Exhibition design

I have seen some interesting aspects of exhibition installation at the venues I've been to so far. But overall it is pretty much the standard vinyl on the wall. The private museums usually have more inventive exhibition design/installation so hopefully I'll pick up more ideas there (I haven't visited yet). Regardless, it is inspiring to see the different ways other countries do things.

At the Turkey pavilion in the Arsenale they had vinyl text on perspex (like the plaques we have in certain galleries at QUTAM), see below.


I loved the signage at the United Arab Emirates pavilion (but didn't particularly like the show). It is hard to photograph because it looks like the fluro lights at the top bleach out the text but in person they just give a soft glow.

At one of the Bruce Nauman venues there is a sound work installed with these bizarre (to me anyway) square white plates which is where the sound came from. They looked like they would be fantastic for The Block (an exhibition space at the Creative Industries Precinct, QUT) because they were so slim, fairly directional and very unobtrusive. Unfortunately I got in trouble for taking photographs - hard to explain I was taking photos of the installation and equipment not the work! Plus it was a sound work so not exactly like the photo is going to represent it! Anyway I gathered there was something that comes down the back and runs inside the two white felt-like squares which then transmit the sound.