Leon Klaßen — Function and Design

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The »Kiosk of Solidarity« is an urban practice format that intervenes in the contested social fields of work, health, and housing in Berlin. Since June 2023, over 25 solidarity-based Berlin initiatives and projects have used the kiosk for a few days at different locations in Berlin. For its interventions, the Kiosk works with documentary photographs and a strong and impulsive poster-graphic language that is constantly evolving and being adapted by the initiatives and projects. The website archives these interventions on a visual and content level. I transferred the existing visual identity into a web logic and implemented the website for the Kiosk of Solidarity.
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»detours« is a performative art series that uses mental detours to make existing knowledge experienceable from a different perspective. The travel companion is a collaboration between Guerilla Architects, Berit Fischer and Leon Klaßen. For detours 003 »supergaudi« we ask ourselves: Is everything still okay here, between Mittersill and the famous Krimml Waterfalls? What does Pinzgau have to do with Berlin and New York? Snow cannons or lake balconies? Third homes or Aperol Spritz? Hop on board and join us on a »supergaudi« that never wants to end. Laugh with us. Mourn with us. Raise a glass of Enzian schnapps with us. A lot can still happen. In the end, we're all sitting on the same bus. As part of the art festival Supergau für zeitgenössische Künste (Pinzgau, Salzburg, AT), sponsored by Land Salzburg. Photos by Henry Schulz.
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A gentle breeze blows through the website of »Camille O«, with the menu items swaying gently back and forth, suspended from an invisible mobile structure. I designed and implemented the website and its movement behavior, while the drawings are by Camille O and are continuously updated.
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»dhl-architekten« is an architectural firm specializing in the preservation of buildings: preservation instead of new construction—renovation and repurposing instead of demolition. The website presents the company and selected projects. The design is minimalist, making room for Carsten Krohn's large-format four-by-three photographs. I developed a new visual identity for dhl-architekten and implemented the website.
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»detours« is a performative art series that uses mental detours to make existing knowledge experienceable from a different perspective. The travel companion is a collaboration between Guerilla Architects, Berit Fischer and Leon Klaßen. The website builds on the existing print graphics and adds interactive elements. Announcements, the archive and photos of the performances alternate with questions and lines. Bicycle or flip flops? Snow cannon or sea balconies? Neon green or black?
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The city is never really quiet. It hums, squeaks, crunches, hums and speaks. The »Soundsauger« mixes these noises with artificial sounds to create an urban piece of music. The installation was created as a collaboration between Lorenzo Damonte, Lisa van Heyden, Leon Klaßen, Kim Kuhl and Masahiko Saji as part of the 48 Stunden Neukölln 2024 art festival.
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AOA;87 is a contemporary art gallery located in Bamberg and Berlin. The current program and the gallery's artists are the focus and are supported by strong images, accompanied by the exhibition archive and publications. I implemented the site for BOROS.
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»Cache Me If You Can« is an interactive discovery journey along Braunschweiger Straße in Berlin Neukölln. A chat bot automatically guides visitors through the 13 stations to the cache. I developed the project in collaboration with the artist collective Guerilla Architects, technically implemented the chat bot and designed the graphics. »Look high, look low, look around« (Geocaching basic rule). Photos by Phil Dera.
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The »Revolutionary Residents' Council« is a neighborhood initiative on Mehringplatz in Berlin Kreuzberg. A member's speech starts on the cover and runs through the entire booklet, accompanied by full-page photographs (Phil Dera) and drawings (Yorgos Konstantinou). The reversible booklet is set up in four languages, German/English and Turkish/Arabic. I developed the graphics and realized the publication for RAR and Guerilla Architects. Produced as a four-color offset print.
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»Shahrzad Rahmani« is a stage and costume designer and scenographer. The website presents new and past projects, connected by the line and embedded in a bright neon red. I developed the design and implemented the site.
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»Pre Alpha Courtyardgames (raindrops on your cheek)« by artist Florian Meisenberg is an online archive of sculptures that visitors have created from transformed mesh bodies and falling textures using VR goggles. The planet is interactive, but continuously follows a rotation. Sculptures can be filtered and downloaded. Jan Ahrens realized the VR installation within the exhibition, I developed and implemented the website together with Florian Meisenberg.
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The website of the artist »Florian Slotawa« is an interactive family tree of all previous works, sorted by year and divided into different groups, branches and strands. The family tree can be explored in the big overview or in detail. Ingo Maak designed the website, I implemented the site.
