Karsten Winkels

Background

In 1990, he founded his own architectural firm, Winkels Concepts. While engaged in the reconstruction of the historical centers of the cities of Oberhausen and Mühlheim am Ruhr back in the early 1990s, he paid special attention to lighting design for the urban environment, which as a result became one of the main areas of his activity. Carsten Winkels' lighting design portfolio includes the development of master lighting concepts for ancient German cities (Dresden, Willingen—Schwenningen, Ludinghausen, etc.), landscape lighting projects, including the Beijing Olympic street lighting concept, lighting solutions for public buildings and private residences.  The Moscow bureau "Winkels Concepts" worked in the period from 2005 to 2012. Among the Russian projects of the bureau are a lighting project for one of the office buildings under construction in Moscow City, the Shkolnik shopping center in Moscow, lighting projects for Shopping malls in the Moscow and Tula regions, set design and lighting projects for art exhibitions in the Museum–The Tsaritsyno Estate in Moscow and the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, as part of the Russia-Germany Year of Culture in 2012-13.

During his work at SvetoProekt LLC, under the leadership of K. Winkels, lighting projects were developed for Maroseika-Pokrovka streets, Shchelkovsky Highway (the departure highway from Turgenevskaya Square and up to the MKAD), Stalin skyscrapers, Pokrovsky  Khotkov Monastery and others. Since January 2014, he has been the Art Director and head of the design group.  SvetoProekt LLC.