Hear about the groundbreaking ideas behind Philippe Parreno’s exhibition at Munich’s Haus der Kunst, as the French artist explores his works in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries), Andrea Lissoni, and Lydia Antoniou.
Hans Ulrich Obrist praises Parreno’s exhibition at the Haus der Kunst as “an extraordinary invention” and encourages attendees to experience it firsthand. He also highlights Parreno’s long-standing philosophy of exhibitions as living organisms, a concept Parreno has refined since the 1990s.
“I had this intuition”, Parreno explains, “that an exhibition space was a space where you would actually produce knowledge in a different way than you would do through a book or a movie.” Because an exhibition could be “not only a display of objects, but really a place where you could meet people through space and time, which is a quite unique setup.”
At his Munich exhibition, the inclusion of AI and sensors adds another layer of interactivity, as Parreno uses data from real-world events to trigger changes in the exhibition.
A standout example is the presence of an AI-generated voice contributed by the popular television anchor Susanne Daubner, which acts as an oracle, responding to visitors’ questions and connecting the exhibition to a desert landscape in Spain.
“We reached out, and we just shared the intention of becoming the voice of the exhibition”, Andrea Lissoni recalls. “She was very proud to lend her voice to this construction of a new language that needs to be the language of the present future.”
Watch the video to learn more about this fascinating interactive exhibition and hear about Philippe Parreno’s ideas for future projects.
