The exhibition “Everyday Architecture—Wiesbaden’s Street Spaces Between Traffic, Daily Life, and Shifting Perspectives” is on display. It runs from Monday, September 7, through Wednesday, September 30. Exhibition opening: Tuesday, September 8, at 5:30 p.m. 

We experience street spaces every day in different ways—on foot, by bike, on the bus, or in a car, slowly or quickly. Yet it is rarely architectural masterpieces that shape our perception. Rather, it is the ordinary, often unassuming “supporting actors” that form the backdrop for movement, traffic, and everyday life and give large parts of Wiesbaden their character. The exhibition invites visitors to view these familiar spaces from new perspectives. It combines the view from the window onto the street with the unfamiliar perspective from an airplane, thereby revealing familiar places in a new light. Students from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences present their photographic perspectives on Wiesbaden’s everyday architecture. The exhibition also features photographs by Berlin-based architectural photographer Maximilian Meisse and aerial photographs by Erika Noack. A reading and activity table offers opportunities for deeper exploration and a playful engagement with Wiesbaden’s everyday architecture. 

Also in September, an installation by the Superblock initiative in the Rheingauviertel neighborhood will be on view at WerkRaum, highlighting the absurd amount of space occupied by elements designed to regulate and deter motor vehicle traffic in an already severely limited public space. Since 2022, the members of this civil society neighborhood project have been asking why the design of their urban neighborhood—despite the climate crisis, despite the loss of safe routes to school and street spaces, and despite the urban aesthetic and atmosphere, continues to be oriented toward the needs of (stationary) car traffic. 

Also on view is the video work “Care Without A Capital C,” which, in the context of September’s theme “In Motion,” offers a perspective on mobility that is initially unfamiliar. Artist Anne-Louise Hoffmann focuses not on speed or movement, but on their prerequisites: care, maintenance, support, and regeneration. 

The September program kicks off as early as Saturday, September 5, with the “Le CoffeeRide”: a bicycle rally that winds through Wiesbaden and Mainz and concludes at WerkRaum starting at 5 p.m. 

Further information: WerkRaum Wiesbaden in September (opens in a new tab). 

WerkRaum is a project within the framework of World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026. WDC 2026 is supported by the State of Hesse, the City of Frankfurt am Main, and the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain.