Be prepared to rise to the new levels as your imagination is captivated at the Balloon Museum.
Now open in Lower Manhattan with Daydream, its fifth exhibition and first permanent flagship, located at the Tin Building in New York, a new chapter for the project and for its exploration of contemporary interactive art comes to more visitors to enjoy of all ages.
Since its debut in Rome in 2021, Balloon Museum has travelled the world, becoming a global cultural phenomenon and welcoming more than 8 million visitors across 23 cities. At its core is a simple yet radical proposition: air — the most immaterial of substances — can also become one of the most powerful materials in contemporary art.
Through monumental, out-of-scale installations, Balloon Museum places the relationship between artwork and audience at the centre of the experience. Art is not simply observed, but touched, entered, activated and shared. Never static.
This approach has contributed to bringing Inflatable Art to an increasingly prominent position within the international contemporary art landscape. Daydream carries that evolution forward. The exhibition brings together leading international artists — including Marina Abramović, Boris Acket, Martin Creed and Karina Smigla-Bobinski — across a series of interactive environments that blur the boundaries between perception and imagination.
Each artist brings their own twist and style to this over the top exhibition that never fails to surprise and make you feel as if the world is full of endless wonder. Such as like with Abramović’s highly-anticipated interactive work.
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“Snowy / Windy / Spring on the Planet Z is a direct transmission from that childhood imagination. Now, we can enter this world together; we are no longer strangers separated by our private cosmologies,” she states. “We are inhabitants of the same invented planet, breathing the same impossible air. Making this world within the language of inflatables is a perfect medium to bring it to life. The balloon is, fundamentally, a childhood object. One of the first forms we encounter that can be filled with breath, that can float, that can disappear. But beyond its innocence, the balloon carries a deeper philosophical charge. Its existence depends entirely on air. Without air, there is nothing. No volume, no colour, no presence. It is an object made from the most immaterial of substances, and yet it takes on form, weight, even personality. In this way, it is very close to performance itself.”
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