Fons Hickmann at Diesel Power Station Cottbus: Poster Art as a Visual Concept
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Fons Hickmann: Posters as Visual Thinking Spaces
The Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art – Diesel Power Station Cottbus dedicates a comprehensive solo exhibition to Fons Hickmann. The exhibition spans three decades of internationally awarded poster creation and showcases graphic design as an independent cultural expression, as a visual concept, and as a precise instrument of societal communication.
Three Decades of Graphic Experimentation
Fons Hickmann, born in Hamm in 1966, founded the design studio Fons Hickmann m23 in Berlin in 2001. His work combines communication design, typography, book design, magazine, and poster design with a consistently experimental attitude. Numerous international awards, including the Golden Bee Award, iF Award in Gold, ADC Awards, LeadAwards, and Joseph Binder Awards, have shaped his career.
The Poster between Image, Text, and Society
The exhibition gathers posters that were often created as series for cultural clients. Typography, color, image rhythm, and materiality enter a dynamic relationship. The works are complemented by self- and media-reflexive designs as well as self-commissioned posters that address socio-political themes as paper interventions.
A look at the works reveals how Hickmann understands visual communication as an open experiment. His posters possess an immediate far-reaching effect and also unfold complex layers of signs, montage, cultural reference, and typographic construction upon closer inspection. The atmosphere of the exhibition makes the medium of the poster experienceable as a cultural memory and public thinking space.
Cultural Education through Visual Research
The presentation opens up access to central questions of communication design: How do text and image direct the gaze? How do visual identity and societal resonance emerge? And when does a poster cross the line into autonomous art? The aesthetic experience combines art-historical classification with immediate sensory perception.
Conclusion: Experience Graphic Design Live
Visitors can expect a concentrated art experience between poster art, typography, visual research, and societal reflection. Those who want to experience the effect of color, form, text, and space in direct engagement with the work will discover an exhibition with high visual density and lasting thought-provoking impulses at the Diesel Power Station Cottbus.
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