CONTEXT by Staab Architekten

For the 20th anniversary of the Neues Museum Nuremberg, Volker Staab's first work, the museum presented an exhibition by Staab Architekten in the six façade rooms. Through planned and built projects, it became clear how profound the influence of context is on the work of Staab Architekten and how broadly our office interprets the term "context."
During the five-month exhibition, the museum's façade spaces were put in scene in an uanusual way. Transparent image planes changed the effect of the formative visual axes and visual references in the building, transforming the open spatial areas into light-filled berths. This intervention not only made clear the museum's relationship to the square in front of it but also played with the building's basic idea of allowing the cut-open museum spaces to become visible behind the glass façade.

04.07.2020–10.01.2021
Neues Museum
Klarissenplatz, 90402 Nuremberg

Exhibition KONTEXT

, Neues Museum Nuremberg

CONTEXT by Staab Architekten

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Zusammenspiel. Art in sacral spaces Exhibition

Zusammenspiel. Art in sacral spaces

The exhibition "Art in Sacred Spaces" includes works of construction and conversion, paintings and artistic interventions, altars, principals, and stained glass windows created for the Protestant and Catholic churches after the year 2000. Also on display is our project Conversion of the Liebfrauenkirche in Dortmund into a burial church.
The traveling exhibition, initiated by the German Society for Christian Art and the Association Exhibition House for Christian Art, will be shown in eight further locations until January 2021.

23.11.2018–09.02.2019
Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst, München

Columbarium Dortmund

Zusammenspiel. Art in sacral spaces

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, Schnell & Steiner

Zusammenspiel. Kunst im sakralen Raum Book

, Schnell & Steiner

Zusammenspiel. Kunst im sakralen Raum

Schnell & Steiner Verlag, 2018
Published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst DG; Verein Ausstellungshaus für christliche Kunst
ISBN 97837954337656 (DE)

Columbarium Dortmund

, Schnell & Steiner

Zusammenspiel. Kunst im sakralen Raum

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Churches and their future Exhibition

Churches and their future

On the occasion of the Luther Festival, the Wüstenrot Foundation is exhibiting a selection of projects dealing with the reuse of church buildings that are no longer in use in Wittenberg.
The conversion of the Liebfrauenkirche in Dortmund into a burial church, completed by our office in 2011, is also on display.

26.05.–05.09.2017
Exerzierhalle, Wittenberg

Columbarium Dortmund

Churches and their future

, Columbarium in the Church of Our Lady, Dortmund

Exemplary Buildings in Nordrhein-Westfalen Award

, Columbarium in the Church of Our Lady, Dortmund

Exemplary Buildings in Nordrhein-Westfalen

The conversion of the Church of Our Lady in Dortmund into a columbarium received an award in 2015 for exemplary buildings in Nordrhein-Westfalen, which is presented every five years by the local chamber of architects. The transformation of the church into a columbarium preserves the atmosphere and defining features of the church interior with a bronze floor relief of urn burials while creating a new form for an urn cemetery.

Columbarium Dortmund

, Columbarium in the Church of Our Lady, Dortmund