Events & Installations

INSTALLATION PROJECT

The Shelter of Love

May 15, 2019 – January 7, 2020
Cooperation: Letters Are My Friends, Stilwerk Hamburg / Berlin / Düsseldorf (DE)

For the Christmas Installation, we created a new conception of a traditional nativity play as a cross-media space incarnation. At the same time, the Shelter of Love-Project gave the design mall a new, thoroughly controversial face. Christmas ideas as defined in Christianity were suddenly redesigned and redefined. Colours were taken seriously in their meaning and gave a pre-Christmas space suddenly pink and light green colour.

Under the direction of Prof. Nina Juric and Gerd Mies, 12 students from KISD, were to define the roles and design concepts in the stylistic framework of the campaign. In the end, six accessible rooms were to be created from proposed materials, so that they harmonized in style and meaning. Aluminum profiles, blinds and foam were used to create themes that occupy and describe our society.

Photographic documentation: Stilwerk & Corinne Holthuizen-Habermann

EVENT PROJECT

Coevolution

01. February 2022 – 07. July 2022
Cooperation: Verein proArte (HSG)

05. November 2022
Night of Museum, Cologne (DE)

The self-initiated project entitled: “Coevolution / KISD (Köln International School of Design) meets ProArte (Hochschule St. Gallen)” was a cooperative project with students from the ProArte Club. Together we created a collaborative exhibition event. Through a walk-in artwork, we developed together an installation to stimulate reflection, experience and exchange between design students, business students and art interested people.

On 05 November 2022, our installation was exhibited as part of the “(UN)NATURE” exhibition at KISD and was therefore part of the Museum Night Cologne 2022. Size and arrangement were adjusted and so was the video installation.

Project Instigator, Manager and Marketer: Monique Holthuizen
Project Manager, Marketer and Graphic Designer: Lea Gründler
Creative Director: Mariam Mikadze
Photographer, Videographer and Documentarist: Oona o’ Brian
Sound Designer: Max Scholpp
Production Assistance: Franka Blum, Nina Rebhan
Production Assistance and Graphic Design Assistant: Karolina Aysha Heuer
Graphic Design and Production Assistance: Serin Gatzweiler

EVENT PROJECT

Reflective Echoes

March 1, 2024 – May 4, 2025
Cooperation: UN-DRESS
Zurich (CH)

“Reflective Echoes” was a spatial installation developed as part of the Master Interdisciplinary Project (MIP) at KISD. The project was conceived for
UN-DRESS, one of Europe’s largest sustainable fashion events, organised by students from the University of St. Gallen. Traditionally held in St. Gallen, the event took place in Zürich for the first time this year, offering a new scale and visibility for interdisciplinary formats that critically engage with fashion culture.

Project Instigator, Manager and Marketer: Monique Holthuizen
Creative Director: Mariam Mikadze
Video Designer: Martha Herfort
Production Assistance: Pavla Geschwandtner