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»IS THIS STILL BERLIN« is as a master thesis by Antonia Leicht a photographic and observational all-around exploration of the border between Berlin and Brandenburg. During her walks she collected audio snippets, which were assembled by Idunn Iuvenilis into a six-minute loop. The website always plays this loop synchronously. The website always plays this loop synchronously, along with all other devices in the same room.
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»Trans:action Lungau« is a spatial, situational and mobile installation on and between the market places of the village region in Lungau, AT. Created as a project by the collective Karawane Freiraum (Dominik Berton, Yann Colonna, Maire Cordts, Jascha Jansen, Sina Jansen, Leon Klaßen, Laura Koch, Andries de Lange, Selina Schlez, Lukas Wichmann) in the summer of 2023 as part of the Supergau for Contemporary Arts art festival. I was involved in the development of the project, collaboratively designed and produced the textile sheet and developed the graphics for overprints and postcards. Printed as Riso print at drucken3000.
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For »Azimut Tempelhof« by Raul Walch I developed a kite form with Lisa van Heyden. The kite consists of 16 semi-transparent fabric surfaces, tensioned with carbon and fiberglass rods.
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A tube-like band turns streets, squares and city objects into an urban mini-golf course. »Maxi-Golf« challenges the multicoding of urban space and declares the everyday environment as a playing field. The installation was created as a collaboration between Maire Cordts, Lisa van Heyden and Leon Klaßen as part of the 48 Stunden Neukölln 2023 art festival and consists of a 40-meter-long tube, an illuminated target, clubs and wearable obstacle shoes.
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»detours« is a performative art series that uses mental detours to make existing knowledge experienceable from a different perspective. The travel companion is a collaboration between Guerilla Architects, Berit Fischer and Leon Klaßen. detours 002 »make kins not owners« is a plea against the property-obsessed sellout of the city and for more kinship, more connection with the vibrant world of city dwellers. I co-developed the project and designed and implemented the graphics for an accompanying safety and game card, a sleeping mask, a barf bag, shirts and bags. Silvia Gioberti developed the logo. Supported by the Urbane Praxis e.V.
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With »Spotted« Guerilla Architects present selected objects from the street space collection for owned by others in November 2021. I developed the project in collaboration with the artist collective and realized the graphics for the flyer and the object signage. The project is part of the initiative DRAUSSENSTADT, funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa and Stiftung für Kulturelle Weiterbildung und Kulturberatung.
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»Feld-Raum« is an urban on-site research station. The topics come from the field. The space as a building structure enables interdisciplinary research and making. Away from the desk, researchers meet local experts from civil and urban society. The project was developed as a master's thesis in collaboration between Max Pfeffer and Leon Klaßen in the summer of 2022 at the Natural Building Lab of the TU Berlin. We developed the concept of a spatial, temporary structure in sustainable construction, a pop-up research satellite, a book and an accompanying podcast.
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The poster was created as part of the »Master Class Summer 22« at the Natural Building Lab of the TU Berlin. Maire Cordts interweaved all the projects developed within the graduating class into one illustration. I developed the graphic. Printed as a fluorescent A2 Riso print at drucken3000. Photo by Sina Jansen.
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»Milena Høgsberg« is a curator, institutional leader and writer based in Copenhagen, DK. Her website brings together current and past projects and exhibitions as an archive. The focus is on the visual level. I developed the design and implemented the site.
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The »Spreepanorama« by the artist collective Guerilla Architects gazes across the Spree River in Berlin Kreuzberg at the new peaks of speculation. A long strip of high-priced real estate is displayed, fused into an unreal and artificial architectural rendering. For each building, the sales history is broken down, partly including the sums paid. I researched the backgrounds of the buildings, photographed and assembled the panorama, and developed the graphics. The panorama was installed in public space from November 2021 to March 2022. Supported by DRAUSSENSTADT.
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»Scharaun« is an interdisciplinary project space for art and architecture in Berlin-Siemensstadt. Exhibitions are archived, participating artists are linked and the converted apartment in the housing complex designed by Hans Scharoun is extended into the internet. Together with Jaro Straub and Tim Tetzner I developed the design and implemented the site.
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»onehundredfortythousandonehundredsixtyhourslater« is an interactive online installation. Paintings by the artist Florian Meisenberg are placed on the surface and continuously edited and blended with archived interactions from the past. The viewer can add an edit himself, which is then also saved for the next visitors. I developed and implemented the site together with Florian Meisenberg.
