MAP OF THE UNIQUE & PECULIAR TOWN OF FRESHVILLE 14th & 15th of Septemberg 2013 Quelle N端rnberg. F端rther Strasse 205 Sat.11-20 / Sun.11-18
Andreas Strauss (Vienna) Saturday 14:00 & Sunday 16:00
The intense movement between disciplines and places practiced the artist, architect and designer Andreas Strauss has been for years a way of life and a method of research. Straus's works in different scenes and team constellations are often created as transfers, in which dissolved functions and formats of their original context. These shifts move around public and private space, the field of art and urban space, center and periphery, between art and consumerism act as exclusion areas such as critical maneuver around the most inconspicuous forms of social conditioning to make them visible, and Strauss does not shrink from self-experiments.
njustudio (Coburg) Saturday 16:00
njustudio is an idea company for unlimited design from Coburg, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe, Earth, Universe. The collective njustudio brings the experience of five designers in a dialogue, the results imply a truly will to sublimate the ordinary. Design service is as exciting as the development of own products. We forced ourselves to a conceptual rigour, our ideas are both professional and bohemian, charming and with an independent style of simplicity. The collective allows us to work in more than one category of design – we superimpose our different skills as well as the different areas of design.
Hrafnkell Birgisson (Copenhagen) Sunday 14:00
"With residence in Copenhagen, I'm currently working as a freelance product designer between Denmark and Germany.'s Work consists mostly of conceptual and experimental product development, often on their own initiative is implemented through collaborations with other designers, partners from the trade or industry. Here, like known but resist revived in-forgotten objects, materials and processes. After previous teaching assignments and workshops in Iceland, Germany, USA and Lichtenstein I cared for this year a student cooperation between the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design in Copenhagen and the legendary German porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal GmbH "
Michael Grzesiak (Leipzig) Saturday 18:00 & Sunday 12:00
Michael Grzesiak designs rooms, furniture, objects, lights and temporary structures. Since 2003 he collaborates with urbikon.com on projects for urban space. In the meantime he directs for six years, the Galerie b2 in Leipzig and spends time with art and construction projects. Since 2012 he designs interiors and furniture under the label "The Zimmer”, projects such as his highly rewarded project “Bar Butcher” in Leipzig. Grzesiak draws its ideas from the context of the task, or the place of the material. His design projects play with the connotations of used and reused objects.