Artists transform architectural spaces through installations, memory, and light

by Elias Thornbury About Elias ThornburyOctober 30, 20266 links · ~15 min read · 1 without a length · ~1 min for the TL;DR

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Ann Toebbe connects physical spaces with personal feelings and memories by skewing architectural environments in her paintings.
Studio no.29 activates Philip Johnson's Wolfhouse in New York with edible sculptures, snap-button metal armatures, and a site-specific exhibition titled island on land.
Fondazione A.N.M.I.G. - Genova and Associazione Culturale Giano present Eugenio Fuselli's architecture of care, shelter, and houses under the patronage of Regione Liguria.
Anna Pajak designed her easel area to feel like a painting chapel dedicated to the things she believes in.
Sabine Marcelis alters Zürich’s Museum für Gestaltung using Mathmos lava columns, an IKEA light tunnel, and an installation created with Boris Acket.
DRIFT founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta suspended illuminated glass rods in Aeolus, an interactive sculpture representing the wind.

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Artists and designers transform physical and architectural structures into personal, sensory environments. In a 2 min read article for Colossal, Grace Ebert reports that Ann Toebbe connects physical spaces with memories and feelings by skewing architectural rooms in her paintings. In a 6 min read article for designboom | architecture & design magazine, Iñaki Laguardia reports that Sabine Marcelis transforms Zürich’s Museum für Gestaltung using Mathmos lava columns, an IKEA light tunnel, and an installation with Boris Acket. Across these works, creators use light, sculpture, and personal belief to redefine buildings and domestic settings, from Anna Pajak shaping her easel space like a chapel to DRIFT building interactive wind sculptures.

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Colossal2 min readAnn Toebbe's Skewed Paintings Transform Architectural Spaces into Cherished Places
Meditating on the connection between physical spaces and the feelings and memories bound within them is central to Ann Toebbe's practice.

Grace Ebert · curated 1 time

designboom | architecture & design magazine4 min readedible sculptures and snap-button metal armatures activate philip johnson's wolfhouse in NY
presented at wolfhouse, new york, island on land - a landscape in five states is a site-specific exhibition by studio no.29.

Lang Lang · curated 1 time

ArchDailyEugenio Fuselli. What Is a House? Architecture of Care and Shelter
Fondazione A.N.M.I.G. - Genova, in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Giano and under the patronage of Regione Liguria and Ordine degli...
ArchDaily · a few free articles a month

Hyperallergic1 min readA View From the Easel: Anna Pajak
“I wanted it to feel like a chapel, a place for everything I believe in. My painting chapel.”

designboom | architecture & design magazine6 min readsabine marcelis turns light and color into immersive spaces at zurich’s museum für gestaltung
sabine marcelis transforms zürich’s museum für gestaltung with mathmos lava columns, an ikea light tunnel, and an installation with boris acket.

Iñaki Laguardia · curated 1 time

Colossal1 min readIn 'Aeolus,' DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind
"Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction," say DRIFT founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta.

Kate Mothes · curated 1 time

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Colossal2 min readAnn Toebbe's Skewed Paintings Transform Architectural Spaces into Cherished PlacesMeditating on the connection between physical spaces and the feelings and memories bound within them is central to Ann Toebbe's practice.

designboom | architecture & design magazine4 min readedible sculptures and snap-button metal armatures activate philip johnson's wolfhouse in NYpresented at wolfhouse, new york, island on land - a landscape in five states is a site-specific exhibition by studio no.29.

ArchDailyEugenio Fuselli. What Is a House? Architecture of Care and ShelterFondazione A.N.M.I.G. - Genova, in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Giano and under the patronage of Regione Liguria and Ordine degli...ArchDaily · a few free articles a month

Hyperallergic1 min readA View From the Easel: Anna Pajak“I wanted it to feel like a chapel, a place for everything I believe in. My painting chapel.”

designboom | architecture & design magazine6 min readsabine marcelis turns light and color into immersive spaces at zurich’s museum für gestaltungsabine marcelis transforms zürich’s museum für gestaltung with mathmos lava columns, an ikea light tunnel, and an installation with boris acket.

Colossal1 min readIn 'Aeolus,' DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind"Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction," say DRIFT founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta.