Exhibition Space as Experience: Frederick Kiesler’s Surrealist Room in Art of This Century, 1942

Abstract

Exhibition spaces act as places for artistic and architectural experimentation. Their capacity to directly interact with the spectator has led to interventions such as the Surrealist Room of the Art of This Century Gallery (Frederick Kiesler, New York, 1942), which are designed to be a space for the senses. The design of this space stimulated the senses through an architecture that interacted with the human body, becoming a precedent for later architectonic designs.