Subjective. Documentary Film

 

A joint exhibition by the Pinakothek der Moderne and the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film. The scenography enables the visitor to look at individual movies as well as experience the filmic portrait of a whole generation of directors in the “Film City” installation.

SUBJECTIVE. DOCUMENTARY FILM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2.12.10-20.2.11
Curators: Bernhart Schwenk, Heiner Stadler
Visual identity, exhibition architecture and graphics, media architecture, printed matter, book design: chezweitz & roseapple

To learn more about the accompanying books see this post: Two Books About Documentary Films

Work. Meaning and Care

In five space-encompassing media installations the exhibition looks at the meaning of work for society and the individual.

WORK. MEANING AND CARE
Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, 25.6.09–11.4.10
The exhibition had a second edition under the title:
WHAT TO DO? ABOUT HUMAN WORK
Senckenberg Nature Museum Frankfurt, 1.5.-16.9.12
Curators: Praxis für Ausstellung und Theorie [Hürlimann, Lepp, Tyradellis]
Visual identity, exhibition architecture and graphics, media architecture, printed matter, book design: chezweitz & roseapple
Photos of exhibition: Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Volker Kreidler

Catalogue accompanying the exhibition at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum: The curatorial collection of material is presented as an information folder, which simulates varied papers, page formats and tabs. Text and image fragments together with accompanied essays form a compact and multi-layered documentation of the work on work.

Work. Meaning and Care
diaphanes, 2009, 420 pages, open thread stitching,
Editors: Praxis für Ausstellung und Theorie [Hürlimann, Lepp, Tyradellis]
Graphic Concept, layout, typesetting: chezweitz & roseapple
Photos of catalogue and playing cards: Henrik Strömberg, Asi Föcker

Pier Paolo Pasolini. Who Is Me

Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel

Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel

Literaturhaus Berlin, Photo: Volker Kreidler

Museum Strauhof, Zürich

The wide range of documentary material, organized by a key-word structure, and the Pasolini film installation create a complex portrait of the Italian artist and intellectual.

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI. WHO IS ME
Museum Strauhof, Zurich, 18.3.–1.6.09
Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, 14.6.–6.10.09
Literaturhaus Berlin, 18.10.–22.11.09
Curators: Peter Erismann, Ricarda Gerosa
Video installation: Detlef Weitz, Dominique Müller
Visual identity, exhibition architecture and graphics. printed matter, book design: chezweitz & roseapple
Pier Paolo Pasolini. Who is me / Qui je suis / Wer ich bin
Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, 2009, 60 pages, soft cover (French, Italian and German edition)
Editors: Peter Erismann, Ricarda Gerosa
Graphic concept, layout, text setting in three languages: chezweitz & roseapple
Book photos: Henrik Stromberg, Asi Föcker

Celebrities. Andy Warhol and the Stars

Photo: Marion Lammersen / Kubix GmbH

Photo: Marion Lammersen / Kubix GmbH

Photo: Marion Lammersen / Kubix GmbH

Photo: Sandra Schuck

The show was part of the Berlin-wide program “Der Kult des Künstlers” (The Artist Cult). The Warhol Shop that was integrated into the exhibition proved controversial with the critics but popular with the public.

CELEBRITIES. ANDY WARHOL AND THE STARS
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum of Contemporary Art,
Berlin, 2.10.08–11.1.09
Curators: Anette Hüsch, Joachim Jäger
Curator Warhol Shop: Jörg Klambt / Muse Store
Exhibition architecture and graphics, merchandise: chezweitz & roseapple

Modell Bauhaus

The exhibition shows the development and influence of the legendary school on it’s 90th anniversary. With about 1.000 exhibits, it is the biggest show on the Bauhaus so far.

MODELL BAUHAUS | BAUHAUS. A CONCEPTUAL MODEL
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 22.7.– 4.10.09
Direction: Omar Akbar, Annemarie Jaeggi, Philipp Oswalt, Hellmut Seemann
Curators: Ulrike Bestgen, Werner Möller, Lutz Schöbe, Michael Siebenbrodt, Wolfgang Thöner, Klaus Weber
Architecture and exhibition graphics, media architecture, printed matter, book design: chezweitz & roseapple
Photos: Volker Kreidler

Publication on the exhibition in Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin: The book re-examines and re-evalutes the art school´s history and influence.

