Nils Reinke-Dieker is a designer specializing in visual and spatial translations. Graphic design and typography form the foundation for examining, revealing, and narratively conveying content.
All completed projects can be seen in the gallery.
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From 2014 to 2022, he was co-founder of the studio NLF Team (Hamburg/Berlin), which specialized in exhibition design. Today, he works as a freelance designer based in Cologne. The following is a selection of realized projects:
The exhibition Einblicke. Die Brüder Humboldt sheds light on the life and work of Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt in their social and historical context. Along the window front of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and inside the building, images, quotes, and documents invite visitors to explore the themes from different perspectives. Designed with NLF Team and Studio Bernard-Boos.
Logan T. Sibrel’s paintings and drawings in But I’m Different tell fragmentary stories that touch through their authenticity and vulnerability. This book is the artist’s first comprehensive publication. While the first half presents Sibrel’s paintings, the second half gives space to his drawings. The carrier paper has been digitally removed, creating the impression that Sibrel drew directly into the book. Published by DCV.
Neolithic Childhood – Art in a False Present, c. 1930 examines how the artistic avant-gardes responded to the multiple crises of European modernity around 1930. A key feature of the design is the consistent outsourcing of all texts and information into the manual (the exhibition guide). This allows visitors to find their own approach to the exhibition. Designed with NLF Team.
The photographic work Grenzgebiet by Stefan Volk documents the current state of the former inner-German border from kilometer 0 at the Baltic Sea to kilometer 1,367 at the Czech border. It shows how nature has reclaimed the former dividing line.
The five-part audio tour of the exhibition OUT OF SPACE at the Hamburger Kunsthalle expands the exhibition space into the auditory realm, opening playful approaches beyond physical boundaries through compositions, soundscapes, and archival material. The starting point is the question of how artists since the 1960s have defined and constructed “space” – from Minimal Art to Conceptual Art.
What happens at an academic conference? How is knowledge exchanged there? What social structures emerge at these gatherings? What rituals are performed? The audio feature Conference Around the Clock, created in collaboration with Mariana Castillo Deball, uses the voices of historians and makes conferences tangible through coffee breaks, interviews, archival material, and music – from the beginnings to digitization during the pandemic. Available on Spotify and Soundcloud.
The exhibition Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance. Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art at MARKK Hamburg presents for the first time all surviving works from Aby Warburg’s 1895/96 journey to the Pueblo societies. Contemporary perspectives emphasize the protection of culturally sensitive content, which is visibly problematized through wooden silhouettes. The elliptically arranged displays draw on Warburg’s idea of a cosmic order and connect the exhibits into a spatial cosmos. Designed with NLF Team.
Strategien des Zeigens is a teaching format in the focus area of Visual Communication, implemented at Bauhaus University Weimar, HAW Hamburg, and HTW Berlin. It explored the close interconnection of spatial and graphic design in exhibition concepts. In cooperation with archives, museums, and fictional scenarios, students developed different approaches to content and translated these into spatial and visual languages. Concept and implementation by NLF Team.
Master of Fine Arts completed in the Studio for Experimental Design of Jesko Fezer at HFBK Hamburg and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, supported by the Art School Alliance. Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Klasse Grafik by Ingo Offermanns at HFBK Hamburg and the école de recherche graphique Brussels, among others with Manuela Dechamps Otamendi. German Scholarship in 2015/16. Civil service at Club Amitié of the Jewish Social Service Brussels in cooperation with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste in 2008/09.
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Website design with Jana Reddemann.