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Fiesta Design

FEB 12 - 23

Fiesta Design features a room dedicated to Berlin designers and creatives. Developed as a Berlin scenography in collaboration with Gonzalez Haase AAS, the participants were jointly curated by visitBerlin and Gonzalez Haase AAS, complemented by contributions from an open call. The result is a mix of established names and emerging talents.

Kristin Betghe, TV Tower

Kristin Betghe, TV Tower

Gonzalez Haase AAS,Tower vases, Lola light, Solid shelf

Gonzalez Haase AAS,Tower vases, Lola light, Solid shelf

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Gonzalez Haase AAS

Photo: © Robert Rieger

LOLA LAMP, GONZALEZ HAASE AAS, 2023

LOLA Light, GONZALEZ HAASE AAS, 2023

Frank Oehring

Portrait of FRANK OEHRING and his GROSSE LICHTPLASTIK Modell M 1:20 /

FRANK OEHRING, © Andreas Gehrke

Informations- und Leitsystem GROSSE LICHTPLASTIK 1974-79, Frank Oehring

FRANK OEHRING

For decades, Frank Oehring has contributed to Berlin’s design culture with his visionary light sculptures, including his most iconic work at the ICC Berlin. Now, with the ICC officially protected and recognised as a cultural landmark, his work gains new appreciation.

At La Línea Sueña, this work is presented in an international context for the very first time, offering a rare insight into his exploration of light, form, and architecture. The exhibition features sculptures, models, drawings, and video – a comprehensive showcase of his decades-long practice.

Illya Goldman Gubin

Rafael Horzon

Rafael Horzon studied comparative literature, philosophy, and atomic physics in Paris, Munich, and Berlin. After abandoning his studies, he trained as a parcel delivery driver for Deutsche Post in 1996. He then founded numerous companies and organisations, including the Wissenschaftsakademie Berlin (Berlin Academy of Sciences), the Deutsche Zentrum für Dokumentarfotografie (German Centre for Documentary Photography), and most recently, the Deutsche Design Museum (German Design Museum). He is the author of several books, and his autobiographical bestseller Das Weisse Buch (The White Book) has been translated into numerous languages. Rafael Horzon lives and works in Berlin.

The furniture company MOEBEL HORZON was founded by Rafael Horzon in 1999. Based in Berlin, MOEBEL HORZON produces shelving units and wardrobes characterised by a clear design aesthetic and strict functionality.
The company HORZONS RAUMERHELLUNGSOBJEKTE was founded by Rafael Horzon in Berlin in 2022. While HORZONS RAUMERHELLUNGSOBJEKTE function as conventional lamps, they also offer added value by being combined with household appliances such as toasters, deep fryers, or ovens.

032c

032c is a media and fashion company for the 21st century. Founded by Joerg Koch in 2000, 032c began as a magazine in Berlin. Now the brand also creates ready-to-wear collections and community-catalysing experiences on a global scale. The mission of every 032c production is to inform, provoke, and activate the imagination. The 032c universe is a place for freedom, research, and creativity, where fantasy is reality, aspiration is attainment, and everything is culture in the making. And, like any universe, 032c is expanding.

Pascal Hien

Pascal Hien graduated from the UDK Berlin in 2014, after which he received a design scholarship at the Fabrica Research Centre in Italy. His professional experience includes working for Steelcase Inc. and Konstantin Grcic. In 2023, he founded the Pascal Hien Office for Design, which offers expertise in industrial, exhibition and concept design. His goal: to create meaningful design with an honest, responsible and reflective approach. In 2016, Pascal was selected as one of Wallpaper* magazine’s top graduates. His most recent project, Migo, was included in the permanent collection of the London Design Museum.

Rohling (Gil Russ Studio)

Bio Gil Russ:
Introducing Gil Russ, born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Gil embarked on a journey of architectural exploration by studying at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he refined his expertise and knowledge. In 2015, Gil founded the architecture studio bearing his name, a testament to his visionary approach to design. Gil uniquely utilizes construction as a primary aspect of his design philosophy, seamlessly integrating form and function. With a foundation in architecture and a commitment to innovative design, Gil Russ continues shaping spaces that harmonize aesthetics and practicality.

Bio Brian Chen:
Born in Tainan, Taiwan, is a distinguished product designer. After studying industrial management and design in Taiwan, he decided to pursue further education in Dessau, Germany. Since 2014, he has been making waves in Berlin as a proficient product designer and model maker. Brian's expertise lies in mastering technical skills and tools across various materials, including wood, steel, aluminum, and more. His dedication to continuous learning and versatility in working with diverse materials showcases his commitment to delivering innovative and well-crafted designs.

Gil Russ – architect – and Brian Chen – product designer – have been living and working in Berlin since 2013.

In 2024, the Berlin-based furniture manufacturer Rohling was founded.

MONIKA (Miriam Umiń)

MONIKA is a Berlin based design studio led by artist Miriam Umiń. Rooted in a conceptual approach, the studio spans a wide range of projects from interiors to exhibition and object design. MONIKA is also a character. In each project she responds fluidly to context, considering form, function, and the potential for reconfiguration. At times MONIKA is deliberately contradictory and difficult. She is beholden to her desires. MONIKA is interested in pleasure and indulgence, seeing the corporeal as both a site of critique and a means of exploring new modes of being and making.

Terrace FRZNTE (Franziska)

FRZNTE is a DJ, Pole Performer and Cultural Producer.In her pole performances, she combines performative, choreographic, and sculptural elements, often referring to the architectural context. Her body wrapping and moving around the pole becomes a kinetic sculpture and gesture of empowerment.

By bringing the pole into open, urban environments—particularly rooftops and other architectural structures— FRZNTE invites critical conversations about gender, visibility, and ownership of space. FRZNTE collaborated with Transmoderna, a digital art and electronic music collective co-founded by DJ Dixon. She has also performed with Peaches at Deutsche Oper, Berlin, collaborated with UCC Harlo at Montez Press Radio in New York, and performed her “Spinning Rooftops” series on various rooftops in Berlin and Reykjavik. The architecture magazine ARCH+ put her on the front page for their Berlin Praxis issue published in 2021.She is occasionally on tour with the Icelandic artist and musician Apex Anima. They create a highly energetic audio-visual live show in which they fuse ethereal with physical, platonic with erotic and static with acrobatic moments.As a DJ her mix of Hip Hop, Disco, Techno, Booty Beats and the most beautiful All Time Favourites transform art shows, film events and nightclubs into an extravaganza of wild parties. Her music is both trash and glam. Sometimes, she brings her pole to the party and stirs up a mirage of smoke with her slowly spinning high heels for her hypnotic Pole DJ Set.

Sam Chermayeff Office

Sam Chermayeff Office’s work believes that architecture can make things happen and that things can happen to architecture. With offices based in Berlin and New York, both studios work on wide range of projects including multiunit housing buildings, institutional buildings, exhibitions and furniture. Our clients include the Albanian state, FLOS, many private individuals, Knoll, Maharam, several building groups and we appreciate this diversity.

Sam Chermayeff Office is made of two partners, Sam Chermayeff and Barbara Polakova and a multidisciplinary team of architects and designers. The office has an extended interest in how we live alone and together.

Sam Chermayeff Office with Pia Matthes

Live From Earth

Live From Earth is an independent music label with a focus on emerging artists. The Berlin based collective is re-interpretating a diverse range of music with no limits and no boundaries in pursue of it’s strong visions of modern sounds.

Matylda Krzykowski

Matylda Krzykowski directs, designs, writes, and talks about objects within space and ideas outside of space. Her transdisciplinary, geographically mobile practice resonates worldwide in the forms of exhibitions, installations, talks, texts, performances and exhibits. In her role as artistic lead of CIVIC at Basel Academy of Art & Design Matylda Krzykowski provides an educational and experimental environment with opportunities for participation, contribution, and exchange to promote an understanding of the relevance of art and design today.

Paleworks (Yagmur Ruzgar, Ozan Akkoyun)

Paleworks, founded in 2017 by Ozan Akkoyun and Yağmur Ruzgar, is a Berlin-based creative studio that forms refined yet purposeful brands and creates tangible and digital objects as the output of their collective influence.

