chezweitz museal and urban scenography

Choose your Player

Choose your Player

Gaming from Dice to Pixel

Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
From May 17, 2025 to April 27, 2025

Why do we play, and what facets lie behind the fas­ci­nat­ing world of gam­ing? In the new spe­cial exhi­bi­tion Choose your Play­er” at the Zep­pelin Muse­um in Friedrichshafen, designed and curat­ed by us, the cura­tor team led by Direc­tor Clau­dia Emmert delves into gam­ing as a cul­tur­al and immer­sive prac­tice, specif­i­cal­ly focus­ing on games that involve the air­ship as a play­er. And there are sur­pris­ing­ly many such games! The phe­nom­e­non of play/​gaming is explored through objects from the col­lec­tion, diverse vir­tu­al games, as well as con­tem­po­rary art and expan­sive art instal­la­tions, crit­i­cal­ly dis­cussing top­ics such as gen­der stereo­types or racist clichés.

The Zep­pelin Muse­um is a pio­neer in Ger­many in com­pre­hen­sive sus­tain­able exhi­bi­tion design. We have embraced this pol­i­cy as a chal­lenge to plan imma­te­ri­al­ly and min­i­mal­ly while still cre­at­ing a strong spa­tial struc­ture for the exhibits, art­works, and games. Despite the min­i­mal­ism, vis­i­tors find them­selves in a bright­ly abstract, dense exhi­bi­tion world, imme­di­ate­ly feel­ing immersed in vir­tu­al gam­ing worlds. Expe­ri­enced vir­tu­al­i­ty and per­for­ma­tive­ly staged game and object fields deter­mine our sceno­graph­ic strategy.

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Vis­i­tors are drawn into the spe­cial exhi­bi­tion through a vir­tu­al­ly immer­sive light tun­nel; a holo­graph­ic pro­jec­tion active­ly greets each vis­i­tor and prompts them to choose a char­ac­ter as a com­pan­ion for the tour (Choose Your Play­er). The play­ful invi­ta­tion to per­form with­in the exhi­bi­tion shapes the atti­tude of the scenog­ra­phy and com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the Zep­pelin Muse­um. A strong spa­tial graph­ic design with ver­ti­cal light lines, geo­met­ric graph­ic ele­ments, and accen­tu­at­ed col­or effects forms the ter­rain for a vari­ety of game char­ac­ters, rep­re­sent­ed and acti­vat­ed through sil­hou­ettes, shad­ows, and pix­els in gam­ing fields and sta­tions. Like in large gam­ing spec­ta­cles, vis­i­tors repeat­ed­ly encounter each oth­er in the space. The open sceno­graph­ic approach allows room for chance and inter­ac­tion, cre­at­ing social moments: visitors/​players are con­stant­ly in a com­mu­nal mode of expe­ri­ence — a sus­tain­able” way of recep­tion social­ly as well.

With Choose your Play­er”, we have suc­cess­ful­ly bridged two fields that may seem oppo­site at first: gam­ing expe­ri­ence and sus­tain­abil­i­ty — clev­er­ly, excit­ing­ly, and play­ful­ly. So, we not only have the abil­i­ty to con­nect oppo­sites but also the free­dom to choose who we want to be: choose your play­er — sustainably!

…and of course, play­ing is encouraged!

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Spiele­box

Die kürzlich erschienene Spielebox vereint historische Brettspiele mit spannenden Games und modernen Spieleklassikern. In sechs historischen Würfelspielen begeben sich die Spieler auf eine Reise in die Ära der Zeppeline, wo sie mit den Pionieren große Abenteuer rund um den Globus erleben können. Der Sprung von der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft erfolgt im Spiel Angel Arcade, das vom Künstlerkollektiv Keiken entwickelt wurde, wo die Spieler die Rolle eines morphogenen Engels übernehmen. Das traditionelle ghanaische Spiel Oware fördert strategisches Denken, um die Mitspieler auszutricksen, während im Kunstmemo faszinierende Charaktere aus den kreativen Welten von LuYang, Keiken, Afrah Shafiq und Larry Achiampong spannende Einblicke in ihre einzigartigen Spieluniversen gewähren. 
Auch die Spielanleitungen sind voller Überraschungen: Sie führen nicht nur sicher durch unbekannte Spielwelten, sondern enthalten zudem exklusives Bonusmaterial zur Ausstellung „Choose Your Player“. 

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Scenography
chezweitz GmbH, museale und urbane Szenografie, Berlin
Dr. Sonja Beeck, Detlef Daiber-Weitz
Ludger Jansen, Katharina Buchhauser, Leander Deppe
Director
Dr. Claudia Emmert
Curators
Dr. Claudia Emmert, Jürgen Bleibler, Mara-Johanna Kölmel, Felix Banzhaf, Stephanie Milling
Exhibition construction
Schreinerei Geng, Herdwangen
Graphic production
Zinser Siebdruck, Friedrichshafen (Exhibition)
Druckhaus Müller, Langenargen (Campaign)
Installation Artwork
Afrah Safiq
couture real, Mona Kuschel, Berlin
Photos