gggrafik has accompanied Mannheimer Sommer since 2018, shaping the visual identity of the international festival for music and theatre. The 2026 edition is dedicated to the theme “Lasst euch entgrenzen” / “Let yourselves be unbounded”, exploring the dissolution of borders — spatial, artistic and perceptual. With the Opera moving from the city centre to the OPAL venue on the urban periphery, the festival itself enters an identity of displacement, framed by highways and industrial zones. This shift becomes the conceptual ground for a programme that explores the margins of performativity — the outskirts of opera, theatre and cultural form — placing the refined next to the raw, the classical next to the accidental, the familiar next to the unknown. The design translates this idea into a system that oscillates between structure and rupture. The typographic foundation developed since 2018 remains in place, but is pushed into a visual field influenced by Hard Edge painting and the Casablanca Art School aesthetic. Order and instability coexist: clarity fractures, rhythm dissolves, and form repeatedly slips into flow and back again. Across all media, the identity operates as a dynamic tension between control and release. Waves break structure, systems crystallise and fragment in the same breath. From print to digital formats and large-scale banners at OPAL, the design expands into space — turning the festival’s visual language into an environment of continuous movement, uncertainty and encounter.