Hagen Drasdo

Hagen Drasdo (* 1952 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German artist, communication designer, museum planner and exhibition designer.

Life

Hagen Drasdo studied design at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and art history in Cologne . In 1980 he founded his first studio, the "Institute for Applied and Applied Art" in Düsseldorf . In addition to his work as a graphic artist, he does freelance artistic work, large photos, group and solo exhibitions. After a fire in the warehouse, he completely renounced exhibitions in 1994. The ashes came in lead cartridges and were buried: the end of the song.

This is followed by poster campaigns on large areas under the motto “Thoughts” together with the artist Manfred Spies . From 1983 to 1985 he developed and realized "Kunstmobil" in collaboration with the artist HP Alvermann : a new mobile art mediation .

From 1985 draft planning, realizations, corporate identities for industrial companies and the constant further development of visitor-oriented communication followed. For the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (today's K20) he is developing a series of exhibitions and publications under the motto “Seeing Pictures - Another Approach to Art”.

1990 followed by the establishment of his second office: The design office Drasdo Düsseldorf. The main focus of work is the design of exhibitions and complex corporate identity programs for institutions in the field of culture: museums, ministries and foundations. To this day, Hagen Drasdo pursues seminars in the field of qualification for employees of institutions: Professional communication in museums, lectures, workshops and seminars, seminars in institutions of the health care and culture on the topic: Design as a strategic instrument.

Mediation

For over 25 years, Hagen Drasdo has specialized in conveying difficult content. "Art mobile" represents the first phase. The visitors to this mobile exhibition unit should have the opportunity to get a museum mediation at any place and place. “Art mobile” consists of an exhibition unit with trucks, containers, tents, music, catering, exhibition space and screen printing system, and exhibitions on art development in the 20th century are also shown. Germany-wide appearances follow.

Together with the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , educational exhibitions were created for which there were accompanying publications, including “ David Smith - Sculpture”, “Seeing Red!”, “The Inner View of Surrealist Art” and “ Picasso ”.

Building on his many years of experience as a museum planner and exhibition designer, the new edition of the worldwide traveling exhibition he had designed in 1986 followed in 2007: a commented reconstruction of the Düsseldorf exhibition of 1938, entitled "The Suspicious Saxophone" - Degenerate Music in the Nazi State, together with the musicologist Albrecht Dümling , the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Tonhalle Düsseldorf .

Since 1998 he has been in charge of the Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm, the aim of which is to convey complex content and structures to visitors using modern museum educational methods. As part of this work, the exhibition “Just standing around and being naked? Discover sculpture! ”. The exhibition encouraged playful discovery. It showed that the cliché “just stands around and is naked” is a far too one-dimensional view of the genre of sculpture . The exhibition takes a look at the development of sculpture in the 20th century, reveals the secret of the bronze casting and shows that today, mountains of candy by Félix González-Torres or the “One Minute Sculptures” by Erwin Wurm also belong to the sculpture. The strong communication work was also continued with the Wilhelm Busch exhibition, which had several thousand visitors after a few weeks.

In 2005, the Bavarian Museum Prize was awarded to the Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg , which Drasdo has been in charge of since it was founded in 2002. The Bavarian Museum Prize 2005 honored not only the presentation of the collection, but also the didactic communication and museum educational work in connection with the comparison of the two collections that the museum houses.

In 2013 he and his daughter Katharina Drasdo founded the studio "Drasdos - Form Follows Us" which specializes in social design, culture identities and web development.

