A designstudio focussing on the visualization of complex information, the design of communication process and the investigation on political dimensions in design. The studios main field of activity is the creation and implementation of identity concepts, the communication of complex information in the context of exhibitions and the development of diagrammatic and cartographic visualizations. read more
09.2010
Civic CIty Cahier 1, Margit Mayer: Social Movements in the (Post-)Neoliberal City
Booklaunch
We cordially invite you to the presentation of the first issue of the Civic City Cahier Series as part of the "Unter dem Motto"-event series. Location: Motto Berlin, Skalitzer Strasse 68, Im Hinterhof, 10997 Berlin
The Civic City Cahiers series intends to provide material for a critical discussion about the role of design for a new social city. It publishes short monographic texts by authors who specialize in urban and design theory and practice.
Series Editors: Design2context, Jesko Fezer, Matthias Görlich
Publisher: Bedford Press, London 2010
Talk with Jesko Fezer, Matthias Görlich and Zak Kyes
08.2010
Stadträume, Gestaltung und Aneignung: Publication
On the occasion of the exhibition "Stadträume, Gestaltung und Aneigung", we designed the accompanying publication covering on the one hand historic examples, on the other hand visual statements by the Civic City participants. The publication took the form of a newspaper holding 12 single sleeve posters in the middle.
08.2010
Stadträume–Gestaltung und Aneignung
We cordially invite you to the exhibition "Stadträume–Gestaltung und Aneignung" at Architekturforum Zurich on August, 25th 7pm. "Civic City" contributed a statement on the new strategy for the design of Zurichs public space, presented by the Department for Municipal Works Service (Tiefbauamt) / City of Zurich on the occasion of this exhibition. The contributions by the participants of the "Civic City" program aim to foster the public debate on how public space is designed and who actually takes the decisions. On display from August, 26th until October, 9th 2010. Curated by Yves Dreier and Matthieu Jaccard. Architecture by Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik. Thanks for the photograph: Darius Gondor.
06.2010
Institute Design2context, Website
Studio Matthias Görlich has been in charge of the re-design of the Website for Institute Design2context. Have a look here.
06.2010
Civic City Cahier Series
The Civic City Cahier Series intends to provide material for a critical discussion about the role of design for a new social city. Currently design plays an increasingly important role in shaping urban spaces. A City is no longer seen to comprise only buildings, streets, squares and parks. Text and images in public space, branding campaigns, street art, guidance systems, temporary installations, processual and interactive design and cartographic representations influence our use, experience and perception of the city, as do signage, urban furnishings, vehicles, infrastructures and the appearance of public facades. The Civic City Cahier Series addresses these design practices in the light of the escalating crisis of neoliberalism. It looks for design potentials for a social city. Edited by Jesko Fezer and Matthias Görlich, published by Bedford-Press, London.
06.2010
Civic City 2, Designing in Crisis
In the autumn of 2010, Design2context, the Institute for design research, leads for the second time, the Postgraduate Program Civic City. Civic City operates as a laboratory, where practitioners and theorists from the fields of design, architecture, urban design, visual communication, sociology, anthropology and futurology cooperate in researching, developing, and discussing new perspectives on the design of urban spaces. The transdisciplinary program will be accompanied by ten expert colloquia. In these three day modules, professionals offer a variety of perspectives on the theme. Inputs are communicated, processed and worked on through workshops, projects, lectures, exhibitions and salons de recherche. Civic City is open for all, interested to work on «another urban». Guests include Elisabeth Blum, Christine Breton, Andrea Gleiniger, David Harvey, Peter Neitzke, Stefan Sagmeister, Stealth, Erik Swyngedouw, Sebastien Thiery, and others… Directed by Ruedi Baur, Miguel Robles-Duran, Jesko Fezer and Matthias Görlich.
06.2010
Langstrasse verlängern!
Now on display at Architekturforum Zürich: Langstrasse verlängern. An exhibition curated by urbanist Tim Rieniets portraying the Langstrasse-Area, Zurichs Redlight-district. With contributions by Philippe Cabane, Urban Research Studio, Schneider Studer Primas, INURA and Studio Matthias Görlich. Overall graphic concept by Studio Matthias Görlich.
