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Museum Forced Labor Under National Socialism

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Media table with a city map of Weimar

Museum Forced Labor Under National Socialism

Background

Our long-time travelling exhibition about forced labour under national socialism, which was shown first at the Jewish Museum Berlin in 2010 and then at six further locations, has now been permanently installed at the former Gauforum in Weimar. This complex of buildings, planned by the Nazis but not completed by them, now houses the Museum Forced Labor Under National Socialism with our exhibition.

A new museum in Weimar
The planning and the development of the newly created museum has been realised under the lead of gewerkdesign. The construction of the functional museum areas, among them the foyer with the cashier’s desk and lockers as well as two public rooms for workshops, was a special challenge in this building. The exhibition extends across several rooms, mainly across the one originally devised as a ceremonial hall. The built-in components of the exhibition densify more and more and turn the atmosphere of the space successively dark and importunate – a contrast that becomes apparent especially against the bulky feel of the hall.

Scenography connects past and present
In five chapters – habituation, radicalisation, mass phenomenon, liberation, damaged justice – the stories of forced labourers are told. The exhibition has in some parts been adapted to the city of Weimar and new content has been added. On an interactive media table with a city map of Weimar, visitors can select audible content and understand what happened in Weimar. In the last room, contemporary witnesses tell their stories at media stations. A large wall painting of a graphically designed timeline shows the development of forced labour and its consequences until today. 

Tasks / Range of Services
General contractor, implementation planning, exhibition architecture, planning and construction of the functional museum areas, project management and consulting, project development, exhibition design and planning, exhibition production, planning of the object presentation, development and production of the hands-on exhibits, media design, exhibition graphics, signage system

Details

• Opening: 8 May 2024
• Location: Museum Forced Labor
FUnder National Socialism, Weimar
• Client: Buchenwald and Mittelbau-
FDora Memorials Foundation, funded
Fby the Foundation Remembrance,
FResponsibility and Future (EVZ
FFoundation), the Thuringia State
FChancellery, and the Federal
FGovernment Commissioner for
FCulture and the Media
• Area: 2,000 m²

Similar projects

• Forced Labour: Berlin, Moscow,
FDortmund, Warsaw, Prague,
FHamburg, Steyr
• Munich Displaced: Munich

Press

• Bauwelt
• Deutsche Welle
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
• Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
• ND Aktuell
• Radio Lotte
• Thüringer Staatskanzlei
• WELT
• Die Zeit

 

Design Process

Project Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Ann-Christin Ahrens
• Julia Junghänel
• Carsten Saalmann
• Johannes Gotaut

Restoration
• Junk & Reich Architekten, Weimar

Installation
• Walther Expointerieur, Coswig
• Gränz Innenausbau, Weimar

Media Production and Coordination
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Audio Production / Sound Recordings
• speak low Krewer & Teichmann GbR

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

Nichts. Nothing. Riens.

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Museum of Communication Bern, Switzerland

Exhibition Poster

Background

The exhibition project “Nichts. Nothing. Riens.” takes on nothing. It casts a light on the small things in life that we otherwise hardly notice. While we normally are concerned with the act of filling, being constantly busy and pursuing something more, this exhibition is an unusual experience of the opposite. A particular challenge for gewerkdesign was to conceive and implement the nothing spatially as well as graphically.

Objects, stories, films, illusionary spaces, waiting rooms, and moments of surprise are associated with the term “Nothing” by integrating everyday observations and situations into the exhibition space. As part of a broad-based research for the exhibition, the exhibits were compiled during a series of workshops and subsequently distributed across the six areas of the exhibition: 1. A Lot of Nothing, 2. The Waiting Room, 3. Nothing for You, 4. All this Nothing, 5. Constructing Nothing, 6. Cinema Stage.

The exhibition architecture is not visible at first glance. It aligns with the architecture of the museum, supplementing it with additional windows, pillars, and doors. A trilingual transponder invisibly and magically guides the visitors through the exhibition set, leading to a filmic show of actors staging bizarre encounters. The exhibition is designed to be sustainable. Its individual elements were economically produced, minimising the overall consumption of resources. Wall panelling, old wine crates, cardboard tubes were recycled from previous exhibitions. The graphics were mainly printed on paper in order to minimise the use of plastic and composite materials.

Our exhibition graphics show several solutions for the special challenge to represent the nothing in an image. Five motifs visualise the nothing that we concurrently bring into the space. In the motifs of our poster series, the nothing becomes visually tangible by staging that which surrounds the nothing: flying newspaper pages, an empty train platform, a staircase into the empty cosmos. In these images, a facet of the charming and probably typical Swiss humor becomes obvious. To say it with the words of the museum: “Is it possible that the nothing is not nothing? The exhibition Nothing goes all-in and shows apparent nothingness in an unusual exhibition. We invite you on a journey with wonderfully surprising encounters – a journey to nothing!”

