The exhibition takes the visitor on an expedition through tropical and subtropical climates. The environment they find themselves in is instantly recognisable – the supermarket. But guests will soon notice that not everything is quite what it seems. The shelves are not filled with endless different products, all displayed for the customer with millimetric precision. In the fruit and vegetable section there are no appetisingly presented and polished vegetables, and there is no sign of …
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Listen! Play! Make Music!
Listen! Play! Make Music! was a temporary exhibition at Experimenta Heilbronn, a science centre for children. Working at Space 4 as a freelancer, I had the pleasure to design this exhibition as well as to give support throughout the planning process. The brief was to create a playful and educational environment, where visitors could explore how we perceive, generate and transform sounds. The experimental instruments were made by renowned artist Michael Bradke.
Museum Restaurant for the Tibet Heritage Fund
Immediately after my Masters, I went to India. I spent three weeks of my stay working for the Leh Old Town Initiative (LOTI), an offshoot of the Tibet Heritage Fund. The old town, nestled at the heart of the Himalayas, was once the site of an important crossroads for the Central Asian caravan trade. Ladakh’s culture has been shaped more than most by the transmission of goods and ideas from such disparate regions as Tibet, Yarkand, Kashmir, Afghanistan. The town …
Land of Discoveries
Land of Discoveries was a cooperation of Dutch and German museums with the focus on frisian history. I had the pleasure to support Space 4 throughout the designing and planning process as a freelancer. The ethnic group of the frisians has strongly influenced the Netherlands and the nothern part of Germany. Until today their cultural impact is tangible, just as it is still visible with bare eyes how the Frisians had formed their lands to make it …
Animated Music Videos
I learned how to produce cut out animation movies by helping a friend, who was creating a music video for his own underground band. When a local DJ from Düsseldorf, Frank Sonic, approached me to ask if I would make a video for his latest release, I jumped at the chance. The first track with Frank Sonic also featured Tube & Berger, two DJs with a significant following. They were interested in a second video: I …
Protest and the Media
Occupy, Stuttgart 21 and the Arab Spring made 2011 a year of protest and demonstration. And more than ever before, it was driven by media such as blogs, smartphone videos and photographs, published on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. As digital media spread around the world it rapidly became iconic of the rebellion. The focus of this work was the influence of digital media on protest culture.
Nefertiti and Co: Who do these cultural treasures belong to?
What unanswered questions remain in today’s museum scene? This idea was put to me by my professor at university in Düsseldorf. My answer evolved into a multi-facetted idea for an exhibition about Nefertiti, The Rosetta Stone, the Crown of Montezuma and the Treasures of Priam. Long ago, colonial powers removed these cultural treasures from the faraway lands where they were discovered. They were taken, sometimes in secret or by force, sometimes by deception. Sometimes everything …
Monogamy
When the wedding of a befriended couple came up, I didn´t want to go for just another dinnerware set. Instead I wanted to give them something personal which would make them smile even in 50 years, when they would find the present going through old storage boxes on their attic with their twenty grandchildren…given that my gift would somehow end up in a storage box by accident.
The Perverse Chamber
The briefing was to create a room (or more precisely a cube with the measurements 2.5m x 2.5m) with a perverse atmosphere. As part of our research, we looked up the latin word “perversio” and found that it means converse, or reverse. So, if a room is defined by the space between its four walls, a perverse approach would be to completely fill this area.
Schnippenburg Museum Foyer
“Rätsel Schnippenburg” appeared in museums all over Germany as a touring exhibition, before making its permanent home in Schwagstorf in 2010. The design of the exhibition was simply modified to fill the new space, but the purpose-built museum required a fitting foyer. I had the pleasure to support the amazing Christoph and Angelika at Space 4 throughout the designing and planning process for this project as a freelancer.