Contemporary Displays and Applied Arts of the Brücke Movement
Talk in English

With the designers and artists Andrea Faraguna (tbc), Kasia Fudakowski, Santiago da Silva, Jerszy Seymour, Vittorio Visciano with the curator Lisa Marei Schmidt, moderation: Valentina Bay (project manager, Brücke Museum)

Art and applied arts – the Brücke artists themselves worked at the intersection of art and design. It was therefore fitting that curator Lisa Marei Schmidt invited both artists and designers to be involved the exhibition design. The exhibition approaches the craftsmanship of the Brücke using three materials: wood, metal and textiles. Individual rooms are dedicated to each material, with each room visually distinct from the others. The minimalist display cases designed by architect Andrea Faragunas in cooperation with the artist Vittorio Visciano for the metal objects are followed by an evocative room installation by designer Jerszy Seymour for the works made of wood. Textile works, meanwhile, are presented freely in the space within an expansive screen structure created by artist Kasia Fudakowski and graphic designer Santiago da Silva.

In this talk, all those involved will discuss their initial ideas through to their implementation.

The museum is open until 8 p.m.

Jerszy Seymour
Jerszy Seymour is an artist, designer and co-founder of the Dirty Art Department, a radical master’s programme in art and design at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. His works combine practical and symbolic interventions with post-utopian humour and develop decentralised models for new ways of thinking and living. Seymour’s works have been exhibited internationally and are represented at venues including the Centre Pompidou, the Vitra Design Museum and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. He teaches internationally, including at the Royal College of Art, the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and the Domus Academy.

Kasia Fudakowski
Kasia Fudakowski is a visual artist. She studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford. In her diverse and playful practice, she uses sculpture, performance, text and film to explore social enigmas through material encounters, surreal logic and comic theory. Much of her work artistically explores real and imagined boundaries, examining how adaptability can be both a means of survival and the cause of our current predicaments.  Kasia Fudakowski has won the Mitzi Cunliffe Prize for Sculpture, amongst other awards, and was a resident at Villa Romana in Florence.

Santiago da Silva
Santiago da Silva is a designer, curator and author. He creates publication designs, communication systems and exhibition displays for contemporary art and cultural institutions. Through his studio, Santiago da Silva, he is known for a design approach rooted in cultural competence, shaping formats into accessible artistic spaces. He is co-founder of Object Notes, a long-term research platform on craftsmanship and labour in art and design.

Vittorio Visciano
Vittorio Visciano is an artist and independent researcher based in Berlin. He studied art history and photography. His practice investigates memory and narrative through hand-crafted objects, animation, and archival reconstructions, exploring the relationship between reality and fabrication. His work is part of the State Collection of Cyprus.

Andrea Faraguna
Andrea Faraguna is an architect working in the fields of adaptive reuse, scenography and environmental design. He obtained his PhD from the IUAV University of Venice and has taught in Mendrisio and Vienna. His projects explore architecture as a narrative and ecological framework that mediates between material cycles, human behaviour and climate. In 2025, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale for curating and designing the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Valentina Bay is an art historian and assistant curator at the Brücke-Museum in Berlin.

Lisa Marei Schmidt is a curator and since 2017 has been director of the Brücke-Museum in Berlin.

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