At 62,000 visitors, the Museum for Communication Bern sets a record in visitor numbers with “Nichts. Nothing. Riens.”. As many people as never before at the MfK Bern have seen this special exhibition.

In the museum shop of the MfK Bern, our posters, a special edition in shape of a collector’s folder (both limited editions) as well as a card game on the topic are available (in German and French only).

 

Tasks / Range of Services
Workshop conception and content, exhibition design and exhibition architecture, exhibition and media graphics, communication design, production monitoring

Details

• Duration: 10 November 2023
Fto 21 July 2024
• Where: Museum of Communication FBern, Switzerland
• Client: Museum of Communication FBern, Switzerland
• ca. 650 m²

Related Projects

• Out of Office, Hamburg
• The future quality of living, FHamburg
• Riots + New Beginnings, Bremen

Press

• BärnerBär
• Bärn Today
• Der Bund
• Museumsfernsehen
• Nau
• Radio Bern
• SRF Kultur
• SRF Tagesschau
• Thuner Tagblatt
• WIRED Italia

Design Process

Project Team

• Jens Imig
• Antoine Laurent
• Bianca Mohr
• Birgit Schlegel
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Photography:
• gewerkdesign

Interactive Content System:
• iart– Studio für mediale Architekturen, Basel

Multimedia:
• Jean First
• Zita Bauer
• Alexandra Heini
• Kurt Stadelmann
• Franz Szekeres

Film:
• Sibylle Heiniger

Graphics, Layout & Typesetting:
• gewerkdesign

Exhibition Production:
• Patrik Ammann
• Daniel Bucheli
• Arjen Damen
• Giacomo Feurich
• Jean First
• Aurelio Galfetti
• Urs Hochuli
• Coline Jud
• Gratschi Josef Jud
• Theo Kämpfer
• Stefan Käsermann
• Basil Kraus
• Andreas Manecke
• Erich Marty
• Timo Müller
• Stefan Schmidlin
• Jan Stadelmann
• Roland Steiner
• Andri von Moos
• Paul von Moos
• Ueli Zingg

gewerkdesign Workshops

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gewerkdesign Studio

Workshop Romanesque Café

Background

To think of design holistically means to understand design as a dynamic process rather than as a product or service. Since the founding of gewerkdesign, our working method has been committed to an interdisciplinary approach that sees design not only as the craft of trained designers and architects, but also as the successful transformation of the visions of all those involved in a project. This way, ideas become realities by the means of design. Reflecting and developing this process through workshops is therefore a crucial part of our design practice. Workshops precede the implementation of concepts, but are also offered by us independently of commissioned projects. Through almost three decades of intensive collaboration with clients and project partners from a wide variety of fields, we have many years of experience in the moderation of different interests and successful development of the individual parameters of specific projects as well as the conditions for their realization.

Methodology and implementation competence come together in this format and can transform content, ideas and motives into a productive structure through our didactic expertise. The results of a workshop can be used in many ways: they can provide the foundation for the implementation of concrete design concepts, e.g. an exhibition, digital information and participation offerings, a CI/CD or the new conception of a museum. They can also serve as a basis for the preparation of a feasibility study, a funding application or a call for tenders. Together, a precise analysis of the tasks and challenges of a project can be carried out, processes can be optimized and an implementation can be prepared.

Although an individual workshop is developed for each situation and client, some components and effects are common to all formats: by exchanging and adopting different positions and perspectives, motives and goals can be determined, the specific situation can be evaluated, personnel and hierarchical structures can be broken down, areas of responsibility can be distributed, and techniques of creative work can be trained. A workshop by gewerkdesign can also serve as further training or as a tool for team building. Each workshop is therefore a bundling of skills and perspectives, which benefits all participants.

Tasks / Range of Services
Basic evaluation, concept and design, strategy and structure of the workshop, planning and execution, moderation, preparation and follow-up, creation of workshop media

Possible tasks and goals of a workshop:

• Development of new museum concepts
• Structuring of information in space
• Development of control system concepts for complex building projects
• Generation, inclusion and use of the creative potential of all project participants
• Specification of project ideas
• Consulting for projects in public space

Similar projects

• Wald. Berlin. Klima. – An Exhibition in the Forest, Berlin
• Hiking trails around Brodowin, signage system in Brodowin

Munich Displaced

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Jewish Museum Munich, München

Munich City Museum

Background

The exhibition project “Munich Displaced” is dedicated to the research of a blank space in German Remembrance Culture: the history of the so-called Displaced Persons (DPs). This term refers to all those foreign civilians who, after 1945, found themselves outside their homeland as a result of the Second World War and were unable to return to it without further ado. The group of DPs is complex and diverse, including political prisoners, concentration camp inmates, civilian Eastern European workers, former forced laborers, and collaborators. The documentation of their history was compiled in a broad research for the city of Munich and edited for two different exhibitions in the city.

