KUEHN MALVEZZI

Architects Simona Malvezzi, Wilfried Kuehn and Johannes Kuehn founded Kuehn Malvezzi in Berlin in 2001. Public spaces, museums and exhibitions are the main focus of their work as architects, designers and curators. They realized the architectural design for Documenta 11, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection in the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin, as well as the Julia Stoschek Collection in Dusseldorf, which was nominated for the international Mies van der Rohe Award. The firm has designed the reorganization of a number of contemporary and historical art collections, attending to sensitive preservation issues for listed buildings, such as the Museum Belvedere in Vienna, the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt, the Museum Berggruen and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, as well as the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick.

The architects completed the extension of the Moderne Galerie of the Saarlandmuseum in Saarbrücken, as well as the conversion of the Prinzessinnenpalais on the Berlin’s Unter den Linden boulevard, to serve as the new cultural venue for the Deutsche Bank and its art collection. A number of buildings for private clients have been realized in the last years, including both residential and commercial projects such as Joseph Pschorr Haus in the center of Munich, Hohe Straße 52, in the center of Cologne and Villengarten Releneberg, a new residential area in Stuttgart. Current projects include the interreligious House of One in Berlin, to be built on the historic foundations of Berlin’s earliest churches at Petriplatz, and the new Insectarium in Montreal, both the result of international competitions.

Kuehn Malvezzi won the special prize for their competition entry for the controversial Humboldt-Forum in Berlin. Their critical approach to reconstruction attracted a great deal of attention, and they were subsequently awarded the 2009 German Critics’ Prize in the architecture category. Their projects have been shown in various international solo and group exhibitions, including the 10th, 13th and 14th Architecture Biennial in Venice and Manifesta 7 in Trento. Kuehn Malvezzi participated in the 1st Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015 and in the 2nd edition in 2017.

Parochialkirche, Berlin 2015, 1st prize
Schadowstrasse, Berlin 2015, 1st prize
Sanctuary Mariendom, Linz 2015, 1st prize
Am Tannenhof, Baden-Baden 2015, 1st prize
Erweiterung Baumwollbörse Bremen 2015, 1st prize
Hohe Straße, Cologne 2015, 1st prize
Insectarium, Montréal 2014, 1st prize
House of One, Berlin 2012, 1st prize

Kuehn Malvezzi (ed.): Komuna Fundamento, Mousse Publishing, Milan 2012.
(ISBN 978-88-6749-027-1)
Kuehn Malvezzi: KUEHN MALVEZZI - Index, Mousse Publishing, Milan 2011.
(ISBN 978-88-96501-80-1)
Kuehn Malvezzi (ed.): Candida Hoefer. Kuehn Malvezzi, Verlag Walther Koenig, Cologne 2009.
(ISBN 978-3-86560-637-2)
Feireiss, Kristin / Commerell, Hans-Juergen (eds.): Kuehn Malvezzi, exhib. cat. Aedes West / Landesmuseum Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2005.
(ISBN 3-937093-48-6)
Behles & Jochimsen / Oda Paelmke – Tobias Engelschall / Jessen + Vollenweider / Kuehn Malvezzi: Shrink to fit Magdeburg. Berlin shrink to fit, exhib. cat., Revolver, Frankfurt 2005.
(ISBN 3-86588-216-1)
Sowa, Axel (ed.): Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof. Kuehn Malvezzi a Space for Contemporary Art, Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2004.
(ISBN 3-88506-552-5)

Komuna Fundamento, installation at the 13th Architecture Biennale Venice, curator: David Chipperfield, Venice 2012
Staedel Museum, collection display, Frankfurt 2012
Wohnhaus Torstraße, new building, Berlin 2011-2013
Geschaeftshaus Neuhauser Strasse, commercial building, Munich 2010-2013
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, collection display and refurbishment museum, Braunschweig 2009-2015
Liebieghaus Schaulager, rearrangement sculpture collection and depository show, Frankfurt 2009
Museum Belvedere, alleyway between Unteres Belvedere and Orangerie, Vienna 2009
Museum Berggruen, extension museum, Berlin 2008-2012
Gesundheitszentrum Wetzlgut, Bad Gastein 2008
Manifesta 7 (ex Palazzo delle Poste), Trento 2008
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf 2007
Museum Belvedere, conversion Unteres Belvedere, Vienna 2007
Fine Art Fair Frankfurt, Frankfurt 2006, 2007
Lauder Business School, Vienna 2004
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Berlin 2004
Forecourt and foyer Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2004
Documenta 11, Kassel 2002