At ORGATEC manufacturers from some 40 countries show how offices, learning spaces and hotels will be furnished. Furniture, acoustics and lighting work here as rooms, not as single pieces — and that is how we photograph your stand (booth): as a walk-in environment with people in it, and as product imagery that dealers and specifiers use until the next edition.
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| Dates | Tuesday 27 to Friday 30 October 2026, 9 am to 6 pm daily |
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| Venue | Koelnmesse, Messeplatz 1, 50679 Cologne — per the hall plan, Workspace Solutions in halls 5.2, 6, 7 and 8, Contract Solutions in hall 10.2; plus Design Post Köln in Deutz as an additional venue in 2026 |
| Frequency | Every two years, four days, trade visitors only |
| Profile | Leading international trade fair for the workplace and contract sector: office furniture, seating, acoustics, lighting, flooring, room systems and digital solutions — in 2024 some 729 exhibitors from 40 countries on 140,000 m², three quarters of them from abroad |
| Audience | Around 50,000 trade visitors from 126 countries (2024), more than half from abroad: architects, interior designers, specifiers, dealers and corporate buyers — accompanied by the Work Culture Festival |
| Our travel time | About 60 minutes from Essen — travel included in the package price |
ORGATEC stands are built as working environments: lounge zones, focus rooms, acoustic panels, carpet, timber and warm light. What a catalogue rendering cannot show is the job of trade fair photography — the space as a whole, the materiality of wool felt, veneer and powder-coated metal, and colours the way the designer intended them. Under the mixed light of warm stand spots and cooler hall lighting, whites and textile colours drift; we balance that on the stand and deliver images that sit alongside the manufacturer's existing range imagery.
Then come the details that count in a sales conversation: height adjustment, chair mechanics, cable management, edge finish, stitching. And people using the furniture — a stand on which visitors sit, take calls and argue says more about the product than an empty build. We shoot without flash and without interrupting conversations.
Motion shows what a photo cannot: desks rising, partitions sliding, acoustic modules clicking together. We film a walk-through of the stand, the functions of your key products and short statements from product designers and management. From that we cut a 30-second highlight for LinkedIn and vertical clips your dealers and distribution partners can use in their own channels.
If your designer or managing director speaks at the Work Culture Festival, we photograph and film the appearance — speaker, audience and vertical quotes.
ORGATEC takes place only every two years. The material from Cologne stays current until the next edition in 2028 and replaces studio shoots in catalogue, website and social media for two years. It is worth choosing the shoot day deliberately.
Tuesday is opening day with press and a dense programme; Wednesday and Thursday bring the most specifier and dealer conversations. For clean room and product shots we use the hour before the 9 am opening, then move on to conversations, details and interviews. Friday is quieter and suits team portraits. Highlight video and first images are delivered on the evening of the shoot day.
ORGATEC 2026 runs under the theme “From rooms to relationships”. These times, places and programme points help you plan your shoot day.
Visitors are admitted from 9 am to 6 pm; exhibitors have access from 8 am to 7 pm. The hour after closing suits shots of your stand lighting with no crowd: evening mood, luminaires, material close-ups.
The current hall plan puts Workspace Solutions in halls 5.2, 6, 7 and 8 and Contract Solutions in hall 10.2. New this year: Design Post in Deutz is an extra ORGATEC venue, with brands such as Flokk, Klöber and Wagner Living.
On Wednesday 28 October the ORGATEC x WW-Festival Party runs from 6 to 10 pm in hall 6, with DJ sets and Alice Merton live. A relaxed setting for team and client pictures away from the stand.
The AIT Architecture+ Office Innovation Award is presented on 27 October at 5 pm in hall 7.1, where all entries stay on show for the whole fair. If you entered, capture both the hand-over and your exhibit.
idd cologne runs across the city from 27 to 31 October, alongside Design Season Cologne from 26 October. ORGATEC itself stays trade-only with a ticket, so content from both worlds reaches specifiers and end customers alike.
Information as published by the organiser (orgatec.com, idd-cologne.com), September 2026.
Wool felt, veneer and metal true to colour under mixed light — room shots and details for catalogue and website.
Luminaires, acoustic panels and room systems photographed so both effect and construction are visible.
Walk-through, functions in motion and a 30-second highlight, cut on the show day.
Architecture and lighting mood before the doors open, with no visitors in frame.
Architects, interior designers and dealers on your stand — no flash, no interruption.
Statements from designers and management with radio mics, delivered with subtitles.
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: by invoice or online by credit card, details in the quote. No German VAT for non-EU companies; reverse charge for EU companies with VAT ID.
Tell us the date, your stand and what the images are for. You normally get a fixed-price quote within 24 hours, with no hidden line items.
We bring our own equipment, follow an agreed shot list and work discreetly, without interrupting conversations or demos. A first selection is ready while the show day is still running.
Finished photos and video for LinkedIn, PR, your website and social media via a private download link, at the latest 24 hours after the event ends. Two revision rounds included.
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. Travel to Cologne is included.
As a room: with corrected lines, matched white balance and sightlines that show how the zones connect. Added to that are details of the individual products and shots with visitors actually using the furniture.
Wednesday or Thursday: the most specifier and dealer conversations, plus the hour before opening for clean room shots. Friday is quieter and good for team portraits and interviews.
Yes. ORGATEC is held every two years, and many exhibitors plan the shoot deliberately as material until the 2028 edition. You receive all images and videos for web, print and social media.
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 product lines 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.
