Artists
Marina Abramović
Rising (2018) | Virtual Reality Marina Abramović’s Rising (2018) addresses the effects of climate change by transporting viewers to witness rising sea levels. Wearing an immersive headset, viewers enter an intimate virtual space, where they come face-to-face with the artist, who beckons from within a glass tank that is slowly filling with water from her waist […]
Antony Gormley & Dr Priyamvada Natarajan
Antony Gormley and Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan’s first virtual reality collaboration, Lunatick (2019), uses data collected by NASA to map a real and interactive journey, leaving Earth to pass through atmosphere, stratosphere, the asteroid belt, and into outer space. This immersive experience treats the body as a vessel, free from gravity, in order to bring the […]
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg
It Will End in Stars (2018) | Virtual Reality It Will End in Stars (2018) is an immersive virtual reality experience combining Nathalie Djurberg’s distinctive sculpted figures with black and white charcoal drawings, text, and an unsettling soundtrack by Hans Berg. The work is a continuation of Djurberg’s interest in archetypal landscapes, evoking fairy tales […]
Anish Kapoor
Into Yourself, Fall (2018) | Virtual Reality Anish Kapoor’s first virtual reality work, Into Yourself, Fall (2018), takes users on a journey through the human body, experiencing the sensation of falling into yourself via the immersive headset. Kapoor’s work seeks to simulate vertigo as a descent inside the human body, depicting a labyrinth of the […]
The Looking Glass
Saturday, 3 July 2021 – Sunday, 29 August 2021 The Looking Glass: Acute Art, The Shed and High Line Art are pleased to announce The Looking Glass, a free outdoor exhibition comprising seventeen augmented reality (AR) artworks staged on and around The Shed’s plaza and on the High Line, July 3 through August 29, 2021. […]
Jeff Koons
Phryne | Virtual Reality Pronounced ‘Fry-nee,’ Jeff Koons’ new work is named after one of the most beautiful woman of the ancient world, and is created in the spirit of the pastoral arts. Presented as a metallic ballerina, Phryne greets viewers in an idealised garden, dancing a trail through verdant trees and hedges lined with […]
Unreal City at Home
Tuesday, 12 January 2021 – Tuesday, 9 February 2021 Acute Art and Dazed Media are excited to announce that Unreal City, London’s biggest public festival of AR art will now be available to view and interact with from inside your home for one-month only. Responding to new lockdown measures and the popularity of the exhibition in London and across the […]
Louisa Clement
Aporias (2019) | Virtual Reality Louisa Clement’s Aporias (2019) derives its title from the Ancient Greek for an impasse or state of puzzlement, used in philosophy to denote a question that evades response. The work continues the German artist’s interest in real and artificial bodies, and automatons, translating her celebrated photographic work into virtual reality. In […]