Uwe R. Brückner

Prof. Uwe R. Brückner

On both the national and international level, Prof. Uwe R. Brückner is highly esteemed as an opinion leader in the area of exhibition design and planning. He is regarded as an eminent authority and expert on the development of narrative spatial concepts. On the basis of his philosophy of design encapsulated in the credo "form follows content" and his design methodology “creative structure”, he has created more than 100 exhibition sets and experiential environments for museums and corporate brands. His creative aspiration is to use stories and content to form spatial works of art (Gesamtkunstwerke) which are inspired by content and narration.
CV - Born in Germany, Uwe R. Brückner studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich. After working for several years as a classical architect, he studied costume and stage design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design under Prof. Jürgen Rose. After completing his studies, he established his Atelier Uwe R. Brückner 1988, which became the ATELIER BRÜCKNER in 1997. In addition to his work in the Atelier, Uwe R. Brückner is an active professor, teaching in the area of scenography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and at various international universities. As a co-founder of a biennial International Scenography Festival and speaker at many events, he has a wide variety of contacts in the design industry all over the world.

1957
born in Germany

1978 – 1984
Studies in Architecture at the Technical University Munich
Degree as Diplom Ingenieur Technical University Munich

1984 – 1987
Freelance architect at the office of Prof. Sampo Widmann, Munich
Experimental architecture

1987 – 1993
Works as architect and exhibition designer at Atelier Knut Lohrer, Stuttgart: museums,
exhibitions, installations, art paintings, design

1988 – 1992
Studies in costume and stage design at the Academy of Arts in Stuttgart, with Prof. Jürgen
Rose: projects from and with Mauricio Kagel, Wedekind, Shakespeare, Heiner Müller,
Richard Wagner

since 1988
Founder and Creative director of Atelier Uwe R. Brückner

1997
Co-founder and creative director of ATELIER BRÜCKNER, Stuttgart, officially established from the exhibition “Expedition Titanic” (Hamburg, 1997)

Teaching

1997 – 1998
Lectureship at the University of Stuttgart,
Field of interest: architecture/ three-dimensional design

1998 – 2000
Lectureship at the University of Cologne with Prof. Siegemund
Field of teaching: interior design / exhibition design / scenography

2001 – 2002
Invited professorship at the University of Design, Karlsruhe
Institute of Exhibition Design and Stage Design

2001
Founding member of IN3 Institute for interior design and scenography at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel (Switzerland)

since 2003
Professor for exhibition design and scenography
University of Arts and Design Basel (Switzerland)

2004 – 2005
Invited Professorship at the University of Media, Cologne
Field of teaching: scenography in media installations

since 2009
Invited Professorship at Tongji University, Shanghai
Field of teaching: exhibition design and scenography

2019
Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, department of scenographic design and communication

Architect, Stage Designer, Scenographer, Curator and Author – a protagonist of contemporary Scenography / Creative Director ATELIER BRÜCKNER / Co-founding director of the School of Interior Architecture and Scenography at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Basel, professor for scenography / Guest professorship at Tongji University, Shanghai / Curator of the International Scenography Biennial / Design philosophy “form follows content” / Design method “Creative Structure” / Integrative, holistic and multidisciplinary design approach.

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