With the exhibition “Munich Displaced. After 1945 and without a Homeland”, the Munich City Museum sheds light on the history of this group from a local perspective and shows how these migrants lived and worked in Munich after 1945 with the will to shape their own destiny. With the exhibition “MUNICH DISPLACED. The Surviving Remnant”, the Jewish Museum Munich is focusing on the history of the Jewish DPs in Munich.

A special challenge for gewerkdesign was to conceive and realize two exhibitions at two locations, both graphically and spatially. The exhibitions, which run in parallel, place the history of the DP communities in an interrelated context, which also comes to bear in terms of design, through an overarching graphic and design concept. The two museums on opposite sides of Munich’s Sankt-Jakobs-Platz were connected and put into a dialogue by including the outdoor space in the design. In the Jewish Museum, the exhibition architecture traces the local infrastructure of the Jewish DP communities along Möhlstraße. Exhibition design and graphics of both exhibitions evoke the image of fleetingness and sketchiness. Temporary buildings, staggered or fading dots and letters, abstracted maps, and interrupted lines characterize the aesthetics of both exhibitions and also refer to the work-in-progress nature of the unfinished research project.

Furthermore, the exhibition is designed to be sustainable. The individual exhibition elements were produced cost-effectively, with low overall material consumption. The graphics have been printed predominantly on paper or cotton textiles to keep the use of plastics and composites as low as possible.

Tasks / Range of Services
Exhibition design and architecture, exhibition and media graphics, communication design, production management

Details

• Opening: July 5, 2023
• Where: Munich City Museum, Jewish Museum Munich, Munich
• Client: Munich City Museum, Jewish Museum Munich
• ca. 400 m² und ca. 600 m² m²

Similar Projects

• A Memorial made of Paper: Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen
• Our Courage. Jews in Europe 1945-1948, Frankfurt
• Riots + New Beginnings. Bremen after 1968, Bremen

Process

Team

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

Photography:
• gewerkdesign

Media Design:
Claudius Schulz

Graphics, Layout and Typesetting (Jewish Museum):
vogelfrei design, Lissabon: Claudia Wagner

Exhibition Production (Jewish Museum):
• Thomas Sensburg
• Peter Friedel
• Hasan Güneri
• Sabine Menges
• Lorant Brendea
• wulff & fischer dekorationsbau GmbH, Eschenlohe

Exhibition Production, Technical Team (Munich City Museum):
• Marcus Gora (management)
• Peter Armbrüster
• Ronny Hausmann
• Stephan Juttner
• Bernd Mollenhauer
• Raymond Wetzelaar
• Christian Ziegler

Lighting and Media (Munich City Museum):
• Martin Ries

110 Years of Behrensbau. Architecture and History

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Behrensbau, Düsseldorf

Model of the building by Peter Behrens

Background

Düsseldorf looks back on more than 100 years of German history at a historic building: the exhibition “110 Years of Behrensbau” sheds light on the eventful chronicle of the Behrens Building on the banks of the Rhine, its alternating uses and its famous architect Peter Behrens, which is closely linked to the Mannesmann Group. German economic policy, art and architectural history intersect at this historic site, the latter of which has been significantly influenced by the builder, who is also regarded as an exemplary pioneer of modern industrial and graphic design. However, the exhibition not only focuses on the Behrensbau as a milestone in German architectural history, but also on the future of this unique building. As a contemporary history museum for the House of History of North Rhine-Westphalia, it addresses the democratic, cultural and educational potential of the Behrens Building.
A fundamental motive for gewerkdesign’s work on this project was the concern to design and realize an exhibition as efficiently as possible in terms of environmental compatibility.The construction principles of the preserved exhibition elements of the anniversary exhibition “OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia”, which was designed by gewerkdesign and realized in the Behrensbau in 2021, enabled a resource-saving conversion and reuse for this exhibition. Modular substructures, demountable panel cladding, flexible showcase bases and large-scale dioramas could be adapted, reassembled, clad and furnished for this purpose.
Great emphasis was placed on energy conservation and the use of environmentally friendly materials. For example, the existing panels were used as graphic panels and covered with printed textile, while the physical didactics of the exhibition were designed to allow visitors to experience Behrend’s spatial concept by allowing daylight to illuminate the exhibition spaces, thus saving artificial lighting and energy. Applying principles such as multiple use, low material consumption in production, reusability of individual exhibition elements through minimal redesign, and a design approach that works with, rather than against, the existing architecture of Peter Behrens, the result is an exhibition that is highly sustainable, while creating an impressive exhibition experience visually and spatially.

