Profile November 2015 - Studio Matthias Görlich

STUDIO MATTHIAS GÖRLICH
(Design, Research & Development)
Taunusstrasse 45
D 64289 Darmstadt
+49 6151 6697461
contact (at) mgoerlich.com
www.mgoerlich.com
VAT reg. No. DE239555747
Tax reg. No. 007 821 62794
Nov 15
The work of Matthias Görlich focuses on
the creation and implementation of identity
concepts, the design of exhibitions as
discoursive spaces and the development of
diagrammatic and cartographic visualizations.
The studio works internationally on projects
ranging from small graphic interventions to
large-scale projects across different media.
With research, teaching, and publishing as
integral parts of the studios practice, we try
to develop a broad understanding of the role
of the visual in communication processes.
Through commissioned and self-initiated
projects in the threshold of design and the
social realm we aim to question and redefine
the role of our profession. Our approach is
led by a holistic thinking about organization,
hierarchies and dependencies for making
complex structures accessible.
Book Design and Exhibition Graphics for
‘Wohnungsfrage’. This project investigates
the tension-ridden relationships between
architecture, housing, and social reality.
Curated by Jesko Fezer, Nikolaus Hirsch,
Wilfried Kuehn, and Hila Peleg. On display at
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2015
‘Do we dream under the same sky’. Edited
by Nikolaus Hirsch, Antto Melasniemi,
Michel Müller, Rirkrit Tiravanija. Published in
conjunction with the eponymous installation at
Art Basel 2015. Published by Sternberg-Press,
Berlin.
‘Dialogue of Masterpieces.’ Exhibition
Graphics. On display at Städelmuseum
Frankfurt until January, 24th 2016.
‘In Transit. Urban Development and Place
Making’. Visual identity, Book Design, Web
Design and Exhibition Design for a Goethe
Institute Stockholm project. Curated by Leona
Lynen, 2015.
‘Ape Culture’. Exhibition Graphics and Book
Design for an exhibition that wittily observes
the relationship between humans and other
primates. On display at Haus der Kulutren
der Welt Berlin. Curated by Hila Peleg and
Anselm Franke. Architecture by Kooperative
für Darstellungspolitik, Berlin, 2015.
Medellín Diagram’. Research project on
visual language and political processes. In
cooperation with Teddy Cruz (Center on Urban
Ecologies, UCLA), Fonna Forman (Center on
Global Justice, UCLA) and Alejandro Echeverri
(EAFIT, Medellín). On display at The Medellín
Museum of Modern Art, Medellín, Colombia
(Apr 2014) and Santa Monica Museum of Art,
Sep 2014, curated by Lucia Sanromán.
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‘A Report’. Exhibition Graphics and Book
Design for the final exhibition of the
Anthropocene Project at Haus der Kulturen der
Welt, Berlin. Curated by Anselm Franke with
contributions by Adam Avikainen, The Otolith
Group and Anthropocene Observatory. Oct
2014–Dec 2014.
Exhibition Graphics and Book Design for
‘Reduce Reuse Recycle Ostwall 7’. Curated by
Muck Petzet and Tim Rieniets. On display at
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Dec 2014–Feb
2015. Info: www.reuse-ostwall.de.
‘200 Jahre Städel Museum’. Exhibition Design
and Book Design for the 200 years Anniversary
of one of the most prominent art institutions
in Germany. Publication published by Prestel,
Munich, 2015.
‘Foreign Exchange (or the stories you wouldn’t
tell a stranger).’ Exhibition Design, Book
Design. Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt.
Curated by Clémentine Deliss and Yvette
Mutumba, 2014.
‘The Whole Earth. California and the
Disappearance of the Outside.’ Exhibition
Graphics and Book Design. Haus der Kulturen
der Welt, Berlin. Curated by Anselm Franke
and Dietrich Diederichsen. Architecture by
Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik, Berlin,
2012.
‘Weltstadt. Who creates the city’. Visual
identity, Book Design, Web Design and
Exhibition Design for a Goethe Institute project.
Curated by Mattthias Boettger, Angelika Fitz
and Tim Rieniets and travelling worldwide
since 2014.
‘Volte Series’ Book Design for Spector Books,
Leipzig. Edited by Mathias Zeiske and Jörn
Dege (Edit Magazine). Volte #1: Wolfram
Lotz: “Monologe”; Volte #2: Heike Geißler:
“Saisonarbeit”; Volte #3: Francis Nenik
“Doppelte Biografieführung”;osince 2014.
