Design everywhere you look
"neue räume 19" will take place for the tenth time in 2019. In addition to a lot of design and glamour, there are also prototypes and regionally sustainable objects to discover in the anniversary special shows. The 10th edition will take place from November 14 to 17 in the former ABB halls in Zurich-Oerlikon.
Shimmering fabrics, shiny surfaces and golden structures show an unusual, fascinating side of design. One section of the tenth edition of "neue räume" is all about objects of desire - irresistible objects from all areas of design that don't have to be functional or practical, things that aren't necessary, but which beautify our lives with their shine.
In a world of design, in which people like to furnish with clear and puristic objects, sometimes a dazzling, luxurious exception is needed, the organizers refer in the press text to the upcoming highlights of the design exhibition.
The anniversary special show GLAMOUR includes labels such as Vitra, Classicon, Cassina, Brokis, Creation Baumann and many more with their unique furniture, lighting, textiles and accessories. However, during the "neue räume 19" there is much more in the way of special shows and presentations and crafts from domestic climes.
BAUHAUS - Wonderhome
Van Bo Le-Mentzel is a committed lateral thinker. His latest project, a 16m2 apartment, is a research project of the Tiny Foundation and designed as a mini-house for two people. If necessary, it can be expanded in a modular fashion. The Wonderhome is the smallest room module in a city vision called "Circular City" and the successor to the prototype "100 Euro Apartment". The mobile show apartment with its Bauhaus facades, built for the international Bauhaus Year 2019, will cause a stir. In addition, furniture and lighting from the Bauhaus era will be on display.
FERTIGHÄUSER - Living in the smallest of spaces
Society is changing and with it building and architecture. In order to be prepared for the future, new ideas and concepts are needed. These considerations have given rise to a series of works with ten designs for small residential buildings. Four basic approaches from the history of art, building and crafts form the basis and are consistently applied to architecture, construction, materials, interior design and furnishings. At "neue räume 19" will be "mini-one" presented the smallest possible housing concept, the prototype of the mini house idea.
FORMFORUM - Swiss Craft & Design
Visitors to the 10th edition will also gain an exciting insight into product design and get to know the faces and stories behind high-quality craftsmanship and design. Formforum is the largest Swiss association for contemporary arts and crafts and design. It supports its members in marketing, awards outstanding designs with the quality seal formforum Masterpiece and promotes networking and mutual support.
AESOP - Fragrance and sensuality
The Australian cult label Aesop provides a seductive , olfactory experience right in the entrance area together with the well-known Swiss design studio Atelier Oï. The "Hélicoïdale" fragrance diffusers developed by Atelier Oï, which hang down and rotate and are made of thin wooden wings, exude a subtle and spicy bouquet with deep, earthy accords. The two companies Bodenschatz and Laufen complement the staging with the materials chrome steel and ceramics, which in combination with the exhibited liquid soaps by Aesop and the rotating fragrance diffusers by Atelier Oï transform the entrance area into an atmospheric airlock.
MOBILGLIAS - Regional Ideas
Graubünden is looking for design", renowned designers and schools submitted projects with reference to Graubünden. Designs were sought for furniture and furnishings suitable for everyday use, which should be made from predominantly local materials, primarily solid wood, but also iron/steel, ceramics. Leather and textiles and sustainable design objects made from local materials and produced by Graubünden craftsmen are the focus here.
The winning designs are made as prototypes by members of the Mobiglias association and are exhibited in the special show of the same name.
Art without walls
Anca Munteanu Rimnic performs in the hall during "neue räume 19". She ignores walls in the process. This is not a figure of speech for Anca Munteanu Rimnic, but it describes the effect of her works. Her tool is irritation, which she sometimes uses like a demolition tool and sometimes like a scalpel. Regardless of the medium, whether sculpture, video, performance, installation or photography - the viewer is almost always presented with a situation that seems random or even arbitrary.
With enigmatic humor, she ignores walls, ceilings, and floors as well as the function of objects that are assigned a specific function in everyday life. Nothing is safe from her transformations, be it the carpet, which in the photo series "Simulanta" is a cloak, curtain, cave and creeper at the same time for the dancer, or "Ursu", the iceberg of debris from kitschy glass vases of varying degrees of dustiness, on which a shaggy creature rumbles. Anca Munteanu Rimnic,
The artist has had numerous international solo and group exhibitions, including Kunsthalle Wien, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, and her directorial debut at Schauspielhaus Zurich. In the context of "neue räume 19", works such as photographs, sculptures and videos can be seen.