05.2010
Richard-Neutra, Buildings and Projects 1960–1970
June, 07th saw the opening of the exhibiton on the work of architect and theorist Richard Neutra at Museum MaRTA Herford. Exhibition Design and Graphics done by Studio Matthias Görlich in close cooperation with Architect Holmer Schleyerbach. The concept was mainly based on building a 3-dimensional collage of typical Richard Neutra elements and his understanding of space, light, movement and the inside and the outside. Finally a prototype building was set-up within the Frank Gehry museum architecture juxtaposing two schools of architectural understanding. Open until August, 1st. Further readings here, here and here.
05.2010
Showdown–24h in Conflict
Following the workshops “The Good The Bad The Ugly” and “Bitte lasst die Blumen leben”, this is the third workshop held at University in Darmstadt this time focusing on (not only design) conflicts. How do we articulate and operate in a conflictous situations, what role do visuals play here and is there any potential for graphic design? Final outcome was an exhibition presenting numerous duells with different media ranging from video to performances. A poster and publication announcing and accompanying the exhibition was produced by the students. Participants: Charlotte Gunia, Denis Kreuzer, Julia Krust, Anja Grunert, Alice Mattheß, Tina Michl, Linnea Erlich, Raphael Schifferdecker, Andreas Knapp, Friedl Lesch, Alexander Brade, Marijana Babic, Elisa Scheichl, Kristina Voll, Katharina Göbel, Rade Matic, Sina Schindler, Paul Raabe, Anna Kraus, Lukas Fiala, Vital Kurz, Christina Löber. Conducted by Prof. Frank Philippin and Matthias Görlich
05.2010
Heroes, Freaks and Superrabbis–The Jewish Dimension of Comic Art
The Jewish Museum in Berlin just opened their new exhibition titled “Heroes, Freaks, Superrabbis–The Jewish Color of Comics”. Overall graphic concept for the exhibition by Studio Matthias Görlich. Exhibition architecture by Katzkaiser. For more information, please see: Jewish Museum Berlin. Phototgraphy by Veit Landwehr.
05.2010
Langstrasse verlängern!
Matthias Görlich has been invited to join Kees Christiaanse (CH), Philippe Cabane (CH), Hubert Klumpner (CH) as guest critic for the students work of the Urban Research Studios furthcoming investigation on Zurichs Red-Light District. Curated by Tim Rieniets, exhibition at Architekturforum Zürich starting June 10th 2010.
05.2010
Magazine cover / Mapping for “disp”
As part of a collaboration between Civic City and the Magazine for Urban Planning “disp”, we developed a design for the cover of the current issue mapping out alternative and actual places of conflict within the city of Zurich.
05.2010
Please, don’t brand my city: Barcelona
Workshop held at Elisava, Escola Superior de Disseny, Barcelona España on alternatives in developing a shared visual representation of a city.
03.2010
Conference “Design for the Post-Neoliberal City”
“From being strategic places for the implementation of neoliberal policy, cities may possibly become a new political arena for experiments in democracy – and in return require a new design. But designers continue to hold back with criticism and proposals. Yet the time has come, to redefine the role of design in a social city – and to take action. “Design for the Post-Neoliberal City” will posit the basic principles and points of departure of a search for an alternative urban design practice, beyond the practices and ideology of crisis-ridden, late-capitalist urbanism. For it is precisely in the field of design, which has hitherto taken only a cautious approach to urban issues, that one finds unexplored potential for an intentional (re-)design of space.”. This conference is part of the Civic City program and will be held on March 12th & 13th at the University for the Arts in Zurich. The graphic concept introduced “Visual Statements” by four leading graphic design studios on the topic of the conference. See below the contributions by Metahaven, Zak Kyes, Manuel Raeder and Lehni-Trueb.
