28 November 2024

Artist talk with Gregory de la Haba at GRAFTLAB

As part of the exhibition “TAKE IT EASY”, New York artist Gregory de la Haba talks about the connection between fine art and street art.

Time: Friday, 29.11.2024 at 18:00
Location: GRAFTLAB, Invalidenstraße 5, 10115 Berlin

Everybody welcome! The admission is free and registration not necessary.

Location: GRAFTLAB Gallery 2, Invalidenstraße 5, 10115 Berlin

28 November 2024

Street-Art Exhibition by Gregory de la Haba + Easy hosted at GRAFTLAB Gallery

Luisa Catucci Gallery will showcase the latest collaborative works of the multidisciplinary New York artist Gregory de la Haba and the well-known graffiti and street artist Easy at GRAFTLAB. Luisa Catucci curates the exhibition which will be on display at GRAFTLAB Gallery until January 11.

The exhibition “TAKE IT EASY” combines high art with street art and balances themes of calm and chaos that have emerged from the unrest caused by the Covid pandemic in New York. The word “easy” first appeared in curved handwriting as a positive mantra and tag on the walls of the city and functioned as a “visual antidote at a time when life became difficult for many people”.

GRAFT has been associated with the modern art scene since the design of Berlin's Urban Nation Museum and supports the important contribution of these ephemeral commentaries to the urban space.

Vernissage: November 28, 2024, 6 - 9 pm
Location: GRAFTLAB Gallery 2, Invalidenstraße 5, 10115 Berlin
Exhibition duration: November 29 - January 11, 2024
Opening hours: Monday - Friday 11.00 - 18.00, Saturday 12.00 - 17.00
Curated by: Luisa Catucci Gallery

Weiterführende Links international:
Artinfo24, Berlin Projekt, Kunstleben Berlin, Exibart, One Arty Minute, Artipool, Art Rabbit, WideWalls, Rausgegangen

19 November 2024

GRAFT at the Arhitekta Forum in Belgrade

Lars Krückeberg, founding partner of GRAFT, will join the panel discussion at the prestigious Arhitekta Forum in Belgrade on November 19. The event serves as a platform for dialogue on forward-thinking topics in architecture, urban planning, and design.

GRAFT looks forward to inspiring conversations and the exchange of ideas with leading professionals in the field.

Further details about the event can be found here.

23 October 2024

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits GRAFT-designed "Blütenviertel"

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the "Blütenviertel" project designed by GRAFT on October 23, describing it as a "very innovative building project." The energy concept, featuring a sustainable ice storage system that serves as a forward-looking model for urban neighborhoods, received special recognition.

Learn more about the project Blütenviertel in Caputh and Olaf Scholz's visit!

22 October 2024

Talk about New Work by GRAFT partner Sven Fuchs at ORGATEC

GRAFT partner Sven Fuchs will be speaking at the leading international trade fair ORGATEC on the subject of “The GRAFTLAB - laboratory of new working environments” and will be presenting the new GRAFTLAB creative headquarters as an example.

The theme of the “Future of Work” conference revolves around the changing demands on modern working environments and takes place every other year in Cologne. Important players from the construction industry and architecture meet during these days to rethink the chosen focus in a multifaceted way in workshops, events, and lectures.

For GRAFT, New Work means an interplay of flexible working, spatial heterogeneity, and the creation of an identity-creating architectural statement for the office worlds of today.

ORGATEC - RETHINKING WORK
22.-25.10.2024
Cologne Exhibition Center

21 October 2024

GRAFT at Hospital Concepts 2024

Themed ‘Building for tomorrow's health - the hospital as an adaptable organism’, the 22nd edition of hospital concepts, organised by emtec e.V., will once again offer a diverse programme with interdisciplinary contributions from experienced speakers from practice, science and business.

We are looking forward to a inspiring round of discussions this Thursday, 24 October in Berlin.

Further information at: https://www.hospital-concepts.de/

25 September 2024

GRAFT at InnoTrans 2024 in Berlin!

Today, we’re attending InnoTrans 2024, the leading trade fair shaping the future of rail transport. At the booth of our esteemed partner Max Bögl, founding partner Thomas Willemeit will deliver a keynote on "Urban Impact of Future Mobility."

We look forward to welcoming all interested parties and engaging in exciting, forward-thinking discussions!

https://max-boegl.de/unternehmen/messen-und-termine/innotrans-2024

12 September 2024

GRAFT is part of 50 FÜR BAD BERLIN auction at Berlin Art Week

GRAFT model "Birdhouse" is up for auction at 50 FÜR BAD BERLIN

GRAFT is among the 50 artists and architects who donated one of their works for the benefit auction for the non-profit organization Fluss Bad Berlin. The 50 for Bad Berlin auction will take place as part of Berlin Art Week on September 12 in the Red Hall of the Berliner Bauakademie - a place that invites questions about the sustainable planning, construction and operation of buildings and housing projects.

