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november 21, 2023 - Vitra Design Museum
Exhibition overview 2024
VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM
Transform! Designing the Future of Energy
23 March to 1 September 2024
Energy is the force that keeps our society going; energy is political; energy is invisible. The buildings,
infrastructures, and devices for generating, distributing, and using energy are products of design,
however, and design has a central role to play in the urgently needed transformation of the energy
system. The exhibition »Transform! Designing the Future of Energy« explores the ongoing energy
transition from a design perspective: From devices for harvesting renewable energy to solar buildings
and wind turbines, from smart mobility to self-sufficient cities. The exhibition probes into the global thirst
for energy and examines how design can assist us in switching to renewable energies and reducing
our energy consumption. What action do industry and politics need to take, what can each individual
contribute to a successful energy transition?
Nike Designs: Form Follows Motion
21 September 2024 to 3 March 2025
In autumn 2024, the Vitra Design Museum will present a major exhibition that explores the design
history of Nike, one of the world’s most revered sports brands. The exhibition will follow the evolution of
iconic Nike objects through a focused design lens, tracing milestones and inspirations across the
company’s 50-year legacy. It will shine a spotlight on Nike's scientific research in apparel, footwear
design, and accessories, which always begins with closely examining the body in motion, ultimately
melding technology and visionary concepts to redefine functional aesthetics. For the first time, the
exhibition will present a large selection of materials from Nike’s design archives, including drawings,
prototypes, historic film footage and other documents. Coinciding with the 2024 Olympic Games in
Paris, the exhibition looks at Nike as the ideal case study for the close connection between design and
sports – from the underlying scientific research to the key role of sports and sports apparel in today’s
pop culture.
Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse
18 May 2024 to 11 May 2025
How was and is the future being imagined in design? The annual presentation at the Vitra Schaudepot
is dedicated to the vision of a new world, and crosses a bridge from the furnishing in early science
fiction movies to design for virtual spaces. Groundbreaking design objects from the collection of the
Vitra Design Museum show how technical innovations and design utopias have found their way into
our everyday lives and directly shape our everyday world.
Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House
18 November 2023 to 21 April 2024
The presentation »Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House« at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery is dedicated
to the recently constructed Tane Garden House on the Vitra Campus. With a footprint of barely 15
square metres, the house combines a rooftop viewing platform for Campus visitors and a meeting room
for the gardeners who tend the grounds. Tsuyoshi Tane understood that this project was small in scale,
but large in meaning. This is reflected in the Japanese architect’s unique design approach, which is
based on an intensive research process that explores the local context in order to utilize traditional
handicrafts as well as regional resources. The exhibition, which was conceived by the architect,
presents study models, architectural mock-ups and drawings of the building, along with impressions of
the close collaboration with local artisans.
Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture
21 October 2023 to 3 March 2024
The exhibition »Iwan Baan: Moments in Architecture« at the Vitra Design Museum will be the first large
retrospective of the Dutch photographer’s work. Iwan Baan’s photographs are characterised by a
vibrant realism that puts the focus on people and their relationship to the built environment. His
observant eye perceives architecture not as an abstract ideal, but as the setting of everyday life, an
organic part of the urban fabric – from traditional buildings to booming metropolises, from Africa to
America and Asia. Thanks to the great scope of his vision, Baan’s works offer a broad panorama of
human building that impressively demonstrates the existential importance of architecture and urban
design.
Colour Rush! An Installation by Sabine Marcelis
Extended until 5 May 2024
Our world is full of colour. Its various shades unleash emotions, assist orientation, indicate functions or
perils, and mark cultural, political, professional, or religious identities. Colours have always played a
central role in the design of interiors, fashions, and public spaces. Up to May 2024, the presentation at
the Vitra Schaudepot is wholly devoted to colour. Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has transformed the
Schaudepot in one simple, sweeping gesture by sorting its roughly four hundred exhibits by colour. Her
installation shows the collection from new perspectives and yields fascinating cross references
between periods and styles. The presentation is complemented by historical and contemporary objects
and documents from the museum archives that illustrate the importance of colour in design.
01 VDM Transform X-Land
3414x2516, 3MB
02 VDM Transform Solar-Do-Nothing
3000x2363, 2MB
03 VDM Nike-Designs Original-Swoosh-Design
1145x1145, 535KB
04 VDM Nike-Designs 3D-Needle-2
2560x1920, 1MB
05 VDM Science-Fiction-Design Hortensia-Chair Andres-Reisinger
2625x3000, 1MB
06 VDM Science-Fiction-Design Statuette-Lloyd-Schwan
3543x2778, 267KB
07 VDM Tsuyoshi-Tane Garden-House
2953x2215, 4MB
08 VDM Tsuyoshi-Tane Garden-House
3000x1993, 6MB
09 VDM Iwan-Baan Beinecke-Library
3543x2823, 2MB
10 VDM Iwan-Baan M+Museum
3543x2363, 2MB
11 VDM-Colour-Rush Installation-view
3543x2657, 1MB
12 VDM-Colour-Rush Sabine-Marcelis
2657x3543, 1MB
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