03.2010
Refuge Urbanism/Diwan: Istanbul, Turkish Edition
Next issue of the “Refuge”-Newspaper series: The turkish edition of the previously published Istanbul Newspaper edited by Tansel Korkmaz, Eda Ünlü-Yücesoy, Yaşar Adanalı, Can Altay and Philipp Misselwitz. Launched at DEPO, Istanbul on March, 12th as part of the exhibition “Open City Istanbul”.
03.2010
Workshop: Bitte lasst die Blumen leben
Documentation of a workshop conducted at the Faculty for Design, University Darmstadt. Workshop participants: Marijana Babic, Alexander Brade, Michaela Dechert, Linnea Erlich, Patrick Gasselsdorfer, Christoph Kronenberg, Rade Matic, Pawel Napiorkowski, Florian Renschke, Oliver Schendzielorz, Andreas Strack.
From the introduction to the book: “Was ist das Gute, was ist das Schlechte, was ist das Hässliche im Design? Was ist gutes, was ist schlechtes, was ist hässliches Design? Im Rahmen zweier Workshops wurden diese Fragen diskutiert. Aufgabenstellung war dabei zunächst, innerhalb des jeweiligen Themengebiets, Thesen, Statements und visuelles Material zusammenzutragen. Unser Fazit: Es können keine ultimativen Antworten gegeben werden. Basierend auf dieser Erkenntnis haben wir uns entschieden, das gesammelte Material im Rahmen einer Publikation mit allen Widersprüchen unkommentiert und ungeordnet zu präsentieren. Dieses Projekt stellt somit indirekt auch die Sinnhaftigkeit von Lehrmeinungen, Regeln und somit von Designausbildung generell in Frage. Grundlage für die Materialsammlung war die Bibliothek des Fachbereichs.”
02.2010
“An Atlas of Radical Cartography in Zurich”
“An Atlas of Radical Cartography” makes its premise on undermining the claim of mapping as an objective representation of the world. Instead, the project understands mapping as a tool for reconstructing our society and political sphere against the dominant pictures of the world that are often represented or made invisible by «falsographers» (Olivier Rolin). In this radical cartography converge diverse practices such as art, critical theories, architectural & graphic designs and activism, share interests in re-mapping the world collectively. “An Atlas of Radical Cartography” was initiated and convened as a publication of ten maps together with ten accompanying essays by New York-based artists Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat. As a traveling exhibition, it was called in and reset anew at several institutes in the United States. Now, for the exhibtion at Whitespace in Zurich, the collection of maps had been updated and extended to put a stronger focus on the changes of the world after the neoliberal crisis. Those maps take on a range of pressing social and political issues from globalization and economic inequity to diverse urban concerns, in the process creating new imaginary territories and anticipating possible actions. In close collaboration with Matthias Görlich/White Spots Black Holes.
01.2010
We moved!
Please note our new contacts:
Studio Matthias Görlich, Design, Research & Development
Soderstrasse 16a, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Phone: +49 6151 7859780
12.2009
Heroes, Freaks and Superrabbis–The Jewish Dimension of Comic Art
We won the competition for the design of the furthcoming exhibition by the Jewish Museum Berlin on Jewish Comic Illustrators. On display from June 2010 in Berlin.
12.2009
Graphic Design for and Against Cities
The first Civic City Display in the Showcases of Corner College is centered around the question of a critical representation of urban issues. It presents graphic works by Zak Kyes and Metahaven. “Graphic Design for and Against Cities” refers to the research exhibition by the Amsterdam based design collective Metahaven “Stadtstaat. A Scenario for Merging Cities”, previously shown in Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and Casco, Utrecht, and the group exhibition “Dubai Düsseldorf” at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, which included work by London graphic designer and publisher Zak Kyes. Around the same time in 2009, both exhibitions were concerned in different ways with imaginary merged cities as a phenomenon of globalization. The works of Metahaven and Zak Kyes deal with the potentials of visual communication in the re-presentation of such cities as well as with the possibility of graphic critiques of strategies for urban marketing and its image politics.
11.2009
Refuge Newspapers Launch in Rotterdam
If you happen to be in Rotterdam, you should pass by the NAi on November, 20th to pick up a copy of our Beirut, Istanbul and Amman Diwan-Newspapers. Straight from the printer, part of “Refuge” and presented at the Diwan conference! More information soon.
