Before art is finished, it’s fragile. It stumbles, splits open, and reshapes. Working It Out captures this honest middle ground, the space between spark and form. What you see here isn’t curated perfection, but the raw language of making, still in motion. This interactive art exhibition invites you to come closer. The work is breathing, and it’s not done yet.
Walk into Working It Out, and the air shifts. Machines hum, sketches scatter across walls, and ideas seem to rise right out of raw material. This traditional gallery is a living organism. At Neues Museum Nürnberg, through May 25, 2025, artist and architect Daniel Widrig invites you into his open studio: a space alive with unfinished thoughts and physical labor. It’s an interactive art exhibition that trades perfection for presence, and that’s what makes it unforgettable.
A Radical New Kind of Interactive Art Exhibition
Known for pushing the limits of digital fabrication, Daniel Widrig stands where art, architecture, and technology meet. His work with fashion innovator Iris van Herpen brought new forms to life, and now, with Working It Out, he opens up the process itself. The exhibition becomes a live performance, a space where ideas unfold before your eyes.
Robotic arms move steadily, 3D printers layer material, and CNC machines carve shapes, while virtual reality stations invite exploration. This is a workshop turned gallery, where sculptural pieces and wearable designs emerge naturally from experimentation. The show’s title captures this blend perfectly: it’s about the effort to solve problems and the physical work behind every creation, revealing how art grows from thought to form.
The Art of Becoming
What sets this exhibition apart is its raw honesty; there’s no glossing over the chaos or the tangled beauty of the creative process. Materials arrive in their purest forms: powder, filament, foam. You witness them shift and take shape. It’s not about perfection, it’s about the vulnerability and unpredictability of becoming. Half-finished sculptures share space with polished works. Digital sketches and prototype fragments hang like pages from an artist’s diary, inviting you inside the creative mind. This openness encourages you to see beyond the final piece and into the journey behind it.
Hands-on workshops and interactive stations invite visitors to experiment with digital sculpting or play with generative design tools. The line between creator and viewer blurs here, turning the space into a collaborative lab, not just an exhibit.
By turning a museum into an active studio, the artist challenges how we usually think about art and architecture. This isn’t a quiet display to admire from afar; it’s a lively conversation, a place where the act of making becomes the story itself. It’s messy, it’s imperfect, and that’s where its true beauty lives.
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