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Expo 2025 in Osaka

"Designing Future Society for Our Lives"

"Designing Future Society for Our Lives" - under this theme, countries from all around the world will meet in Japan. From 13 April 2025 to 13 October 2025, the Expo will open its gates in Osaka. Germany will also be represented with its own pavilion.

The German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan

After the great success of the German Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, Koelnmesse GmbH is once again organising and running the German contribution at a world exhibition. The German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka has dedicated in its presence to theme around which the shaping of our future revolves: the circular economy. It is all based on the notion of circularity or – translated into design terms – on the shape of a circle: the Pavilion itself, the visitor experience, the design, the technologies and future visions presented all assume this form.

The team behind the German Pavilion

Koelnmesse GmbH will be organising and running the German Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

The “German Pavilion Consortium Expo 2025 Osaka” comprising the two companies facts and fiction (Cologne) and GL events (Lyon and Japan) is in charge of concept design, planning and realisation. facts and fiction is responsible for content, exhibition and media design, and the pavilion is being built by GL events. The architecture and spatial design come from LAVA – Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (Berlin). A cultural agency and a restaurant operator will be added at a later date.

Expo 2025 Osaka – at a glance

  • Expo theme: Designing Future Society for Our Lives
  • Subthemes: Saving Lives, Empowering Lives, Connecting Lives
  • Duration: 13.04.2025 until 13.10.2025
  • Size of Expo site: 1,55 km²
  • Participants: about 150 countries
  • Visits: 28 million

German Pavilion - facts and figures

  • Responsible Agency: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
  • Pavilion title: “Wa! Germany”
  • Focus theme: Circular economy
  • Chosen subtheme: Connecting Lives
  • Plot size: Approx. 3,500 m²
  • Budget: 50 million euros

You have questions about the German representation at Expo 2025?
Here you can get in contact with us.

Christopher Hecker

Director

Christopher Hecker

Katharina Weil

Management Team

Katharina Weil

Anja Rattemeyer

Management Team

Anja Rattemeyer

Yong Yu

Head of Human Resources

Yong Yu

Annika Belisle

Head of Communications

Annika Belisle
Contact for International, Social Media and Human Resources
Tel. +49 221 821-2251
Write an e-mail

Jana Soll

Deputy Head of Communications

Jana Soll