Overview

Exhibition design has long been studied in the fields of art, design and architecture, but the focus has been on the design of the exhibition narrative, rather than the design as interior space. This book breaks new ground, exploring the complex relationships which exist between exhibitions, museums and galleries and interior design. Taking a case-study-driven approach, chapters explore a wealth of spaces; looking at contemporary art galleries and globally-renowned museums, and also subverted spaces like squatted homes, high-rises, distilleries and laboratories. Their geographic coverage ranges from socialist Eastern Europe to the US, stopping via many other countries such as Germany, Croatia, Australia and the UK. These case studies rethink how exhibitions interact with their spatial surroundings, with key themes including the role of labour in creating these spaces, the dualism of public and private space, the impact of exhibition audiences and reception, the political implications of exhibitions and the influence of institutions. With an interdisciplinary range of contributors, and combining a historical and contemporary outlook, this is a must-read for anyone designing or curating design-driven museum spaces.

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Author:   Penny Sparke (Kingston University, UK) ,  Dr Jana Scholze (Kingston University, UK) ,  Pat Kirkham (Kingston University, UK) ,  Dr Ersi Ioannidou (Kingston University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781350449756

ISBN 10:   135044975
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   02 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Penny Sparke, Fiona Fisher, Ersi Ioannidou, Pat Kirkham, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Jana Scholze Section 1: Exhibitions and the Private/Public Divide 1. Museum Exhibitions and the Interior: Labour, Emotion and Hierarchy ‘Behind the Scenes’ - Claire Wintle (University of Brighton) 2. Negotiating the White Cube: Textile Interiors - Trine Friis Sørensen (Aarhus University) 3. Exhibitions as Laboratories and Office Workstations in the 1990s - Lia Carreira (University of Southampton) 4. Model Apartments and a New Culture of Living in Socialist Yugoslavia - Cvetka Požar and Maja Vardjan (co-curators at MAO) 5. Tangible Advice – A Home Show in the Periphery of Danish Design in 1953 - Hans-Christian Jensen (University of Southern Denmark) Section 2: Exhibitions as Ambiguous Interiors 6. The Exhibition is a Banana: How Imaginary Interiors Change the World - Sam Jacob (University of Illinois Chicago) 7. Exhibitions, Interiors, Exteriors: Ambiguous Continuities in the Work of Artists International Association, 1933-1943 - Harriet Atkinson (University of Brighton) 8. The Society of Interior Designers of Australia (SIDA): Exhibitions, Room Settings, Fantasy and Spectacle, 1962-1971 - Catriona Quinn (University of New South Wales) 9. The Hotel Room as Art Fair Booth, as Interior, as Exhibition - Stephanie Dieckvoss (Kingston University) 10. Exhibitions as Temporary Homes: Living in The Public Gallery as Artistic Practice - Katerina Štroblová (University of Ostrava) 11. Inhabiting the Exhibition Space: Designing Encounters in the Museum - Tulga Beyerle, Nina Lucia Groß & Tilman Walther (co-curators at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg) Section 3: Exhibitions as Spaces of Enactment 12. Beyond the Period Room: Reframing the Interior as a Space for Diasporic Narratives - Stefan Krämer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) 13. Inhabiting the Exhibition: On Architecture, Collecting, and the Everyday - Alejandro Campos Uribe (Delft University of Technology) 14. The Communal Interior: Furmany Lane Artist Squat as a Crux of Collective Art - Senem Yildirim (New York University) 15. The Domestic Interior as Exhibition Installation: Jan Hoet’s ‘Chambres d’Amis’ - Karen Shelby (City University of New York) 16. Between ‘Ideal Home’ and Modern Art Gallery: Revisiting an Exhibition Interior by the Omega Workshops - Ben Angwin (Kingston University) Index

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Penny Sparke is Professor of Design History and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University. She previously co-edited Interiors in the Era of Covid-19 (Bloomsbury 2022).

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