What explains the allure of legendary clubs like New York’s Studio 54 or the Palladium? What roles do design, music, architecture, fashion, and lighting play in this context? In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition »Night Fever«, these questions will be discussed by prominent guests: Ben Kelly, architect and designer of the Haçienda nightclub in Manchester (1982), graphic artist Peter Saville, who created album covers for bands such as Joy Division and OMD, and Konstantin Grcic, exhibition designer for »Night Fever«. The show’s curator, Jochen Eisenbrand, will host the conversation together with design historian and co-curator Catharine Rossi. Free admission, registration: events@design-museum.de

Nightclubs and discothèques are hotbeds of contemporary culture. Since the twentieth century, they have been centres of the avant-garde that question the established codes of social life and experiment with different realities, merging interior and furniture design, graphics and art with sound, light, fashion and special effects to create a modern Gesamtkunstwerk. »Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today« is the first exhibition to give a comprehensive overview of the design history of the nightclub, examining its cultural context. Examples range from Italian clubs of the 1960s created by the protagonists of Radical Design to the legendary Studio 54 where Andy Warhol was a regular, from the Palladium in New York designed by Arata Isozaki to more recent concepts by the OMA architecture studio for the Ministry of Sound in London. Featuring films and vintage photographs, posters, flyers and fashion, the exhibition incorporates music, light and spatial installations to take visitors on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour and subcultures – always in search of the night that never ends. Free admission