Electronic music at the Düsseldorf Kunstpalast
The Studio for Electronic Music at the WDR in Cologne, founded in 1951, legendary clubs such as the Ratinger Hof or the Creamcheese, but also places such as the Düsseldorf […]
Moments of Connection. The Hamburg MK&G shows installations by Drift
Large fabric flowers fall, unfold magnificently and close again; dandelion seeds glow and points of light imitate the flight behaviour of birds. To mark the fifth birthday of Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie […]
Plant Fever. Design from the plant perspective
What is nature? Are plants only useful biomass? Do fauna and flora have to serve humans alone? Global warming, species protection and ecological footprints make it clear that humans urgently […]
Exhibition “Formafantasma: Cambio” in Zurich. Tree, Wood, Man
Wood has a green image. It is praised as an unproblematic and sustainable material in numerous areas – from pellet heating to paper production and, more recently, even in the […]
Readiness to protest. Contemporary Activism between Attitude and Style
Protest movements need symbols, signals, preferably a distinctive design. This is all the more true in a society where attention is generated through media communication. A close connection between agitation, […]
Reuse, Renew, Recycle. Recent Architecture from China
China has experienced an unparalleled building boom in recent decades, which has made the country “the largest construction site in human history”. After urban mega-projects and spectacular signature architectures were […]
How to Dior. Christian Dior and his successors
When Christian Dior presented his “Bar Jacket” at the presentation of his first collection on 12 February 1947, he revolutionised fashion and changed the Parisian streetscape marked by the Second […]
Le design pour tous. De Prisunic à Monoprix, une aventure française
“The beautiful at the price of the ugly” is quoted Andrée Putman, the grande dame of French design. The official slogan of Prisunic, “Le laid se vend mal” (“The ugly […]
The “BioMedia” exhibition at the ZKM in Karlsruhe
Our organic life is more and more determined by a coexistence with artificial life forms that we develop and design ourselves. For centuries, man has been trying to create machines […]
Exhibition „Heading Outdoors“ at the Neue Sammlung in Munich. Design for life outside.
Out at last! The more densely populated we become and the longer we have to spend indoors, the greater the desire to escape outside. With the exhibition “Heading Outdoors”, the […]
The 2021 architecture biennale in Venice. Building and living in the Anthropocene
How will we live together? It is a question that is as simple as it is fundamental. Chief curator Hashim Sarkis is asking it at the 17th International Architecture Biennale […]
German Design Graduates 2020/21
When graduates leave university, it can be the decisive moment for the start of a design career. For the start to be successful, one thing is needed above all: attention […]
“Design & Bahn”: an exhibition at Nuremberg’s DB Museum
Through its 20 different sections, the Design & Bahn exhibition presents the development of rail design in Germany. Beginning in circa 1900 when rail design first became significant, it stretches […]
Fashion photography from the 90s, curated by Claudia Schiffer
In the 1990s, photographers like Ellen von Unwerth, Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier, Herb Ritts and Bruce Weber produced captivating images of ambitious fashion designers’ extravagant creations as worn by supermodels […]
All eyes on Brigitte, now. Vienna Design Week 2021
Vienna Design Week is Austria’s largest curated design festival and has been making Vienna and a rotating “focus district” a venue for numerous events since 2007. This year’s festival, its […]