From Christo & Jeanne-Ciaude to Tadashi Kawamata:

More than 50 internationally renowned artists helped Eisfeld engineers to realize their works of art at the Documenta.

What do engineers have to do with art? Sure, some may collect works by their favorite artists, others may even be involved as patrons, others may be found with an art-interested public in general. In the case of Eisfeld Ingenieure, it's even more. Because even internationally renowned artists sometimes tend to underestimate the static requirements of their works of art. And at the Kassel Documenta, this problem occurs with great regularity, at least every five years. Whether lole de Freitas, Giuseppe Penone or Tadashi Kawamata, Eisfeld engineers have lent stability to more than 50 works of art since the first Documenta in 1955 with planning services.

One of the most important projects was the 85 meter high installation "5600 Cubicmeter Package" by the famous artist couple Christo & Jeanne Ciaude at the Documenta IV to set up the largest sculpture ever without a supporting skeleton, an air-filled package in the shape of a cylinder, which the citizens of Kassel and Documenta visitors affectionately called the »giant sausage«.

It was the last Documenta under the direction of its famous founder, Arnold Bode, and with that, Eisfeld has come full circle. Grandfather Erich Eisfeld was a close friend of the renowned architect Paul Bode, Arnold Bode's brother. And Wolfgang Eisfeld in turn with his son. The collaboration with the Documenta artists was more or less in the family and was of course very inspiring, above all the numerous personal encounters and discussions associated with it, of which all Eisfeld generations had and still have intensive memories. The commitment to one of the most important art events in the world continues to this day. The office was responsible for the structural planning of the eye-catching "huts" in the Auepark, which were designed by punkt4 architects for Documenta 13.