Tag: Exhibition

Cranach the Younger – Discovery of a Master

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Augusteum, Wittenberg

Cranach’s signature 1514

Background

On the 500th anniversary of his birth in 2017, this special exhibition dedicated to Lucas Cranach the Younger offers an exclusive impression of his highly productive workshop and art enterprise.

Distributed across two floors the exhibition presents »The Cranach Family, »Father and Sons«, »Brück and Melanchton«, »The Workshop«, »Employed by the House of Ernestine«, »Image-Campagne«, »Success (Adam and Eve)«, »Offices and Business«, »The Drawing«, »Networking In and Around Wittenberg«, »Images of Faith vs. Society Portraits« and »Paintings from Reims«.

Introducing a system of mobile exhibition walls and separate climate-controlled display cases, the exhibition also provides the basic equipment for furnishing future exhibitions in the Augusteum in Wittenberg.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design, scenography, lighting concept, graphic design, planning concept, supervision of the production, services 1- 9 HOAI

Details

• Opening: 26. June 2015
• Augusteum, Wittenberg
• Client: Luther Memorial
FFoundation of Saxony-Anhalt
• 900 m²

Related projects

• The enterprise of opera –
Fverdi. boito. ricordi.
• Friederisiko. Frederick
Fthe great
• Prussia & Saxony – Scenes
Ffrom a relationship between
Fneighbours

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Thilo Albers
• Christian Hoffmann
• Christine Ringer
• Carsten Saalmann

Multimedia
• Daniel Finke and Andreas Dihm

Photography
• Werner Huthmacher

Maritime Museum Unterweser – Elsfleth House and Telegraph

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Villa Steeken / Haus Elsfleth, Elsfleth

Telegraph <b>Brake</b>

Background

The Maritime Museum Unterweser is one of the oldest museums in Lower Saxony. Between 2010 and 2014 together with regional architects gewerkdesign remodelled two of the three museum’s sites preparing Elsfleth House and Brake’s former telegraph station for exhibitions.

In Brake’s former telegraph station life aboard a 19th century whaler is depicted, presenting art objects made by the sailors themselves as well as exotic souvenirs from all over the world.

Elsfleeth House focusses on the history of shipbuilding and the shipping business, portraying Germany’s biggest naval college, nautical navigation and female seafaring.

gewerkdesign’s designs abstractly recreate places from the stories told in the exhibition, for instance a shipbuilder’s workshop, the bridge of a ship or the office of a shipping company.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design and implementation, approval planning, implementation planning, preparation and participation in the commissioning process, planning of the exhibits’ presentation, production, signage, project management and consulting project development, graphic design of the exhibition and the accompanying booklet, media design and planning

Details

• Opening Elsfleth House:
FMarch 2010
• Villa Steeken in Elsfleth
• Client: Maritime Museum
FOldenburgische Unterweser e.V.
• 1,100 m2

• Opening Telegraph Brake:
F12 September 2014
• Brake Telegraph
• Client: Maritime Museum
FOldenburgische Unterweser e.V.
• 350 m2

Related projects

• TabakCollegium – Oranienbaum
• World heritage –
FVisitor centre Wismar

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Tania Büsching
• Klaus Fermor
• Christian Hoffmann
• Haleh Najafi-Shoushtari
• Rita Rentzsch
• Steffen Sendelbach
• Tania Sívertsen
• Marten Suhr
• Gabriel Tecklenburg
• Ann-Christin Warntjen

Metallarbeiten
• Paul Klier

Siebdruck
• Ulrich Novak

Fotografie
• Christoph Musiol
• gewerkdesign

World Heritage Visitor Centre Wismar

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World Heritage Visitor Centre, Wismar

A model of the building at Lübscher Straße 23 explains the building’s different functions

Background

The new Visitor Centre in Wismar is dedicated to the city’s Hanseatic architecture and its classification as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Traces of the historical building periods uncovered during the building’s renovation have been prepared to explain the city’s architectural heritage to visitors. Together with the design of the exhibition and the communication concept developed by gewerkdesign and hneun, the building itself and its unique architectural history are the main exhibits in the Visitor Centre. In the centre of the rooms, multimedia tables present further issues connected to the world heritage of Wismar.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition scenography, graphic design, supervision of the production

Details

• Opening: June 2014
• World Heritage Visitor
FCentre, Wismar
• Client: DSK Deutsche Stadt-
Fund Grundstücksentwicklungs-
Fgesellschaft
• 600 m2

Related projects

• Preußen und Sachsen –
FSzenen einer Nachbarschaft
• Jüdisches Museum Rendsburg
• Tabak Collegium Oranienburg

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Thilo Albers
• Julia Junghänel

Communication concept and graphic design
• Volker Böhm, Raik Evert, Uta Bieger, hneun

Media
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Lighting
• Michael Flegel

Mounting and Production
• hertzer

Installation of the exhibits
• fissler Objekteinrichtung

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

Jewish Museum Rendsburg

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Jewish Museum, Rendsburg

The media station depicts the silhouettes of typical Jewish objects

Background

»What does Jewish mean, actually?« – after remodelling its permanent exhibition, the Jewish Museum Rendsburg has now dedicated its central room to this puzzling question. This room, as well as three more others presenting religious heritage and traditions, was designed and constructed by gewerkdesign.

