The Salone del Mobile in Milan has just ended, yet here we are already gearing up for the seventh edition of Berlin Design Week (27.04.-05.05.2024), commencing this Saturday. The festival’s hub is aptly situated in the Peter Behrens Building in Oberschöneweide — a true gem of Berlin’s industrial architecture. Here, one can discover an array of offerings: from the architectural legacy of Peter Behrens himself — often regarded as the founding father of modernism — to Bauhaus designers’ workshop chairs, and the interactive kinetic installation Canvas of Consciousness. Additionally, visitors can explore the digital revival of Berlin activist and artist Helga Goetze, renowned for her radical views on love, sexuality, and feminism, among other attractions.
The Peter Behrens Building is not the sole venue for Design Week. Various smaller showrooms scattered throughout the city also host events, such as the iconic steel furniture manufacturer Tebton in Mitte or Bottone in Leipziger Straße, where the Italian-German label showcases its furniture and lifestyle products. The Kunstgewerbemuseum presents Next: Young European Design in collaboration with Eunic Berlin, featuring 30 projects and works from eleven European countries. Heipl Berlin and the Hungarian animator and illustrator Csaba Klement, also known as CsaK, invite attendees to dinosaurs and prosecco, blending science about the Middle Ages with modern design. With so many highlights, it’s hard to know where to begin. Exhibitions and presentations are complemented by talks and panels, so it’s worth carefully studying the program. Throughout the process, one will realize that Berlin can do almost anything, and certainly, it excels in design.
Text: Giulia Tancredi / Photos: Moritz Bernoully, Pancake! & Anna Maria Vaskovskaja
Berlin Design Week
27.04.–05.05.2024. You can find the entire program here.
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