Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) exhibition, poster, flyer, publication

Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World) was an exhibition shown in late 2022 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.

The typography uses the custom version of Lÿno that was designed in 2016 by Karl Nawrot together with Radim Peško for NODE Berlin Oslo’s visual identity for HKW. While HKW predominantly used Lÿno’s Stan style, the exhibition title also features details from another style of the Lÿno family: in “Ceremony” we recognize the curly Walt style with the C and the second E which forms a custom interlinear ligature with the letter Y in the line below.

The exhibition was accompanied by a publication edited by Anselm Franke, Elisa Giuliano, Claire Tancons, Denise Ryner, Zairong Xiang and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. It presents articles by curators, teachers, and artists, with theories on the links between modernity myths on the principle of rationality and secularism of the Middle Ages.

The book cover illustrates well the duality of reading the modernity that is present in the book with a modern and contemporary typography and an illustration in the style of mediaeval engraving. The M which the extended descender that reaches to the illustration marks this link between myth and modernity

See more images and read more about the book on the website of publisher Spector Books.