raumlaborberlin & lfm2 & la relève
Christian Göthner, Jan Schlake and Benjamin Foerster Baldenius are designers of performative spatial concepts. They have been working together in different constellations for many years. Together as a consortium, they are developing the spatial dramaturgy and the implementation of the careful, temporary transformation of the Kulturpalast in Bitterfeld into the center of the OSTEN Kulturfestival.
Christian Göthner, born 1986 in Grimma, studied object design at the University of Applied Arts Schneeberg, then worked for raumlaborberlin and is part of the Leipzig office lfm2 since 2018. In addition to successful competition participations in the fields of exhibition design, art on buildings and art in public spaces, he most recently conceived the work “Adler” for the Transformale in Potsdam and, in cooperation with Marius Busch, the installation of the exhibition “Sorge um den Bestand” for the German Architecture Center DAZ. www.lfm2.de
Jan Schlake, born in 1985 in Hildesheim, learned carpentry in the Wendland region and studied interior design at the Burg Giebichenstein Halle Academy of Art. Since 2018 he has been working for raumlaborberlin and is involved in the implementation of various projects in the field of experimental architecture. In 2021 he founded the network for building diplomacy and performative carpentry “la relève” together with other freelancers. He lives in Leipzig and works where it makes sense.
Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, born in Stuttgart in 1968, studied architecture in Berlin and Copenhagen. He founded the “Institut für angewandte Baukunst” in Berlin and the collective raumlaborberlin in 1999. He is also the founder of the Floating University, whose association he has chaired since 2018, for which he received the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021 with raumlaborberlin. Since this year, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius has been Professor of Cohabitation at the Städelschule art academy in Frankfurt. www.raumlabor-berlin.de
