Immersive Installation Art

Artists have been creating immersive worlds from way before the diffusion of simulation technologies. Installation art encompasses a lot of what was traditionally referred as sculpture and the label is applied to almost anything that exists in a gallery space, including video and sound art, but here some examples of artists that completely create or transform environments to be traversed by visitors.

Kurt Schwitters six rooms of the family house in Hanover "renovated" between 1923 and 1933
Merzbau by Kurt Schwitters. six rooms of the family house in Hanover “renovated” between 1923 and 1933

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James Turrell – bridget’s bardo
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James Turrell, Breathing Light, 2013
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James Turrell – Louis Vuitton store

James Turrell
Ganzfeld effect. A phenomenon of perception caused by exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field. The effect is the result of the brain amplifying neural noise in order to look for the missing visual signals. The noise is interpreted in the higher visual cortex, and gives rise to hallucinations.

Yayoi Kusama - Infinity
Yayoi Kusama – Infinity
Yayoi Kusama - Infinity-Mirrored-Room
Yayoi Kusama – Infinity-Mirrored-Room
Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever Gallery of Modern Art installation view
Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever
Gallery of Modern Art
installation view

Yayoi Kusama
Started the infinity rooms in the ’60, but pioneered pop art and feminist art.

Yayoi Kusama – The Obliteration Room

Penetrables
Penetrables

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Jesús Rafael Soto – Kinetic/Op-art installation Penetrable

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Olaffur Oliasson – The weather Project, 2003
Olafur used humidifiers to create a fine mist in the air via a mixture of sugar and water, as well as a circular disc made up of hundreds of monochromatic lamps which radiated yellow light. The ceiling of the hall was covered with a huge mirror, in which visitors could see themselves as tiny black shadows against a mass of orange light

Ernesto Neto, 'Leviathan Thot', 2006 (pantheon paris)
Ernesto Neto, ‘Leviathan Thot’, 2006 (pantheon paris)
Ernesto Neto- Gratitude
Ernesto Neto- Gratitude
Ernesto Neto - Celula Nave, 2004
Ernesto Neto – Celula Nave, 2004

Stretchy biomorphic touchable installations, occasionally filled with spices.

Tomás Saraceno, in orbit
Tomás Saraceno, in orbit
Tomás Saraceno. On Space Time Foam
Tomás Saraceno. On Space Time Foam
Tomás Saraceno - On Space Time Foam
Tomás Saraceno – On Space Time Foam

Tomás Saraceno – artist/architect

Anish Kapoor -Svayambh
Anish Kapoor -Svayambh

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Shooting into the Corner 2008-2009 – Cannon shooting 11-kilogram balls of wax

Anish Kapoor – Creator of the bean sculpture in Chicago

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Richard Serra – Most of his works are monumental public sculptures but some of them are environments.

Do Ho Suh - Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home
Do Ho Suh – Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home

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Do Ho Suh - home away from home
Do Ho Suh – home away from home

Do Ho Suh. Korean Light polyester, recreating the houses he lived in.

Chiharu Shiota - in silence
Chiharu Shiota – in silence
Chiharu Shiota - During Sleep
Chiharu Shiota – During Sleep

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Chiharu Shiota – Japanese

Thomas Hirschhorn - in between
Thomas Hirschhorn – in between
Thomas Hirschhorn - cavemanman
Thomas Hirschhorn – cavemanman

Thomas Hirschhorn (Swiss) – Cheap materials “universal, economic, inclusive, and don’t bear any plus-value”

Henrique Oliveira Baitogogo
Henrique Oliveira Baitogogo
Henrique Oliveira transarquitectonica
Henrique Oliveira transarquitectonica

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Rain Room by Random international and various corporate sponsors