Natural Lighting Galleries & Exhibitions

As the popularity of Korean culture grows in the UK we have been delighted to assist the Korean Cultural Centre in London, with its exciting program of Contemporary art exhibitions.
This contemporary art exhibition had many challenges to overcome due to the very different content of Eom Jeongwon’s first art exhibition in the UK.

This Korean artist had a vision of how she wanted her art work displayed and thereafter highlighted with precise lighting. However she was very willing to be guided on how to achieve those desired results. 

The exhibition curator had mentioned to the artist about the work our designers had carried out previously at the Korean Cultural Centre. The exhibition curator had experienced many times the improvements we had implemented. This included advising on everything from exhibition design layout, visitor flow, light levels, increasing visitor numbers through to lighting of the installations.    

Straight away a good working relationship was forged between artist and designer. The artist quickly discovered that by being guided in this way would provide her art exhibition with more visual impact.

The exhibition title “1:60” was chosen as a reference to the 60 guests on opening night that were given coloured marker pens to trace their outlines on the gallery walls and windows. This performance would allow members of the public walking outside the Korean Cultural Centre to participate in the opening night performance.

Lighting for this long gallery space was made up of white walls and glazing required which required an even wash of light. This lighting would need to work both in the gallery and allow good visibility from the street side.
To achieve the desire affect our lighting specialists used a combination of the galleries natural day light (known as daylighting)and a large number of track spot light equipped, fitted with cool white (6000K CRI95) lamps and soft 60 degree filters.
This lighting solution provided a very even wall wash which reinforced the natural day lighting when light levels dropped.

Whilst other spaces used more controlled spot lighting to highlight other works around the other galleries.  

The 60 guests had so much fun tracing each other and interacting creating people walking past the gallery windows to form a wonderful abstract art piece that later visitors could enjoy, as the artist had intended

The main feature of the exhibition was a video installation in the blacked out centre gallery. This installation consisted of multiple projectors mounted on a bike frame that continually revolved. The frame work becoming a sculpture that turned and rotated by a kitchen mixer.  As the art installation moved it projected video imagery on to the gallery wall in a continual loop.
We proved the artist with assistance on the final placement of each art piece to maximise the viewing of each art installation, combined to lighting them perfectly.

The art installation got great reviews and provided the normally unseen interaction between artist, artwork and viewer questioning the way we view the world.

Some weeks later after the exhibition had ended we received a publication of Eon’s latest work with an inscription thanking us for helping her so much on her first UK art exhibition.

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