$H!T HAPPENS

An innovative traveling exhibit curated by Juergen Mayer H. at Relative Space New York Opening: May 14th 2011 , 6 to 9PM Location: RelativeSpace & FLOORWORKS 2 Bond Street New York, New York 10012 Exhibition dates: May 13th - June 3rd 2011 Opening hours: 10am to 5pm Invite Only, RSVP {encode="[email protected]" title="[email protected]"}, {encode="[email protected]" title="[email protected]"} Introducing $H!T HAPPENS in Berlin Why Berlin? Once an industrial center and later a city divided, Berlin's walls fell years ago, and its gates have since remained open for experimentation. The city attracts artists and designers from around the world to its former factory buildings, transformed into studios and galleries. Berlin's streets foster potential for what is new, perhaps more than any other place today. It has become an avant-garde capital for design in an unlikely locale, inviting international talent in the overlapping disciplines of art, architecture, industrial and product design. The exhibition $H!T HAPPENS In Berlin explores the aesthetic and technical innovations of creatives in the city, showcasing both emerging and established designers. The unexpected is the norm; trials and errors, miscalculations and failures, experimentation and surprise--all result in ingenious design strategies. The outcome of those experiments will be on view at special press and AD events starting May 14, 2011 in the New York City showroom and June 17, 2011 in the Toronto showroom of Relative Space & Floorworks. A custom video Clarity Matrix wall by Planar will be installed in the storefront of the Relative Space showroom, with all creative content streamed 24/7 to showcase the upcoming exhibit of over 10 Berlin based designers. More information may be found about individual participating designers at berlinhappens.com "We are interested in questioning conventions and common agreements, or things that we seem to take for granted. Through design and architecture--every scale and field in which we are working--we want to open the eyes of the viewer to be aware or critical, or discover the potential of what is around us." said Juergen Mayer H., who is also a visiting Professor of Architecture this semester at Columbia University. Architect Juergen Mayer H., recipient of the Audi Urban Future Award and Relative Space principal Tyler Greenberg conceived of this event jointly. They invited a co-generational cross-section of designers, who in turn invited others to join in curating the objects for display. Relative Space will simultaneously host a new flooring and textile product booth for ICFF at the Javits Center [number 1048] and launch a dedicated online product site called RStoo.com featuring the Berlin designs on display in the Bond Street showroom. An exhibit product guide, pricing and participating designer information is available upon request. +++ Participating Designers: BLESS STEPHANE BARBIER BOUVET MARK BRAUN SARAH ILLENBERGER ANTJE KALUS LIRAN LEVI JUERGEN MAYER H. DOUBLE STANDARDS DANIEL SCHULZE CLEMENCE SEILLES JUDITH SENG JERSZY SEYMOUR SCHMIDTTAKAHASHI Invites, Posters and Exhibition Design by Chris Rehberger / Double Standards