Placeships
The exhibition is an immersive dive into the multiverse of J.MAYER.H’s creative cosmos.
Exhibition:
PLACESHIPS
Year:
June 13 – November 1, 2025
Exhibition venue:
Deutsches Design Museum, Berlin

PLACESHIPS is an immersive dive into the multiverse of J.MAYER.H’s creative cosmos. More than just buildings, these are living thought structures—bold, biomorphic entities born from sketches, models, and bozzetti that unlock entire constellations of parallel possibilities. This is quantum architecture: unpredictable, nonlinear, radically alive. Breaking free from earthly conventions, J.MAYER.H’s – PLACESHIPS rise from the flat grid of the planet’s surface, the “Monumento Continuo,” echoing the utopian visions of Superstudio—yet aiming even further. Visitors are invited on an interdimensional voyage—between Planetary Sparkle and Cosmic Latte—where form becomes fiction, and fiction becomes future.
J.MAYER.H – PLACESHIPS launches architectural visions that transcend their original coordinates, detaching from site-specificity to transport us—mentally, emotionally, atmospherically—into entirely new worlds. These are not just structures; they are spatial catalysts that set us in motion, shifting our perception and reframing the way we engage with our environment. They don’t just respond—they propose. Boldly. For Berlin. For the world. For what comes next. Each project is a speculative leap, an invitation to step beyond the known, an invitation to a New Reality. (Text written by Deutsches Design Museum)












General Director: Rafael Horzon
Chief Curatorial Officer: Lutz Henke
Art Direction: Beate Quaschning, Verena Gillmeier
Head of Corridor Deconstruction: Mischa Leinkauf
Technical Conceptualization – Team J.MAYER.H: Paul Angelier, Marcus Blum, Henrik Langer, Mehrdad Mashaie, Lennart Scherer, Lorenz Scherer, Jens Seiffert
Technical Execution – Team Horzon: Carlo Woerler, Oscar Schaper,
Mathilda Rose
Security Team: Theo Bifi Junior 360, Justus da Boi, Amjad Al Shabab,
Jakomo Schöllner
Head of Visitor Experience: Abbygail Fuhl
This experience is deepened through Encounters with Mischa Leinkauf, Philip Ursprung, Frank Oehring, and many others.
Photographer: Frank Sperling