RÄUME HAUTNAH

Museum exhibition lighting with daylight ceilings and LED spotlights: planning & luminaire set up

Place: Mettingen

Category: Arts & Culture

Exhibition
We live in spaces that we shape according to our ideas. Our everyday lives leave traces that tell of our habits. Experiences that are important to us not only become an essential part of our memory, but they also have a decisive impact on the architecture that surrounds us. These robust cases promise protection and location, but can also create a feeling of confinement. We grow into spaces - they in turn become an imprint of our personality. Conversely, spaces shape our existence depending on their construction and location. But how can these many interconnections between people and their built environment be made visible and tangible?
RÄUME HAUTNAH brings together artistic positions in the MAIN SPACE that do not view the spheres of people and space independently of each other, but understand them in complex interweaving processes. The selected works depict the fusion of people and space in a variety of ways: as a physical experience, emotional dependence or an instinctive need for protection. Using sophisticated relationships between space, textile, body and skin, the artists refer to the metaphor of architecture as a person's “third skin” and thus illustrate their connection to it. They work with technical processes, some of which they have developed themselves, as well as established media, including photography, film, weaving and installation.

Lighting Design
For this exhibition lighting, we have supplemented the diffuse, "objectively neutral" general lighting of the illuminated ceiling with wallwashing to evenly brighten the walls and accentuating spotlights for the individual objects and sculptures, each with a color temperature of 3,500 degrees Kelvin. Overall, the exhibition appears fresh and neutral thanks to this slightly increased color temperature (usually 3,000 degrees Kelvin is used). The objects have illuminances of 50-100lx. This minimizes UV and IR radiation and conservation aspects and at the same time the individual art objects are only subtly illuminated and not emphasized too much. Lighting accessories such as shutters increase visual comfort in critical areas. In addition to planning the exhibition lighting, we were also allowed to take care of the set up ourselves.

Text: DRAIFLESSEN COLLECTION