Ingeborg Kuhler - Poems of Spaces and Coulors

Exhibition catalogue 'Ingeborg Kuhler - Poems of Spaces and Coulors'

by Nadejda Bartels und Kristin Feireiss †

in German and English

172 pages, hardcover, published in 2025

ISBN: 978-3-944899-27-5

Born in Dachau in 1943, Ingeborg Kuhler has made her mark on German architectural culture since the 1980s – as a designer, trailblazer and the first female professor of design at a West German architecture faculty, now the Berlin University of the Arts. This exhibition explores a multifaceted chapter of her oeuvre, bringing together travel sketches, watercolours and technical drawings in a visual dialogue that makes architecture tangible as poetic expression. Kuhler’s most renowned work – the towering, wedge-shaped Technoseum in Mannheim – already exemplified her ability to fuse space and movement into a dynamic, cohesive narrative. Today, her academic insight and architectural experience find new expression in a medium lighter than concrete but equally resonant: watercolour on paper. Often created in series, Kuhler’s works on paper layer bold colours like structural forms, with lines that guide the eye, open spatial vistas, and invite light in. Each image becomes a lyrical homage to place and space; each hue, an invitation to examine our own perceptions. Poems of Spaces and Colours encourages us not only to see architecture, but to hear it, feel it – to read it like poetry. Between line and surface, mass and light, Ingeborg Kuhler unveils the silent music of our built environment.