Tasks / Range of Services
Basic evaluation, exhibition design, exhibition graphics, information graphics, dismantling and reconstruction planning, implementation planning, production management, participation in awarding contracts, construction management

Details

• Opening: May 24, 2023
• Where: Behrensbau, Düsseldorf
• Client: Foundation House of History of North Rhine-Westphalia
• approx. 530 m²

Similar Projects

• OUR STATE. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf

Process

Team

• Adele Heymann
• Janine Iser
• Julia Junghänel
• Victor Reichert
• Stefan Rothert

Production
• i.xpo GmbH & Co. KG (exhibition construction)
• Zehnpfennig, Weber & Taylor GbR, Berlin (procurement of exhibits)
• vogelfrei design, Lissabon & Kommunikationskontor, Düsseldorf (graphics, layout and typesetting)
• Tinetronics, Köln & M-Create GmbH, Düsseldorf (exhibition media)
• Radebeuler Machwerk e.K., Radebeul (print production)

Photography
• gewerkdesign

House of the Princess – A Whole State as a Garden

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House of the Princess, Wörlitz

Bust of Princess Louise of Anhalt-Dessau by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi

Background

The House of the Princess, also known as the Grey House, is the exhibition centre of the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation. It was built in 1789 as the private retreat of Princess Louise Henriette Wilhelmine von Anhalt-Dessau, wife of Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz. Before being inaugurated as exhibition centre in 2023, it was thoroughly modernized. Today, the House of the Princess contains a permanent exhibition showcasing 18th century landscaping as well as the princess’s significant art collection that not only conveys her deep understanding of art but also reflects her humanistic education and her knowledge of the discourse going on during her time, the enlightenment period. Numerous documents, letters and artworks prove her vast intellectual and societal activities. 

In addition to the permanent exhibition, changing special exhibitions take place at the House of the Princess. For this reason, gewerkdesign has devised the permanent exhibition with moveable elements so that it is possible to easily deinstall and reinstall the exhibition in accordance with current conservation standards and to store it efficiently. Maximal flexibility and highest-quality presentation of the exhibits were central factors in the exhibition design. gewerkdesign developed a discrete visitor routing, compact exhibition furniture, object cases and carts. The furniture enables the easy deinstallation of the exhibition and concurrently functions as depot architecture that ensures the storage to be in line with conservation standards. The graphic, material and colour concepts are based on historic styles, reflecting the feudal taste of the royal residence in a contemporary manner. A web-based app with audio guide explains the exhibition content with in-depth information in German and English as well as in a children’s version. The app was developed specifically for this commission by gewerkdesign in collaboration with the Berlin-based design studio Kulturbanause.

Tasks / Range of Services
General contractor, implementation planning, exhibition production, exhibition design, planning of the object presentation, exhibition graphics, information booklet, media graphics, app development

Details

• Opening: August 14, 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.

Tasks / 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.

Tasks / 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

Press

• General-Anzeiger
• Presseportal
• Rheinische Post
• Die Zeit

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

Speaker Katharina Erben at gewerk in the garden #1: Immersion

Background

The event series gewerk in the garden serves as an exchange platform and resonance space for designers, culture professionals and other creative enthusiasts, taking place in the garden of our studio in Berlin-Friedenau.

We aim at one to three events of this series per year, each with a different thematic focus. Invited speakers from various areas offer theoretical or practical grounds for an interactive discourse with our guests by means of inspiring speeches, readings and workshops, making accessible new perspectives and developments.

Why is this important to us?

Design in general and exhibition design in particular are always an expression of societal developments and are also an opportunity to influence modes of action. Cultural, social and political processes are inscribed into all creative disciplines. Thereby, it becomes virtually indispensable to ask specific creative questions time and again. Questions such as: Who is being addressed? And maybe more importantly: Who isn’t? How is the creative message being communicated? Are ecologic and economic factors being considered sufficiently? How do current events, the discourse and trends alter creative disciplines, the creative industry and creative work?

As an interdisciplinary design studio, we need to pose these questions continually and discuss them, to transfer ideas and concepts to other areas, perspectives and contexts, to make them transparent for us and our audience. By exploratively thinking outside of the box of our own creative activity, we are searching for sustained inspiration.

Together with our guests, we would like to not only discuss current issues and tendencies, but beyond that, to jointly develop new topics and questions, in the hope of sparking a fruitful dialogue between different perspectives from various areas.

Following each event, we publish a summary with texts and images (in German), which is available as PDF at the top of this page in the theme archive. Find current news about gewerk in the garden in the news on our website and on Instagram.

Details

• Start: May 2022
• Frequency: 1 to 3 times per year
• Location: our studio garden, Berlin

 

Theme Archive

#1 Immersion (2022)

#2 Nachhaltigkeit (2022)

#3 Kollektive (2022)

#4 Design und Kapitalismus (2023)

#5 Natur als Gestalterin (2024)

Contact

Kristina von Bülow
eingang(at)gewerk.com

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.

Tasks / 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