10.2009
Civic City, The Role Of Design For The Social City
The new postgraduate program is running. Check this website to get more information on the events and lectures for this and next year. We will have an exhibition with contributions by Zak Kyes and Metahaven at Urs Corner College from December, 18th and the exhibition “Radical Cartography” on display at Whitespace Gallery, Zurich from January, 15th 2010.
10.2009
Richard Neutra, Buildings and Projects 1960–1970
The studio has been commissioned by MARTa Museum Herford for the overall graphic concept for the furthcoming exhibition on Architect and Designtheorist Richard Neutra. The exhibition will start in May 2010.
10.2009
Mapping Cultural Practices Mumbai
The workshop “Mapping Cultural Practices” investigates current cultural practices in India. The aim is to generate a library of visualized data that forms a basis for speculations on alternative cultural formats. Held at Kamla Raheja Institute of Architecture, Mumbai India and hosted by Rupali Gupte. Participants: Kausik Mukhpadhyay, Nishita Kamdar, Ruchi Sugla, Pathik Joshi, Priya Prasanna, Samarth Das, Abhilasha Porwal, Devika Chowgule, Sharan Suresh Babu, Elizabeth Mathew, Shifa Saudagar, Nupoor Monani. Part of the project “Cultural Spaces India”.
10.2009
Utopie Und Monument 1
Graphic concept for a Pavillon as part of “Steirischer Herbst 2009” in Graz. Curated by Sabine Breitwieser. Architecture by Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik. More information here.
10.2009
Die Welt wird Stadt
Currently on display at Berlin's Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, this exhibition portraits different regions and metropolis and their current urban development. Curated by Eckhardt Ribbeck, SI/University Stuttgart and Design by Studio Matthias Görlich.
10.2009
Kooperative Für Darstellungspolitik
Logo, stationary and website for this group of architects and exhibition designers from Berlin and Maastricht.
09.2009
Cultural Spaces In India
India’s mega cities have become crystallization points for the country’s spectacular yet conflictual modernization processes that have placed India firmly on the map of economic and political world powers. A parallel process has occurred in the cultural sphere. The arts have opened up the boundaries of traditional cultural agency while confronting an ambiguous civic sphere that increasingly blurs the boundaries between public and private, local and global, physical and virtual, stable and instable.
How does this transformation reshape the spatial and institutional requirements for cultural and artistic production? Which typology of a contemporary cultural space can create a social space and audience that allows for a translocal exchange of knowledge, experiments and aesthetic experience? Who would be the authors in the construction of such an institutional space? Is it possible to build an institution while producing art? Cultural Spaces India is a research project initiated by the Goethe Institutes in India. Project-Team: Rike Frank, Nikolaus Hirsch, Grant Watson, Zak Kyes, Matthias Görlich. Click here for the projects website.
09.2009
250 Years Bury
The exhibition “250 Jahre Goldschmiede Bury” offers insights in the company history of one of the most prestigious goldsmith houses in Germany. With more than 1.000 exhibits explaining production methods, the familiy history and tradition, materials and jewellery, this exhibition offers a personal and playful experience. On display at German Goldsmith House, Hanau. Graphic-concept by Studio Matthias Görlich. In Cooperation with Katzkaiser Architects.
08.2009
Refuge Project / Diwan Newspapers
The contrast between the ideals of “Open City” (main theme of the Biennale for Architecture in Rotterdam) and the realities of “refuge” forms the starting point of this research. Beyond aiming to understand this urban condition, this exhibition will propose concrete approaches to architecture that deals with it.The exhibition will be developed through the three main components: “commissions” speculating on modes of operations for architects; “research network” bringing together Universities and urban research from the region; and “diwan” — a space for theoretical reflection and debate. Diwan communicates through newspapers each one covering aspects of refuge in the cities Amman, Cairo, Istanbul, Beirut and Dubai. Curated by Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay. Designconcept and realization by Studio Matthias Görlich.
08.2009
Bas Princen: Refuge. Five Cities Portfolio.
