Deutsches Architekturmuseum, DAM, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
“Eine kulturgeschichtliche Ausstellung ueber ein Material, das jeder kennt.” so fuehrte das DAM in die Ausstellung ein. Eine reichhaltige Wunderkammer praesentierte sich dem Besucher. In einem aufgeraeumten Design wurde alles gezeigt was zum Thema Resopal und seinem Vorlaeufer Bakelit gefunden werden konnte: Fassadenverkleidung, Halbzeuge, Produkte, Plakate und vieles mehr.
www.dam.de
www.dam-online.de/Artikel180003554.html

Passagen 06, Köln, Germany, Christuskirche: A&W Designer der Jahres: Gaetano Pesce. Ein überraschendes Bild eröffnete sich dem Besucher beim Betreten der protestantischen Kirche.
In den Raum, der temporär leer geräumten Kirche, ist ein weißes, grobmaschiges Netz gespannt. Auf ihm fest verzurrt, skizzenhafte Objekte. Wechselnde Lichtstimmungen ergänzen die Inszenierung. Ein “Verfolger”, wie wir ihn aus Bühnenshows kennen, akzentuiert einzelne Objekte.
Der Fisch ist als Symbol auf den Außenbannern der Ausstellung zufinden.
Der Fisch als christliches Symbol: nach Seelen fischen vs. nach Ideen fischen (das italienische Wort “Pesce” bedeutet Fisch).
www.gaetanopesce.com
www.awmagazin.de/de/designer

Markenwelten und Kommunikationsmaßnahmen, Produkt- und Themeninszenierungen des Daimler-Chrysler Konzerns auf der 61. internationalen Automobilausstellung in Frankfurt am Main, IAA 2005: Mercedes, Maybach, Smart, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge

Dornbracht Research Unit ETH Zuerich
Project within the Passagen 2005, KAP Forum, Cologne, Germany
The beginning of the 2003/2004 winter semester saw the start of the research project “Ritual architecture in the bathroom” by the Dornbracht Research Unit ETH Zurich. The Research Unit is an innovative co-operation between industry and university research.
The aim of the collaboration, which was initiated by Dornbracht, is to develop a discourse on the subject of ritual architecture on the international architecture scene and to achieve the architecturisation of the term ritual. The bathroom is re-interpreted as an architectural subject.
Dornbracht stipulates the ultimate subject of “Ritual architecture”, and has no influence over the content of the process or its results. A team of between six and eight students from the ETH Zurich will work on the subject in three stages throughout the whole semester. (Dornbracht)
www.ethz.ch
www.dornbracht.com
www.dornbracht.com/de/index.htm?nav=1178&id=1340
www.cultureprojects.com

The product presentation of the Nissan Altima is one of the best done exhibitions in Second Life. The creaters play with the enhanced possibilities of the virtual reality in a very creative way.
The following picture story tells how Mister Tamura gets his virtual pet – his lovely bumblebee – one of the gifts you can get on the Island.
Nissan Altima 120, 150, 71 (PG) – Nissan Altima Island

A&W-Designer des Jahres 2007. Die von Konstantin Gricic selbst gestaltete originelle Werkschau war während der Passagen 07 im Kölner Kunstverein zu sehen. jz
www.konstantin-grcic.com
www.awmagazin.de/de/designer
www.voggenreiter.com

House of History Baden-Würtemberg
Permante Ausstellung, Stuttgart, Germany.
Von “Äffle und Pferdle” über “Musterländle” oder “Kehrwoche” bis “Zeppelin” entwirft das Baden-Württemberg-ABC auf spielerische und assoziative Weise ein ungewöhnliches Gesamtbild landestypischer Eigenheiten. Es ist ein Auftakt, der die Besucher bei ihren eigenen Vorstellungen abholt und sie an die Themen der Dauerausstellung heranführt.
Über zwei Ebenen erstreckt sich der chronologische Teil der Ausstellung. In acht Abschnitten erzählen historische Objekte mit ihren Geschichten die Entwicklung der letzten 200 Jahre im deutschen Südwesten.
Szenografie: Atelier Brückner (Germany)
www.atelier-brueckner.de

Traumstoffe aus St. Gallen
Landesmuseum Zürich, Switzerland
In Zusammenarbeit mit Jakob Schlaepfner, St. Gallen
Szenographie, Bob Verhelst, Antwerpen

