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Bautzen Memorial

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Entrance to the former prison, Bautzen Memorial

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 Eutin Castle

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, Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz

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, Berlin

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

Riots + New Beginnings. Bremen after 1968

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Focke-Museum, Bremen

Large speaker for street protests.

Background

The new special exhibition »Riots + New Beginnings. Bremen after 1968« presents Bremen’s tumultuous history between 1968 and 1983. These years – encompassing for example the Tramway Riots and the closing of the AG Weser shipyards – saw the younger generation’s hopes and sense of impending change collide with the decline of the industrialised society. It was a time of major changes, protests and riots, but also of new beginnings, which effectively changed the city’s atmosphere. By their vivid, spontaneous design, gewerkdesign ties in with this »revolutionary spirit«: The stage gewerkdesign provides for the Focke-Museum’s diverse exhibits is rich and intense, resembling an installation rather than a typical exhibition. The Bremen Theatre played an important role in initiating the riots and therefore now inspired the exhibition’s design. Stage platforms, brochures, backdrops and moving images relate to the aesthetics of a theatre set. Multimedia elements reflect the participatory idea of the riots.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Exhibition desing and planning, implementation planning, preparation/participation in the commissioning process, design, exhibition production, project management, project development, exhibition graphics

Details

• Opening: August 2017
• Ort: Focke-Museum, Bremen
• Client: Foundation of the
FFocke-Museum for Cultural
FHistory and the History of
FArts of the City and State of
FBremen
• 450 m²

Related projects

• Oh yeah!, Bremen

Design process

Team

• Costanza Rossi
• Julia Junghänel
• Julia Walk
• Marielena Jori Kehn
• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel

Wald. Berlin. Klima. – An Exhibition in the Forest

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Grunewald Forest, Berlin

Logo of the exhibition Wald.Berlin.Klima.

gewerkdesign-ausstellung-wald-berlin-klima-objekt

Background

Initiated by the Berlin Forestry Department as a part of the IGA 2017, the exhibition »Wald. Berlin. Klima.« examines the forests’ adaptation to climate change and explains the work of the foresters. The topics are presented in 11 chapters along a round path of 4 km length through Grunewald Forest.

The two year cooperation between the Berlin Forestry Commission, the staff of the Senate Department, hoch C landscape architects and gewerkdesign intended to create an experience, that would present the exhibition’s topics in a contemporary and exciting manner, informatively and insightful, to a broad audience and in a natural setting. These goals resulted in a special kind of exhibition, experience of nature, and landscape architecture. During the next 5 years this popular tourist destination for Berlin residents and visitors will offer recreation, information and relaxation for the whole family.

Since 2020 the exhibition presents a guiding app for people with special needs. The app provides information about the sights and barrier-free service facilities along the route. It offers audio descriptions and transcripts of the visual and audio information conveyed in the exhibition. Additionally, the app includes several videos in German Sign Language that explain the trees importance for the forest’s ecosystem. A short video in German Sign Language also explains how to get to the exhibition and how to proceed from the main entrance at Havelchaussee.

The free-of-charge app can be downloaded at: Apple Store // Google Play Store

Portfolio / Range of Services: process design, strategic and content workshops, project development, concept and design, implementation planning, preparation / participation in the commissioning process, production supervision and coordination, exhibition graphics, exhibition architecture; concept, design and programming of the app

Details

• Opening: 13. April 2017
• Grunewald Forest, Berlin
• Client: Berlin Forestry Commission
Fand Berlin Senate Department
Ffor Urban Development and
Fthe Environment
• 1,27 km2
• German Design Award 2020: Winner Fin section Excellent Architecture

Related projects

• Hannover Garden Region,
FHannover
• Berlin Wall Trail,
FBerlin

Design process

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Henning Humml
• Julia Junghänel
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Cooperation
• hochC – Landschaftsarchitektur
• Planungsbüro Förster
• Dr. Michael Lüken
• BCO – Architekten
• Lotsenhaus Media
• Lars Bergelt

Photography
• Henning Humml
• Coverphoto: Philip Winkelmeier

Oh Yeah! Pop Music in Germany

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Museum for Communication, Berlin

Sebastian Krumbiegel's show outfit from »Die Prinzen«

Background

Following the great success of gewerkdesign’s exhibition »Oh Yeah – Pop Music in Switzerland« at the Museum of Communication in Bern, the exhibition’s content and design were adapted to Germany. Now designed as a travelling exhibition, its first venue is the Focke-Museum in Bremen. The exhibition presents more than 90 years of German pop music in the set design of a radio show: from the 1920s Swing to the Beat era, Punk, Neue Deutsche Welle, Techno and Hip Hop up to the present. Equipped with headphones, the visitors can listen into a rich variety of songs. Many acoustic and film stations offer a journey into their very own musical history. Produced by gewerkdesign and supervised by the same team as in Bern, the travelling exhibition was set up in Bremen between September 2016 and July 2017. Its next venues are Frankfurt a.M. (17.08.17 to 25.02.18), Berlin (15.03. to 16.09.18), Leipzig and Stuttgart.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Idea and concept; exhibition design: exhibition scenography, exhibition graphics, media design, general contractor for planning, production and tour

Details

• Opening: September 2016
• Focke-Museum, Bremen
• Client: Foundation of the
FFocke-Museum for Cultural
FHistory and the History of
FArts of the City and State of
FBremen
• 450 m²

Related projects

• The Enterprise of Opera,
FMailand
• Goodbye & Hello, Bern

Design process

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Team

• Steffen Sendelbach
• Nanna Funke
• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Sebastian Franke

Photography
• Hannes-Saxer (Bern)
• Martin Luther (Bremen)