From the publishers: The artworks brings cities together which not only share history and numerous cultural traditions but also many contemporary challenges. The pictures in this photo book are made by photographer Bas Princen. He took part in one of the research teams of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR). He captured the meaning of the open city, the main theme of the IABR, in pictures. City portraits: This book brings together intimate portraits of five great cities: Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo and Dubai. Through its pages we discover quietly beautiful, yet meticulously constructed images; unexpected views of cities which take us beyond the clichés. These images constitute architectural research and visual poetry at the same time. The publication is the result of a unique collaboration between leading academics and urban researchers based in the five cities and the Dutch artist Bas Princen. It has been specially commissioned by architectural curators Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay for the IABR 2009. Published by Sun Publishers, Amsterdam. Design by Studio Matthias Görlich. Also see bldgblog.
08.2009
Chair For Architecture And Urban Design
Visual Identity for Kees Christiaanses Institute at ETH Zurich. A flexible concept based on a set of templates and graphic modules reflects the internal processes and fulfills the institutes communication requirements. For their new website, click here.
07.2009
The Good The Bad The Ugly
The publication “The Good the Bad the Ugly” by students of the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Faculty of Design, designed during a workshop from 9.–11. July 2009 which was run by Matthias Görlich. Printed on leftover paper and with leftover ink and a print-run of 200 copies. The publication deals with the subject of what good, bad or ugly design really is, and if it’s possible at all to make such bold statements. Participants: Marijana Babic, Alexander Brade, Mathias Biegel, Linnea Erlich, Patrick Gasselsdorfer, Michael Helmle, Alexander Horn, Julia Krust, Florian Renschke, Julia Schumacher, Jan Volpp.
07.2009
The Good The Bad The Ugly
This 3-days-workshop dealt with the investigation on what "good, bad and ugly” design is, can and should be. Throughout the process of researching the University’s Design Library, numerous contradictory opinions and dogmas where discussed and reacted upon. Participants: Marijana Babic, Alexander Brade, Mathias Biegel, Linnea Erlich, Patrick Gasselsdorfer, Michael Helmle, Alexander Horn, Julia Krust, Florian Renschke, Julia Schumacher, Jan Volpp.
06.2009
Institution Building, Book-Launch at Pro-Qm
Presentation and discussion of the book “Institution Building” together with Nina Möntmann and Jeebesh Bagchi (Raqs Media Collective) at Pro-QM Bookstore in Berlin.
06.2009
Mapping Designresearch
For the stand of Institute for Designresearch “Design2Context” at International Design-Festival “DMY” in Berlin we developed a visual toolbox for an interacive mind-mapping of everything concerned with the topic of “Designresearch”. This toolbox allowed to interact with the guests, react on conversations and input from lectures. In the end, this formed a visual representation of “Designresearch” that is up to now used and constantly updated. Also here.
06.2009
Civic City Talk: Markus Miessen
Jesko Fezer together with Matthias Görlich in conversation with architect and author Markus Miessen about the role of design in the social city. Part of “Mapping Designresearch” installation by Institute Design2Context at DMY, International Design Festival Berlin.
05.2009
Institution Building Artists, Curators And Achitects In The Struggle For Institutional Space
“Institution Building” (edited By Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz, Markus Miessen and Matthias Görlich) presents a study that conceptualizes, tests, and practically applies the spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle. The developed approach attempts to constructively question ideas of “stability” and “instability” and—in doing so— proposes a specific strategy for the European Kunsthalle that positions it within a local, regional, national and international contemporary discourse. Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz, Markus Miessen, and Matthias Görlich have developed three spatial strategies: an unstable configuration, a stable strategy as well as a model that consolidates the potentials of both variants towards a, albeit slowly, growing institution. The proposal acts as a laboratory that plans a collective structure consisting of individual components. It results in a network of possible spatial options stemming from programmatic modules and leads to numerous possible spatial configurations. This alternative institution is a showcase of a growing phenomenon problematizing the relationship between authorship and institution. As time spans of exhibitions become shorter and programs become more differentiated, architecture in itself becomes exhibition - renegotiating the default role models of artists and architects. With contributions by Shumon Basar, Andrea Phillips, and Jan Verwoert. Published by Sternberg-Press. More info here.
