Art playgrounds

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This cloud playground is too much fun – Marmara Forum’s Oyun Alanı

Architecture, Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

The roof park of Marmara Forum is perhaps one of the most photographed in Istanbul, Turkey. It is situated in the Bakirköy district and a marvel of architecture located in a residential area in the city. Bakirköy is a crucial shopping and commercial center and is one of the most visited in the country. …

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Ernesto Neto’s Gaia Mother Tree crochet work & 420kg of spices

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

In 2018, the atrium of Zurich’s main station basked in the glory of a giant, colorful installation by the Brazilian contemporary artist Ernesto Neto. The huge Amazon tree-like sculpture stretched from the ceiling to the floor of the Swiss central station, helping set the mood and brighten the travelers’ spirit. It is the star …

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Ayşe Erkmen makes you walk on water

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Erkmen’s On Water debuted at the 2017 international open-air exhibition, Sculpture Projects, in Münster, Germany. It became an instant hit with visitors who used her bridge to cross the canal. On Water was a temporary footbridge installation that was laid underwater in an abandoned basin on the Dortmund-Ems canal. Such was the scale of …

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A floating pavilion in Taipei – By Shen Ting Tseng Architects

Architecture, Installations / 2 minutes of reading

The Floating Pavilion The Floating Pavilion was a temporary structure exhibited at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum Plaza, Taiwan, in 2016, as the winning design in the annual competition to build pavilions at different spaces in the TFAM complex. The pavilion was designed by Shen Ting Tseng Architects to add vitality to the plaza, which …

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Tiger & Turtle – A roller coaster for pedestrians

Sculptures / 7 minutes of reading

The locals call this sculpture the world’s slowest roller coaster, but the most fitting name will be stroller coaster. It gives visitors the pleasure of a fairground ride without the speed usually characterized by roller coaster rides. However, the official name is the Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain. This interactive installation-turned-landmark …

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London’s Song Board is too much fun

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

London’s Song Board Organized at Central Saint Martins in London, the Song Board was a spectacular multi-sensory installation. It tried providing a playful and memorable experience in the heart of the city. It proved to be highly engaging while delivering a unique experience to the passengers. At this interactive platform, the visitors could turn the …

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Why were there seesaws at the border?

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

The US-Mexico border wall has become a battleground for political theater, but also various artistic interventions. One of these outstanding artworks is the pink seesaws. They went viral after they were installed by the two creative architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello. Between the erect giant steel posts of the border fence lie …

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Allora & Calzadilla’s Chalk – What would you do with it?

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

The two Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have worked together to make captivating artworks. Allora and Calzadilla are known for their interactive art pieces in public, often addressing social and political issues and engaging questions of history, geopolitics, and culture. Collaborating since 1995, most of their artworks combine video, performances, sound art …

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Olafur Eliasson’s fascinating colorful haze installation in Beijing

Installations, Light Installations / 3 minutes of reading

What was Feelings Are Facts? Feelings Are Facts was created as a result of a collaboration between Danish artist Olafur Eliasson and Beijing-based architect Ma Yansong of MAD studio. Feelings Are Facts was constructed within one of the rooms at the UCCA galleries. It measured approximately 60m by 20m and featured a moderately slanted floor …

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Why do people love these glowing seesaws?

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Montreal’s Seesaw Installation The Seesaw Installation in Montreal was opened for public viewing in 2015. 30 seesaws of different sizes were designed and installed in the public square of Place des Festivals. The interactive seesaws were surrounded by lights and sound to amplify the experience of the visitors. The square of Place des Festivals, Montreal’s …

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LikeArchitects: Please step on this artwork

Architecture, Installations / 2 minutes of reading

LIKEarchitects x Jen Lewin LIKEarchitects, a Porto-based architecture studio constructed the temporary exhibition at Colombo Shopping Mall in Lisbon, Portugal that would hold Jen Lewin’s highly interactive luminous installation titled ‘The Pool’. About LIKEarchitects As it turns out, this was not LIKEarchitects first innovative project. Over the years, the Porto-based studio has consolidated a reputation …

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Tomás Saraceno’s In Orbit – A seemingly impossible installation

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

A massive installation by Tomás Saraceno titled In Orbit has to be one of the artist’s most notable and successful installations. At a height of more than 20 meters, Saraceno suspended a mesh construction within which audiences could move weightlessly on the net. The net construction, accessible on three levels, was designed to resemble …

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Karina Smigla-Bobinski – ADA, 2010, sphere, helium, charcoal, installation view, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 2013 feat

Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s ADA creates these unpredictable paintings

Installations, Paintings / 2 minutes of reading

What is Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s ADA? ADA, a kinetic sculpture by Karina Smigla-Bobinski, stands out for being interactive and unpredictable; Imagine a giant ball that is filled with helium gas and its surface covered with charcoal spikes. The helium causes the ball to be suspended in the air and the charcoal sticks provide grips and a …

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Martin Creed fills entire museums with his balloons

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Martin Creed’s Half the Air in a Given Space Martin Creed’s Work Half the Air in a Given Space is a brilliantly fun way to experience interactive art. As an audience member, you find yourself pushing your way through a space, whether it be a room or a hallway or a lobby, filled (only halfway) …

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Jeremy Deller’s Sacrilege – Stonehenge has never been this much fun

Sculptures / 1 minute of reading

About Sacrilege is a life-sized, inflatable replica of Stonehenge, the British heritage and pagan site and popular tourist attraction. It is a bouncy castle, an interactive inflatable pillow that viewers may walk and jump on. It is an energetic, humorous work that Jeremy Deller describes as a way to get reacquainted with ancient Britain with …

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Gelitin installed a pool on top of London museum

Architecture, Installations / 4 minutes of reading

In 2001 Austrian art collective Gelitin made a bold move on the 91st floor of the WTC in New York. The group of four removed a window and eventually pushed a wooden balcony through the hole. At the end of it, they stood on it while photos of this incident were taken from a …

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