CRAVERS (Ozan Akkoyun)

CRAVERS is a Berlin-based vegan brand dedicated to redefining snacking with nutritious and delicious hazelnut-based products. Everything CRAVERS makes is free from added sugar, palm oil, additives, and gluten, proving that healthy doesn’t have to be boring. CRAVERS is committed to transforming the harmful eating habits of past generations into clean, conscious ones—without compromising on taste. With a direct connection to the source and culture, the brand partners with a women-led local manufacturer and aims to give this amazing nut the recognition it deserves.

Charlotte Rohde

Charlotte Rohde (DE, *1992) is an artist, (type)-designer, and writer, based in Berlin. Her way of handling ideas on hyperfemininity, the economy of trust and pop culture through language is bracing her horizontal practice of from very applied to quite fine arts.For the last three years, she functioned as Guest Professor for Typography and Type Design at Bauhaus Universität Weimar and has lectured in various institutions, for example Princeton University, Universität der Künste Berlin, Sandberg Instituut, Central Saint Martins, and the Estonian Academy of the Arts. She recently published her first Monograph titled “You Loved An Image”, with DISTANZ Verlag Berlin, an Artist Book that contains Autotheory, Poetry and Typographic Interventions.Together with Levi van Gelder, Rohde researches and lectures on the topic of visual literacy in digital spaces, memetic warfare and fan fiction.

Together with Vivien Hoffmann, Rohde runs the project SoliType since 2020. Through offering a selection of independent type designs, they generate donations for organizations that support people seeking refuge in the EU. SoliType has collected more than 50.000€ in four years.

Together with Max Weinland, she runs the website What Is My Work Worth which collects information and opinions around pricing, labor and capitalism critique in the field of graphic design.

Her works have been shown at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Klingspor Museum Offenbach, NEVERNEVERLAND Amsterdam, Autohaus.Autohaus Kassel, and soft power Berlin. She has received Grants from Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industrie. She has been published in formats like form Design Magazine, Missy Magazine, passe-avant and It’s Nice That. Several Institutions use her typefaces for their visual identity, such as Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Serpentine Gallery London, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin.

Tina Roeder

Tina Roeder was born in Germany in 1975. She studied at Central Saint Martins in London, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in 2000. Roeder went on to earn her Master's degree from the Design Academy Eindhoven under Droog in 2004. After graduating, she trained with Studio Job in Antwerp and launched her own studio in Berlin in 2007, where she continues to live and work today.

Teuber Kohlhoff

TEUBER KOHLHOFF is a textile and interior design studio founded by Anna Teuber and Franzi Kohlhoff 2015 in Berlin. The studio’s commissions range from print and pattern design to woven or knitted interior products and spatial installations.

With a keen interest in establishing a lively dialogue between archetype and experimentation, the studio creates strong narratives and standout projects. A profound knowledge of materials and manufacturing processes enable conscious design decisions, as well as a sensitive use of production facilities. Aiming for individual solutions and the utmost standards, the studio works in close collaboration with high-quality weaving and knitting mills, and a trusted network of manufactories and architects in Germany and across Europe.

Loehr x Teuber Kohlhoff

LOEHR is a label of furniture and objects from Berlin, Germany. Founded by three brothers, David, Leon and Julian, it is a brand built upon the values of kinship. The product collection, informed by architectural categories and methods, develops with the intent to create uncompromising and better spaces for living, working and being.

Andreas Gehrke

Andreas Gehrke (*1975) is a photographer and publisher. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main and PS1 in New York. Since 1999, he has been working internationally under the pseudonym Noshe, producing commissioned work for renowned architectural firms such as David Chipperfield and Sauerbruch Hutton, as well as for magazines and publishers including Wallpaper*, AD Germany, Distanz, and Hatje Cantz.In 2013, he founded the publishing house Drittel Books, which has since published numerous photobooks.Andreas Gehrke lives in Berlin. His photographic portraits capture constructed and evolving landscapes, exploring the tension between stagnation and transformation.