Selection

what is the first image you remember?


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shimmers of light

a safe place
close, too close
and not close enough
bodies, clouds and spaces
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gentle and soft
emerge, disappear
emerge, disappear
shimmers of light | what is the first image you remember?
→ 2025→ exhibition→ printed matter
柔らかなものは、何かを守ることができると思う？
do you think something soft can protect something?
柔らかなものは、何かを守ることができると思う？| do you think something soft can protect something? | experimental practice with soh souen
→ 2024→ body→ performance→ softness→ textiles
柔らかなものは、何かを守ることができると思う？
do you think something soft can protect something?
柔らかなものは、何かを守ることができると思う？| do you think something soft can protect something? | exploration #1 – on resilience | with soh souen
→ 2024→ body→ softness→ textiles
absolute interiority. thoughts of space, mental space - dreams and spaces of desire. interior as a space of consciousness to imagination. a layered, blurry space. how do we think of the world outside of ourselves, the known and the unknown? how do we think, feel and imagine the world? subjectivity. a series of transitions, intermediate space. between inside and outside, identities. amalgamation. metamorphoses.
absolute interiority
→ 2024→ softness→ textiles
a series of experimental ceramic architectures based on personal fragmented memories of the architectural works of kazuo shinohara
thinking of kazuo
→ 2023→ architecture→ material→ model→ structure
on softness – 3 works
on softness | 3 works | graphic edition
→ 2023→ architecture→ book→ printed matter→ softness
詳細展示　ソフト スペース マシンでは、日本の空間概念における表面、皮膚、身体、動きの関係を和紙から作られた物理的そして、デジタル的な空間構造を通して観察します。ソフトスペースマシンとは、最も広い意味での(超)平面（スーパーフラット）の原則を指し、建築評論家の五十嵐太郎*によれば、これは平面の層を重ねることによって空間性を生み出し,文化的にこれは日本的な思考としても理解できます。着物もこの原則に従い、平面的な幾何学的な層状の平面から作られた 2.5 次元の衣服です。ソフトスペースマシンにて展示する作品は、平らで機械のようなスキンとして現れ、身体、動き、表面の感覚的な相互作用を通じて体験することにより立体化した、（ウェアラブル）アーキテクチャとして空間を再認識させます。

"soft space machines" experimentally explores the relationship between surface, skin, body and movement in Japanese conceptions of space. The spatial and materialized vocabulary of the work – physical and digital spatial structures and chimerical architectonic fragments in various dimensions made from Washi papers derive both from my fascination in soft and transient material and spatial qualities of architectural skins and their relation to body and movement
soft space machines – metamorphoses of (super)flatness | isometric drawings
→ 2023→ architecture→ softness
In the sixth variation of their duo series "The City in the Piano", the two Japanese artists, choreographer and dancer Yui Kawaguchi and composer and pianist Aki Takase invite Gabi Schillig to give shape to the accents of urban life with their architectural fragments. Expressive grand piano, dance-body rhythms and performative architectures lure us into a city full of unique accents and points. Accents that become active again after a period of silence.
Accento – Die Stadt im Klavier VI | silent green, Berlin | with Yui Kawaguchi & Aki Takase
→ 2022→ architecture→ performance
soft architectures | digital tapestries
→ 2022→ architecture→ digital→ drawing→ material→ textiles
In the sixth variation of their duo series "The City in the Piano", the two Japanese artists, choreographer and dancer Yui Kawaguchi and composer and pianist Aki Takase (Albert-Mangelsdorff-Preis 2021) invite designer Gabi Schillig to give shape to the accents of urban life with their architectural fragments. Expressive grand piano, dance-body rhythms and performative architectures lure us into a city full of unique accents and points. Accents that become active again after a period of silence.
Accento – Die Stadt im Klavier VI
→ 2022→ architecture→ dialog→ material→ performance→ sound
Bodies Without Organs* is a spatial landscape – neither an architectural extension nor a furniture. It is a new plateau for virtual and physical communication expanding the body to be a space, while referring to the concept of bwo by Deleuze & Guattari in which a body that is lacking its organs/hierarchical organization and that becomes a fluid and changeable system – a new plateau for exploration and communication.
bodies without organs* | Liebling Haus | Re_Public
→ 2021→ architecture→ installation→ urban space
The geometric surface of the felt becomes, in use, an unstable, capricious spatial figure. The reclaiming of public space, which has increasingly become a commercial mass of disposal.
soft architectures | galerie hell | Exhibition
→ 2021→ interaction→ textiles→ urban space
In the Class for Spatial and Exhibition Design at UdK Berlin, experimental artistic methodologies in the design of spaces of communication are developed and explored in various scales and contexts. Spatial structures are thus understood in their multidimensionality and materiality as specific systems of spatial communication. Our new website is now online, including informations about 'Raumklasse', students, teaching staff - and first and foremost a selection of all projects and exhibitions. Through our website we will also announce upcoming events, talks, workshops etc. on a frequent basis.
Spaces of Communication | Raumklasse UdK
→ 2019→ exhibition making→ spatial system→ urban space
Seven invited artists developed individual artistic concepts for the ‚Radeberger Brache‘, a rural and protected landscape in the south of the city of Cologne, Germany. The works were materialized through individual artistic investigations and realized through the medium of printed matter.

