Open Call: Design for our summer garden

A meeting place is to be created in the MARKK courtyard from June 14 to September 7, 2025! The inner courtyard, including the awning, is to be extended so that it becomes an inviting temporary meeting place in the summer months, a place to exchange ideas and eat together, but also to take a break. The design can set selective impulses and blend in with the existing architecture. We will open an after-work bar on Thursday evenings, while the space will also be accessible to families during the day. This format will be accompanied by artistic interventions and listening sessions, including by the RIAA crew, who will play the museum’s own record collection. The “Summer Garden” will be officially opened on June 14, 2025.

For the design of this format, we are looking for creative ideas that take up the inner courtyard as a place of encounter and enliven it artistically and creatively.

Application

Please submit:

An original idea
Short vita about artistic career
Portfolio of current work
Description and illustration of the project (max. 3 pages)

Notes

The designer or group will receive a fixed amount of 4,000.00 euros (incl. VAT) for fees, production and material costs; the museum’s own carpentry workshop can be used by arrangement.

The redesign should take place before 13.06.2025.

The Museum am Rothenbaum welcomes applications from people of all nationalities, people of color as well as applicants with a history of flight or family migration and all genders. Severely disabled applicants will be given special consideration if equally qualified (the location is not barrier-free).

For further information, please contact Gabriel Schimmeroth (gabriel.schimmeroth@markk-hamburg.de).

Please send the documents (single PDF, max. 20MB) by e-mail to veranstaltung@markk-hamburg.de by 21.04.2025.