’Utopie und Monument 1+2’ Exhibition
Graphics. Steirischer Herbst Graz, Austria.
Curated by Sabine Breitwieser. Architecture
by Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik, Berlin,
2009, 2010.
Volte #1
#2
#3
Seit dem Frühjahr 2014 entsteht bei Spector Books eine Reihe
für neue Literatur mit Formbewusstsein,
Haltung, Witz: Volte
Es beginnt mit einer Verweigerung: „Die Würstchen
der Wahrheit, die für uns
gebraten werden, wollen wir
nicht mehr essen“, so heißt
es in der programmatischen
„Rede zum Unmöglichen
€eater“ von Wolfram Lotz
aus dem Jahr 2010. Seither
hat der 1981 im Schwarzwald geborene Dramatiker
ein üppiges Alternativbuffet
aufgetischt. In seinen
Monologen verteidigt sich
etwa ein somalischer
Diplom-Pirat – „der Einfachheit halber spreche ich
Deutsch mit Ihnen“ –
vor dem Hamburger Landgericht, ein gewisser
€ilo Sarrazin will „den
Anus als eigentliches
Genital“ definieren und
Mutter Lotz sorgt sich um
ihren stotternden Wolfi.
Volte#1
Wolfram Lotz, Monologe
Mit einem Nachwort von
Hannes Becker
ISBN 978-3-944669-10-6
96 Seiten, 10 Euro
Saisonkraft bei Amazon.
Ausgerechnet. Für die
Autorin und Übersetzerin
in Geldnot ist es ein
Moment der Misere, für alle
anderen ein literarischer
Glücksfall. Denn was in den
Wochen vor Weihnachten
entsteht, ist vieles zugleich:
Ein Erfahrungsbericht,
der ebenso persönlich wie
politisch ist. Kritik an den
Verhältnissen mit den
Mitteln der Selbstironie.
Der Blick in eine Halle, die
von der Außenwelt abgeschottet ist und gerade deshalb viel über sie verrät.
In Vorbereitung
Volte#3
Francis Nenik,
Doppelte Biografieführung
In Saisonarbeit geht es um
Empfindlichkeit und das
Politische des Empfindlichen. Es geht um das Buch
als Fluchtort in einem
Warenlager, in dem der
Unterschied zwischen Buch
und Badeente keine Rolle
spielt. Und es geht um
die Arbeit bei Amazon und
darum, dass „mit dieser
Arbeit und vielen Sorten
Arbeit grundsätzlich etwas
faul ist“.
Volte#2
Heike Geißler, Saisonarbeit
ISBN 978-3-944669-66 -3
264 Seiten, 14 Euro
Spector Books
www.spectorbooks.com
‘Studienhefte Problemorientiertes Design’
edited by Jesko Fezer, Oliver Gemballa
and Matthias Görlich, published by Adocs,
Hamburg. A publication series on the role of
design in the neoliberal society, since 2012.
‘Civic City Cahier’ series edited by Jesko
Fezer and Matthias Görlich. Published by
Bedford Press, London, also available as
e-books. 2011–2013.
‘Design-Dauerausstellung’ Exhibition Design
and Book Design. Museum für Kunst und
Gewerbe, Hamburg. Curated by Claudia
Banz. Architecture by Kooperative für
Darstellungspolitik, Berlin, 2012.
‘Stealth Architecture.’ Contribution, Book
Design and Exhibition Design at Green Room/
Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt in cooperation
with Städelschule/Architecture+Critical Spatial
Practice, Frankfurt, 2012/2013.
‘Camp Improvement Manual’. Consulting
and design for a series of field manuals on
participatory practices in Palestinian refugee
camps for UNRWA (United Nations Relief And
Works Agency For Palestine Refugees In The
Near East, Amman, Jordan), 2012.
‘Space Time Dignity Rights – Improving
Palestinian Refugee Camps.’ Exhibition
Design, Book Design and various printed
material for a travelling exhibition (Berlin,
Bonn, Istanbul, Amman, Beirut, Damaskus,
Naples, Vienna) for UNRWA, Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Eschborn and
University Stuttgart, 2011.
‘Richard Neutra. Bauten und Projekte.’
Exhibition Design at Museum Marta Herford,
Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt,
Schweizer Architekturmuseum, Basel, 2009–
2011.
‘Spaces of Production.’ European Kunsthalle
Köln with Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz
and Markus Miessen. Research on spatial
strategies for an art institution, 2005–2009.
