Installations
ARS01
Description & Credits
ARS01 Exhibition Design for ARS 01 Unfolding Perspectives
Our exhibition design for ARS 01 synthesises the character of the location -Kiasma, an architecture that articulates space by folding upon itself -with the concept for the exhibition itself -an unfolding of multiplicituous, perspectives, artworks, contexts, influences and new ways of experiencing art. The exhibition architecture takes literal the central aim of the exhibition to provide for new ways of viewing and experiencing art -beyond the potential of the artwork itself -towards a new relation between art and its hosting environment. Through a double movement of enfolding and peeling of material surfaces the space of Kiasma is intensified and the artworks are embraced by surfaces. This offers a less disruptive strategy than framing artworks which commonly results in a disjunction between artwork and exhibition space. The primary role of the exhibition architectures is to mediate between the Kiasma building and the artworks,to create a dynamically intermeshed set of relations between both. Less manipulated areas, in which the architecture is hardly visible, change gradually into moments were architecture takes on more active roles, for example as furniture landscapes that services audiences viewing work, and highly articulated moments in the circulation spaces, were the architecture becomes an ambiguous mediation between the sculptural and the architectural. The architecture is a continuous weft between the building, the visitor and the artwork. It smoothly moves between different roles -that of the mediator, background, furniture or artwork itself. The exhibition architecture lays-out and makes possible numerous routes through the exhibition in spite of the linear organisation of the Kiasma building. In doing so the exhibition architecture enables multiple exiting perspectives and juxtapositions of the artworks.
CREDITS
Principal Architects
Kivi Sotamaa, Tuuli Sotamaa & Michael Hensel
Visualisation
Kim B Larsen
