Gestalten celebrates good collaboration with art in dying building

"We say thank you. With aperitif riche, art and music," was the invitation with which Gestalten, Agency for Communication and Design invited clients, business partners and friends of the company. "We think that a good cooperation must be celebrated properly." The venue this time was not the agency's domicile (Grubenstrasse 37 in Zurich), but the Orion 1 building at Förrlibuckstrasse 180, a 30-year-old building that is about to be demolished. A place where, at the end of March, not one stone will be left upon another; a place that will be revived once again before its demolition through art happenings: "Sollbruchstelle - Kunst am sterbenden Bau". The agency is sponsor of this series of events in demolished buildings, which has been active since 2011.

In stark contrast to the dying building, the agency gestalten ag is thriving. The agency has been in existence for three years, has twelve employees and already a respectable client portfolio - for example, Ikea, Kunsthaus Zürich, Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, ZHAW, Zürcher Kantonalbank.

Owner Thomas Krebs affirms: "We can be happy about our good business performance, that is no longer a matter of course today. We see ourselves as a full-service agency. The recipe is simple: Where we feel competent, what we can do, we do in-house, everything else with external partners. That's what we stand for and are committed to." - Around 150 people responded to the invitation to this original, atmospheric event on Thursday, February 8, 2018.

Text: Claude Bürki