines, the cultural field and creative work?
As an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary design office, we must ask these questions and exchange ideas – as the word “trans” (Latin: “beyond”, “over”, “across”) already indicates. In other words: We have to transfer ideas and concepts to other perspectives and contexts and make them transparent.
Together with our guests, we do not only want to discuss current issues and tendencies, but also develop questions and topics together. gewerk in the garden intends to create a platform from which a progressive dialogue can emerge.

A summary of the subjects and perspectives discussed at the respective events will be published on our website afterwards.
For the latest news about gewerk in the garden visit our homepage or our Instagram page.

You would like to participate in the next event?
Mail us: inthegarden@gewerk.com

Details

• When: May 2022 – End of Summer
• Where: In the garden of our studio in Berlin

Close-Up – Hamburg’s History of Film and Cinema

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Exterior view of the Altona Museum

Exhibit: film camera

Background

With the exhibition „Close-Up“, the Altona Museum presents 120 years of Hamburg’s film and cinema history. The exhibition design focuses on the cinema screen as a partition between the auditorium and the backstage area. It comprises five different cinema environments furnished with posters, photos, film clips, and props, opening spectacularly with the original film set of Fatih Akin’s “Der Goldene Handschuh”. The exhibition architecture elaborates on the transient qualities of film making: materials such as cinema velvet, wooden scaffolding, and printed black cardboard evoke the atmosphere of a film set. Film-up! 3D becomes 2D becomes 3D. On a separate stage, the so-called “Trickkiste”, the exhibition presents the world of animation and animated films from Hamburg.

Portfolio / Range of Services

Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, general contractor, exhibition production, project management, exhibition graphics, signage system

Details

• Opening: 08 December 2021
• Where: Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
• Client: Stiftung Historische Museen FHamburg, Altonaer Museum
• 1.050m²

Similiar projects

• New Bauhaus Chicago, Berlin

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Costanza Rossi
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Antoine Laurent
• Marie Teigler

Media and programming
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Construction and mounting
• Team Uwe Sinkemat
• Rudi Poetsch

Photography
• Giuliani / Von Giese Fotografie

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

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Museum der Arbeit, <b>Hamburg</b>

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.

Portfolio / 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

Bautzen Memorial

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Entrance to the former prison, <b>Bautzen Memorial</b>

Photograph of a prison cell

Background

On September 19th, the third and last part of Bautzen Memorial’s permanent exhibition »Haft unterm Hakenkreuz Bautzen I und Bautzen II 1933-1945« about the National Socialist penal system was inaugurated. gewerkdesign has been involved in the different stages of Bautzen Memorial’s remodelling since 1997, having created the design for the exhibition parts about Bautzen as a Stasi prison and as a special detention camp during the Soviet occupation. The parts are chronologically arranged on the three stories of the building. While the architecture of the building was mostly left in its original state, a few of the rooms were rearranged: Their contemplative exhibition design provides an opportunity for the visitors to concentrate on the exhibitions and on the information given. Creative highlight: the rooms are furnished with a free transformable, modular system of wooden shelves – elegantly honouring the complex history of the memorial site. The shelf compartments’ proportions are similar to the former prison cells, thus referring to the site itself and its architecture. In order to physically and semantically guide the visitors through the multi-layered area, gewerkdesign created a signage system and, together with Lotsenhaus Media, a media guide.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting project development, exhibition and media graphics, media guide, facsimile production

Please note that the copyrights for the project-photo being used on our landing page are with: © Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH

Details

• Opening of the last part:
F19. September 2018
• Where: Bautzen Memorial
• Client: Stiftung Sächsische
FGedenkstätten
• total area: 400 m²

Related projects

• STASI., BStU, Berlin
• The Dissenter is the Enemy,
FHamburg etc.

Design Process

Team

• Costanza Rossi
• Jens H. Lohmann
• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel

Media guide
• Lotsenhaus

Photography
• Francisco Pablo Hassmann

Remodelling of Eutin Castle’s Exhibition Concept

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View of the <b> castle Eutin</b>

new Logo

Background

Starting 2015, Eutin Castle’s museum has undertaken a gradual and extensive remodelling of its appearance – designed and consulted by gewerkdesign. The process was divided into several parts: in April 2017 the remodelling of the castle’s chapel was finished, the newly designed royal seating platform in the chapel, and the adjoining chamber presenting the antependium – a luxurious textile decoration in front of the altar. The redesign of the antependium chamber is focused on the exhibit itself. An intricate lighting concept guides the visitors’ eyes through the dimly lit room’s simple furnishings – with the antependium as the room’s centre and focus.
The next part of the remodelling – a modern signage system and the first part of the new permanent exhibition – was presented to the public in June 2018. The design drew inspiration from the reflections and crystalline shapes of the castle’s luxurious chandeliers. Taking this idea as a starting point, gewerkdesign designed a variety of graphic elements that would guide the visitors from the inner courtyard into the castle’s piano nobile. Cooperating with the lighting designer Ulrike Link, the rooms were furnished with pillars matching the room’s colours. These polygonal pillars are covered with fabric and carry information about the rooms’ history as well as lamps and spotlights. Crystalline shapes are an important element of the design and also characterise the castle’s remodelled logotype. Welcoming the »digital natives«, the artist Larissa Blau created an animated film repeating reflection as a design element and imitating the style of a kaleidoscope. The media guide was designed in cooperation with Graphscape and speak low, providing additional videos, audios, and texts with in-depth information throughout a round tour through the castle.

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

Details

• Remodelling of the exhibition
Fconcept, divided into sub-steps,
Fsince 2015 (ongoing project)
• Opening of the last part:
FJune 2018
• Where: Eutin Castle
• Client: Stiftung Schloss
FEutin
• 1.660 m²

Related projects

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

Design Process

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, <b>Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz</b>

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.

Portfolio / 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
• Francisco Pablo Hassmann

New Bauhaus Chicago: Experimental Photography and Film

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  • © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Hans Glave

Bauhaus-Archiv, <b>Berlin</b>

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.

Portfolio / 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