Posters and graphic design holdings are referred to as “flat works” in the museum. Around 400,000 of these two-dimensional items are stored in the flat file cabinets of the Graphics and Poster Collection. In the last four years, more than 3500 have been added, 120 of which are on display in the exhibition. Using pie charts and other information graphics, we visualise the growing collection in all its variety and provide an insight into what goes on behind the scenes: what are the defining features of the Graphics and Poster Collection? How does something become part of the collection? How are these decisions made – and what happens next? Join us for a critical yet playful exploration of these aspects, learn more about the challenges of expanding the collection while being mindful of diversity concerns, and enjoy the works and infographics.

Exhibiting designers: Virgil Abloh, Abolfazi Hemmati Ahouei, Mohamed ’Abd al-Aziz, Betül Atlı, Peter Biľak, Louise Bourgeois, Wiebke Bolduan, Chris Campe, Jacqueline S. Casey, Doris Casse-Schlüter, Nadine Chahine, Frederika Sophia Cohen, Muḥammad-Riḍā Dādgar, Jutta Damm-Fiedler, DIES IRAE, Wilhelmina Drupsteen, Michał Dyakowski, Ahmed Fouad, Anke Feuchtenberger, Kathrin Freudenberg, Gassour, Mkrtchyan,V. Gorochov, Guerrilla Girls, Ibrāhīm Ḥaqīqī, Gosia Herba, Jenny Holzer, Areum Hwang, Anja Kaiser, Büro Klass, Golnar Kat-Rahmani, Jolanta Karczewska-Zagórska, Bahram Khaef, Kharroi, Hania Kmieć, Barbara Kruger, Dafi Kühne, Helen Li, Lu Lin, Barbara Lüdde, Peter Maly, Germaine Marx, Stefan Marx, Farshid Mesghali, Tomoko Miho, Dore Mönkemeyer-Cortý, Murtaz̤á Mumayyiz, Stephanie Müller, Nadine Nebel, Patu, Inka Petersen, Raymond Pettibon, Semyon Borisovich Raev, Rashid Rahnama, Harvey Redding, Rimini Berlin, Jens Oliver Robbers, Maria Robertowna, Dolly Rudeman, Marcus Schäfer, Viktor Fokovich Schewtschenko, Hannah Schulz, Jan Schwochow, Seline Seidler, Studio Laucke Siebein, Lorna Simpson, Nancy Spero, Annik Troxler, Paula Troxler, Evgenia Tsanana, Te I Um, A.A. Umurkulov, Stamatis Vassiliou, VERY, Mary Vieria, Aleksandra Wilert, Marie-Luise Zachariae, Noureddin Zarrinkelk, Perilla Zine

The exhibition has been developed in collaboration with Jona Piehl, a communication designer and professor at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW).