Fons Hickmann at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus: Experience Three Decades of Poster Art
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Fons Hickmann: Poster Art as a Visual Thought Image in the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus
The Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art presents with Fons Hickmann. Posters of Today and Before a concentrated solo exhibition on three decades of independent communication design. On October 16, 2026, a visual thought space opens up in the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus between typography, image, material, and social reflection.
Three Decades of Visual Experimental Joy
Fons Hickmann, born in Hamm in 1966, is one of the defining German communication designers of the present. With his design studio founded in Berlin in 2001, he developed independent communication systems, book designs, magazines, and posters. His artistic stance treats every project as an experiment, combining precise design with intellectual curiosity.
The Poster as a Cultural Expression Form
The exhibition focuses on Hickmann's internationally awarded poster creations. The works displayed often emerged in series for cultural clients. They are complemented by self- and media-reflective works as well as posters commissioned independently, negotiating socio-political themes as paper interventions.
In the examination of the works, the poster reveals itself not as a mere advertising medium but as an independent art form and visual thought image. Typography, color, image rhythm, and materiality condense into precise visual statements. The atmosphere of the exhibition invites visitors to perceive familiar forms of public communication with sharpened awareness.
Aesthetic Experience between Writing, Image, and Space
The artistic experience arises in the interplay between immediate impact and detailed analysis. Some works encounter the audience as powerful signs, while others reveal their meaning only in longer contemplation of the work. Thus, the exhibition makes visible how communication design mediates between public visibility, cultural memory, and societal debate.
The presentation therefore offers cultural education at a high level. It opens historical art-historical access to poster art and shows how a contemporary art form gains its impact from the interplay of visual energy, typographic precision, and conceptual clarity.
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The exhibition can be seen from October 3 to December 6, 2026, at the Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art – Diesel Power Plant Cottbus. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM. The regular admission is 4 euros, reduced 3 euros. Visitors up to 18 years have free admission; a combination ticket for all exhibitions at the location costs 6 euros.
Conclusion: Experience Poster Art Live
Fons Hickmann. Posters of Today and Before welcomes art enthusiasts as an intense encounter with typography, communication design, and visual research. Those who wish to experience the aesthetic power of the poster, the impact of writing and color, and the social dimension of modern design directly will find an inspiring artistic experience at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus. A visit enriches the aesthetic experience and sharpens the perception of the images that shape our everyday lives.
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