Exhibition “The Determining Gaze”

On Behalf of	Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture - Simon Dubnow
Period	2025

Design Concept
Typography
Layout
Photo Editing

We are developing a graphic concept, exhibition panels, and a brochure for the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture for the exhibition “The Determining View: Images of Jewish Life in Postwar Poland.”

The Determining Gaze

Task and approach

For the exhibition “The Determining Gaze: Images of Jewish Life in Postwar Poland,” we are developing a new graphic concept, creating multilingual exhibition panels, and designing a brochure for the exhibition. The exhibition features photographs of Jewish people in Poland immediately after the Holocaust.

In front of an orange wall, there is an information board on the left about ‘Violence – The Kielce Pogrom’. To the right of it are six framed black-and-white photographs.

A close-up of the first information board at the beginning. A black-and-white photograph of a young woman can be seen. Next to it is some text.

Two flyers are lying on a table. They guide you through the exhibition. The young woman can be seen again on the cover page. The lower flyer is in English, the upper one in German.

Subtle and minimalistic

Approach and (creative) implementation

We take the existing design and reduce it to the essentials. We deliberately keep the design minimalistic and understated so as not to distract from the photos, the actual exhibition objects. The exhibition panels thus serve exclusively as a source of information, communicating the sensitive content in a visually neutral way. We choose ochre yellow as the primary color, which blends well with the wall colors on site and guides visitors through the exhibition.

Several black-and-white photographs hang on a green wall. They are framed, with each frame being different; many of the frames look very old. To the left of the collection of photos hangs an information board.

Multilingualism

Special features and insights

The exhibition boards will be used in two further exhibitions abroad. Therefore, we are ensuring a bilingual layout in which the selected fonts include both Hebrew and Polish letters.