Electric exhibition in Serralves journeys visitors through a modern museum experience

Serralves hosts a VR exhibition, curated by Daniel Birnbaum and organised by Acute Art. The Electric exhibit features a selection of works from established and emerging artists, who explore VR from radically different angles. On show from 25 January 2020 to 24 May 2020.

Technology plays a huge part in the modern museum experience, with Virtual Reality experiences enabling people to be completely immersed in an interactive adventure. Viewing such an exhibition will, for sure, transform the visitor's interpretation of the world.

Electric is brought to visitors as a group exhibition, presenting works by the Städelschule Architecture Class (SAC), R. H. Quaytman, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, and Anish Kapoor, premiering at Frieze New York in May 2019.

Acute Art helps bring collections to life by means of VR, thus offering a different experience in an exhibit. In Serralves, the Electric exhibit features distinguished international artists, namely The Third Glass, a spatial-digital object by Städelschule Architecture Class (SAC), based on Marcel Duchamp's seminal work and The Large Glass, the perfect lens through which to view these distinct works, as a metaphor for new possibilities in art.

As for R. H. Quaytman's + x, Chapter 34, the artist uses Hilma af Klint's occult imagery, intended to lead the viewer into levels of awareness beyond those known from two-dimensional illusionism and three-dimensional reality, in order to create glimpses into another universe.

Anish Kapoor and Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg have used the medium of VR to develop their practice in a new dimension, by offering viewer a different perspective on their work.

This project has been adapted for Serralves, and it also presents a work by Olafur Eliasson, whose work is currently on display in the Serralves Museum and Park, and, in the Park, an augmented reality project by Koo Jeong A.

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