75 Jahre NRW | Haus der Geschichte NRW

To mark the 75th anniversary of North Rhine-Westphalia, a major exhibition was held at the Behrens Building in Düsseldorf, which served as the seat of the first North Rhine-Westphalian Minister-Presidents beginning in 1946. A wide range of topics—including flight, displacement, industry, and the economy, as well as more mundane subjects such as soccer—were presented across approximately 1,200 square meters of exhibition space. At the same time, the show served as the inaugural exhibition for the future “Haus der Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalen,” which will be housed in the Behrensbau.

235 Media produced two interactive media installations for the exhibition: In “Where Are You From?”, visitors could enter their own origins as well as those of their parents and grandparents and explore the role immigration plays in North Rhine-Westphalia. Another station allowed the public to identify issues considered future challenges for the state.

In the foyer, we created a 270° video panorama projected onto nine screens.

To project onto the building’s facade, we equipped 22 of the 48 windows on the third floor with LED mesh screens, for which we created an animation based on the state flag.

In collaboration with gewerkdesign, Berlin.