MODELL BAUHAUS | BAUHAUS. A CONCEPTUAL MODEL
Hatje Cantz, 2009, 376 pages, 302 illustrations, 236 in colour, hardcover with book jacket (English and German editions)
Editors: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Graphic Concept, layout, typesetting: chezweitz & roseapple

Related Post: Navigating Bauhaus

Andy Warhol. Other Voices, Other Rooms

Entrance Stedelijk Museum

Hayward Gallery | Photo: Marcus Leith

Filmscape graphic panels

Hayward Gallery | Photo: Marcus Leith

Hayward Gallery | Photo: Marcus Leith

Hayward Gallery | Photo: Marcus Leith

Hayward Gallery | Photo: Marcus Leith

The huge exhibition presents around 800 of Warhol’s works in 33 different media formats and in three scenographic landscapes: Filmscape, TV-Scape and Cosmos. The exhibition design won the German Design Prize in Gold in 2011.

ANDY WARHOL. OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 12.10.07–13.1.08
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 9.2.–4.5.08
Wexner Center, Columbus / Ohio, 13.9.08–4.1.09
Hayward Gallery, London, 7.10.08–18.1.09
Curator: Eva Meyer-Hermann
Exhibition architecture and graphics, media architecture, book design: chezweitz & roseapple

The publication accompanying the exhibition at all four museums translates the curatorial spaces in the rhythm of one page per minute into book space.

Andy Warhol. A Guide to 706 Items in 2 Hours and 56 Minutes
Editor: Eva Meyer-Hermann
NAi Publishers: 1st edition 2007, 2nd edition 2008, 254 pages, 264 coloured illustrations, cut flush binding with reflective foil in book jacket (English and Swedish editions)
Graphic Concept, layout and typesetting: chezweitz & roseapple

Max Ernst. Traum und Revolution

The big retrospective subtly places the artist in a contemporary context.

MAX ERNST. DREAM AND REVOLUTION
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 20.9.08–11.1.09
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, 7.2.-1.6.09
Curators: Iris Müller-Westermann, Kirsten Degel, Werner Spies
Exhibition architecture and graphics, book design: chezweitz & roseapple

Publication on the exhibition at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk: Coloured lights seems to shine from the book´s spine edge, which changes with the stations of the artist´s life and subtly accompanies the work of Max Ernst through the daringly surreal book architecture.

MAX ERNST. DREAM AND REVOLUTION
Hatje Cantz, 2008, 256 pages, 288 illustrations, hardcover with book jacket (English, German and Swedish editions)
Editors: Kirsten Degel, Iris Müller-Westermann, Werner Spies
Graphic concept, layout, typesetting: chezweitz & roseapple

Navigating Bauhaus

My favourite graphic designer in the Bauhaus is László Moholy-Nagy. Graphic design was just one of many areas he was working in, and his layouts often seem a trifle inelegant and akward. But when it comes to translating ideas into graphic compositions, he is the boldest and the most inventive and engaging. He is trying to tell you something and he wants you to UNDERSTAND that something. That is because he could be your great-great-grandfather. He was born in 1895.

People often write about how contemporary and relevant the Bauhaus still is and how it’s cultural legacy can be found everywhere around us, which is probably correct, at least in the case of Germany. But while working on the graphic interface of the 90th anniversary Bauhaus Exhibition, I was more interested in pin-pointing the difference between now and 90 years ago.

Light-Space-Modulator by László Moholy-Nagy in the Modell Bauhaus Exhibition

One important difference I found, lies in the changed relationship between designer, content and audience. Whereas László Moholy-Nagy is one with his content and comes up real close to deliver his message into your face, the contemporary designer keeps a distance. He doesn´t shout, he doesn´t arrange his words for maximum impact, but to strict grammatical rules. He wants you to understand the underlying sentence structure first, the words second. He designs systems in which content is arranged, and then lets you draw your own conclusions.

The contemporary designer not only keeps a distance to the content and the audience, but also to his own work and the idea of authorship. The thing that appeals to him in using systems is the element of chance. Graphic systems can be programmed to generate an aesthetic almost by themselves. They work like a bit like a Graphic-Meaning-Modulator, you feed some parameters into it and out comes a visual surprise. Here are our parameters for the 23 panels guiding the visitor from the inner Central Hall of the Martin-Gropius Bau into the outer exhibition ring.

