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. For each edition with a varying thematic focus, we invite speakers to open up theoretical or practical grounds for an interactive discourse with our guests by inspiring speeches, readings and workshops, making accessible new perspectives and developments. 

In gewerk in the garden 7 "Healing Design. On the Healing Effects of Designed Spaces", curator and philosopher Lukas Feireiss and cognitive scientist Corinna Kühnapfel Ph.D. join us to explore the therapeutic effectiveness of designed spaces. What are the mindsets and approaches that allow designers not only to create spaces that are aesthetically and informatively successful, but also to produce healing effects on the body and mind?  

22 September 2026
5 to 7 p.m.

At the Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte Regensburg, the exhibition "Brennpunkt Bayern. Hitler und der Kampf um die Demokratie" ("Combustion Point Bavaria. Hitler and the Struggle for Democracy") is now on view. The exhibition focuses on the years 1919 to 1923 in Bavaria, during which Adolf Hitler forced his way from the role of a bystander to that of a bit-part player and in the end to the leading role, and on the political and societal circumstances within which this could happen.

We have staged this historical exhibition across several theatre-like scenes within the space. Modelled on a theatre setting, it is presented in five acts, in which numerous characters ‘figuratively’ recount the story of radicalisation. The theatrical, multimedia design makes a complex political topic accessible to a wide audience.

Süddeutsche Zeitung (8 July 2026)
War Hitlers Aufstieg unaufhaltsam?

For the bcc Berlin Congress Center, gewerkdesign collaborated with a team of Berlin-based creative professionals to rework the corporate identity and expand it with several new elements. An own typeface gives shape to the newly refined language style. Photography of the architecture and the team provides the bcc with its own visual identity. A promotional video featuring specially composed music showcases the venue and its staff in motion. The bcc manages its digital communications through a completely redesigned website and the establishment of new social media presences on LinkedIn and Instagram. A new wayfinding system with a unique pictogram style will be implemented over the course of the year.

At the Altonaer Museum in Hamburg, gewerkdesign designed the exhibition space »Landmarks of Jewish History«. Working closely with the curators, we developed a spatial concept that can be continuously adapted. The exhibition presents, in condensed form, 400 years of Jewish history in Altona and Hamburg, a history characterised by diversity and internationalism.

Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg
Altonaer Museum
from 4 February 2026

We designed this year's Christmas card by means of cyanotype printing. This photographic printing process involves long-term exposure to UV light, i.e. sunlight. The result is a tribute to the December sun, which also runs through the design of the unique series: Each motif features a dark, eclipsed sun as the focal point, around which various objects from our office and garden are arranged to conjure up abstract, imaginative pictures.

We complement the images with a poetic text about light and darkness, quoted from »Le Soleil / Die Sonne« by Francis Ponge, 1954, in an annotated edition published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2020.

In the permanent exhibition at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden that is about various aspects of being human, gewerkdesign has redesigned the last room with a studio exhibition on the theme of beauty. "Bin ich schön!" (I am beautiful!) is a participatory project involving around 100 Dresden residents, which will be expanded iteratively over the next few years. Exhibits and stories come from participatory workshops and the permanent exhibition. To ensure ecological sustainability, we worked with existing materials as much as possible. Visitors encounter themselves in many places in this participatory and modular exhibition and actively contribute to its changeable design.

As exhibition designers, gewerkdesign was responsible for the following tasks: scenography, exhibition architecture, and spatial graphics.

Key visual: anschlaege.de

Further information on dhmd.de.

»Bin ich schön!« Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden from 25 October 2025

The travelling exhibition „Nachrichten — News“ that we designed for the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, is now moving from the Museum for Communication in Berlin to the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt, where it will be on display for one year starting on October 9th.

The spatial set-up of the exhibition is an increasing sorting of the cacophonic news overload that we are confronted with today, resulting in a clear overview and positioning within the diverse media landscape. The exhibition is modular, sustainable and inclusive and reflects the controversial relationship between the news and its users. The exhibition is dialogical throughout: Visitors are being asked their opinions station by station. The interactive exhibition is intended to make visitors explore and become conscious of what habits and needs motivate us to choose specific news channels.

Further information on mfk-frankfurt.de.

»NACHRICHTEN–NEWS«
Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt 9 October 2025 to 6 September 2026