We often find objects and rituals in our everyday lives that appear quite self-evident but would have been barely comprehensible a short time ago: A smartphone on a desk seems hardly remarkable to us today but this flat object would represent an inexplicable enigma for viewers from the past. In this way, our respective new realities are repeatedly changed by objects as well as the behaviours attached to them, and our lives are constantly transformed by their use and their increasing everyday nature.
For the exhibition, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic creates environments in which his design objects interact with materials and everyday objects of our present. These so-called “New Normals” refer to a future in which other constellations of living and working together are tested and confront the viewers with their own ideas of utopian and dystopian futures.
Konstantin Grcic (*1965, Munich) has been designing complex, often radical solutions for everyday objects for over thirty years. In the 1990s, Grcic became known for his industrial objects for everyday life. Among other things, he created chairs, tables, clothes racks and wastepaper baskets. The mobile lamp Mayday (1999) and Chair_ONE (2004), a chair consisting of a lattice structure cast from aluminium on a concrete base, became world-famous design classics.
| Hours | Tuesday to Sunday: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PMFree admission on the first Sunday of every month |
| Venue | Haus am Waldsee |
| Type | Design Exhibition |
| Duration | 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| City | Berlin |
About
Haus am Waldsee
Haus am Waldsee has been among the leading venues for contemporary art in Germany since it was launched as an exhibition space in 1946. Today it offers a platform for artists who live and work in Berlin and have already achieved significant international standing. The content of our programme covers a wide spectrum from the visual arts, design and architecture all the way to artists working with sound and composition. In up to five exhibitions per year single, truly innovative positions of artistic practice, thematically driven group exhibitions and seminal works of post-war Modernism are put up for debate. Particular emphasis is placed on dialogue, not only between the visitor and the works of art but also between visitors of all generations, artists and scientists. To this end we regularly conduct children‘s openings, artist‘s talks, artist‘s dinners, performances, a summer academy taking place every year as well as concerts of classical music among the artworks. Furthermore, we offer audio guides to the Modernist architecture in our immediate neighbourhood.
