Exhibition as interior, interior as exhibition : spaces of display within and beyond the museum and gallery /

"This book moves the focus of exhibitions beyond their narratives, instead exploring their design as constructed interiors. Through a diverse range of case studies - spanning from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the former USSR, Croatia, Austria and New Zealand - each chapter draws on a cons...

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Other Authors: Sparke, Penny (Editor), Scholze, Jana (Editor), Kirkham, Pat (Editor), Ioannidou, Ersi (Editor), Fisher, Fiona (Editor), Lara-Betancourt, Patricia (Editor), Wintle, Claire (Contributor), Sørensen, Trine Friis (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts : Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Visual Arts are the trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Penny Sparke, Jana Scholze, Pat Kirkham, Ersi Ioannidou, Fiona Fisher and Patricia Lara-Betancourt
  • Part I: Exhibitions and the private / public divide
  • Museum exhibitions and the interior: Labour, emotion and hierarchy 'behind the scenes' / Claire Wintle
  • Negotiating the white cube: Fabric interiors as transitional devices / Trine Friis Sorensen
  • Exhibitions as Laboratories and the office workstations of the 1990s / Lia Carreira
  • Model apartments for a socialist culture of living: The case of Yugoslavia, 1950-1960 / Cvetka Pozar and Maja Vardjan
  • Tangible advice: 1953 show homes at the periphery of Danish design / Hans-Christian Jensen
  • Part II: Exhibitions as ambiguous interiors
  • The exhibition is a banana: How imaginary interiors change the world / Sam Jacob
  • Exhibitions, interiors, exteriors: Ambiguous continuities in the work of Artists International Association, 1933-43 / Harriet Atkinson
  • The Society of Interior Designers of Australia (SIDA): Exhibitions, room settings, fantasy and spectacle, 1962-71 / Catriona Quinn
  • The hotel room as art fair booth, as interior, as exhibition / Stephanie Dieckvoss
  • Exhibitions as temporary homes: Living in the public gallery as artistic practice / Katerina Stroblova
  • Inhabiting the exhibition space: Designing encounters in the museum / Tulga Beyerle, Nina Lucia Groft and Tilman Walther
  • Part III Exhibitions as spaces of enactment /
  • Beyond the period room: Reframing the interior as a space for diasporic narratives / Stefan Kraemer
  • Inhabiting the exhibition: On architecture, collecting and the everyday / Alejandro Campos Uribe
  • The communal interior: Furmany Lane Artist Squat as a crux of collective art / Senem Yildirim
  • The domestic interior as exhibition installation: Jan Hoet's Chambres d'Amis / Karen Shelby
  • Between 'ideal home' and modern art gallery: Revisiting an exhibition interior by the Omega Workshops / Ben Angwin.