Exhibitions and Installations by designboom guest readers
Take a look at this curated selection of fascinating exhibitions and installations submitted by designboom guest readers from around the world. These projects showcase a wide range of creativity, from augmented reality and highly performative installations to digital art and thoughtful architectural exhibitions.
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Cloud’s Memoir by Black Void (main image also)
name: Cloud’s Memoir
artist: Black Void
host: Climate Ring, Yicang Art Museum, SWISSNEX
producer, writer, director: Cai Yixuan
deputy director: Qu Manning
actor: Wang Bingxu
visual director: Qu Manning
light design: Yin Tinglan
multi-media: Wang Yuanyuan
sound design: Marco Bidin, Zhou Tiange
cloud technology: SmokeGENIE
cinematography: Xie Jinchao
editing: Cai Yixuan, Wang Yuanyuan, Zhou Tairong (Chowchow)
logistics coordination: Xiao Yuhan
Black Void presents Cloud’s Memoir, a multimedia stage installation that merges poetic narrative with environmental data systems to explore how Earth’s atmosphere is shaped by historical and contemporary forces. It premiered at the Climate Ring in Yicang Art Museum and hosted by Swissnex. The work takes the form of a poetic monologue delivered from the perspective of a cloud. Functioning as a fragmented historian, the cloud reflects on the planetary atmosphere as a record shaped by natural disasters, industrial development, war, and global economic structures.
Crafting Atmosphere by MATERIA + Gustavo Carmona
exhibition: Crafting Atmosphere
designer: MATERIA + Gustavo Carmona
curator: European Cultural Centre
venue: Palazzo Mora, Venice
dates: May 5 – November 23, 2025
photography: Patricia Parinejad
sponsors: Zordan, Arozarena y Páramo, Predecon, Factor Eficiencia, Poesía Glass Studio, Kendu, Cristal + Diseño, Asintelix
In an exploration of architecture’s emotional and cultural dimensions, Mexican studio MATERIA + Gustavo Carmona presents ‘Crafting Atmosphere’ at Palazzo Mora, Venice. This exhibition, part of the European Cultural Centre’s ‘Time Space Existence’ exhibition during Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, serves as an immersive spatial narrative, distilling the firm’s design ethos into a powerful experience. It is a meditation on how architecture can transcend mere form and function, inviting visitors to engage with space as a layered and deeply felt construct.
Pop My Bubble by Pujarini Ghost
name: Pop My Bubble
designer: Pujarini Ghosh
photographer: Ayush Soni
Pop My Bubble is an augmented reality installation that explores the construction and deconstruction of identity through algorithmic content curation. Developed by creative technologist and artist Pujarini Ghosh, the work presents an immersive digital environment composed of visual fragments drawn from her social-media feed. As users interact with the AR-rendered space by popping virtual bubbles, the projections immediately reconfigure, illustrating the fluid and responsive nature of identity in algorithmically filtered spaces.
Function Is Art: Exhibition Design for ‘The Extended Art-chitecture’ by JXY Studio
name: Function Is Art: Exhibition Design for ‘The Extended Art-chitecture’
architect: JXY Studio
design team: Jiaxun Xu, and Yue Xu
exhibition: The Extended Art-chitecture
dates: April 7th – May 7th, 2025
curator: Guoqing Yi
venue: North Gallery, SCUT School of Architecture
location: Guangzhou, China
JXY Studio presents Function Is Art: Exhibition Design for ‘The Extended Art-chitecture’, held in the North Gallery of SCUT School of Architecture in Guangzhou, China. The exhibition showcases recent interdisciplinary works of design and art by alumni across experimental architecture, art installation, and conceptual furniture. Through a calibrated interplay of visual perception, bodily scale, and curatorial logic, the design invites exploration and subtly choreographs the viewer’s experience, offering a spatial metaphor for the exhibition’s intellectual framework. Five regular octagonal structures each define a distinct experiential field. These modules mediate between the architectural space of the gallery and the individual exhibits, forming perceptual and spatial transitions while linking together along a continuous circulation path.
name: The AirMax Table
designer: Nigel VMU
producer: Something Made Lab
photographer: Aaron Watson-McNab
Nigel VMU transforms Nike’s Air Sunder into a brutalist table for Offspring, blending sneaker culture, 90s digital nostalgia, and concrete craftsmanship into a functional artwork that redefines how we experience retail, memory, and design. The sculptural installation, the AirMax Table, is an ode to 90s digital culture, created in celebration of the re-release of the iconic model – part of the bold, nostalgic Hi-Lighter Pack. The work draws inspiration from the 1990s’ neon-coded optimism to form a hybrid artwork and furniture piece that bridges the digital past and the physical present.
Zero Meter Above Sea Level 20000 by Ryo Yamada
name: Zero Meter Above Sea Level 20000
designer: Ryo Yamada
location: Edinburgh, Scotland
venue: Summerhall Arts ‘War Memorial Gallery’
dates: June 26th – July 6th, 2025
Ryo Yamada’s Zero Meter Above Sea Level 20000 is a site-specific installation situated in the War Memorial Gallery at Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh. The work models the projected sea level in this specific location 19,980 years into the future, assuming a continued trajectory of global sea-level rise. With ongoing climate-induced sea-level rise, currently estimated at approximately 0.5 meters globally over the next century, the piece extrapolates this trend to visualize a time when the sea may reach the current elevation of the gallery site.
Load gallery, Barcelona, Spain
name: Load gallery
founder and CEO: Alex Simorré
location: Load gallery, Carrer Llull 134, Barcelona, Spain
Load Gallery, located in Barcelona, is a space for the exhibition of digital and hybrid artworks, utilizing advanced audiovisual systems to support varied formats of artistic expression. The gallery features five panoramic LED screens positioned along the street-facing facade, ensuring continuous visibility. Inside, the Round Room serves as a dedicated immersive environment with four curved screens arranged in a circular layout. Inspired by organic geometries, the room is optimized for 360-degree digital content. Both the visual and acoustic components of the gallery are engineered for consistency across a wide range of digital media formats.
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