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 (HGB), Alba D’Urbano, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Bozar Brussels, Els Silvrants-Barclay, ETH Zurich, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (GfZK), Galerija Miroslav Kraljević Zagreb, It’s a book Leipzig, Johannes Kuczera, Joris Kritis, Jurgen Ots, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Open Book Society, Paula Ábalos, Université de Lausanne, Wiels Brussels

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apariciones.net

Paula Ábalos, 2025

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Paulina Mohr

Development: Emil Kowalczyk

2

A Matter of Space

2025

Design: Emil Kowalczyk, 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, Emil Kowalczyk

Scenography: MAD Studio, Beijing

6

Walter Tiemann Prize 2024

open book society e.V., 2024

Design: Emil Kowalczyk, Merle Petsch

7

Oculus

Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2025

Design: Emil Kowalczyk, Alexey Malygin

8

JEF GEYS – Guide Raisonnable

Wiels, Brussels, 2024

Design: Joris Kritis

Development: Emil Kowalczyk

9

sped-up version

Johannes Kuczera, 2024

10

Age de discrétion.

Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, 2024

11

It’s a book 2023

Independent Publishing Fair Leipzig, 2023

12

The Word for Museum is Forest

GfzK Leipzig, 2023

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Merle Petsch

13

klassesystemdesign.de

Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2023

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

Development: David Wahrenburg

14

Building Pedagogy

Faculté d’Architecture ULiège, 2023

Design: Joris Kritis and Emil Kowalczyk

Scenography: Richard Venlet

15

EVERYTHING XI—XV

Office KGDVS, 2023

Design: Joris Kritis and Emil Kowalczyk

16

Josef Hoffmann – Falling for Beauty

Art & History Museum Brussels, 2023

Design: Joris Kritis and Emil Kowalczyk

Scenography: Kris Kimpe

17

openbooksociety.de

open book society e.V., 2023

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Merle Petsch

Development: David Wahrenburg

18

itsabook.de

Independent Publishing Fair Leipzig, 2021

Design: Anne Dietzsch, Emil Kowalczyk

Development: Wolfgang Schöffel and David Wahrenburg

19

Just Fine

2023

Design: Emil Kowalczyk

20

Visitantes

Paula Abalos, 2022

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Paulina Mohr

21

It’s a book 2022

Independent Publishing Fair Leipzig, 2022

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Merle Petsch

22

DRAMA – Magazin für szenische Literatur, 2021

Design: Emil Kowalczyk and Paulina Mohr