Art in shopping malls

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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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Xu Zhen’s In just a blink of an eye – Defying the laws of physics?

Performances, Sculptures / 5 minutes of reading

Have you ever seen one of those perfectly timed photos that capture the exact moment someone begins to fall on their bum? With modern technology, it is not hard to capture that “perfect moment”. However, capturing that “perfect moment” in a live performance is nearly impossible; unless you are Xu Zhen. Chinese artist Xu …

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This was Andy Warhol’s Temporary Museum

Architecture, Installations / 2 minutes of reading

The Temporary Andy Warhol Museum is a unique project where a commercial space is used to host a cultural space. The temporary museum is actually made of stacked aluminum metal paint cans laid out like one part of a trellis game. It was originally designed to host an exhibition by Andy Warhol in cooperation …

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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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Carsten Höller’s slides: A fun way to experience museums

Architecture, Sculptures / 9 minutes of reading

Carsten Höller & his work Carsten Höller is well known for playfully including his slide installations in major museums across the world. Höller, formerly a scientist with a degree in agronomy, is famous for repurposing real-world components, such as slides, for art spaces. The majority of his works feature aesthetics that are relational, meaning that …

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FriendsWithYou: Are these gigantic blow-up sculptures art?

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Highly interactive visual art has forged its way into the hearts and minds of the public. This new caliber of art is quirky, but it manages to so effortlessly fuse art, technology, and fashion in a trendy way that has us all captured. One such collective is run by Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval …

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Elmgreen & Dragset’s Short-Cut looks like an accident scene

Installations / 7 minutes of reading

Berlin-based artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset have carved their career out of fixation with objects and their settings and what happens when those particular objects are recontextualized in the name of art. In this instance, the duo was commissioned by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi to create a large-scale installation for Milan’s quintessential shopping mall, Galleria …

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