Tag Weil Am Rhein, Germany

13-10-2023

Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture exhibition - photographing the soul of architecture

The Vitra Design Museum is hosting the first major retrospective dedicated to the famous architectural photographer Iwan Baan. The exhibition offers an extraordinary insight into the photographer's work, from shots of iconic architecture, to images where Iwan Baan captures moments of life and human interaction in and around buildings.

24-03-2023

Designing with nature, the history and future of the garden on display at the Vitra Design Museum

Presented in a setting designed by the Italian studio Formafantasma, the Vitra Design Museum's "Garden Futures" exhibition is dedicated to the history and future of the garden. The exhibition questions how to design with nature in mind and contribute to a more liveable future for everyone, contemplating the entire planet Earth as a garden to be cultivated, tended and managed responsibly.

05-12-2022

Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine

Science fiction becomes reality. This is the promise offered by ‘Hello, Robot.’, an exhibition that opened its doors for the first time in 2017 thanks to the joint efforts of the Vitra Design Museum, MAK Vienna and the Design Museum Gent. On 24 September, ‘Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine’ reopened to the public, freshly updated and extended, to round off its five-year world tour with a flourish. More than two hundred pieces, objects and projects are on display, paired with fourteen questions geared towards plumbing the depths of our relationship with machines. Have you ever met a robot?

17-06-2022

Umbrella House by Kazuo Shinohara, a new building at Vitra Campus

The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, is enriched by a 'new' historical building: the reconstruction of the Umbrella House designed by Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara in Tokyo in 1961.

18-05-2022

Luis Barragán and Sabine Marcelis at the Vitra Campus

Two important additions enrich the Vitra Campus collection. From May 14 at the Vitra Schaudepot, the "exhibition depot" designed by the Herzog & De Meuron studio, it is possible to visit Luis Barragán's Archive, the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century. On the same day "Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis" was also inaugurated. The Dutch designer has conceived a new installation based on colour to present to the public, in a whole new perspective, the permanent collection kept in the Vitra Schaudepot.

28-04-2022

Plastic: the counter-revolution! The debate is open

A major exhibition entitled Plastic: Remaking Our World is underway at the Vitra Design Museum, investigating one of the phenomena most characteristic of the past century: the development of plastic, and its transformation from resource into global problem. Can we make it fully recyclable? Will we be able to live without it in the future? Will we be able to clean up the world? Here are the opinions of some key participants in the debate.

08-04-2022

"Plastic: Remaking Our World" exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum

Loved/hated, plastic is a revolutionary, consumerist and deeply controversial material. The exhibition inaugurated at the end of March and curated by the Vitra Design Museum, the V&A Dundee and the maat Museum in Lisbon narrates every facet of its story, starting from the great diffusion and rise of plastic in the 20th century, to pop and colourful contemporary projects, and shifting to the problems related to the environmental impact of this material, to arrive at the latest avant-garde solutions for a more sustainable use of plastic and to bioplastics produced with algae and mycelium.

27-08-2021

exhibition "Memphis: 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance" at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery

Objects, designs and materials are on display at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery in the exhibition "Memphis: 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance”, that recounts the world and history of Memphis, the legendary group of Italian designers formed to overturn the dogmas of functionalism which then dominated industrial design, which, although short-lived (from 1981 to 1987), had considerable international influence.

05-07-2021

"Spot On - Women Designers in the Collection" exhibition and Nathalie Du Pasquier at the Vitra

New works in a feminine key at the Campus Vitra in Weil am Rhein, in Germany. A new work by artist and designer Nathalie Du Pasquier has been installed near the Fire Station designed by Zaha Hadid and, to celebrate the five year anniversary of its inauguration, the Vitra Schaudepot, the building designed by the Herzog & De Meuron studio, is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the role of women in the world of furniture design.