The space of art
The Space of Art, is an installation conceived specifically for the MAK by the micro-architecture specialists of Atelier 37.2. They have developed a set of furniture for their installation at the museum.
In keeping with the institution’s interdisciplinary character, the MAK Exhibition Hall is restructured using a series of art transport crates from the MAK Collection of Contemporary Art; 37.2 has retooled these transport devices using minimal methods, thereby turning them into mobile micro-dwellings. Each crate is “branded” with the name of selected artists having already exhibited in the MAK.
The crates go through a transformation of meaning by virtue of their being given the function of furniture and staged in the context of a venue-specific installation. Visitors are invited to enter and thus enliven these pieces of mobile housing for prominent artistic works.
“We like the idea of an installation combining various layers of significations together with a playful and ephemera geography of art (instead of an history). To suggest unlikely encounters between artists, artworks (both invisible) and the public. The space of art is working with the enigma related to each artist and its work.”
Here, the transport crate is to be understood in the broadest sense as a wooden symbol of art production, exhibition practice, collecting and presentation.