Tag: contemporary history

Our Courage. Jews in Europe 1945–1948

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Jewish Museum Frankfurt, external view

Photo album of the »Katset Teaterim«, a Yiddish theatre project founded 1945 at the DP camp Bergen-Belsen

Background

 

Portfolio / Range of Services

Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning and management, management of the restricted tendering process, concept development and implementation of media installations, exhibition graphics, posters, brochures, catalogue and digital formats

Details

• Opening: 31. August 2021
• Where: Jewish Museum Frankfurt
• Client: Jewish Museum Frankfurt
• 600 m²

Related projects

• Boundless, Hamburg
• 100!, Hamburg
• A Memorial made of Paper, Bad FArolsen

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Bianca Mohr
• Takaya Kobayashi
• Alexandra Zackiewicz
• Costanza Rossi
• Franziska Schuh

Sound

• Peter Imig

Multimedia
• Graphscape

Construction and Printing
• Fa. Schreiber, Frankfurt

Photography
• Jewish Museum Frankfurt: Norbert Miguletz

Münchner Platz Memorial, Dresden

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Münchner Platz Memorial, external view

After his release from prison 1934, the communist artist Fritz Schulze (1903 – 1942) created the linocut „Gefängnisrundgang“, Prison Tour.

Background

As a former place of trial, a prison and an execution site, the Münchner Platz Memorial in Dresden commemorates the victims of political criminal justice during the National Socialist dictatorship, the Soviet occupation, and the early GDR. Since 2012, the memorial presents to its visitors the permanent exhibition Verurteilt. Inhaftiert. Hingerichtet. Politische Justiz in Dresden, which is dedicated to the role of the judicary during 1933-1945 and 1945-1957, and to the events on this particular site. A visitor information and signage system on the grounds and in the surrounding buildings, designed by gewerkdesign, provides information about the history of the different buildings on this site, thus marking historical traces and pointing out where the events described actually took place. The 19 text and picture panels report on the function of the specific buildings at the time, on how the memorial came about, and on the biographies of the convicts. All texts are in both German and English.

Portfolio / Range of Services

Design, planning and implementation of the visual visitor information system and reference system, supervising and coordinating the production of the graphics and printings, brochures, preparation / participation of the commissioning process

Details

• Opening: August 2021
• Where: Münchner Platz Memorial, FDresden
• Client: Stiftung Sächsische FGedenkstätten
• 5800 m²

Related projects

• Ökodorf Brodowin, Brandenburg
• Berlin Wall Trail, Berlin
• Hannover Garden Region, Hannover

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Costanza Rossi

Print production
• Hertzer GmbH

Photography

• Münchner Platz Memorial Dresden: Ellen Schwalbe

Up to Space

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Universum Bremen

Moon dust

Background

»Hurrah ! Hurrah!« exclaimed Michel Ardan and Nicholl in one voice. Indeed, this thick darkness proved that the projectile had left the earth, for the soil, brilliantly lit by the moonbeams, would have been visible to the travellers, if they had been lying on its surface. This darkness also showed that the projectile had passed the atmospheric strata, for the diffused light spread in the air would have been reflected on the metal walls, which reflection was wanting. This light would have lit the window, and the window was dark. Doubt was no longer possible; the travellers had left the earth. (Jules Verne, Around the Moon, 1869)

The special exhibition „Up to Space“ at the Universum® Bremen presents the future and present state of astronautical space travel. Virtual journeys into space and to the moon, everyday-life at the International Space Station (ISS), real moon dust, and the sensation of zero gravity can be experienced during a visit to the exhibition. Interactive exhibits facilitate the learning experience. The aesthetic materials, coloured lights, and real space technology create an atmosphere, in which the boundaries between exhibition and its visitors vanish. They are being sent on a journey to space and back. From Bremen, the exhibition will travel to the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Paris.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, exhibition graphics and info graphics, implementation planning, concept development and design of the display, preparation / participation in the commissioning process, project and production management, preparation of the exhibition tour

Details

• Opening: 27. October 2020
• Where: Universum Bremen, Bremen
• Client: Universum Managementges. FmbH
• 650 m²

Related projects

• Science + Fiction, Hannover and Fother cities
• Out Of Office, Hamburg
• Open Up!, Berlin and Kiel

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Victor Reichert
• Julia Junghänel
• Janine Iser
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Exhibition production and mounting
• Falko Riepe

