Exhibition Research - Spatial Utilisation in Art Exhibitions

The way you present your work in space can have a big impact on the viewers experience. During my research I therefore came across a large variety of different layouts and use of space. Some of the scenes were very engaging and aesthetic. Here are a few variations of scale I chose to add to this research post as each images uses space in a different way to achieve an effect on its scale.

Here a large panorama canvas for a long continuous art piece filling up the room with colours on its horizontal plane.

Now the opposite with individual "blocks" and solely one standard vertical portrait per "block". Both of these two images fill up the whole room with their art though, just in a different way.

 Following these two examples I now chose two exhibition spaces with contrasting themes. The image above shows very crowded and seemingly unorganised walls creating a very crowded feeling in the passageway. The picture below however shows a minimalist approach with small pictures on the wall leaving the room with an empty empty.

And the final image below shows large abstract paintings that first achieve their full expression in large scale.

So there are many options in terms of layout possibilities. I will just have to see which method will work out best for my project in the end. Logically the wall space will also be limited as the showcase will take place at our university, so I will have to take these restrictions into account as well.