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»Virtual Sculptures« is an online collection of digital sculptures that anyone can download and use. The first project is Ditte Ejlerskov's sculpture »The Wrestlers«. The site makes it possible to experience the sculpture in three dimensions and tells the background and creation in five chapters. I developed the visual identity and design and implemented the site for the Museet for Samtidskunst in Roskilde, DK.
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»Andrea van Reimersdahl« is a painter specializing in textile and print. The artist's website exhibits new projects and archives the last twenty years. In doing so, the site takes a step back and focuses on the visual elements. I developed the design and implemented the site.
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»stapelstapel.org« is a non-hierarchical archive of student projects from the context of the HfbK Dresden. How do archives function in times of digitalization? How is archiving done? What is archived? Who archives? What is not archived? Does art need archiving? How can art be archived? Who has access to the archive? Do we want to archive? I developed the design together with the students and implemented the installation in the browser.
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»Natural Building Lab« is a transdisciplinary department of architecture at the TU Berlin and works on the topic of the post-fossil society. The site connects its own projects with the wider network of circles and individuals and focuses on student work. Together with the NBL and based on the existing visual identity by Dan Cottrell, I developed the design and implemented the site.
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»die dame« originated as a feminist magazine in the 1920s. Reissued in 2017, the magazine now appears in a contemporary form. The starting point is the floating, most recent issue. From there, it goes to clippings, the historical covers, and current contributors. Maximilian Riedel designed the layout, I developed and implemented the site together with Maximilian Riedel and BOROS.
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»Videoart at Midnight Festival ’18« celebrated Ten Years of Videoart at Midnight in the fall of 2018. The festival's website provides an overview of the cinema program and artists, symposium and exhibitions. The starting point is the billowing bubble spotlight area that floats and adjusts on top of each other. All details and program points are directly accessible in context. I developed the design and implemented the site.
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As a platform for video art, the website of »videokunst.ch« creates its visual appearance solely through the videos of the artists. In each section of the site, randomly selected videos from the archive of the last 20 years merge the physical showroom in Bern, CH with the virtual global showroom on the internet. I redeveloped the visual identity and shifted the focus for the website and visual print material from postcards to stickers to the artistic content.
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»Charlotte Hansel« is a photographer and artist. Follow the click —the website creates a layout from her photographs by means of chance, which temporarily and situationally results in a new, own image. The viewers can intervene in the layout and freely move photographs. Together with Charlotte Hansel I developed the design and implemented the site.
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»DISTANZ« is an international art book publisher led by Matthias Kliefoth and Christian Boros and publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture, design and fashion. A clear, minimalist design language brings the books to the forefront and creates a smooth shopping experience. Maximilian Riedel laid the foundation of the design, I developed the site together with DISTANZ and Maximilian Riedel and implemented the store system behind it.
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»Sechs Hütten« (Six Huts) is a hiking trail from Berlin/DE to Gorzów Wielkopolski/PL. The project wants to show the urban-rural discourse as a progression — a cut through the landscape over 177 kilometers. Six huts specifically designed for their surroundings are the night's lodging. The hiking map and the stage book accompany the route. The bachelor thesis was developed together with Jonathan Peters at the Natural Building Lab of the TU Berlin.
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»100 untitled works in mill aluminum« by Anna K.E. and Florian Meisenberg combines Donald Judd with Atari video games. One hundred aluminum cuboid sculptures are placed in a virtual space. The camera flies through the rows, immersing itself in tech podcast excerpts. I worked with the artists on the concept and implemented the installation in the browser.
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For BOMB Magazine, Peter Rostovsky interviewed Florian Meisenberg via chat and email. »Florian Meisenberg by Peter Rostovsky« blends content, aesthetics and real exhibition situations. Florian Meisenberg conceived and developed the 3D model together with Russell Kirk, I implemented the model in the browser and added content and interaction together with the artist.
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The website of »Florian Meisenberg« finds its own content and talks about it. »Flobot« collects images, text snippets and links about the artist in the background and adds them to a digital, constantly growing and automated archive. This creates an installation that combines elements from the Internet, the artist's own screenshots, and the viewer's input. Abstract settings and direct interaction can be used to influence the live composition. I developed and implemented the site and the bot together with Florian Meisenberg.
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