Print production

• Radebeuler Machwerk

Photography

• gewerkdesign: Kate Riep

Boundless – Colonialism, Industry and Resistance

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Museum of Work, Hamburg

Exhibition graphic

Background

This exhibition at the Museum of Work in Hamburg tackles a current and controversial topic. Its title, “Boundless – Colonialism, Industry and Resistance” highlights the close ties between Hamburg’s industry and European colonialism and the long-term consequences of colonial structures of rule. The exhibition takes a look at the entire history of German colonial and post-colonial structures, from its beginning around 1830 until today. The processing of raw materials is illustrated by four Hamburg factories. The show demonstrates how the products exhibited here and their consumption are connected to the working and living conditions in the countries supplying the raw materials. The visitors are greeted with a film installation created in collaboration with filmmaker Sonja Collison. The footage, in reference to the exhibition, spans a cinematic arc between the past and present of colonial history and today’s debate on racism. The appearance of the alley of raw materials following the film presentation is dedicated to museum depots: high shelves filled with both historical and current everyday products made from various colonial raw materials. Here, visitors learn how a hard rubber comb and a stearin candle from a manufacture in Barmbek are connected to the exploitation of people and natural resources in Congo or Samoa. They also see the faces of resistance to these colonial structures and their consequences. Printed on long pieces of fabric hanging from the ceiling, the visitors are repeatedly confronted with silhouettes of anonymous and well-known resistance fighters, current black authors, scientists, and artists.

In addition to exhibition design and layout, gewerkdesign conceived the graphics accompanying the exhibition with illustrations by artist Diana Ejaita.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, commissioning to subcontractors as a general contractor, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting project development, exhibition graphics; graphics for key visual, flyer and poster

Details

• Opening: 29. September 2020
• Where: Museum of Work, Hamburg
• Client: Foundation Historische FMuseen Hamburg
• 650 m²

Related projects

• Out Of Office, Hamburg
• The future quality of living in Altona, FHamburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Bianca Mohr
• Franziska Schuh
• Costanza Rossi
• Amelie Neb
• Sinem Özer
• Antoine Laurent
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Illustration
• Diana Ejaita

Film installation
• Sonja Collison

Exhibition production and mounting
• the workshop team of Museum of Work
• Uwe Sinkemat
• Rudi Poetsch

Photography
• gewerkdesign: Kate Riep

Our Courage. Jews in Europe 1945–48

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Jewish Museum Frankfurt

Zeilsheimer DP camp newspaper Undzer Mut, December 1946

Background

With its eleven essays, city portraits, personal portraits, and numerous illustrations, the catalogue describes the diversity of Jewish experiences in the years following the war. Taking a pan-European, transnational perspective, the book gives an account of how Jewish survivors and refugees actively took their fate into their own hands after the breakdown of civilizations. It relates their search for surviving relatives, their organising their emigration, rebuilding their social networks and their communities, as well as their demanding justice, restitution, and the documentation of the Nazi crimes.

Portfolio / Range of Services
cover and flyleaf design, typography concept, layout

Details

• published: September 2020
• publishing House: De Gruyter FOldenbourg
• editor: Jewish Museum Frankfurt
• catalogue accompanying the Fexhibition »Our Courage. Jews in FEurope 1945-48« at the Jewish FMuseum Frankfurt
• 358 pages, ca. 200 illustrations Fprinted in duplex mode
• containing essays by Kata Bohus, FWerner Hanak, Mirjam Wenzel and FAtina Grossmann

Related projects

• Flight and Metamorphosis, Nelly FSachs, writer, Berlin
• STASI, State Security in the SED-FDictatorship
• Pills and Pipettes, The chemical Fpharmaceutical industry

Design process

Team

• Birgit Schlegel

Photography
• gewerkdesign

World of Media – Radio Bremen 75 years

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Focke Museum, Bremen

Historical microphone from the early days of the broadcasting agency

Background

The year 2020 will be a celebration for the Hanseatic City of Bremen: Radio Bremen turns 75! The Focke Museum contributes to the festivities with a special exhibition: „Medienwelten – The World of Media“ shows the development of the regional public broadcasting agency Radio Bremen – its past, present, and future – and gives an analysis which can be applied to all the media development in Germany. The exhibition also contemplates what media means to us: on average, we spend seven hours a day with radio, television, and internet. The way we use these media varies widely. Statistics of current media usage can be accessed on interactive HandsOn exhibits, encouraging the visitors to reflect on their own media consumption and habits. With its 800 sqm, the participatory and inclusive exhibition is divided into three chapters. An elaborate walk-in media centre made of sound, film, light, and original documents takes the visitors on a journey through 75 years of Radio Bremen’s programs. Another chapter is the so-called “Schnittstelle” – an open intersection with numerous HandsOn exhibits inviting the visitors to dig deeper into the material. The third chapter, the Studio, offers audio and media exhibits, a green screen, an assembly of facts on a large wall, and the “Talking Heads”: four life-size monitors. On all levels, the visitors are encouraged to become media experts themselves and blend into the interactive exhibition.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design and planning, exhibition graphics, planning concept, commissioning to subcontractors as a general contractor, design and planning of media, exhibits’, and HandsOn exhibits’ display, project and production management, graphics

