Weil am Rhein | ArtRegion: Basel - Oberrhein

Vitra Design Museum und Schaudepot

Science Fiction Design

From Space Age to Metaverse

18. Mai 2024 – 11. Mai 2025

Art Basel Week Hours (10-16 June 2024): Mon-Sun 10-18

Vitra Schaudepot Numerous science fiction films – from Star Trek to 2001: A Space Odyssey to Blade Runner – are populated by classic designs that have shaped our image of the future. In reverse, many designers of objects destined for some type of imagined future seek inspiration in the genre of science fiction. The fascinating dialogue between science fiction and design is the subject of a new exhibition in the Vitra Schaudepot. Under the title Design: From Space Age to Metaverse«, »Science Fiction over 100 objects from the museum’s collection will be staged in a futuristic display by the Argentine visual artist and designer Andrés Reisinger . Supplemented by selected works from the realms of film and literature, the show presents a range of examples from the early twentieth century to the so-called Space Age of the 1960s and ’70s, and even further to recent design objects that have been conceived exclusively for the virtual worlds of the metaverse.