Exhibition planning

• 2012 "Society Garden - Martin Weimar", Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
• 2010 “The White Archive - Jewish mathematicians in german-speaking academic culture”, Goethe University Frankfurt
• 2010 "Green Chamber - Nature Conservation Information Center Hofgut Guntershausen", Hessian Ministry for Environment, Energy, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
• 2009 “Under Power - Plastics and Electricity”, German Plastics Museum, Düsseldorf
• 2009 “The Hidden Monastery - City History in Düsseldorf”, Maxhaus, Düsseldorf
• 2009 "Struwwel Peter and Sleeping Beauty - Children's Books and Fairy Tales", Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
• 2008 “There is always a surprise where you didn't expect it” - Wilhelm Busch, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
• 2007 "The Suspicious Saxophone" - Degenerate Music in the Nazi State, with the participation of the Berlin Philharmonic and Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, worldwide traveling exhibition
• 2007 “Just standing around and being naked? Discover sculpture! ”, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
• 2007 "Art Nouveau - A Life in Beauty", Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
• 2000 “The Great Inspiration” - German artists in the Académie Matisse, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
• 1998 “Fascination with Plastics”, Plastics Museum Association, Ehrenhof , Düsseldorf
• 1985–1990 “Seeing Pictures - Another Approach to Art”, educational exhibition series with the Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf

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  Exhibition island of the traveling exhibition "The Suspicious Saxophone" - Degenerate Music in the Nazi State

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  Insight into the exhibition "Art Nouveau: A Life in Beauty"

Exhibitions

• 1983–1985 "Kunstmobil", Institute for Applied and Applied Art, mobile exhibition unit, appearances throughout Germany

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  Exhibition insight

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  Exhibition board for "Pop Art"

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  Model of the exhibition unit

Competition wins and awards

• Awarded the if GOLD award communication design 2008
• Multiple awards in the competition The 100 best posters of the year , 2007, 2005
• Winner “Three Museums - One Region”, communication concept for 3 museums
• Winner concept Schloss Dyck, Horticultural Museum
• 1st prize poster triennial food

Works

• »Hagen Drasdo Design Statements«, Düsseldorf 2004
• "Transmedial", Düsseldorf 2002
• "Portfolio 52", Düsseldorf 2001
• "700 + 6", together with L. Possehl, M. Schweinhorst, J. Wagner, U. Wiegand-Laster, M. Winter, Düsseldorf 1988
• "Attention Museum", Düsseldorf 1980

swell

• Exhibition "Life in the Factory"
• Thoughts
• Winner entry 100 best posters 07
• Hagen Drasdo Design Statements, Düsseldorf 2004
• Portfolio 52, Düsseldorf 2001
• Attention Museum, Düsseldorf 1980

Web links

• Drasdos - Form Follows Us

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Denkanschlag" was an action that caused a stir throughout Germany. It was reported in the relevant daily newspapers.
2. ↑ In total there was a series of ten exhibitions: "David Smith Sculpture", "Seeing Red!", "The Inside-Surrealist Art", "Collage", "Picasso", "Material and Idea", "Matisse" , "Abstraction", "Object", "Aratjara Art of the Aborigines", curated by Julia Breithaupt, Head of Education and Communication, Art Collection NRW
3. ↑ The Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg unites two collections under one roof: The Peter C. Ruppert Collection, which focuses on concrete art , and the Municipal Collection, which focuses on works by artists from the Main Franconian area, such as works by the sculptor Emy Roeder
4. ↑ “There is always a surprise where you didn't expect it” - Wilhelm Busch, Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm. Curated by Dr. Helga Gutbrod.
5. ↑ "The Suspicious Saxophone" - Degenerate Music in the Nazi State, with the participation of the Berlin Philharmonic and Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, worldwide traveling exhibition. Curated by Dr. Albrecht Dümling. Catalog published in 2007.
6. ↑ "Fascination Plastics", Plastics Museum Association, Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf. German Plastic Museum, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-929518-02-3
7. ↑ "Seeing Pictures - Another Approach to Art", educational exhibition series with the NRW Art Collection, Düsseldorf. Curated by Julia Breithaupt
8. ↑ "Art Mobil", Institute of arrival and Rear facing art mobile exhibition unit, Germany-wide performances. In collaboration with the artist HP Alvermann
9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2010 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.  
10. ↑ The book for the competition: “100 Beste Plakate 2007”, 100 Beste Plakate eV, Hermann Schmidt Mainz, Mainz 2008, ISBN 9783874397506
11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated July 2, 2008 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.  
12. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2008 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.