Oliver Klimpel was invited by the Kunsthaus to oversee the redesign of the new foyer and entrance area, including the new museum shop. Klimpel works at the intersection of art and design and produced a range of interior interventions and designs that are now permanent features at the Kunsthaus. These works are based on the belief that a museum not only expresses itself through the works of art exhibited, but also through the narratives of its spaces, its internal processes, and its relationship with the public.

His works for the Kunsthaus vary in the materials and media used, but share an interest in the (occasionally failed) utopias of art and design, and the avant-gardes of the last two centuries. Oliver Klimpel contextualises the flamboyant architecture of the Kunsthaus (Cook/Fournier, 2003) with specific references from visual culture.

The Cat-Tree for the Arts is the name of the new central sculpture in the foyer. Unlike a traditional sculpture, it also allows exhibitions and displays to be staged in the entrance area: a vertical space inhabited by changing artefacts, works of arts, stories and installations. Gleaming mysteriously, the flexible sculpture mimics the courageous gestures of early Modernism, as well as the fictional and pop-cultural avatars of architecture in science fiction.
 

Oliver Klimpel designed a seven-piece series of carpets for Kunsthaus. Each piece imagines a different fictional history and identity for Kunsthaus through a logo (KHG) and a design that revisits different periods and progressive positions in art, from Polynesian-influenced Art Nouveau to early Modernist weaving  designs, from formalised geometric lettering to a Counter-Cultural Gonzo mascot, all integrating the acronymic name of Kunsthaus, K.H.G.