‘Khoj. In India and beyond’ Curating, Exhibition
Contribution, Residency and Print Design. Khoj
International Artist Institution, Delhi India with
IFA Gallery, Stuttgart+Berlin. 2010.
‘Melanchotopia’ Contribution and Mapping.
Witte de With Gallery, Rotterdam, Curated
by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Ann-Claire
Schmitz, 2010.
‘Beyond Tourism: Zanzibar.’ Exhibition Design
at Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof, Stuttgart.
Curated by Marisol Rivas Velázquez, 2013.
‘Stadträume’. Exhibition Graphics and Book
Design. Curated by Yves Dreier, Matthieu
Jaccard. On display at Architekturforum
Zurich, 2010.
Clients (selection)
●Architekturforum, Zurich
●Art Basel, Basel
●Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt
●Deutsches Architekturzentrum DAZ, Berlin
●Diaphanes, Zurich
●Estudio Teddy Cruz+Forman, San Diego,
USA
●ETH Zurich, Chair of Architecture and Urban
Design
●European Kunsthalle, Cologne
●Gesellschaft für Internationale
Zusammenarbeit GIZ, Eschborn
●Goethe Institutes, Munich, Mumbai, Delhi,
Stockholm
●Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
●Institute of Urbanology, Mumbai
●Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart,
Berlin
●Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt, Berlin
●Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne
●Landesinitiative Stadtbaukultur NRW,
Gelsenkirchen
●Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt
●Museum MARTa, Herford
●Prestel, Munich
●Schirn-Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
●Spector Books, Leipzig
●Städel Museum, Frankfurt
●Steirischer Herbst, Graz
●Sternberg Press, Berlin
●Sun Publishers, Rotterdam
●University Dresden
●University Munich, Chair of Sustainable
Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture
●University Stuttgart, International Urbanism/
Institute of Urban Planning and Design
●UNRWA (United Nations Relief And Works
Agency For Palestine Refugees In The Near
East), Amman Jordan
●Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt
●Whitespace Gallery, Zurich
●Witte de With, Rotterdam
Lectures, Teaching
●Lecturer, Hochschule für Gestaltung
Karlsruhe, Faculty of Exhibitiondesign and
Scenography, since 2015
●‘Mapping Global Urbanisation’ Lecture and
Seminar, University of Stuttgart, 2014/2015
Nov 15
●‘Mapping Downtown Cairo.’ Lecture and
Workshop, German University Cairo, 2013
●‘I used to be a design student too.’ Lecture,
Faculty of Design, University Darmstadt, 2013
●Guest Critic: Habitat Unit, University Berlin,
Faculty of Architecture, 2013
●‘Content as Signature.’ Lecture, Städelschule
Frankfurt, 2013
●Professor for Graphicdesign, Faculty of
Architecture, University Detmold, 2012
●‘Stealth Architecture.’ Workshops at
Architecture+Critical Spatial Practice Program,
Städelschule Frankfurt, 2012/2013
●Lecture and Guest Critic at ‘Spatial Design’Program, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste,
2012
●‘Cultures of Assembly.’ Workshops at
Architecture+Critical Spatial Practice Program,
Städelschule Frankfurt, 2011/2012
●Urban Research Program, University RheinMain, Lecture, December 2011
●‘Die Vergessene Stuttgarter Schule’,
Seminar at Faculty of Architecture, University
Stuttgart, 2011
●‘Stilvorlagen No. 6.’ Lecture-series on design
and society. Hochschule für Angewandte
Wissenschaften HAW Hamburg, June 2011
●‘Diskurs Architektur.’ Lecturer for information
visualization. Faculty of Architecture, University
Cologne, 2011/2012
●‘Wer formt die Stadt?’ Lecture at Hessen
Design Darmstadt, June 2011
●‘Darstellung von Raum. Diagramme und
Kartografie.’ Lecture and workshop at Faculty
of Architecture, University Rhein Main,
Wiesbaden, 2011
●Information Visualization, University
Stuttgart, Fac. of Urban Planning, 2011–2015
●‘High-Noon.’ Lecture Series at the Faculty of
Design, University Darmstadt, since 2008
●‘Studio Visits and other strange encounters.’
