Hello, I am Emil, a graphic designer based in Hamburg and Brussels. For a portfolio request, a commission or just a chat feel free to hit me up on Instagram or by mail. Merci.

Studio address
Wellingsbütteler Landstraße 67
22337 Hamburg
Germany

Rue de Nancy 9
1000 Brussels
Belgium

Clients & collaborators
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Alba D’Urbano, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Bozar Brussels, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Galerija Miroslav Kraljević Zagreb, INRAE, It’s a book Leipzig, Johannes Kuczera, Joris Kritis, Jurgen Ots, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Open Book Society, Paula Ábalos, Université de Lausanne, Wiels Brussels

1

apariciones.net

Paula Ábalos, 2025

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Paulina Mohr

Development: Emil Kowalczyk

2

A Matter of Space

2025

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Merle Petsch

3

John Baldessari – Parables, Fables, and Other Tall Tales

Bozar Brussels, 2025

Design: Joris Kritis with Emil Kowalczyk

Scenography: OFFICE KGDVS

4

1933–1945HGB

Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2025

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Merle Petsch

Scenography: Anna Breit

5

Ma Yansong – Architecture and Emotion

Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2025

Design: Joris Kritis and Emil Kowalczyk

Scenography: MAD Studio, Beijing

6

Walter Tiemann Prize 2024

open book society e.V., 2024

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Merle Petsch

7

JEF GEYS – Guide Raisonnable

Wiels, Brussels, 2024

Design: Joris Kritis

Development: Emil Kowalczyk

8

sped-up version

Johannes Kuczera, 2024

9

Age de discrétion.

Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, 2024

10

It’s a book 2023

Independent Publishing Fair Leipzig, 2023

11

The Word for Museum is Forest

GfzK Leipzig, 2023

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Merle Petsch

12

klassesystemdesign.de

Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2023

Design: Emil Kowalczyk, Sohyeon Lee, Merle Petsch and Sören Sandbothe

Development: David Wahrenburg

13

Building Pedagogy

Faculté d’Architecture ULiège, 2023

Design: Joris Kritis and Emil Kowalczyk

Scenography: Richard Venlet

14

EVERYTHING XI—XV

Office KGDVS, 2023

Design: Joris Kritis and Emil Kowalczyk

15

Josef Hoffmann – Falling for Beauty

Art & History Museum Brussels, 2023

Design: Joris Kritis and Emil Kowalczyk

Scenography: Kris Kimpe

16

openbooksociety.de

open book society e.V., 2023

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Merle Petsch

Development: David Wahrenburg

17

itsabook.de

Independent Publishing Fair Leipzig, 2021

Design: Anne Dietzsch and Emil Kowalczyk

Development: Wolfgang Schöffel and David Wahrenburg

18

Just Fine

2023

Design: Emil Kowalczyk

19

Visitantes

Paula Abalos, 2022

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Paulina Mohr

20

It’s a book 2022

Independent Publishing Fair Leipzig, 2022

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Merle Petsch

21

DRAMA – Magazin für szenische Literatur, 2021

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Paulina Mohr