documenta Kunst und Politik

Markus Weisbeck

The “d” is documenta’s distinctive mark and the defining element of the communication media for the Deutsches Historisches Museum In Berlin exhibition documenta. Politics and Art. The geometrically constructed letter takes up the history of graphic images — from the first documenta in 1955 to documenta X in 1997.

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    Markus Weisbeck, Germany (2011)

    Markus Weisbeck is a designer and professor of graphic design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and since 2017 at the Paju Typography Institute in Korea. He is a member...

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    The “d” is documenta’s distinctive mark and the defining element of the communication media for the Deutsches Historisches Museum In Berlin exhibition documenta. Politics and Art. The geometrically constructed letter takes up the history of graphic images — from the first documenta in 1955 to documenta X in 1997.

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    Markus Weisbeck, Germany (2011)

    Markus Weisbeck is a designer and professor of graphic design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and since 2017 at the Paju Typography Institute in Korea. He is a member of the "Alliance Graphique Internationale". In 2013 he founded the "Space for Visual Research" as a workshop and laboratory for experimental research on new graphic and abstract imagery with workshops in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Bolivia, Ecuador and Iran. Weisbeck's artistic works are represented by Kai Middendorff Gallery.
    Studio Markus Weisbeck's projects include work for Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt, Luma Arles, The Forsythe Company, Zumtobel, Städelschule Architecture Class, Fogo Island Art, Federal Ministry of Finance, Arte, Deutsche Bank, documenta12, Venice Biennale (German Pavilion), Manifesta7, German Design Council, Sternberg Press and the German Historical Museum.

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    Space for Visual Research

    (2015)

    • Markus Weisbeck,
    • Michael Schmidt,
    • Matthias Ott

    Spector Books

    Space for Visual Research 2

    (2017)

    • Markus Weisbeck,
    • Anna Sinofzik,
    • Adrian Palko

    Spector Books

    The Space for Visual Research was established at the Bauhaus University in Weimar in 2013 as a workshop and laboratory for experimental research into new graphic, abstract, and visual worlds. The Space’s mission is to support the exploratory urge for new aesthetics, in particular by empowering design students to create their own individual imagery.

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      2011 – present