Tulga Beyerle, Director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, once gave us a piece of advice, the context of which we've long since forgotten, but not the content "only work with people you like" Much as we have tried to follow Tulga's sage advice, such are the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune under which we suffer, we haven't; unlike, we presume, Tulga who has now gone one step further and transformed the premise into the exhibition Friends + Design. Friends + Design at the
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Since January 2014 Vienna born designer, curator and author Tulga Beyerle has been Director of the Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts - the Kunstgewerbemuseum. Representing a radical shift in policy by the authorities in Dresden, Tulga Beyerle's appointment promises to transform a previously sleepy, conservative, museum into a new centre for contemporary design in Central Europe. The exhibition programme for 2014 is certainly a confident step in that direction, beginning as it has with
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Introducing Tulga Beyerle as the new Director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden, Hartwig Fischer, General Director of the executive Dresden State Art Collections, confidently predicts that with Tulga Beyerle they have "...someone who can help bring the museum into the 21st century." We're not 100% certain if the good folk of Dresden are aware of the force with which they and their, until now, somewhat sleepy applied arts and crafts museum are about to be catapulted into the 21st century......
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Mayday! Mayday! Don't panic. It's just a public holiday. You'll survive. Barbecue something...... And afterwards, when everyone else is back at work and things have calmed down a little, why not enjoy one or more of the following design and architecture exhibitions opening around Europe this coming May. "Fritz Haller. Architekt und Forscher" at the S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Basel, Switzerland Everyone knows Fritz Haller. He designed one of the few truly iconic and genuinely
read moreOn Thursday December 12th Vienna Design Week co-founder Tulga Beyerle was officially presented as the new director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden. A decision that excites us as much as it surprises us. Not least because until now the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden has never struck us an institution with any ambitions above securing its own existence. For example, we can't remember any special exhibitions being organised there or to be honest any form of event that sought to actively use the
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