The Museum of Bureaucracy
Exhibition Design
Agency
THJNK Germany
Year
2025
Project Insight
This project highlights my skills in exhibition and spatial design and typography — demonstrating turning ideas into experience-driven design. And yes, it even won awards.
In collaboration with THJNK Germany, I co-designed The Museum of Bureaucracy, a pop-up exhibition in the heart of Berlin offering a witty and thought-provoking commentary on Germany’s love of paperwork and process.
Beyond concept and campaign visuals, I contributed to the exhibition design, wayfinding system, and catalog layout, combining my passion for typography, spatial design, and creative storytelling. Spanning over 350 square meters, the exhibition showcased artworks that humorously visualized the absurdities of German bureaucracy.
Berlin Walls of Bureaucracy
A whole room filled with paragraphs — claustrophobic and typophile! The main design challenge was finding a balance between the dryness of German administrative language and the spatial limits of the average museum visitor’s comfort zone. The result: an immersive typographic experience that makes bureaucracy feel almost poetic — almost.
It also turned out to be an excellent space for long, meandering conference meetings that led absolutely nowhere.
Exhibition Catalogue
I was responsible for designing the complete 96-page exhibition catalog — an exercise in precision and patience. Every footnote, subparagraph, and official quality seal was meticulously placed according to the highest bureaucratic standards. The result: a publication so thorough it could probably file itself.
