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  • 15.3.2024 – 13.10.2024
    new project , exhibition

    "Water Pressure - Designing for the future" an exhibition of the MK&G Hamburg and Jane Withers Studio – looks at the water crisis from a global perspective. We were commissioned to come up with an installation celebrating water. The result "vital rain" is part of the exhibition and will stay permanently in the museums yard.
    more soon

    MKG Hamburg - Water Pressure

  • april 2024
    new project

    For the glassware company Lobmeyr we designed "ident" - drinking set No.287

    Identical shape, identical height - five individual glasses.
    The series was unveilded during Milan Design Week.

    Lobmeyr

  • april 2024 - ongoing
    factory tour

    We designed the factory tour for Laufen in Gmunden with a lot of details and small installations to guide and inform local and international guests.

    Laufen Gmunden

  • 5.4.2024 - 14.7.2024
    exhibition

    "inWastement" glass series is on show at the Klimabiennale in Vienna at the "design with a purpose" exhibition.

    Klimabiennale Wien

  • 15.9.2023 - 21.7.2024
    exhibition

    HEIMATEN. An exhibition and survey and an attempt to break with conventional takes on Heimat. the exhibition was shown at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) in 2022. Our specially commissioned piece 'riparian cloud' is now also on show in Molfsee.

    Freilichtmuseum Molfsee

  • 01.06.2024 - 30.03.2025
    exhibition, adapted project

    A utopian insect swarm based on our 'curiosity cloud' developed with 13 children from Dresden swirls during the Kinderbiennale in the Japanische Palais. The participatory process resulted in 24 fantastic, colourful insects.

    Children's Biennale "Planet Utopia"

  • 30.05 2024 - 13.10.2024
    new project , exhibition

    All in! Re-Designing Democracy - Every aspect of democracy has been designed, therefore it can be designed differently. A new "Themis" claims in the exhibition for rights for Nature.

    Bundeskunsthalle

  • 10.05. 2024 - 23.06.2024
    exhibition

    20th anniversary international exhibition and series of events. Our glass project "access" is part of the exhibition.

    design without borders

colourful kinaesthesia

a workshop to capture human motion in colour

Kinaesthesia (noun, awareness of the position and movement of the parts of the body by means of sensory organs in the muscles and joints | from Greek kinein ‘to move’ + aisthēsis ‘sensation’).
In August 2019, fifteen international students and professionals met at the Domaine de Boisbuchet in France for a workshop with Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler of studio mischer’traxler. Following an invitation of the Designmuseum Gent, the purpose was to contribute to the museum’s Kleureyck exhibition with experiments on the relationships between colour and the human sensory perception.
mischer’traxler focused the experimentation on analogies of colour and our sense of movement (kinaesthesia), and they proposed to develop the work in four steps: At first, all primary and secondary colours – red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, and green – were to be matched with all kinds of qualities such as aggressive, natural, optimistic, spiritual, cool, surprising etc. A second step asked to transform these words into adjectives that describe certain movements: fast or slow, accelerated or retarded, steady or abrupt, as well as conditions, such as balanced, in between these. In the longest and most challenging third phase, each group of participants had to design and build one scenario, that allows to realize a colour by executing that movement which hence most accurately relates to a specific colour. The participant’s performance of all installations was then the last step and was recorded in film and photography.
The Domaine de Boisbuchet’s abundant nature as well as the teamwork of tutors, participants, and staff provided a perfect setting for this experience. Creative freedom within a social and environmental reference was indeed a fifth, unexpressed part of the workshop’s briefing. Essential for the success of this experiment, it yet didn’t need any request. The glory of nature and community are central topics also for the van Eyck’s masterwork, the Ghent altarpiece, which celebrates a harmony of people peacefully together in adoration of god as a piece of heaven on earth. The study of nature was Jan van Eyck’s hidden agenda, which established his reputation as a father of Renaissance art. It is also at the center of mischer’traxler’s work and of this workshop they conducted.

 

Text by Mathias Schwartz-Clauss
main image: yellow project by Yelun Kim & Yong Ju Kwak
photographer: Martina Orska

 

workshop
at Domaine de Boisbuchet

the week at Domaine de Boisbuchet
video by Holo Wang

pink
Edizalp Akin & Guillaume Slizewicz

adjectives such as cheeky, soft and naive were for example combined with actions like rollig, huging and hopping

image credit: Martina Orska - Boisbuchet

red
Paloma del Cubo & Jorge Garaje

image credit: Martina Orska - Boisbuchet

image credit: Martina Orska - Boisbuchet

orange
Irina Pfenning & Vaishnavi Ilankamban

image credit: Martina Orska - Boisbuchet

image credit: Martina Orska - Boisbuchet

green
Lake Lewis & Tae Keun Kwak

image credit: Martina Orska - Boisbuchet

blue
Marie Lestanguet, Marta Przybylska & Angela Garcia Maynegre

image credit: Martina Orska - Boisbuchet



purple
Nausheen Baig & Sergio Guijarro

image credit: Lake Lewis

image credit: Martina Orska - Boisbuchet

exhibition set up
at the Design Museum in Gent

image credit: Design Museum Gent

image credit: Design Museum Gent

For the exhibition, photos and videos from the workshop were displayed on a wooden structure. The colourful artefacts designed and used for the performances at Boisbuchet, were shown on the inside.

image credit: Martina Orska - Boisbuchet

  • images

    if not indicated otherwise all images by Martina Orska

  • participants

    Yelun Kim, Yong Ju Kwak, Paloma del Cubo, Jorge Garaje, Irina Pfenning, Vaishnavi Ilankamban, Lake Lewis, Tae Keun Kwak, Marie Lestanguet, Marta Przybylska , Angela Garcia Maynegre, Edizalp Akin, Guillaume Slizewicz, Nausheen Baig, Sergio Guijarro

  • team

    Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler, Elisa Polner