MAB14

Uwe R. Brückner. Photo by Amid Reshef

We’re proud to present Professor Uwe R. Brückner as a speaker at the MAB14 pre-event in Copenhagen.

Professor Brückner is the creative director of ATELIER BRÜCKNER. Nationally, as well as internationally, he is recognized as a leader in the field of exhibition design. Educated as an architect and stage designer, he is reckoned as a protagonist of scenography and ranked among the founding directors of the International Scenographer’s Biennial. Corresponding to the philosophy „form follows content“, he promotes the individual, content-generated design of spatial stagings.

Uwe R. Brückner teaches Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Basel and as a guest professor at Tongji University, Shanghai. He is a member of ICOM Germany, the Art Directors Club for Germany and the D&AD London.

With more than 100 international projects, 140 awards and around 70 employees from diverse disciplines and cultural backgrounds, ATELIER BRÜCKNER aims to create cognitively challenging and emotionally groundbreaking scenographies and innovative exhibitions for museums, theme or brand based architectures, experience and visitor centres and EXPO pavilions.

ATALIER BRÜCKNER designed a large scale media installation for a viking exhibition in 2013 at the Danish National Museum. Photo by Michael Jungblut

Among ATELIER BRÜCKNER´s international references are the highly awarded BMW Museum in Munich, the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam and the ethnological Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, which has been laureated with the European Museum Award 2012. Currently, the atalier is redesigning the permanent exhibition at Den Blå Planet, the Danish Aquarium, in Copenhagen. They’ve also designed the large scale media installation (1000sqm) for the successful VIKING exhibition 2013 at National Museet Denmark. Their work also include a highly media architecture oriented IT exhibits for the KACWC King Abdulaziz Center for world culture in Dhahran (architecture by Snøhetta), and a large scale kinetic sculpture at smac Saxonian Museum for Archaeology in Chemnitz.