04.2009
Weltweit Wohnen (Worldwide Living)
We have just been commissioned for the design of the furthcoming exhibition “Weltweit Wohnen”, curated by Urbanist Eckhart Ribbeck. On display from July, 4th at Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA) Stuttgart and later at IFA Berlin.
04.2009
White Spots Black Holes lecture: Können Bilder Töten?
Lecture at University for the Arts in Zurich on role of mapping political decision-making processes.
03.2009
Camp Improvement Manual
One major element in the implementation of strategies developed within the Camp Development Pilot Research Project is a flexible communication tool. This bi-lingual folder (english and arabic) is extendable and easy to keep updated. Based on easy-to-handle templates, fieldworkers can integrate new strategies, react on recent changes and distribute new inserts quickly. Commissioned by United Nations Relief And Works Agency For Palestine Refugees In The Near East, Amman Jordan
03.2009
Camp Development Pilot Research Project
Studio Matthias Görlich has just completed a three-years research and publication-project for the UNRWA, the United Nations Research Commitee in Amman Jordan. Products include a series of mappings, appendices, research-documentation and reports aswell as a bi-langual manual with guidelines for the urban development in Palestinian Refugee Camps.
02.2009
Rehabilitating Camp Cities
A 450 pages publication by urbanist Philipp Misselwitz.
Design by Studio Matthias Görlich.
01.2009
“Refuge Urbanism”, Istanbul
“Refuge Urbanism” is a project initiated by Urbanists Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay from Istanbul investigating the pheonomon of “gated communities” in the middle east. Matthias Görlich has been invited to join the first international workshop as an external consultant for information visualization and mapping. This project is part of the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam in October 2009. Participants during this workshop at Istanbul Bilgi University were Rami Farouk Daher (Amman, Jordan), Jasser El-Sheshtawy (Dubai), Martina Rieker and Dina Shehayeb (Cairo), Mona Fawaz (Beirut), Murat Güvenç and Tansel Korkmaz (Istanbul).
12.2008
Das Sandmännchen ist da
We have been commissioned to develop an exhibition design for a small exhibition on the well-known german childrens bedtime programme “Sandmännchen”. On display until March 22nd, 2009 at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt.
10.2008
Kulturlandschaft Kloster Heisterbach
The studio has been invited to participate in a competition for the development of an exhibition and signage concept for the “Siebengebirge”, a tourist-region in Germany. In collaboration with Knüvener Architekturlandschaft, Cologne. Unfortunately not won.
10.2008
Mapping Conflicts
Matthias Görlich now holds a teaching position at University Darmstadt, Faculty for Design. Main focus will be the visualization of complex information, mapping-techniques and the development of orientation concepts and its visualizations. Work below by Hüsnye Dursun.
10.2008
High Noon, Lecture Series
A lunchtime-lecture-series at the Faculty for Design / University Darmstadt initiated by Professor Frank Philippin and Matthias Görlich. Please visit www.high-noon.eu for more information.
09.2008
IFG Ulm: Desiging Politics, The Politics Of Design
Matthias Görlich has been invited by IFG Ulm to join the advisory board for this years “Designing Politics, the Politics of Design”competition. This competition is based on the principal ideas and values of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm.
09.2008
Civic City–The Role Of Design In The Social City / Institute Design2context
Coordination and Co-Direction (together with Ruedi Baur, Miguel Robles-Duran, Jesko Fezer) of a new postgraduate program on the Role of Design in the development of a new social city. Based at Institute for Designresearch Design2Context, University for the Arts Zurich. For more information visit http://civic-city.zhdk.ch
06.2008
Ausgepackt
Exhibition graphics and print media for the exhibition “Ausgepackt” (unpacked) for German Goldsmiths House in Hanau. If you want to visit: Finissage is on September, 18th. In cooperation with Katzkaiser Architects.