Goodall | Radeberger Brache Cologne
→ 2017→ digital→ landscape→ urban space
„Spaces of Communication“ ist eine Reaktion auf die Frage nach möglichen Gestaltungsformen räumlicher Kommunikation und darauf, wie diese erkundet werden können. Die in diesem Buch dokumentierte Auswahl studentischer Arbeiten am Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet „Gestaltungslehre – Räumlich-Plastische Gestaltung“ an der Peter Behrens School of Arts der Hochschule Düsseldorf steht für eine experimentelle und prozesshafte Auseinandersetzung mit dem Medium Raum. Die in Ausschnitten gezeigten Arbeiten aus den Jahren 2012 bis 2018 geben in ihrer Vielfalt einen Einblick in die Aktivitäten in der Lehre.
Spaces of Communication | Book
→ 2018→ book→ printed matter
A series of artistic experiments during an artist residency at Nida Art Colony in 2018 explored the notion of ‚nature‘ and landscape as a ‚museum‘. Through experimental displays, performative body objects and spatial installations my intention was to explore the landscape as a social and cultural construct. How can space, performative objects through form, materiality, color and geometry become mediators for experimental spatial communication?
realities, constructed
→ 2018→ dialog→ interaction→ landscape→ material
Students approached selected objects from the collection's holdings of the Düsseldorf municipal museum, using the principle of dialogue to formulate design statements in a variety of media. The dialogues were conducted in spatial, graphical, filmic, performative and objective modes. In order to make the various levels of meaning accessible, the resulting works were shown in juxtaposition with the originals and set in relation to the spatial context of the museum setting itself.
Gestalterische Dialoge | Publication
→ 2017→ book→ exhibition making→ printed matter
Gustavs Park in Essen is both invitation and fiction. The overgrown fallow land behind the Zeche Carl in Altenessen takes on a new identity, yet its new name harks back to another time.

Artists discover and reinvent the history of the industrial area, which has since been renaturated. They open up new perspectives and relationships for its local residents in their urban park through wary interventions and participatory sculptures in public space.
Gustavs Park | Zeche Carl Essen
→ 2016→ architecture→ landscape→ structure
The exhibition at the Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf presents the principles of the social city: tolerance, equality, charity and cooperativeness.
Soziale Stadt | Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
→ 2016→ exhibition making
Social Fabrics is part of an exhibition by 15 Swiss and Berlin artists, presenting criticism and utopias with regard to present-day Europe, which continues to negotiate its borders and identities as geographical, historical, political, economic, or cultural units.
Social Fabrics | Europe | U-Bahnhof Bundestag Berlin
→ 2016→ digital→ installation→ material→ urban space
Public Receptors proposes wearable spatial structures that are able to mediate between bodies and the built environment.
Public Receptors
→ 2009→ drawing→ film→ textiles→ urban space
'The work begins to suggest clues of another architecture. A responsive architecture, where her body-work and the conditions of its folds suggest a real, tectonic field.'
When The Folded Architecture Began To Live | A Comment by Sir Peter Cook
→ 2009→ architecture→ book→ text
Traces of Movement was a seminar at the Berlin University of the Arts. Students transformed physical movements in space both into digital and analog design models.
Traces of Movement
→ 2008→ material→ model→ structure
Raum(Zeit)Kleider focuses on performative and participatory strategies for spatial production.
Raum(Zeit)Kleider
→ 2008→ drawing→ film→ spatial system→ textiles
The publication Mediating Space summarizes the work of Gabi Schillig until 2009.
Mediating Space
→ 2009→ book→ printed matter→ textiles
The Architecture Forum Aedes, Berlin, in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut London, presented the exhibition project Public Receptors by Gabi Schillig on the occasion of the London Festival of Architecture 2010 at the Goethe-Institut London and subsequently in Berlin at the studio of Aedes am Pfefferberg.
Public Receptors | Aedes Berlin
→ 2010→ exhibition
Piksel is about the emergence of collective spaces through textile materiality within the landscape.
Piksel - Bewegte Landschaft
→ 2012→ dialog→ film→ landscape→ sound→ textiles
Schmuck als urbaner Prozess is a research + exhibition project exploring artistic manifestations in public space.

The concepts presented in the exhibition at the Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf range from site-unspecific designs that fall under the categories of Material and Inspiration, to site-specific and site-related forms of interaction with selected places and situations that are sorted in the categories of Exploration, Stage, Occasion, and Invitation.
Schmuck als urbaner Prozess | Exhibition
→ 2014→ dialog→ environment→ exhibition making→ urban space
The paper Immediacies of Experience investigates the unique multi-sensory understanding of spatiality in the work of Lygia Clark and Lygia Pape.
Immediacies of Experience
→ 2014→ dialog→ text→ textiles
The spatial installation of Anxious Prop Case 5 is about an ever expanding collective immersion in identically reproducible things. If everything can be copied, originality and the expression of authorship change their position in cultural topology – a change that has massive impacts on the concept of intellectual property in the whole spectrum of our ways of dealing with reality.
The Anxious Prop Case 5
→ 2013→ architecture→ dialog→ environment→ installation→ interaction
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