The exhibition at Monacensia is dedicated to the young and diverse text production in Munich during the 1980s. Text, medium, message, and attitude are closely intertwined here. Pop and punk playfully deconstruct the established media world, with radical aesthetics serving as a means of conveying political demands.

New social and urban movements include the activism of the gay rights movement against discrimination and rigid AIDS policies, as well as the efforts of the women's and lesbian movement for self-determined spaces. The exhibition outlines aesthetic procedures of subculture for a modern-day debate on emancipation and the audacity of revolt.

Various artistic expressions were influential in the 1980s. Bright and bold colors coexisted with black and white. Technology mixed with homemade creations, while glossy magazines existed alongside simply copied fanzines. The challenge for the design concept was to give space to this stylistic diversity in content and design while developing a unified exhibition look.

Collages were created, composed of posters, frames with exhibits, and shelves for publications in the standardized formats DIN A2, DIN A1, and DIN A0. This creates a wall design resembling a shared apartment in the 1980s. Band posters hang next to newspaper clippings, political posters, song lyrics, and manifestos. In between, there are photos and shelves with books or life-size cardboard cutouts.

The graphic patterns and colors of 80s pop meet the rough black DIY style of punk in the design, giving the exhibition a distinctive look.

Therefore fonts are being used that aesthetically evoke the 1980s but were actually designed in 2019, giving them a contemporary feel with their shapes.

Like a "common thread," the posters are connected by small drawings, arrows, handwritten notes, or graphic elements that typically arise during copying. This commentary layer serves to clarify connections and provides anchors for educational outreach.

Formally, the exhibition is divided into four plateaus, each of which is opened with an introductory text and a printed excerpt from an interview. The exhibits in the display cases are placed on paper surfaces that, like the posters, are made of printed poster paper. In this way, collages are also created on this layer of communication. Additional informative material is offered in a record box, and video documents play on media stations integrated into the wall flow.

In the DIY plateau, templates and a button machine are available so that visitors can create and take home buttons as souvenirs.

For the digital networking and expansion of the exhibition "Pop Punk Politics - The 1980s in Munich," trailers, eyewitness interviews, and interviews with young people on topics related to the exhibition and its impact on the present day were created.

The videos make an important contribution to the developed educational outreach concept and are shared on social media in various contexts.

The independent branding of the content formats, designed in the exhibition's corporate design, allows for clear association with the exhibition.