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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
5 days ago

refractive acoustic prism ecotonos by slalom & una/unless debuts in milan with hidden hive

Ecotonos at Open Air Design 2025 blends acoustic design and ecological cinema to promote silence, multispecies listening, and reconnection between city and biodiversity.
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fromArtforum
5 days ago

London Smog: Around Fall Shows

Artist-run gallery shows in a repurposed pub combine gritty, evocative paintings and photography with unconventional, sometimes gimmicky, site-specific installations that revive space.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
6 days ago

black void's shanghai exhibition visualizes a planet in flux through digital cloud installations

Black Void presents its first solo exhibition, The Sky, Oscillating, at the historic Bund·City Hall as part of the 24th China Shanghai International Arts Festival. The interdisciplinary collective, founded and directed by Yixuan Cai, with partner Yuhan Xiao and core member Yun Hong, brings together practitioners from digital media, architecture, data science, and music. The exhibition gathers more than ten works developed across three years of research, using light, atmospheric data, and spatial installation to examine the relationship between natural systems and human-made infrastructures.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

inverse ruin: gijs van vaerenbergh suspends archaic temple remains in southern italy

Inverse Ruin by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh stands within the Archaeological Park of Herakleia in Policoro, Italy a quiet expanse where traces of the Archaic Temple meet the open landscape of the Ionian plain. Developed as part of the broader project Siris, curated by STUDIO STUDIO STUDIO with artistic direction by Antonio Oriente, the installation forms one of several interventions intended to bring clarity to a site shaped by layered histories.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 weeks ago

A Ring of Light: Ancient Symbols Meet Modern Art at Giza - Yanko Design

What makes this work so compelling is how it plays with reflection and perception. The polished aluminum surface doesn't just sit there looking pretty. It actively engages with its surroundings, capturing the shifting desert light, the blue Egyptian sky, and the ancient stones in a constantly changing display. Depending on where you stand and what time of day you visit, you're basically looking at a different artwork. It's responsive design taken to a literal, sculptural extreme.
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fromARTnews.com
3 weeks ago

Fresh off Art Basel Installation, Katharina Grosse Joins White Cube

Katharina Grosse creates large-scale, vibrantly hued abstract paintings and site-responsive spray-painted installations; White Cube will represent her with a Bermondsey exhibition in April 2026.
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fromColossal
3 weeks ago

Against the Pyramids of Giza, Vhils' Etched Portraits Are Monuments of the Everyday

Vhils installed a temporary series of 65 repurposed-door sculptures at the Pyramids of Giza exploring memory, identity, and the human impulse to build and leave traces.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

interlocking bamboo and cedar frames shape wild boar nest installation by cheng tsung feng

Nesting Plan VII translates Formosan wild boar nesting behavior into a semi-spherical bamboo-and-wood installation that offers sheltered seating and reflects animal spatial logic.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

KAWS lands in renaissance florence with large-scale timber installation 'the message'

KAWS installs two monumental over-six-meter wooden sculptures, KAWS: THE MESSAGE, in Palazzo Strozzi's Renaissance courtyard in Florence from Oct 29, 2025 to Jan 25, 2026.
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fromianVisits
1 month ago

Contemporary art exhibition vanishes within Freud's antique-filled museum

Cathie Pilkington's site-specific installation about Freud's housekeeper at the Freud Museum is largely invisible, blending into the museum's antiquities and easy to overlook.
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fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

Kiva Motnyk on Peonies, Natural Palette, Sonia Delaunay + More

Kiva Motnyk creates multimedia works combining handmade textiles and painting from foraged, archived materials to convey personal and social histories and produce tactile, site-specific environments.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

rhythmic layering of wood and fabric weaves sail-inspired installation by cheng tsung feng

A timber installation reconfigures Roppongi's skyline into a glowing, shrine-influenced structure that merges architectural profiles, boat-building logic, and cultural memory.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

inflatable sculptures reimagine antiques as expressions of paradox in paris' iconic flea market

Uchronia's Paradox installs monumental inflatable sculptures at Paul Bert Serpette that contrast permanence and transience through reimagined architectural and domestic forms.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

twin concrete cube sculptures link rokko and berlin through tiny video transmission holes

Paired cube sculptures in Mount Rokko and Berlin transmit live views between sites, linking extraction-and-recovery histories while contrasting urban and natural rhythms.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

coral-toned timber and mirror canopy by GRRIZ transforms footbridge above river in france

KAPIA transforms a footbridge midpoint into a sheltered, reflective kapia using Douglas fir structure and mirrored dibond canopy to encourage pause, encounter, and contemplation.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

fabric and sound art installations evoke underwater landscape within gothic dutch church

A suspended green-voile sculpture and multichannel soundscape transform the Grote Kerk Veere into an underwater-like, tactile reflection on Zeeland's water history and climate.
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fromArtforum
3 months ago

The Library at Closing Time

Wolfgang Tillmans's retrospective transforms the Centre Pompidou's public library into an intimate, site-specific portrait of the building amid its impending five-year closure.
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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 months ago

What to see in Seoul during Frieze: from Adrian Villar Rojas's confrontational sculptures to an examination of melancholy

Adrián Villar Rojas transforms Art Sonje Center into an immersive post-Anthropocene environment using site-specific installations combining organic and synthetic materials to evoke collapse and regeneration.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 months ago

ernesto neto suspends colossal crocheted installation within seoul museum of art

The Seoul Museum of Art presents 'Ernesto Neto: Ba Ka Ba, a Dance of the Eternal Polarities,' a new site-specific installation by the Brazilian artist that transforms the Korean museum's Seosomun Main Branch lobby into a sensory environment. Commissioned as part of the 2025 SeMA Public Space Project, the woven artwork expands Ernesto Neto's longstanding interest in the relationships between body, space, and collective experience.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 months ago

penique productions envelops melbourne's royal exhibition building with inflatable MATRIA

Penique Productions transforms Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building into a large pink, inflatable, womb-like installation exploring refuge, memory, and care, open through August 31, 2025.
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