Baumesse Essen opens the show year at the venue: just under 250 exhibitors around building, renovation, energy saving and living, three days of homeowners with concrete projects in halls 7 and 8. For trade businesses and regional suppliers this is where real pictures of their own team and products are made — our office is a five-minute walk from the east entrance.
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| Dates | Friday 8 to Sunday 10 January 2027, daily 10:00 to 18:00 |
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| Venue | Messe Essen, halls 7 and 8 — Messeplatz 1 (east entrance), 45131 Essen |
| Frequency | Annual in January, three days, public show |
| Profile | Regional show for building, living, renovation and energy saving: windows and doors, heating and heat pumps, bathrooms, flooring, roofing, gardens, security and smart home — just under 250 exhibitors on around 12,000 square metres |
| Audience | Visitors are homeowners and builders from the Ruhr area with concrete plans; just under 20,000 visitors came in 2026. Admission 5 euros, children under 16 free |
| Our travel time | Our office is on Messeallee, a five-minute walk from the grounds — no travel costs |
The typical Baumesse stand shows cross-sections: a window profile cut open, three square metres of parquet, a heat pump with the casing off, a glass shower screen. These samples are small, often reflective and sit under the even hall lighting of halls 7 and 8, which flattens edges and surfaces. We bring our own light and polarising filters and photograph the samples so that profile depth, wood grain and glass clarity remain visible — material that replaces the manufacturer catalogue scan on your website.
For most exhibitors the team matters even more than the product. A roofer, a heating engineer or a window installer from the Ruhr area sells trust, and trust comes from faces. We photograph your staff in consultation, sample in hand and as a group in front of the stand, all in consistent light.
Regional businesses are found on Google, not on LinkedIn. So we cut short vertical clips from the show material that fit your Google Business Profile and Instagram: a colleague explains in 30 seconds what matters when fitting a heat pump in an older house, a customer asks a question on the stand, the team sets out the samples in the morning. These are the videos a family from Bochum watches before they call.
On request we record two or three such explainers with radio mics right on the stand. They are delivered with subtitles because social media is watched without sound.
Friday is the quietest day: the stand is freshly built, the aisles are clear and your team has time for portraits and explainer clips. Saturday and Sunday bring the families and the full aisles — the pictures that show your stand is where people get advice. A four-hour package on Friday covers product and team shots; if you want both, book half a Friday plus two hours on Saturday morning.
Because Baumesse is the first show of the year, you hold the material for the whole building season before the spring enquiries arrive.
Window profiles, flooring, bathroom ceramics and heat pumps with our own light and polarising filter, no reflections.
Your staff talking to homeowners — the faces a trade business sells.
Short vertical explainers from the stand, subtitled, for your business profile and social media.
Build, logo and lighting before the doors open, with no visitors in frame.
Families, conversations and samples in hand on Saturday — pictures that show demand.
Short statements from owner and advisers with radio mics, delivered with subtitles.
A post with your stand while the show is still running gets seen and shared. That is why every package includes finished photos and video within 24 hours after the event ends — first images usually the same day. Two revision rounds included.
A sample from our production: the event recap for your website and LinkedIn — below it, native 9:16 footage for Reels, Shorts and Stories, shot in parallel with the main coverage.
Event recap · YOOZ
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Brand event · YOOZ
Trade fair clip · Vapes Bars
Fixed prices, defined deliverables, predictable turnaround. All prices exclude VAT and include travel within North Rhine-Westphalia.
Add-on: On-stand interview + extended highlight video (approx. 90 sec.) €190
Payment: 50 % deposit on booking by credit card (Stripe link sent with the quote) or bank transfer, 50 % on the show day. No German VAT for non-EU companies; reverse charge for EU companies with VAT ID.
Capacity: maximum 4 exhibitors per show day — please reserve early.
Tell us the date, venue, stand size and what the images are for. You normally get a fixed-price quote within 24 hours, with no hidden line items.
We arrive with our own equipment, work discreetly around your stand, and never interrupt a conversation or a demo. Shot list agreed in advance.
Edited photos and cut video via a private download link — within 24 hours after the event ends.
From €990 plus VAT for two hours of photo and video on site with at least 30 edited images and a 30-second highlight video. Four hours from €1,490, a full show day from €1,990. No travel costs apply for Messe Essen — our office is on Messeallee.
Especially then. Two hours are enough for team portraits, stand shots and a few short clips you can use for a whole year on your website and Google Business Profile.
Friday for quiet product and team shots, Saturday for full aisles. If you only want one slot, take Friday afternoon.
Yes. We work with polarising filters and our own light so shower screens, window glass and lacquered fronts are shown without reflections of the hall lighting.
Yes. Interviews, briefing and the entire engagement run in English — a large share of our trade fair clients come from outside Germany. Invoices with VAT ID for EU companies, no German VAT for companies outside the EU.
Send us your hall, stand number and the products or services you want to feature. We will propose a time window and a fixed-price quote.
We normally reply within 24 hours. For short-notice bookings during a show week, please call.
