Art Installation

Explore 26 award-winning designs tagged Art Installation on A Design News.

Designer: Fundesign.tv Work: Art Installation Tag: Installation

Story Index

Story Index is an art installation formed by a giant matrix of one hundred television screens. A truss structure over 150 meters long supports a display space 20 meters wide, 10 meters high and 20 meters long. Video and network integration equipment sends a different image to each screen. Visitors upload short social media stories and tag the organizers, and approved content can then appear on the matrix. Content from more than 5,000 accounts is shown. The installation makes the boundary between daily life and online life visible.

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Designer: yang Lu Work: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Weightlessness

Weightlessness is an immersive video installation that explores the feeling of being lost in the city. The main structure is built from scaffolding, with simulated plants placed in the gaps to recreate a miniature urban landscape. Aerial footage of high-rise residential buildings, recorded by drones, is projected inside to give the audience a sense of falling. The sound combines mechanical noise with a faint heartbeat. Visitors move freely through the internal and external spaces. The installation reflects on the effect of rapid urban development on the environment and people.

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Designer: Hikoko Ito Work: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Happy Birthday Likeboxes

Happy Birthday Likeboxes is an art installation formed by 366 illuminated mailboxes, one for each day of the year. Each mailbox door carries a pattern that hides a Chinese character, and visitors decipher the pattern to open the matching box. Inside, a hand-drawn birthday card left by an earlier visitor can be found. Each visitor then draws a new card for a future visitor and places the card in a postbox. The mailboxes are made of plastic, acrylic plates and LED lights. The installation encourages personal expression and kindness.

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Designer: Egemen Kemal Vurusan Work: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Original by Nature

Original by Nature is an art installation that turns discarded glass bottles into flowing sculptural forms. The bottles are reshaped by heat and molds through advanced upcycling methods. Each glass form holds a hydroponic system, so plants grow inside the installation. Sensor-controlled irrigation supplies water to every module, and violet ultraviolet lights at the back support plant growth. The main modular unit measures 5000 mm in width, 2000 mm in depth and 3500 mm in height. The work joins art, nature and technology to make sustainability visible.

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Designer: Junse Culture And Art Dev. Co., Ltd Work: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Bow and Arrow

Bow and Arrow is an art installation that reinterprets the traditional bow and arrow in a modern manner. The bow integrates the form of the human spine, a shape chosen to suggest both the strength and the fragility of life. The arrowheads are replaceable and are carved to resemble the Four Heavenly Kings of Eastern Buddhism. High quality metal and stainless steel are cut, polished and carved to form the parts. The installation measures 1900 by 300 by 1900 millimetres. Themes of war and peace, and of life and spirit, are conveyed through the combined forms.

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Designer: Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan Work: Art Installation Tag: Lighting

Three Tree

Three Tree is a temporary art installation developed for the art event in Taipei. The art installation employs digital technology and bamboo dowels, which is the traditional Asian crafting material. Three Tree coheres the NTNU museum neighborhood rich cultural and ecological background and welcomes visitors to discover exciting cultural exchange.

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Designer: Maja Kirovska Work: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Skin

This art installation is composed of 3 airy human figures made of light natural material (skeletons of tree leaves), which seem to float in free space. They resemble costumes that follow the anatomical shape of the body. Leaf skeletons actually are the circulatory system of a tree leaf, that is, the system that supplies them with water and keeps them alive. These figures, with their transparency, at the same time resemble the skin that the snake sheds after it becomes too tight.

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Designer: Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan Work: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Pulse

Pulse is a lighting installation created for the 2022 Taiwan Lantern Festival in the national Weiwuying park in Kaohsiung. The installation expresses the emotional states of new immigrants through light and sound. The structure is made of steel tubes, with fiber mesh fixed on each tube between a top ring and a waved base. LED light strips are digitally controlled to follow background music composed for the work. The pavilion is illuminated at sunset, and a three minute light show is presented every thirty minutes. Pulse measures 7 meters wide, 7.8 meters deep and 5.8 meters high.

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Designer: Daisuke Nagatomo and Minnie Jan Work: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Hitobito

Hitobito is an art installation created for the lantern festival held in Taipei City in 2023. The structure draws inspiration from the Chinese character for a person, formed by two members supporting each other. Two small entrances merge into one larger space, where a projector at the center casts motion graphics onto the ground. The manually bent steel pipe frame is clad with bamboo dowels one centimeter wide, joining traditional Asian weaving with an industrial structure. The installation measures 9.8 meters wide, 7.8 meters deep and 3.5 meters high.

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Designer: Balarinji Work: Art Installation Tag: Cultural Heritage

Burwood Brickworks Australian Aboriginal

Balarinji was engaged by Frasers Property Australia to design public art installations for Burwood Brickworks in Victoria, Australia, the world’s most sustainable shopping centre. Balarinji worked with local Wurundjeri, Dja Dja wurrung and Njuari illum wurrung artist, Mandy Nicholson to develop the artwork concept that was deeply embedded to Place and reflected the Wurundjeri culture. The installations included a ceiling mural and outer facade murals.

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Designer: Dmitry Kudinov Work: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Alternative

Alternative is an art installation created for a city festival in Neftekamsk, Russia. A decommissioned oil pump unit, 4.5 metres high and 6 metres wide, was reused as the base of the artwork. Detailed calligraphy in gold paint was applied over a black background, forming intricate letters that catch the sunlight. The installation stands in the station square, at the crossing of pedestrian and vehicle routes. The reuse of industrial equipment raises the theme of ecology and invites residents to see their city in a new way.

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Designer: Tairan Hao Work: Art Installation Tag: Fine Art

Ceramics Extension

The installation is formed by traditional handmade ceramics sculptures and 3D printed plastic sculptures. The art and design are trying to communicate a strong feeling to the audiences that every object, everyone, everything is being extended infinitely. With the presence of sculpture, it is communicating part of the objects they see are real, but the other objects are the reflection by the mirrors, which is unreal. The interaction makes people think that they are stepping into a fantasy world that is created by themselves.

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