{"id":620,"date":"2019-06-12T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/?p=620"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:10:23","slug":"exhibition-process-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/macurating\/2019\/06\/12\/exhibition-process-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition Process – Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"

GENERATIONS: Connecting Across Time and Place<\/i> is now open \u2013 but how did it become the space you can visit today? Find out with a sneak peek of the installation<\/u> process in this post.<\/h3>\n
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That\u2019s it: we did it. Our annual class exhibition \u00a0is now open. As part of the installation team, I could not \u00a0be prouder of what we have achieved, especially after spending almost two weeks in the space, watching it be filled with artworks, benches, labels and engaging feedback wall.\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot more to installing an exhibition than I originally thought: it begins the moment you get to know the works and can see relationships forming between them. Installation involves everything from perfectly visualizing the exhibition space, to exchanging a lot of emails with contractors and screwing tiny screws into the walls. Let\u2019s break it down.<\/p>\n

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For the Installation team (Katie<\/a>, Valeria<\/a> and I), the hard work began a little later than for the other groups. While we were waiting for all the correct information on the artworks (media and sizes, mostly) as well as instructions from the two main institutions we were working with (Arts Council Collection for loans and Somerset House for exhibition site), we began to create a virtual model of the exhibition. I really enjoyed playing around in Sketchup, a modelling software where you can scale a space and design endless scenarios of the displays we came up with in a whole-group brainstorming sessions. Not only was it fun to be able to simulate in real time and space what we were thinking, but it also gave us at least a small sense of what our exhibition could look like. ‘But be cautious’<\/i>, our course leader Martin warned,\u00a0‘and never trust a simulated space entirely. The reality is always quite different.’<\/i><\/p>\n

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