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
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