Exhibition
The New Frankfurt Thinking the Future
19 June – 24 August 2025
Exhibition opening: Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 7 pm
The anniversary of The New Frankfurt offers a compelling opportunity to reflect on the present by asking what visions of the future were embedded in the original urban planning program and to what extent fundamental social change must also be accompanied by an aesthetic transformation free from imitation. Between 1919 and 1933, the “new” signified that which diverged from the familiar, that which departed from what society considered normal or expected. The idea of the new can therefore be understood as a conceptual model for possible utopias and alternatives to the status quo—across all areas of society and at all times.
How do emerging designers at HfG Offenbach engage with The New Frankfurt? Which aspects resonate with them today, and which call for critical examination in light of the present?
Working with the concept of the “new,” they present ten displays exploring themes such as: the New Building, New Architecture, New Living, New Urban Development, New Green Spaces, the New Woman, the New Waldstadion and the First International Workers’ Olympiad, the New Sound, New Craft, and the New City Emblem—the “Leistikow Eagle.”
Entitled Thinking the Future (Alexey Kosin), visitors are invited to vote on the topics they consider most vital for shaping today’s and tomorrow’s urban (re)planning.
An exhibition in cooperation between HfG Offenbach and the Museum Angewandte Kunst, developed within the master’s program “Design Curating and Criticism”, led by Prof. Matthias Wagner K and realized by students Emin Aksakal, Christina Isabel Anderson, Kasimir Bamberger, Sebastian Blaauwbroek, Anna Barthold, Marie Bünner, Lorenzo Sante Carella, Taron Garlichs, Franca Hoßfeld, Safia Amanda Jahn, Alptug Kocatürk, Alexey Kosin, Clara Maldener, Camille Münch, Eleonora Schilling, Clara Schneider, Ji Eun Shin, Gilberto Vivenzio, and Vivien Weindl.
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Without registration. Free entry.