FLUSS BAD BERLIN is an urban development project that advocates a new use for the approximately 1.9 km long, unused Spree Canal in the historic center of Berlin: The water is to be made accessible via steps along the banks, the water quality is to be improved and swimming is to be made possible again.

The BIRDHOUSE architectural model was created in 2018 for a design special by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, in which the task of designing an extraordinary birdhouse was answered by 50 well-known designers. The GRAFT birdhouse consists of 36 parts cut from MDF panels and then glued together and was originally based on a parametric spatial concept for an island in Kuala Lumpur.

Location: Red Hall, Bauakademie, Schinkelplatz 1, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Vernissage: September 11, 2024, 6-9pm
Exhibition: September 12, 2024, 12-5pm and September 13-15, 2024, 12-8pm

Auction: September 12, 2024, 6-9pm
(Previews by appointment are possible from September 10)

A limited number of places are still available for the auction for art lovers and collectors. If you are interested, please write to 50FBB@Flussbad-Berlin.de. Written bids can also be submitted via the website. While the works of art cover a wide range in terms of type and technique, their content touches on the themes of Fluss Bad Berlin in many different ways. The works of art can be seen in the auction catalog.

28 August 2024

GRAFT designs for exhibition "immer modern! Great Streets of Tomorrow"

The exhibition "immer modern! Berlin and its Streets" concerns us all. Because the streets - no matter how beautiful or ugly they may be - are a living environment for all parts of society and nobody can avoid them. The more care and thought should be put into them.

The exhibition on the boulevard Unter den Linden, organized by Architekten- und Ingenieurverein zu Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (AIV), takes a look back at Berlin's formative planning processes using the example of important streetscapes.

It also presents 10 plans by 10 architectural firms for "Great Streets for Tomorrow". GRAFT has taken part in this challenge and proposed a vision for the future of a big Berlin street. The design will be revealed with the opening on September 5.

Check out the website immermodern.de for information on the accompanying program which highlights current challenges and projects and focuses in particular on the traffic and living spaces of tomorrow. All events and the exhibition are open to the public and free of charge!

The exhibition and the program are made possible thanks to: Lotto Stiftung Berlin, Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung, Bauen und Wohnen, Senatsverwaltung für Mobilität, Verkehr, Klimaschutz und Umweltschutz, GASAG, Berliner Volksbank eG, KIM Kilian Immobiliengruppe

Great Streets of Tomorrow: Proposals for the Reorganization of the Metropolis
Friday, 6 September, 4.30 to 9 p.m., presentations and discussion

Kronprinzenpalais
Unter den Linden 3, 10117 Berlin

With 10 teams of architects and landscape architects

We all know that we have to lead the car-friendly city into a better future - but there is inevitable and unavoidable social controversy about how. What does a socially and economically compatible reorganization look like that also responds appropriately to the relentless demands of climate change?

The goal is a more vibrant city through a less car-friendly city: attractive remodeling and new construction of buildings, attractive uses, attractive public spaces! The main streets must once again become the lifelines of the city and its neighborhoods, and they must be carefully designed.

We need a constructive debate about the process of change that lies ahead of us, but it should not stop there: That is why the exhibition "immer modern! Berlin and its streets" shows specific proposals. Because nothing encourages change more than good examples.

Ten main streets that go beyond questions of transport planning and not only show perspectives for development in terms of open space planning, but also, where appropriate and possible, in terms of structural engineering.

01 August 2024

DOXS is Real Estate of the Year 2024!

Renderimage of the project DOXS, two rectangular buildings are placed alongside a canal

Every year, the renowned publisher Callwey awards the architecture prize "Real Estate of the Year" to honor projects in the field of architecture and building planning that have not yet been completed or are still in the planning stage.

We are happy that our DOXS NKLN project has been awarded 1st prize for 2024! DOXS is a new construction project that we are planning together with our long-standing partner Trockland: a former scrap yard on the Neukölln shipping canal is being transformed into a "port of cultures" with a varied mix of uses.

"With its direct location on the canal, DOXS is the perfect place for creative impulses and ideas for tomorrow. The district is a trendy location for pop-ups and flea markets in industrial halls, a neighborhood for culture and art and is now developing into a hub for visionaries and forward thinkers. With DOXS, we have jointly developed a concept that strengthens the community and creates cultural, social and gastronomic diversity. An open place that not only faces up to the present, but wants to grow with it." - Barbara Sellwig (Trockland) and Thomas Willemeit (GRAFT)

Further information on >DOXS and the >Architecture Award