Exhibition Design
展示デザイン
Dictionary entry
- White Cube 1930s– / Style
White walls, even light and an unadorned room that isolates the artwork. Standardized by MoMA, exposed by O'Doherty's critique as an institution posing as neutrality — and still the default of contemporary art display.
- Wunderkammer 16th–18th century / Style
The early-modern collection room that massed naturalia and artificialia, specimens and art without division. Its floor-to-ceiling density aimed at a microcosm of the world — the ancestor of the museum and of the aesthetics of collecting.
- Salon Hang 1667–19th century / Layout
The Paris Salon's manner of stacking paintings frame-to-frame from floor to ceiling. Height told rank, and viewing became competition and society — the exact origin against which the white cube reacted.
- Habitat Diorama 1889– / Style
The natural history museum format that fuses taxidermy, real foreground and curved background painting into a slice of habitat. Akeley raised it to an art, and it became the prototype of immersive display.
- Panorama 1787–1900s / Style
The 19th-century immersion machine: a giant painting around the full inner wall of a rotunda with the audience at its center. Lighting and real foregrounds erased the picture's edge — mass visual entertainment's peak before cinema.
- Modernist Exhibition Design 1920s–1940s / Style
The modernist movement that designed the exhibition as printed matter you walk through. Lissitzky's dynamic installations and Bayer's extended field of vision invented display as an information space that edits the visitor's path and gaze.