Installation Art transforms a space into part of the artwork itself. Artists may combine objects, architecture, light, sound, video and interactive elements to create an experience that unfolds around the viewer.
Jürgen Addiers opened I Have No Idea What I Am Doing at M HKA in Antwerp on 28 August 2026. The exhibition combines painting, installation, neon and video, but its title may be the most interesting material in the room. The sentence itself becomes a physical sculpture made from metal spheres suspended from the ceiling.…
Rebecca Belmore’s Fountain, created for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2005 Venice Biennale, does something deceptively simple with video: the image is projected onto falling water rather than a conventional screen. The work moves between fire, water and blood, placing elemental imagery against an industrial North American landscape. The physical projection surface changes everything for…
Twenty-one years after representing New Zealand at the Venice Biennale, et al.’s the fundamental practice is being shown in its entirety in Aotearoa for the first time. Five moving autonomous systems, computer-generated voices and sound form what feels like a dystopian orchestra. What interests me is how easily machines can borrow the language of authority.…
Fabienne Hess’s Lo invisible y sus tramas at Museo Amparo turns attention toward museum staff whose work normally disappears behind the exhibition. Images printed on silk move through the space while rarely shown collection pieces sit beside familiar works. I like this reversal of attention. Museums teach us what to look at, but they can…