  • Every panel depicts a key object shown in the exhibition room the panel is guiding to, as a technical drawing.

 

  • A chromatic circle runs over all 17 panels. The background colour of each panel is determined by its position in the great hall.

 

  • All key objects occupy roughly the same size on the panel. The pixel ratio of the background is determined by the original size of the key object.

And now press start and see what happens:

 

Navigation System for the exhibition:
MODELL BAUHAUS | BAUHAUS. A CONCEPTUAL MODEL
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 22.7. – 4.10.09
exhibition design and graphics by chezweitz & roseapple.
Photos of the exhibition by Volker Kreidler

More about the exhibition here: Modell Bauhaus

Archilab Europe – Strategic Architecture

The exhibition interrogates the effects of EU strategies on architecture, urban development and the political map.

ARCHILAB 2008 EUROPE – STRATEGIC ARCHITECTURE
FRAC Centre & Collégiale Saint-Pierre-Le-Puellier, Orléans, 24.10.–23.12.08 
Project Direction: Marie-Ange Brayer / ArchiLab and Ville d’Orléans
Curator: Omar Akbar
Visual identity, exhibition architecture and graphics, signage, printed matter, book design: chezweitz & roseapple

Publication on the Exhibition at FRAC Centre and Collégiale Saint-Pierre-Le-Puellier, Orléans: On the changing shape of Europe and the biological metaphors of curating, the colourful language of this book makes tangible a Europe in transition.

ARCHILAB 2008 EUROPE – STRATEGIC ARCHITECTURE
HYX Publishers, 2008, 183 pages, 96 colour plates, softcover (English and French editions) 
Editor: Omar Akbar, Director of Bauhaus Dessau
Graphic Concept, layout, typesetting: chezweitz & roseapple

Icon of Modernism – The Bauhaus Building Dessau

ICON OF MODERNISM – THE BAUHAUS BUILDING DESSAU
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, 2.12.06–11.3.07
Curators: Walter Prigge with Wolfgang Thöner, Monika Markgraf
Visual identity, exhibition architecture and graphics, printed matter, cover design: chezweitz & roseapple

P.P.P. Pier Paolo Pasolini

P.P.P. – PIER PAOLO PASOLINI AND DEATH
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 16.11.05–5.2.06
Curators: Bernhart Schwenk, Michael Semff
Video installation. Detlef Weitz, Dominique Müller
Visual identity, exhibition architecture and graphics, printed matter, book design: chezweitz & roseapple

Publication on the occasion of the exhibition »P.P.P. – Pier Paolo Pasolini und der Tod«, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich: The book presents the Italian intellctual as author, filmmaker and graphic artist. The gallery of fictive cover pictures with the P.P.P. label point to Pasolini´s ambivalent relationship with the public.

P.P.P. – Pier Paolo Pasolini and Death
Hatje Cantz, 2005, 208 pages, 215 illustrations, 46 in colour, hardcover with book jacket (German and English editions)
Editors: Bernhart Schwenk, Michael Semff
Graphic Concept, layout, typesetting: chezweitz & roseapple

P0es1s. Digital Poetry

Media art exhibition of the literaturWERKstatt (Berlin) and the Stiftung Brückner-Kühner (Kassel) showing a wide range of works, that deal with text in digital media.

p0es1s. Digital Poetry
Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, 13.2.–4.4.04
Curators: Friedrich W. Block, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer
Visual identity, exhibition architecture and graphics, media architecture, printed matter, website, book design: chezweitz & roseapple

Publication on the occasion of the exhibition at Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz: Black one, white zero: The book is numbered binary, so that each exhibit on a double page has its own barcode. This code links the exhibit to space and book.

p0es1s. Ästhetik digitaler Poesie / Aesthetics of digital poetry
Hatje Cantz, 2004, 64 pages, 25 illustrations, softcover, bilingual edition (German and English editions)
Editors: Friedrich W. Block, Christiane Heibach, Karin Wenz
Graphic Concept, layout, typesetting, cover design textbook: chezweitz & roseapple

Bauhaus Style

The exhibition presents the varied attempts to canonize the historic Bauhaus in a seemingly endless spatial structure.

BAUHAUS STYLE. BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL STYLE AND LIFESTYLE
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, 23.5.03-30.5.04
Curator: Regina Bittner
Visual identity, architecture and exhibition graphics, printed matter: chezweitz & roseapple