Theme park »Wetterpark Offenbach« – understanding and watching weather phenomena.
Conception, design, planning, realisation: unit-design, Frankfurt/M. (GER)
Project partner: Arge Wetterpark (unit-design, bb22), consulting architectural concept: Boris Banozic, consulting architectural planning: Jan Schulz (bb22), meteorol. specialist counselling: Deutscher Wetterdienst
www.unit-design.de
www.bb22.net
www.dreizueins.de

Hamburg, Germany, May 1997 – October 1998
The exhibition approaches the Titanic myth in a subtle way to allow for flexible interpretation. It reflects an associative rather than a didactic concept. We had a tour in mind, a sequence of themes and atmospheres that one would read like a book. Our aim was to build up emotions to then take them captive in order to produce dismay just like an excellent play does. We wanted the fate of these people and the ship, and the hybris that led to the demise of both, to really affect us. Atelier Brückner (Germany)
www.atelier-brueckner.de

In the context of the development programes for the regions of the periphery of the European Union, a leadership signal could be set, in light of its Eastern expansion. In order to bring new life into the region, the Lower Austrian wine got a new exciting home: The Loisium is a mix between museum and modern architecture, historic wine cellars and current cellar technologies, story-telling machine and shopping opportunities, which according to Californian star wine-journalist, Dr. Prof. Tim Patterson, is unique in the world.
New York star-architect Steven Holl could be won over to design this entrance building, an imposing cube. A private investment group launched wine world Langenlois, STEINER SARNEN SCHWEIZ designed and realized the concept.
www.steinersarnen.ch

Collection Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt/M., Germany.
Wonderful colours, awe-inspiring shapes, most beautiful “flying objects”: Butterflies – designed by nature.

www.senckenberg.de

The exhibition placed in an old depot was an ambient play of lights, shadows and design objects made by Tom Dixon (UK), A&W Designer of the year within the Passagen 08, Cologne.

It looks like a “curiosity cabinet” of analogue electronic technologies. The “Thüringer Museum für Elektrotechnik Erfurt e.V” is collecting historic electronic equipment of the German Democratic Republic.
The image story, made by Mario Gaetano Brucculeri allows a compact tour to analogue technics of the past. E.g. inspiriting forms like high-frequency and high voltage insulators or electronic instruments.
www.elektromuseum.de

At the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig

A one-room hotel with a concierge? At an art institution?
Breakfast in your room? Towels that are supposed to be stolen by the guests?
A fully stocked mini-bar that is included in the price and just waiting to be emptied?
At the end of May 2006 the Hotel Everland was set up on the roof of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst for one year. The location on top of the villa afford a spectacular view of the park and the surrounding houses in the music district. However, it was not just the location of the hotel and the art institution (which for its part, enjoys a unique status in Germany’s eastern states) that are remarkable, but the hotel itself and its services. The one-room hotel boasts a lounge with an enormous picture window, a double bed and a luxurious bathroom.
Hotel Everland stands for the desire for something extraordinary, for a place that is removed from connections to the daily routine. The interior and the exterior of the hotel are clearly custom-made. In this way, the unique object fulfils on the one hand all the benchmarks for a piece of art, including the longing to step outside of the daily routine. On the other hand, this experience must be paid for. Art is no longer an ideal/idealised sphere; it is part of the logic of economic utilisation. Contrary to this logic, irritations have also been incorporated, because economic utilisation also carries irrational aspects with it. A one-room hotel doesn’t make financial sense: the operating costs and the revenues are blatantly disproportionate. Furthermore, the wish for exclusivity is in direct contradiction to the possibility that large groups will visit the hotel during the opening hours of the GfZK. This will virtually place the desire for exclusivity on display.
Hotel Everland was created by the Swiss artist duo Sabina Lang & Daniel Baumann as an art project for the Swiss Expo.02. In 2002, the hotel enjoyed a torrent of interest in Yverdon on Lake Neuchâtel. After Leipzig, the Everland will move on and be reconstructed in Paris.
www.langbaumann.com
www.everland.ch

