Graft

The English word ‘graft’ provokes a variety of meanings and multiple readings. In the terminology of botany, grafting is described as the addition of one shoot onto a genetically different host. The positive properties of two genetically different cultures are combined in the new biological hybrid.

GRAFT, established in 1998 in Los Angeles, California by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit, is as a ‘Label’ for Architecture, Urban Planning, Design, Music and the “pursuit of happiness”. With further offices in Berlin and Beijing GRAFT, has been commissioned to design and manage a wide range of projects in multiple disciplines and locations. Alejandra Lillo became Partner for the office in Los Angeles in 2007, Gregor Hoheisel is Partner for the asian market.

With the core of the firm’s enterprises gravitating around the field of architecture and the built environment, GRAFT has always maintained an interest in crossing the boundaries between disciplines and “grafting” the creative potentials and methodologies of different realities. This is reflected in the firm’s expansion into the fields of exhibition design and product design, art installations, academic projects and “events” as well as in the variety of project locations.

2009

“Updating Germany”, Venezia goes Elbe, Hamburg, Pink Project

“Visions”, Florence, Pink Project

2008

“After the Flood”, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, Pink Project

“Updating Germany”, XI.Venice Biennial, German Pavilion, Pink Project

Next Gene 20, XI.Venice Biennial

2007

Pink Houses, Art Installation, MIR, New Orleans

GRAFTWORLD, Aedes Gallery, Berlin

GRAFTWORLD, Zumtobel Light Forum, Dornbirn

2006

NEW BLOOD: Next Gen, A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2004

“Caboom”, Los Angeles, USA

2003

“Form & Function”, Guggenheim Gallery Chapman University, Los Angeles, USA

“Design Berlin, New Projects for a changing City”, Vitra Design Museum, Berlin

“Electric Bamboo”, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles

2002

“Between Heaven and Earth”, Talinn, Estonia

“The Controlled Space”, Artist’s Space, New York

“Baldwin Hills Art Project”, Baldwin Hills High School, Los Angeles

2001

“The Controlled Space”, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

“Surveyed Space”, Travelling Exhibition in Vienna, Berlin, Rotterdam, New York, Los Angeles

“SITE Santa Fe”, Fourth International Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2000

“SEEING” Exhibition for the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art

“Taste is the Lack of Appetite”, Lecture-Tour through nine german Universities

1998

“designale”, nomadic furniture,design competition in Munich, special mention and exhibition

”Next LA”, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica

”Tools 2000”, UCLA

Los Angeles, Beijing