For the exhibition gewerkdesign, together with Lotsenhaus Media, designed many interactive media stations; for instance, a humorous animation of the Tora’s myths and stories, and a chatbot conversing with the visitors about what the term »Jewish« actually means.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition scenography, graphic design, supervision of the production, media design

Details

• Opening: June 2014
• Exhibition site: Jewish Museum,
FRendsburg
• Client: Schleswig-Holstein
FState Museums Foundation
FGottorf Castle
• 140 m²

Related projects

• Jüdisches Museum Berlin
• Flucht und Verwandlung.
FNelly Sachs, Schriftstellerin
• Flucht und Verwandlung.
FNelly Sachs, Schriftstellerin
F(Katalog)

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Katharina Erben
• Julia Junghänel
• Tania Sívertsen
• Steffen Sendelbach

Media
• Karsten Ruschhaupt, Lotsenhaus Media

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Prussia & Saxony – Scenes from a Relationship between Neighbours

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Doberlug Castle, Doberlug-Kirchhain

Double portrait of John George II of Saxony and Friedrich Wilhelm Count Brandenburg by Johann Finks, around 1665

Background

After many years of planning and remodelling, the Brandenburg State Exhibition designed by gewerkdesign once again filled Doberlug Castle, which had temporarily fallen into disrepair, with ambience and atmosphere.

With its stage-like architecture, fabric prints and complex digital animations the cultural-historical exhibition gives an account of the relationship between the neighboring states of Prussia and Saxony. Apart from scientists, the exhibition also features animated historical characters recounting their very own take on Prussia and Saxony. The animations were created in cooperation with the Film University Konrad Wolf in Babelsberg.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition scenography, graphic design, supervision of the production, HAOAI 1-9, brand design exhibition

Details

• Opening: June 2014
• Exhibition site: Doberlug Castle,
FDoberlug-Kirchhain
• Client: House of Brandenburg-
FPrussian History, Potsdam
• 800 m²

Related projects

• TabakCollegium – Oranienbaum
• Friederisiko. Frederick
Fthe great
• Museum Wolfenbüttel –
FStrukturwandel

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Thilo Albers
• Jens Lohmann
• Carsten Saalmann

Mounting
• Falco Riepe

Photography
•  Marcus Müller-Witte
•  Ulrich Lange

Tabak Collegium Oranienbaum

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Collector’s residence, Oranienbaum Castle, Dessau

Mouth piece of a meerschaum pipe (Sepiolith), late 19th century

Background

Visitors to the »collector’s residence« are literally treated as if they had been invited into the home of a tobacco lover who in his private rooms and adjoining workshop collects machines, tools and memorabilia associated with the history of the tobacco industry in Oranienbaum.

As the host appears to have just left the building, visitors are free to relax in his living room while sitting in his elegant leather armchairs, browsing through his books, or admiring his collection. The private atmosphere is enhanced by black Dutch Design readymade-furniture assembled from both antique and new parts.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition scenography, graphic design, production management

Details

• Opening: December 2013
• Exhibition site: Collector’s residence,
FOranienbaum Castle, Dessau
• Client: Cultural Foundation
Fof the Garden Kingdom
Fof Dessau-Wörlitz
• 480 m²

Related projects

• Prussia & Saxony – Scenes
Ffrom a relationship between
Fneighbours
• Friederisiko. Frederick
Fthe great
• World heritage –
FVisitor centre Wismar

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Costanza Rossi
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Tania Sívertsen

Wood works
• Dirk Scheuerling und Peter Neumann, Zimmerservice Berlin

Photography
• gewerkdesign

The Enterprise of Opera – Verdi. Boito. Ricordi.

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First opening at the Bertelsmann representative office Berlin

Set design for the production of »Otello« by Boito – Verdi – Ricordi

Background

In less than six months, gewerkdesign developed and constructed an exhibition sculpture made of a curved steel pipe and cherry wood.

The sculpture can be viewed from all sides and guides the visitors into creatively interpreting musical motives like melody, staves, and composing. Despite the light appearance of the metal construction, the steel pipe contains the whole of the exhibition’s technical equipment. Thus »The Enterprise of Opera« is a »plug-and-play« exhibition resembling the scenic design of an opera set, which can be mounted and dismounted very quickly.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design and planning, approval planning, implementation planning, preparation and participation in the commissioning process, planning of the exhibits’ presentation, production, signage, project management and counselling project development, graphic design of the exhibition and the accompanying booklet

Details

• First opening:
F06. November 2013
• Exhibition site: Palazzo
FMorriggia, Museo del
FRisorgimento, Milan, Italien
• Client: Ricordi & C.S.r.l.,
FMailand, Italien
• ca. 180 m2

Related projects

• Cranach the younger
Fdiscovery of a master
• Friederisiko. Frederick
Fthe great

Design process

Team

• Stefan Rothert
• Katharina Erben
• Nanna Funke
• Marlene Schaefermeyer
• Steffen Sendelbach

Prototype construction
• Paul Klier

Audio installation
• Harald Krewer, Vera Teichmann, speaklow

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Karibu Africa

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Übersee-Museum, Bremen

Lamp shade with Shoowa embroidery of the Kuba Kingdom

Background

Remodelling the Übersee-Museum’s African collection, gewerkdesign developed an exhibition that should appeal to both scientists and ordinary people, just like the Übersee-Museum’s founder Hugo Schauinsland envisioned some 100 years ago. Accordingly, the collections’s many precious artefacts are accompanied by many impressive dioramas and scale models.

The exhibition offers many different approaches to historic and contemporary Africa, showing the continent’s changing political history as well as the everyday life of different people in today’s Nairobi. The intricate construction of the exhibition’s architecture also accommodates many works of art, which were created in cooperation with African artists, sculptors, filmmakers and musicians.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Service phases 6 – 9, signage, media stations (animations), planning of the exhibits’ presentation

Details

• Opening: October 2013
• Client: Foundation of the
FÜbersee-Museum Bremen
• 1.500 m2

Related projects

• Goodbye & Hello – A dialogue
Fwith the hereafter
• Science + Fiction – Between
Fnanoworld and global culture

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Christian Hoffmann
• Fabian Leffelmann
• Rita Rentzsch
• Carsten Saalbach
• Marten Suhr

Typesetting
• Klaus Böhm

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Friederisiko. Frederick the Great

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New Palace and Sanssouci Park, Potsdam

The castellan’s key

Background

The exhibition in Sanssouci Park’s New Palace invites the visitors to explore the approximately 6000 m2 of exhibition space and learn about the life and times of Frederick the Great. They are free to stroll along a mulberry coloured path, which has been installed on top of the palace’s historic floors. This path protects the floors against wear and tear and simultaneously provides space for the supply and utility lines necessary for the presentation of the more than 600 exhibits.

The New Palace was the last palace built by Frederick the Great. Having significantly contributed to the palace’s appearance himself, the building is thus an expression of his taste and character. In view of this, the design for each of the exhibition’s nine narrative chapters makes different kinds of comments on the surrounding architecture.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Service phases 1-9, exhibition design and implementation, approval planning, implementation planning, preparation and participation in the commissioning process, planning of the exhibits’ presentation, production, signage, project management and consulting project development, graphic design of the exhibition and the accompanying booklet

Details

• Opening: 28. April 2012
• Exhibition site: New Palace
Fand Sanssouci Park, Potsdam
• Client: Prussian Palaces and
FGardens Foundation
FBerlin-Brandenburg
• 6.000 m²

Related projects

• Prussia & Saxony – Scenes
Ffrom a relationship between
Fneighbours
• Tabakcollegium –
FOranienbaum

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Thilo Albers
• Isabell Fringer
• Christian Hoffmann
• Christine Kitta
• Haleh Najafi-Shoushtari
• Gabriel Tecklenburg

Production management
• Rainer Kaufmann

Production
• Falko Riepe

Animation
• Jan Gabbert,  Ellen Stein,
FBuchstabenschubser

Architecture
• Johannes Gotaut

Photography
• Christoph Musiol

STASI. State Security in the SED Dictatorship

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Training centre of the BStU, Berlin

Erich Mielke’s red suitcase

Background

The permanent exhibition of the BStU illustrates the consequences of the secret police’s activities on individuals and society. Its nine narrative chapters document the history, ideology, structure and influence of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR.

The exhibition consists of an anteroom with a multivision, a passage room with a filing cabinet illustrating the STASI’s working methods and an exhibition room presenting an array of documents and other materials.

Hovering above the ground, visitors see an intricately designed »biographer« with the paradigmatic life stories of nine GDR citizens, each of whom had become targets of the STASI. Each of the stories has been supplemented by a short film and an object. A labyrinth of grey vitrines appearing to grow from the ground and movable doors covered with fabric illustrate how the STASI’s working methods seamlessly fit into citizens’ everyday life.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition dramaturgy, exhibition architecture, graphic design, media design, production, printed material, outdoor advertising material, signage, interior design of the training centre

Details

• Opening: January 2011
• Exhibition site: Training
Fcentre of the BStU, Berlin
• Client: Federal Commissioner
Ffor the Records of the State
FSecurity Service of the former
FGerman Democratic Republic,
FBStU
• 535 m²

Related projects

• The dissenter is the enemy
• Forced labour. The germans
Fthe forced labourers and the war
• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (catalogue)

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Thilo Albers
• Christian Hoffmann
• Christina Kitta
• Marten Suhr

Fotografie
• Markus Müller
• Susanna Hufsky