Exhibition: Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt, September 16 2007 to March 24 2008
Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) is one of the most innovative plastics developments of the 20th century. The amazing versatility of this material makes it an essential component of everyday life. Better known by the PLEXIGLAS® trademark, this extremely weather-resistant plastic was developed to patent stage in 1933 by the Darmstadt-based Röhm company. Its constant high transparency, light weight as compared with glass and wide range of forming options are the attributes that make PLEXIGLAS® an equally attractive material for architecture and design.
As a curved windshield for automobiles, this plastic put its stamp on the Streamline movement of the 1930s. Whereas the material was required in huge volumes for aircraft construction during World War II, music boxes, illuminated signs or record player covers such as the famous “Snow White’s Coffin” were among its first fields of application in the 1950s. Organically shaped tableware, eccentric handbags and avant-garde furniture were further fortes of the synthetic material. In the “space design” of the 1960s, an era characterized by its fascination with space travel and its pop culture, the possibilities offered by the material were more consistently exhausted. In 1972, the transparent roof construction of Munich’s Olympic Stadium revolutionized architecture and opened up perspectives for the use of PLEXIGLAS® in construction. Today, the design potentialities of the material, which has undergone constant further development, are more manifold than ever and are embraced with matching enthusiasm by contemporary designers. By means of selected examples, the exhibition staged to mark the 100th anniversary of the Röhm company displays PLEXIGLAS® in architecture, design and everyday life from early times up to the present.
Catalogue edited by Ralf Beil, with texts by Kai Buchholz. Published by Wienand Verlag, Cologne, German/English
www.mathildenhoehe.info

Frankfurt am Main (Umweltamt) and Regionalpark RheinMain Südwest GmbH – in the Frankfurt/M district Oberrad an unusual monument honors the Frankfurt national specialty »Grüne Soße« (green sauce). In its traditional growing area seven green greenhouses are realized, one for each of the seven traditional herbs used to create the popular sauce. This work symbolize the power of the countryside surrounded by the neighboring metropolis. Within the dusk the objects glow towards evening and emphasize the power of the »Frankfurter Grüne Soße«.
»Frankfurter Grüne Soße«
The Frankfurt »Grüne Soße« is made from hard-boiled eggs, oil (but not olive oil), vinegar, salt, and generous amount of seven fresh herbs, namely borage, sorrel, cress, chervil, chives, parsley, and salad burnet.
Variants, often due to seasonal availability include dill, lovage, lemon balm and even spinach or basil. In more frugal times, daisy leaves, broad plantain leaves, and dandelion leaves were also used. Since the sauce is mainly an emulsion of fat and egg yolk, it may be classified as a kind of mayonnaise (although common mayonnaise uses raw yolks). Today, buttermilk, sour cream (»Saure Sahne« with 10 per cent fat, or »Schmand« with 24 per cent fat), quark, or yogurt is often added in order to reduce the oil content of the sauce.
The sauce is served with peeled boiled potatoes, accompanying either hard-boiled eggs or roasted beef brisket. Hard apple cider is a typical accompanying drink. This was supposedly Goethe’s favourite meal; a legend that his mother invented it is likely apocryphal.

May 11th to September 7th, 2008
Mathildenhöhe Institute, Darmstadt (GER)
Architecture as the essential domain of man, captured by one of the most renowned contemporary artists – this is the main theme of Andreas Gursky’s solo exhibition at the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Whether a solitary structure or an intricate urban complex: architecture constitutes an essential part of the cultural identity of every society. Thus it appears almost imperative that Andreas Gursky, in his images of our present day, focuses again and again on the architectural.
The show of the world renowned photographer and recipient of the Wilhelm Loth Prize in 2003 at the Mathildenhöhe plumbs for the first time the entire depth and breadth of his notion of architecture with a view toward the tectonics and texture of the built structure from outside and inside: here a high-tech cathedral for neutrino research encounters the archaic tectonics of the temple, a representational space of political power meets the informal architecture of the slums, or the textured light of a megalopolis at night – these are but a few of Andreas Gursky’s emblematic pictorial findings.
The catalogue is edited by Ralf Beil and Sonja Feßel and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. Hardcover, German and English edition, 24,5×30 cm, 112 pages, 90 full color images, approx. € 39.80.

»Studio Max Weinberg – Space of Fantasy«
AusstellungsHalle 1A, Frankfurt/M.
4th June – 31 August 2008
Anniversary exhibition 80th birthday of Max Weinberg

Max Weinberg transformed the Exhibition-hall »AusstellungsHalle 1A, Frankfurt« into his temporary studio. The visitors are invited to be a part of the work in progress: to arrange the paintings, to get a new view…
The paintings, oil and mixed technique on canvas or paper, usually with extreme black and white contrasts, covered with intense, complex symbols, provoke and move the viewer. They remember to graffiti-art, they are fresh and shrill.
The viewer is confront with three-legged females, multi-eyed cyclopes, women with more than two tits. “I paint objects that other people suppress” is the comment of Max Weinberg about his work.
www.ateliermaxweinberg.com
www.ateliermaxweinberg.com/GonserEnFrameset.html
http://www.kunstfueralle.de/