Hans-Günter Merz

HG Merz (* 1947 in Tailfingen , bourgeois Hans Günter Merz ) is a German architect and heads the office of hg merz architekten museumsgestalter , based in Stuttgart and Berlin .

Life

HG Merz completed his architecture studies at the University of Stuttgart and graduated in 1975 with distinction. After a position as a research assistant in the research project "Building with Waste" at the University of Kassel , he received a DAAD scholarship for field studies on experimental building in the USA. In 1981 he founded the hg merz architects museumsgestalter office in Stuttgart, which was followed by a Berlin office in 1993. In addition to the renovation, repair and addition of listed and sensitive buildings in particular , exhibition and museum designs are among the primary areas of activity of the office.

In 1993 Merz received the professorship for exhibition design in the visual communication course at Pforzheim University . In 2008, HG Merz was appointed to the professorship for design and experimental design at the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the TU Darmstadt . "With his designs and buildings he enlivens the genius loci and creates auratic places of education, art and culture," said Werner Durth in the laudation.

From 2013 to 2017 Hans-Günter Merz was Chairman of the University Council of the Bauhaus University Weimar . In May 2018 Merz was elected as a new member of the architecture section of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

His work was exhibited in the Architektur Galerie Berlin in 2019 under the title Wild Thinking .

Awards (selection)

• 2003 German Architecture Prize , distinction
• 2006 German Critics' Prize
• 2006 Balthasar Neumann Prize
• 2006 German steel construction award
• 2007 German Architecture Prize
• 2011 German Design Award of the German Design Council , silver
• 2011 red dot communication design award
• 2012 Mies van der Rohe Award , nomination
• 2013 Focus Open Gold
• 2013 red dot communication design award

Projects (selection)

• Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (1993–1996)
• Reconstruction and renovation of the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin (1993–2001)
• Sachsenhausen Memorial : "Station Z", Oranienburg (1998–2005)
• Silesian Museum in Görlitz (1999-2006)
• Exhibition concept Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart (1999–2006)
• Jewelery Museum Reuchlinhaus Pforzheim (2002-2006)
• European School of Management and Technology , conversion of the former GDR State Council building, Berlin (2003–2006)
• Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr Dresden (2003-2010)
• Reconstruction and renovation of the State Library Unter den Linden Berlin (2000– approx. 2015)
• Exhibition concept and design Porsche Museum Stuttgart (2005–2008)
• Reconstruction and renovation of the Stasi Memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen , Berlin (2008–2012)
• Extension and basic renovation of the State Opera Unter den Linden , Berlin (2009–2015)
• New permanent exhibition of the Ruhr Museum in the Zollverein World Heritage Site , Essen (2005–2010)
• Curation, exhibition concept and design of the Tirol Panorama Innsbruck (2007–2011)
• Exhibition concept and design of the Kunstkammer of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (2010-2013)
• Richard Wagner Museum Bayreuth (2011-2015)
• Swarovski Kristallwelten , exhibition concept and design for company history and archaeological site (2013–2015)
• Rilke and Russia, traveling exhibition for the German Literature Archive Marbach (2016–2018)

literature

• HG Merz: More aura, less staging. In: Bauwelt , No. 16-17 / 2005
• HG Merz: Lost in Decoration. In: Dingwelten - The museum as a place of knowledge. Writings of the German Hygiene Museum Dresden, Volume 4. Ed .: Anke Te Heesen, Petra Lutz. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005
• Philipp Meuser: Schlossplatz Eins: European School of Management and Technology • Schlossplatz One: European School of Management and Technology , DOM Publishers, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938666-03-X
• David Dernie: Exhibition Design - Concepts and Techniques. Ludwigsburg: avedition, 2006
• Suzanne Greub, Thierry Greub (Hrsg.): Museums in the 21st Century: Ideas Projects Buildings. Munich: Prestel, 2006
• UN Studio, HG Merz: Buy me a Mercedes-Benz. Barcelona: Actar, 2006
• HG Merz / Patrick Wais (2008): Conceiving and designing exhibitions. In: N. Herbrand (Hrsg.): Scenes of three-dimensional brand staging - innovative strategies and success models of experience-oriented encounter communication. Stuttgart 2008, pp. 235-260
• HG Merz / Patrick Wais (2009): Show and let show. In: C. Schittich (Ed.): In detail. Exhibiting and presenting. Museum concepts, brand staging, trade fair design. Basel 2009, pp. 60–69
• HG Merz / Pablo v. Frankenberg (2016): Space, thing, viewer. The context of the museum space. In: Oliver Scheytt / Simone Raskob / Gabriele Willems (eds.): Die Kulturimmobilie. Plan - build - operate. Examples and concepts for success. Bielefeld 2016 (in press).
• HG Merz / Pablo v. Frankenberg (2020): The ship in the city. Layers of meaning of a young monument. In: Wüstenrot Foundation / Philip Kurz (HG.): Ludwig Leo. Umlauftank 2. Leipzig 2020, pp. 110–151.

Web links

• hgmerz.com
• merzmerz.plus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tu-darmstadt.de
2. ↑ www.uni-weimar.de ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Academy of Künste14 welcomed new members. , Deutschlandfunk from July 10, 2018, accessed on July 10, 2018.
4. ↑ [1] , Review of the retrospective in the Bauwelt_ (magazine)
5. ↑ Kristallwelten.swarovski.com