Vitra Design Museum + Vitra Schaudepot17,00 € / 15,00 €*Vitra Design Museum 11,00 € / 9,00 €*Vitra Schaudepot8,00 € / 6,00 €*Architecture tour 2h14,00 € / 10,00 €* Guided tours 1h (Exhibition tour, Production tour or Behind the Scenes)7,00 € / 5,00 €**Reduced prices: young people from age 12, students, seniors,disabled persons, groups of more than 10 people, combination of 3 and more tickets/person, children under 12 years of age free
Vitra Design MuseumCharles-Eames-Str. 2D-79576 Weil am RheinT +49.7621.702.3200F +49.7621.702.3590info@design-museum.de
Daily 10 am - 6 pm,24 December 10 am - 2 pm. The museum is open on Sundays and on all public holidays.
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Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design
29.09.2018 – 10.03.2019Vitra Design Museum
Lake Verea:Paparazza Moderna
02.02.2019 – 07.07.2019Vitra Design Museum Gallery
Anton Lorenz: From Avant-Garde to Industry
22.02.2019 – 19.05.2019Vitra Schaudepot
The Vitra Design Museum Collection – 1800 to the Present
Permanent ExhibitionVitra Schaudepot
Night Fever
21.11.2018 – 05.05.2019ADAM − Brussels Design Museum, Belgium
Alvar Aalto – Second Nature
16.02.2019 – 14.04.2019Tokyo Station GalleryJapan
Together! The New Architecture of the Collective
29.11.2018 – 17.03.2019GRASSI Museum, LeipzigGermany
Hello, Robot
22.01.2019 – 22.04.2019 MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology Lisbon, Portugal
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The collection of the Vitra Design Museum ranks among the most important holdings of furniture design worldwide. It contains some 7000 pieces of furniture, a vast assemblage of lighting objects and numerous archives, as well as the Collection of the Eames Office, or the estates of Verner Panton and Alexander Girard. On 4 June 2016 the Vitra Schaudepot was opened, created by the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, in which the Vitra Design Museum presents key pieces of its collection.
Guided tours through the Vitra Schaudepot:Highlights from the CollectionEvery Saturday and Sunday,2 pmFocus Tour: EamesMaterials and Design ProcessesEvery Friday, 2 pmBehind the ScenesEvery first Friday of the month,3 pm (in German)
Vitra Design Museum + Vitra Schaudepot17,00 € / 15,00 €*Vitra Design Museum 11,00 € / 9,00 €*Vitra Schaudepot8,00 € / 6,00 €*Architecture tour 2h14,00 € / 10,00 €*Guided tours 1h (Exhibition tour, Production tour or Behind the Scenes)7,00 € / 5,00 €**Reduced prices: young people from age 12, students, seniors,disabled persons, groups of more than 10 people, combination of 3 and more tickets/person, children under 12 years of age free
Daily 10 am – 6 pm,24 December 10 am – 2 pm. The museum is open on Sundays and on all public holidays.
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To mark the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the Vitra Design Museum will devote the first exhibition ever to entrepreneur and designer Anton Lorenz. In 1925, Marcel Breuer was the first to use tubular steel to construct furniture at the Bauhaus in a move that would revolutionize modern living. Lorenz however was one of the first to realize the material’s potential, and his deft use of patents and founding of new companies made him a key figure for the global expansion of the modern tubular steel furniture industry. The exhibition will present important documents from the Lorenz archive kept at the Vitra Design Museum, as well as tubular steel furniture by Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and other designers, in a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the avant-garde.
Opening: 21 February 2019, 6:30 pmMoreImage:Katalog DESTA Stahlmöbel, 1931 (Graphics: Otto Rittweger, detail)© Vitra Design Museum, Anton Lorenz estate
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With the exhibition »Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People«, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first international retrospective about the 2018 Pritzker Prize laureate Balkrishna Doshi (born 1927, Pune, India) outside of Asia. The renowned architect and urban planner is seen as the most important pioneer of modern architecture of his home country. During over 60 years of practice, Doshi has realized around 100 projects, including pioneering buildings like the Indian »Institute of Management« (1977–92), his own architectural studio »Sangath« (1980), and the low-cost housing project »Aranya« (1989). Inspired by working with masters like Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, Doshi adopted elements of modern architecture and adapted them to local culture, traditions, resources, and nature itself. The exhibition will present numerous key projects realized between 1958 and 2014, ranging from entire cities and town planning projects to large public buildings, from private residences to interiors. Exhibits will include a wealth of original works such as drawings, models, and art works from Doshi’s archive and studio, but also photography, film footage, and several full-scale installations. An extensive timeline will give an overview of the architect’s career from 1947 until today, attesting to his close relationships with other influential architects and visionaries such as Le Corbusier and Christopher Alexander.
Opening: 29 March 2019, 6 pm
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Image:Balkrishna Doshi, Architect’s studio »Sangath«, Ahmedabad, 1980© Iwan Baan 2018
Since their inception in the early 20th century, comics and cartoons have become an inherent part of global visual culture. The exhibition »Living in a Box« demonstrates the close relationship of comics and cartoons to design. Design items or interiors depicted in these genres can reflect the personalities of certain characters: they may be subject to acerbic irony or used to create futuristic visions, often combined with references to political and social issues. The exhibition will present both well-known and less familiar comics that made design history, and objects that have been featured in or influenced by comics and cartoons.
Opening: 23 May 2019, 6:30 pm
Image:Diabolik-Comic »Scommessa fatale«, 1974,Credit: Diabolik, © Astorina srl
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British designer and artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg explores our relationship with nature and technology through what we design. For the past decade, she has researched possibilities for the design of living matter, also referred to as »synthetic biology«. For projects like »Designing for the Sixth Extinction« (2013), she transcended the traditional boundaries of the design discipline, actively pursuing collaborations with scientists, engineers, artists, historians, and social scientists. Her exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery gives insight into how humans seek to shift, bend, and change natural matter, addressing synergies between design and biotechnologies that might shape our future ways of living.
Opening: 19 July 2019, 6 pm
Image:Daisy Ginsberg, »Mobile Bioremediation Unit«, 2013© Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Surrealism was one of the most influential art movements of the twentieth century. Many works of Surrealists like Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Meret Oppenheim, and Man Ray were inspired by everyday objects and explored the world of dreams, emotions, and the unconscious embedded in our material culture. Since the 1930s, Surrealism has had a strong impact on design, from furniture, interiors, and fashion to film and graphic design. In fall 2019 the Vitra Design Museum will devote the first major exhibition to the fascinating creative dialogue between Surrealism and design that continues to this day. »Objects of Desire« will juxtapose surrealist art works with design icons by some of the most prominent artists and designers of the past one hundred years to reveal fascinating parallels and cross-pollination. With works by Gae Aulenti, Björk, Claude Cahun, Achille Castiglioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Ray Eames, Front Design, Frederick Kiesler, Shiro Kuramata, René Magritte, Carlo Mollino, Isamu Noguchi, Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Jerszy Seymour, and many others.
Opening: 27 September 2019, 6 pm
Image:Studio65, Sofa »Marilyn« (Bocca), 1970, (Gufram)© Vitra Design Museum, photo: Jürgen HANS, objektfotograf.ch