Neugea
J&K / Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard
Neugea
Wall relief in three parts, various dimensions
Permanent art-in-architecture work for Johanna-Eck-School, commissioned by the council of Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg
2023
Neugea is a three-part wall relief for the new cafeteria and multi-purpose building of the Johanna-Eck-School in Berlin-Tempelhof. The work consists of elaborately hand-painted, overlapping wooden shapes that visually resemble a map with different continents and islands. The work is installed in three groups, along with a legend, across various walls in the building.
The design emerged from a participatory process in collaboration with a group of students and is based on discussions about identity and visions for a future world. A legend of selected key values and iconographic patterns – all based on the sketches and ideas of the young people – allows for playful, political, and social interpretations of a new, colorful, and utopian world order.
All photos: J&K, Neugea, wall relief, hand painted on laser-cut MDF, print behind acrylic (legend),
various dimensions, permanent artwork for the cafeteria and multi-function space at Johanna-Eck-School,
commissioned by the council of Berlin Tempelhof-Schöneberg, 2023, photos: Liz Eve