Workshop at the Faculty of Design, University
Darmstadt, April 2011
●‘Dérive+Mapping.’ Workshop at Universität
der Nachbarschaften, HafenCity University
Hamburg, March 2011
●‘Dialectic Methods and the Cultivation
of Protest.’ Workshop at École Nationale
Supérieure des Arts Décoratif, Paris, October
2010
●‘Radical Cartography’ Lecture Faculty of
Design, University Lucerne, Switzerland,
October 2010
●Guest critic at University Lucerne,
Switzerland, Faculty of Design, October 2010
●Co-Course-Direction of ‘Civic City, The Role
of Design in the Social City’ at Institute for
Design Research Design2context, University
for the Arts Zurich, Switzerland (with Ruedi
Baur, Miguel Robles-Durán and Jesko Fezer),
since 2009
●Guest Critic, Urban Reserarch Studio, ETH
Zurich, May 2010
●‘Showdown.’ Workshop at the Faculty of
Design, Darmstadt, Germany, April 2010
●‘Bitte lasst die Blumen leben.’ Workshop at
the Faculty of Design, University Darmstadt,
Germany, February 2010
●‘White Spots Black Holes – The Role of
Mapping in Political Processes.’ Lecture at
University for the Arts Zurich, Switzerland,
January 2010
●‘Don’t brand my city!’ Workshop at Escola
Superior de Disseny i Enginyeria ELISAVA,
Barcelona, September 2009
●‘The Public Space of Finance.’ Workshop
at University for the Arts Zurich, Switzerland
with Lize Mogel (NY) and Alexis Bhagat (NY),
January 2010
●‘An Atlas of Radical Cartography.’ CoCurator in collaboration with Lize Mogel (NY)
and Alexis Bhagat (NY), Whitespace Gallery
Zurich, Switzerland, January 2010
●‘Graphic Design For And Against Cities.’
Co-Curator in collaboration with Jesko
Fezer, Corner College, Zurich, Switzerland,
December 2009
●‘Mapping Cultural Spaces Mumbai.’
Workshop at KRVIA, Mumbai India, Faculty of
Architecture, October 2009
●‘The Good The Bad The Ugly.’ Workshop
at Faculty of Design, University Darmstadt,
Germany, August 2009
●‘Mapping Conflicts: Information and
Processvisualisation.’ Lecturer at Faculty of
Design, University Darmstadt, Germany, 2009
●‘On exhibition design.’ Lecture Faculty of
Mediapractice and Curating, Goetheuniversität,
Frankfurt, Germany, May 2008
●‘Können Bilder töten?’ Lecture, University for
the Arts Zurich, Switzerland, April 2009
●‘Presentation. Documentation. etc.’
Workshop Faculty of Architecture and Urban
Planning, RWTH Aachen, Germany, Feb 2007
●Lecturer for Typography, Faculty of Design,
University Darmstadt, Germany, 2005–2007
Nov 15
●Lecturer for Typography, Faculty of Design,
University Wiesbaden, Germany, 2006–2007
●‘Under Construction.’ Symposium, European
Kunsthalle Cologne, March 2006
●‘Mapping Cultural Practices.’ Workshop
Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning,
RWTH Aachen, Germany, November 2005
●TV2, Denmark, Branding-Workshop,
Channel TV2, Odense, Denmark with Reed
Kram, February 2004
Publications
●‘In conversation with Teddy Cruz…’
in: ‘Stealth Architecture’ published by
Städelschule, Architecture+Critical Spatial
Practice Program, 2013
●‘Studienhefte Problemorientiertes Design’
edited by Jesko Fezer, Oliver Gemballa
and Matthias Görlich. Published by Adocs,
Hamburg. #1: ‘Die Denkweise von Designern’
by Horst Rittel. #2: ‘Don’t do it yourself’ by Lisa
Anne Auerbach. #3: ‘Design heißt Entwurf’ by
Lucius Burckhardt. #4: ‘Kaufhaus des Ostens’
by Andreas Brandolini, Jasper Morrison,
Joachim Stanitzek. #5: ‘Drei Vorlesungen zum
Design’ by Chup Friemert
●‘Design ist kein Mehrwert’ with Gui Bonsiepe
as a contribution to 10 years Pro-QM
bookstore, Berlin, 2012
●‘Dear CM-Ensemble’, in: ‘Cybermohalla
Hub’, edited by Shveta Sarda and Nikolaus
Hirsch, Sternberg Press 2011
●‘Civic City Cahiers’ in: Graphic Magazine #17
‘When Design becomes attitude’, Spring 2011
●‘Civic City Cahier’ series edited by Jesko
Fezer and Matthias Görlich, published