05.2008
Lecture Goethe University Frankfurt
Matthias Görlich was invited by Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main to give a lecture on the role of graphic-representation in curatorial and exhibition practice.
03.2008
White Spots Black Holes: The Role of Mapping in Political Context
Matthias Görlich initiated a research-project investigating the role of mapping in political decision-making processes based at Institute for Designresearch Design2Context, University for the Arts Zurich. For more information please visit www.whitespotsblackholes.com
03.2008
Absolut Privat
The studio of Matthias Görlich develops the exhibtion-graphics for “Absolut privat”, an exhibtion about the development of diaries
throughout history on display in the Museums for Communication in Frankfurt, Nurnberg and Berlin. The exhibition space is dominated by a printed felt-floor indicating each day of the year. Architecture by HirschMüller Architects, Images by Norbert Miguletz.
12.2007
Urban Research Studio
We have been commissioned to develop the overall graphic concept for the Urban Research Studio / ETH Zurich including a poster-series, website and collateral.
12.2007
“Dear Henry…”
Matthias Görlich was invited to participate in the Lyon Biennale for Contemporary Arts. “Dear Henry” is based on the famous remark by Henry Kissinger (“Who do I call if I want to call Europe?”). Contribution to the installation “The Violence of Participation”.
10.2007
European Kunsthalle 2005 2006 2007
Colognes’ European Kunsthalle complets their initiation phase with their publication “European Kunsthalle 2005 2006 2007” offering an indepth look at the thoughts, concepts and research during their first two years. Contribution by Spaces of Production (Hirsch, Misselwitz, Miessen, Görlich). Book-design by Studio Matthias Görlich.
04.2007
Presentation / Documentation / etc
Matthias Görlich has been invited by the Faculty for Architecture at RWTH, Aachen for a lecture and workshop on graphic-design
and bookmaking for 2nd year students.
03.2007
Models For Tomorrow: Cologne
From March, 1st to April, 28th 2007 the exhibition titled “Models for Tomorrow: Cologne” will take place on various sites in Cologne City. A project by curator Vanessa Joan Müller of European Kunsthalle in close collaboration with Spaces of Production (Hirsch, Misselwitz, Miessen, Görlich). Exhibiting artists include Lawrence Weiner, Liam Gillick, Tobias Rehberger, Michael Beutler, Olaf Nicolai among others. Graphic-Design Studio Matthias Görlich.
09.2006
Teaching at University Darmstadt and Wiesbaden
From October 2006, Matthias Görlich will be lecturing at University Darmstadt and University Wiesbaden. The field of work will include typography-basics, book design and the use of type in three-dimensional space for first and second year students.
09.2006
Have Fun Today (Applause.) featured In Volume-Magazine
“Have fun today. (Applause.)” is featured in the current issue of dutch magazine “Volume” on Architecture and Power. This visualization-project by Matthias Görlich and Charalampos Lazos deals with George W. Bushs’ defintion of rogue states and the axis of evil. His argumentation is con-fronted with statistical information reacting to his definitions.
09.2006
World Usability Day 2006
Supported by the German Chapter of the Usability Professionals Association, the 14th of November 2006 will be enirely dedicated to user-interaction, physical and digital interfaces and the latest trends in user-centred-design. Matthias Görlich joined the curatorial team and took over the development of a visual concept for the Darmstadt event. For more information, please check this webpage: www.worldusabilityday.org
03.2006
Under Construction Presentation
Presentation and discussion of the research project Spaces of Production together with Shumon Basar (author and curator, London) and Ole Bouman (culture- and architecural critic, Amsterdam). Part of the “Under Construction” event series initiated by curators Nicolaus Schafhausen and Vanessa Joan Müller (European Kunsthalle, Cologne).
03.2006
Mapping Cultural Spaces
As an initial part of the research project “Spaces of Production” we will be conducting a workshop at the Faculty for Architecture at RWTH Aachen to investigate on the current situation in cultural production throughout Europe.
from 01.2006
Spaces Of Production
“Spaces of Production” is a study that conceptualizes, tests, and practically applies the spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle in Cologne. The investigation does not result from purely theoretical, conceptual considerations but is rather the result of the activities incorporated into the European Kunsthalle founding phase’s two-year work practice from 2005 to 2007. The spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle is therefore the direct result of “applied research” – an iterative investigation informed by resonances between theory and practice. Research-Team: Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz, Markus Miessen, Matthias Görlich. For more information, click here.