Details

• Opening: 25. September 2020
• Where: Focke-Museum, Bremen
• Client: Focke Museum, Bremer FState Museum for Art and Cultural FHistory
• 800 m²

Related projects

• 100! Jahre Uni HH, Hamburg
• Open Up!, Berlin
• Out Of Office, Hamburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Julia Junghänel
• Victor Reichert
• Sinem Özer
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Cooperation
• Uwe Sinkemat
• Jean Fürst
• Raudies

Photography
• gewerkdesign: Alexandra Zackiewicz

Willy Brandt: Freedom Fighter, Chancellor for Peace, Bridge Builder

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Paul-Löbe-Haus, Berlin

In 1933, Brandt flew from the Nazis in a fishing boat

Background

50 years after his election into office as German chancellor, the travelling exhibition »Willy Brandt – Freedom Fighter, Chancellor for Peace, Bridge Builder« sheds a new light onto Willy Brandt as a politician and as a private person. The exhibition consists of a plethora of exhibits from Brandt’s past, interactive exhibits, films and audio recordings, and an access to his online biography, thus making the political and private life of Willy Brandt accessible to a broader audience. Apart from his biography, it is essentially his values and political goals on which the exhibition focusses, since they are still relevant today. Starting in late November 2019, the Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung sends the exhibition on a tour through Germany. Its first stops will be at Cologne, Bonn, Erfurt, Kassel, and Heidelberg.

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, project management, exhibition graphics, graphics, public relations

Details

• Opening: 22. October 2019
• Where: German Federal Parliament, FPaul-Löbe-Haus
• Client: The Federal Chancellor Willy FBrandt Foundation
• 150m²

Related projects

• 100!, Hamburg
• STASI, Berlin

Design process

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Jens Imig
• Sebastian Franke
• Janine Iser
• Takaya Kobayashi
• Alexandra Zackiewicz
• Carsten Saalmann

Production Management
• Sebastian Franke

Exhibition production
• Bernhard Wedow, Hertzer Gmbh
• Isabel Magritz, Hertzer Gmbh

Media
• Milo Lorenz, Graphscape GmbH
• Christian Kremer, Graphscape GmbH
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Printing
• Jana Arnold, Rost: Werbetechnik GmbH
• Berit Albrecht, Rost: Werbetechnik GmbH

Photos
• gewerkdesign

100! – Universität Hamburg Past and Present

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  • Foto: Karin Plessing u. Reinhard Scheiblich, Hamburg

Main hall at the Universität Hamburg

Holy scripture of the Sikh religion from the department of culture and history of India

Background

The University of Hamburg is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2019. Honouring this anniversary, a 300 square metre permanent exhibition about the scientific institution’s eventful past was put on display at the university museum’s main building. The exhibition approaches the past and present of the university in two different ways: on the one hand through a timeline with many previously unpublished photographs of everyday university life. In addition to this, numerous thematic displays present the topic from a different angle. Exhibits from the university’s different departments bear witness to the many different aspects of university life. An interactive column in front of the main hall welcomes the visitors with a sound collage assembled from 100 years of the university’s history. The exhibition itself also is interactive: the visitors can influence exhibits, people, and sounds from the university presented to them via sensors. A media guide supplements the exhibits and exhibition texts, offering a digital tour and a plethora of background material. gewerkdesign won the design competition for design and the mounting of the exhibition as well as the design of the exhibition catalogue.

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, exhibition graphics, graphics exhibition catalogue

Details

• Opening: 24. September 2019
• Where: University Museum FHamburg
• Client: Universität Hamburg
• 350m²

Related projects

• ZBW – “Open Up!”, Kiel
• Out Of Office, Hamburg
• Sugars and Beyond!, Berlin

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Riccardo Falletta
• Bianca Mohr
• Costanza Rossi
• Birgit Schlegel
• Franziska Schuh
• Claudia Wagner
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Media and programming
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Photography
• gewerkdesign