by Bedford Press, London. CC#1: ‘Social
Movements in the (Post-)Neoliberal City’
by Margit Mayer; CC#2: ‘Design and
Democracy,’ by Gui Bonsiepe; CC#3:
‘Distributed Agency, Design’s Potentiality,’
by Tom Holert; CC#4: ‘Afterlives of
Neoliberalism’ by Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck,
Neil Brenner; CC#5: ‘Designing the PostPolitical City and the Insurgent Polis,’ by
Erik Swyngedouw; CC#6: ‘Design in a Post(Neoliberal) City’ by Jesko Fezer; 2010–2014
●Visual contribution for ‘disp – The Planning
Review,’ Issue 180 and 182, published by
Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft, Faculty of
Architecture, ETH Zurich, 2010
●‘Mapping Khoj’, in: ‘Khoj – In India and far
beyond’, catalogue 2011
●‘Die visuelle Sprache der Langstrasse’ in:
‘Langstrase verlängern,’ published by Urban
Research Studio, ETH Zurich, 2010
●‘Bitte lasst die Blumen leben,’ published
by University Darmstadt, Faculty of Design,
Germany, 2010
●‘Institution Building. Artists, Architects and
Curators in the Struggle for Institutional Space’
edited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz,
Markus Miessen and Matthias Görlich,
Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany, 2009
●‘The Good The Bad The Ugly,’ published
by University Darmstadt, Faculty of Design,
Germany, 2009
●‘European Kunsthalle 2005 2006 2007’ with
Spaces of Production (Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp
Misselwitz, Markus Miessen, Matthias Görlich),
2007
●‘Have fun today. (Applause.),’ in Volume
Magazine, Issue 7, 2006
●‘Have fun today. (Applause.)’ in ‘Did
someone say participate: Atlas of Spatial
Strategies,’ edited by Shumon Basar and
Markus Miessen, MIT Press, Cambridge, USA,
2006
●‘Hamletmaschine – Visual Theatre in the
City,’ in: Swiss International Typographic
Revue (TM), Issue 04/2002, 2002
●‘Rennsalon’ in: Novum Designmagazine
Issue 11/2002, 2002
Exhibitions
●‘The Medellin Diagram: A Story of Civic
Freedom,’ together with Teddy Cruz, Alejandro
Echeverri, Fonna Forman, in ‘Citizen Culture:
Art and Architecture Shape Policy,’ curated by
Lucia Sanromán, Santa Monica Museum of
Art, 2014.
●‘The Medellín Diagram: A Story of Civic
Freedom,” together with Teddy Cruz, Alejandro
Echeverri, Fonna Forman. An exhibition for the
UN-Habitat World Urban Forum, The Medellín
Museum of Modern Art, Medellín, Colombia,
2014
●‘MF’ as part of the exhibition ‘Stealth
Architecture’, Weltkulturenmuseum Frankfurt
2013
Nov 15
●‘Design+Communication.’ Spatial
intervention as part of the permanent design
collection at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe,
Hamburg, 2012
●‘Civic City Cahier-Series’ at: Brno Bienale for
Graphic-Design, 2012
●‘Re-Reading Rotterdam’. Map and Spatial
Installation as part of ‘Melanchotopia’ at Witte
de With, Rotterdam, 2011
●‘Mapping Khoj-Mural’, as part of the
exhibition ‘Khoj – In India and far beyond,’
2011
●‘Khoj. In India and far beyond.’ CoCurator with Pooja Suud. Institut für
Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, 2011
●Artist in Residence, Khoj International Artist’s
Association, Delhi, India, October 2010
●‘An Atlas of Radical Cartography.’ CoCurator in collaboration with Lize Mogel (NY)
and Alexis Bhagat (NY), Whitespace Gallery
Zurich, Switzerland, January 2010
●‘Die visuelle Sprache der Langstrasse
Inventory’ as part of the exhibition:
‘Langstrasse verlängern,’ Architekturforum
Zurich, 2010
●‘Graphic Design For And Against Cities.’
Co-Curator in collaboration with Jesko
Fezer, Corner College, Zurich, Switzerland,
December 2009
●‘Dear Henry…,’ as part of ‘The Violence of
Participation,’ curated by Markus Miessen,
Biennale for Contemporary Arts, Lyon, 2007
●‘Volkslampenladen’, as part of ‘Volkspalast’,
directed by Haiko Pfost, Palast der Republik,
2005