02.2008
James Ensor
There is surely no artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century whose oeuvre is as bizarre, ironic, profound, and as open to as many interpretations as that of the Belgian painter James Ensor. His paintings populated with masks, skeletons, and imaginary figures and his theatrically staged still lifes have become an unmistakable symbol for the absurdity of existence, influencing the German Expressionists just as much as the French Surrealists. Particularly when seen in terms of new trends in painting like the return to the figurative and narrative or manifestations of the grotesque and comic, Ensor’s creative work seems current once again. Approximately eighty thematically arranged masterpieces on canvas and an equal number of works on paper from various countries’ museums and private collections represent key works from all phases of his production. The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective of Ensor’s work to be shown in Germany since 1972. Exhibition curated by Ingrid Pfeifer, Schirn-Kunsthalle. Architecture: HirschMueller Architects, Frankfurt. Photography: Norbert Miguletz, Frankfurt.
2006
Teaching at University Darmstadt, Faculty for Design
Matthias Görlich will be teaching at the Faculty for Design, University for Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. Focus will be typography for first and second year students.
12.2005
Documentation Center Hinzert
There was only a cemetary for french military left on the site of the Concentration-Camp memorial in Hinzert/Hunsrück. Since Dezember 2005 a permanent exhibtion in the Documentation-Centre shows the whole story of this place. Inside the building by Wandel Hoefer Lorch and Hirsch the visitor will find a total of 350 sqm exhibtionspace inscribed into the triangular inner space. Not contrasting or even competing with the story of this place or with the architectural statement. Clear graphical elements reacting at and acting with the triangular grid of the interior shaping the builings interior. Video, Sound, Images and texts are integrated into the walls. Large scale headlines and restrained color-fields separate the chapters but also conntect the structure of the exhibitions content. A second content-level is offered to the visitor through the introduction of drawers. There more in-depth information is accessible. An audio-guide system in french and english language translates the german texts printed on the walls of the builing. Exhibitiondesign realized while working for Ade Hauser Lacour, Frankfurt (with Nicole Klein).
03.2005
“Und keiner hat für uns Kaddisch gesagt …”, publication
Accompanying the exhibition, the Jewish-Museum, Frankfurt published this 568 page catalogue. Awarded IF Communication Award and ADC Silver Medal. Realized while working for Ade Hauser Lacour, Frankfurt (with Nicole Klein and Sven Michel)
03.2005
“Und keiner hat für uns Kaddisch gesagt …”, exhibition
This exhibtion at Jewish Museum Frankfurt is the first to cover the Deportation of Jews from Frankfurt between 1941 and 1945. With the help of information on chosen victims, the main exhibtion-space exemplarily presents the course of 8 deportations from Frankfurt to concentration camps recunstructing the dramatic fate of the victims in these camps and ghettos. The exhibtion spaces enclosing the main exhibtion space present the beginning of the discrim-ination and violence before 1937 and the reconstruction of the jewish community in Frankfurt after the end of WW2. The exhibition design had to deal with two major challenges: the mass of information and the diverse media-sources. Not only papers, photographs and biographical information had to be included, but also personal objects. A strict grid system using the entire height of the exhibtion-space allowed us to present the numerous textual information aswell as the exhibition objects in an adequat and comprehesible way. The exhibtion objects such as Video, Sound, show-cases and original documents are integrated into the grid units. exhibit-drawers, filled with personal belongings of the victims contrast the fully printed wooden surface. Realized while working for Ade Hauser Lacour, Frankfurt (with Nicole Klein). Total exhibition space: 285 sqm. Architecture by Wandel, Hoefer, Lorch+Hirsch, Saarbrücken, Photography: Norbert Miguletz, Frankfurt. This exhibition got awarded the IF Award 2005.
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