Maxim Weirich

“Society of Signs – An Assembly of Visual Language”

The project societyofsigns.com is dedicated to the exploration and research of pictography. The expanding web archive showcases a wide range of design and artistic works focused on pictograms, language systems, and beyond. The eponymous exhibition sparked the launch of the web project in 2021 when due to COVID-19 regulations, visits to the show were not possible. A selection of works and texts were shown online, accompanied by a digital lecture evening featuring participating artists and curators. Creating a digital archive became the apparent next step, allowing for the inclusion of more works, topics, designers, and artists. 

This project is supported by the NEU START KULTUR program organized by the Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.

Biography
Maxim Weirich works as an exhibition designer in Berlin. His research interests circle around pictograms of the early 1970s and how they paved the way for today's communication of emotions through pictograms. By developing participatory formats like workshops, exhibitions, talks, and websites, he wants to examine these ideas and visual concepts of the past and bring them into the present for discussion.

In cooperation with Edgar Walthert.