“Christian Dell in the World of the Hanau Academy of Art” | Lecture

The metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar, led by master craftsman Christian Dell, is considered the cradle of modern industrial design. Without Christian Dell’s roots and training in Hanau, the city of the Brothers Grimm, this success story would not have been possible.His education at the Hanau Drawing Academy, founded in 1772, led Christian Dell to become one of the leading figures in modern design. His life’s work remained closely connected to the city of Hanau well into 1948.

Beate Alice Hofmann, collection director of the Hanau Municipal Museums, curated the first solo exhibition on Christian Dell’s work in 1996, thereby laying the foundation for subsequent research.

The lecture sheds light on the Hanau Academy of Drawing as a training ground for future leaders at the beginning of the 20th century and the influence Hanau had on Christian Dell’s creative work.

Today, the exhibition at the sam – Stadtmuseum am Markt is open until 6 p.m. 

What exactly does… Joana, a research project assistant, do at the museum?
How do the right objects actually end up in an exhibition? Joana offers insights into the museum’s research projects and shows how the search for suitable exhibits can turn into a detective-style investigation—from researching and tracking down to actually finding them.

How Color Shapes Spaces and Connects
with People: A Hands-On Workshop for Tradespeople and Finishing Professionals on Consultation, Spatial Impact, and Design

Successful color design doesn’t begin with choosing a shade, but with understanding the people who use and experience the spaces.

In the inspiring setting of the WDC project WerkRaum Wiesbaden, tradespeople and applicators are invited to experience how color, materials, and spatial impact come together to create compelling design concepts. Using professional consulting methods and the new Caparol Design Toolkit, participants will learn how to confidently advise clients and develop suitable color and material concepts. What they learn will be put into practice immediately during the workshop.

Focus on the event’s content and added value: practical methods for design consulting, a better understanding of color and spatial effects, and the development of your own design concepts.

Registration information is available at farbdesignstudiocaparolde.

Everyday architecture and street spaces are experienced in different ways each day—on foot, by bike, on the bus, or in a car, whether moving slowly or quickly. Rarely are these architectural masterpieces; rather, they are ordinary supporting elements that serve as the backdrop for movement, traffic, and the experience of the city. This mostly unassuming architecture largely shapes the character of Wiesbaden.

The exhibition presents different perspectives on these familiar spaces—the view from a window onto the street and the unfamiliar view from an airplane, which reveals familiar places in a new light.

On display are photographs by students from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, as well as photographs by Berlin-based architectural photographer Maximilian Meisse. The exhibition is enriched by aerial photographs by Erika Noack.

A reading and play table offers opportunities to explore and engage playfully with Wiesbaden’s everyday architecture.

The pop-up exhibition "CONSUMPTION and ME – From Department Stores to Shopping Apps" explores the relationship between consumption and us—and our democracy—from the early days of department stores to current issues surrounding online shopping, sustainability, and social participation.

It is both a history museum and a future lab: thus, it not only looks back but also invites visitors to participate and reflect. Together, visions for the future of consumption are to be developed and discussed. 

Project partner: Janine Seitz, futurist.

*Care Without A Capital C* revolves around a massage in a professional auto repair shop. Cars and bodies, which normally move through public space, come to a standstill here to be cared for. The video’s soundtrack underscores the sometimes absurd tenderness that arises from the contact between human and mechanical bodies. Through the juxtaposition of mobility and stillness, the work develops a poetic reflection on the prerequisites of movement. 

The auto repair shop takes on a dual function as a place of work and regeneration. Within the act of repair lies, at the same time, a moment of inner emotion. What happens to us when we step out of the flow of everyday movements—the streams of people in pedestrian zones or the avalanches of cars on the streets—and enter a space of stillness? The workshop becomes an in-between space where movement does not take place visibly, but is prepared, enabled, and reimagined.

In the context of WerkRaum’s September theme, “In Motion,” Care Without A Capital C offers an unusual perspective on mobility. Artist Anne-Louise Hoffmann’s work focuses not on speed or locomotion, but on their prerequisites: care, maintenance, support, and regeneration. She reminds us that people—as well as machines—need moments of pause in order to keep moving forward. For the brief duration of the video, an imaginary place emerges that blocks out the hustle and bustle of the city and invites us to reconsider mobility as an interplay of movement, stillness, and care.