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Wunderkammer #2

13.07.2024 to 25.08.2024
Kunstgewerbemuseum

The “Kunst- und Wunderkammer” concept is being reactivated as part of the More Than Human project to recontextualise objects from the collections of the Kunstgewerbemuseum with contemporary design and art projects, prototypes and other artefacts.

The “Wunderkammer” intervention serves as an experimental space: By focusing on current topics such as biodiversity, ecology and the post-Anthropocene, visitors’ critical attention will be stimulated to reflect on and re-explore the multilayered, interwoven relationships between humans, non-human actors and the environment.

Two projects are shown in the Wunderkammer’s second edition.

Tales of Nature

Visual Communication students enrolled in the Class of Spatial Design and Exhibition Design in the Institute for Transmedia Design at the Berlin University of the Arts have explored questions about how interrelated networks and relationships between humans, animals, plants, and the material environment can emerge.

Based on an expanded understanding and investigation of matter, e.g. rocks and minerals, students visualised hidden stories and phenomena that were translated into fictional and narrative spatial scenarios in interaction with hybrid materialities. Visualisations, animations, experimental collages, 3D scans and sculptural material experiments open up digital spaces and unknown imaginary worlds telling of undiscovered materialities, bodies and places.

With projects by Florentin Aisslinger, Fiona Belousz, Maria Capello, Vincent Carter, Mattia Friso, Ernst August Graefe, Lukas Graf, Hannah Greifenstein, Valentin Jauch, Shinae Kim, Livia Kirchner, Jason Kittner, Maria Kobylenko, Stefanie Messner, Boohri Park, Jil Schuberth, Klara Troost, Pauline Luca Wunderlich Artistic collaborator through 2024: Ruven Wiegert Head: Prof. Gabi Schillig

More-Than-Human Sketching

The section More-Than-Human Sketching exhibits the results of a participative design anthropology research process, which centres around the repurposing of an emerging digital design tool, 3D drawing, to delve into the collections of the Kunstgewerbemuseum through collective acts of spatial sketching. Building upon ongoing experiments in digital anatomical training currently under development at the Speculative Realities Lab (Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” / Department for Neurosurgery, Charité), researchers and workshop participants engaged in co-designing interactive augmented performances. Together, they created new scores to immerse themselves in the more-than-human crafting processes embedded within the collection objects.

Sketching has long been the mark of designerly knowing. At the core of the modern forming process is a mysterious act that partly evades the maker's intentions: when hand, paper, and idea meet, an intuitive digestion of spatial knowledge happens through quasi-conscious gestures. Like the motile fingers of mycelium networks growing through their environment, these lines embrace forms, making sense of their relations.

What if design and the humanities could ally to imagine new visual and performative arguments to counteract anthropocentric views on material cultures and biomedical visual knowledge? In the Wunderkammer’s four vitrines, colourful graphic ethnographic field notes display how groups of visitors sketched in 3D following these performative scores while embracing a new perspective on the activity of materials. Along with the images, 3D prints of the objects in various materials (resin, clay) stand in the place of the museum objects that were sketched and digitally “digested” by the participants.

Project team: Maxime Le Calvé, Elaine Bonavia, Greta Stefanovic, Nayeli Vega, Kotryna Slapsinskaite


A special exhibition of the Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

“Imagine: Coral Reef”, exhibition view
© Institute of Design Research Vienna

03.05.2024 to 23.06.2024

Fluorecer Ganoderma multipileum under UV light, Detail; Florencia Cesari Tommarello, Heidi Jalkh, Sistemas Biomateriales
© Heidi Jalkh

13.07.2024 to 25.08.2024

Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

wheelchair accessible

U-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz
S-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz
Bus: Potsdamer Brücke, Potsdamer Platz Bhf / Voßstraße, Kulturforum, Philharmonie

Sun 11:00 - 18:00
Mon closed
Tue closed
Wed 10:00 - 17:00
Thu 10:00 - 17:00
Fri 10:00 - 17:00
Sat 11:00 - 18:00

Special opening hours during public holidays

Tel 030 - 266 42 42 42 (Mon - Fri, 9 am - 4 pm)
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Related Links

Website for the “More Than Human” platform

Tales of Nature project

More-Than-Human Sketching project