Showroom
As an exhibition space (more rarely: exhibition location ) are usually large, largely publicly accessible rooms in which one or more exhibitions of exhibits that are to be shown to an audience take place . The exhibition space is the visual framework, physical component and spatial limitation of the exhibition. The exhibition space is not neutral in relation to the exhibition, but is more or less closely interrelated. Exhibition rooms, like museums, can be part of the cultural treasure and “collective memory” of a society.
definition
The term “exhibition space” can also be synonymous with salon, exhibition, exposition, show, event. The definition of exhibition spaces is different from these terms.
- from the event due to the longer duration of the exhibition
- from the salon (for example art exhibitions such as the Salon de Paris or car presentations such as the Geneva Motor Show ) through the mostly more extensive public accessibility
- of a trade fair due to the limited size of the exhibition (with exceptions, such as the world exhibitions ) and a mostly longer duration.
- of shop windows , showcases or showcases by the fact that exhibition rooms are mostly facing inwards and require the visitor to enter the exhibition.
Exhibition rooms can be used as permanent fixtures (e.g. for permanent exhibitions) or as temporary showpieces or advertising media.
Types and function of exhibition spaces
Exhibition spaces there are in museums , art galleries , galleries , exhibition palaces , town halls, churches, exhibition and trade fair halls .
Exhibition rooms are widely used to present, market or display products , services or art. Such exhibitions are usually performance shows - in the case of exhibition rooms used primarily for commercial or business purposes, there is a distinction between commercial and industrial exhibitions . Exhibition rooms, which are used as a means of advertising, are generally used for relatively one-sided communication between companies and interested audiences (exhibition, presentation).
In the area of museums, exhibition rooms are primarily used for collection, preservation, exhibition and research. In museums, in addition to the classic exhibition rooms, new accents can also be created through display depots , period rooms and the like (in a private setting, for example, off- space ). With the viewing depot, the four tasks of a museum are re-presented in a special exhibition room, the depot, and the visitor is given the opportunity to get to know collecting, researching and preserving directly.
Showrooms can also be part of a sales room . Exhibition rooms can be used for other purposes, such as small festivals , concerts , as a small stage , for author readings or lectures and other activities. Some exhibition rooms serve as memorials or are connected to a memorial, such as the Ravensbrück memorial . Such exhibition rooms or their use in connection with the presentation of socially critical art can be given a new function as political spaces.
Exhibition rooms in the field of art, as a political space or the like serve for multi-sided communication. In multi-sided communication through exhibitions in exhibition rooms, exchange processes between the exhibition, the employees and the visitors should be enabled and promoted.
The messages to be conveyed can be reinforced through the creation of relationships and their spatial (structural) specifications as well as the exhibition objects (optical impressions, textual presentation, mediation by employees) as well as skillful staging of all components in the exhibition space. Permanent exhibitions can also be shown as traveling exhibitions in different, spatially separated exhibition rooms. This gives exhibitions a flexible visual framework, which in turn can be used as a design element for the exhibition.
Requirements for showrooms
Depending on the exhibit, the corresponding limits of the exhibition rooms must be observed.
- technical nature (load-bearing capacity of the floor, size of the exhibits)
- of a social nature (for example, an exhibition on prostitution is rarely held in a church that is used as an exhibition space, or an exhibition in a cemetery must not disturb the peace and quiet of the cemetery)
- aesthetic kind
Exhibition operator and employees
Showroom operators are private or public institutions that operate, manage or promote museums, galleries , companies or studios, for example .
Organizing, designing and supervising exhibitions in exhibition rooms requires a high degree of specialization, spatial imagination, empathy and creativity . This can be implemented by exhibition curators.
Showrooms
Showroom & bar
International book art exhibition 1927
Holocaust Memorial
Reminder and memorial site for the Ravensbrück concentration camp
Heiligengeistfeld in Hamburg 1863: International agricultural exhibition
See also
literature
- Martin R. Schärer: The exhibition, theory and example. Munich 2003, Verlag Dr. C. Müller-Straten, ISBN 3-932704-75-4 .
- Exhibition construction. in: Ernst Seidl (ed.): Lexicon of building types. Functions and forms of architecture. Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-15-010572-6 .
- Susanne Gesser, Martin Handschin, Angela Jannelli, Sibylle Lichtensteiger (eds.): The participatory museum. Between participation and user-generated content. New requirements for cultural-historical exhibitions (transcript culture and museum management). transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1726-9 .
- Philipp Aumann, Frank Duerr: Make exhibitions. UTB Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-82-523892-6 .
- Maren Ziese: curators and visitors. Models of curatorial practice in art exhibitions. (= Dissertation) In: Writings on culture and museum management. Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1392-6 .
Web links
- Exhibition Development (course in exhibition design and management) at Danube University Krems .
- Course in exhibition design and scenography at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin R. Schärer: The exhibition, theory and example. P. 78.
- ↑ The exhibition room on duden.de, accessed on November 18, 2013.
- ↑ See general communication: Maren Ziese: Curators and Visitors. Models of curatorial practice in art exhibitions.
- ↑ Cell construction in the detention building, exhibition room with photos