Description & Credits

Extreme Textiles
Exhibition Design for the Wexner Center for the Arts

The exhibition design amplified the existing architecture of Peter Eisenman’s Wexner Center by adding columns and thickening existing walls. The amplification process created niches for the 600 or so exhibition objects and dramatised the atmospheric differences latent in Eisenman’s design: The dense column grid of the second gallery was made denser, the dark space on its edge was made darker, the high space at the end of the ramp was occupied by exhibits defying gravity and enhancing a sensation of lightness. The exhibition design played on and with Eisenman’s architecture, manipulating it in a manner which made it impossible to distiguish that which was added from the original. The transformation of the gallery was dramatic, yet there was hardly any conceivable exhibition architecture.

Credits

Principal Architect
Kivi Sotamaa

Design Assistant
Alexis Sliwinsky

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