Exhibition design

‘Inspiring People’, the multi-million-pound project to transform London’s National Portrait Gallery, is now complete, following a three-year redevelopment of the Grade I listed building and redisplay of over 1000 artworks. The building was re-modelled by Jamie Fobert Architects, with Purcell acting as Heritage Consultants, whilst Nissen Richards Studio were the scheme’s Interpretation Designers, working on the redesign of the permanent galleries, including the dynamic new colour scheme and the permanent exhibition design, as well as guiding the vision for the overarching visitor experience. Nissen Richards Studio additionally created setworks for the display of the Collection, information panels and digital screens,... More

Austria. Composing the Future. The next World Expo – “Expo 2025” – will be held in Osaka from 13 April to 13 October 2025. BWM Designers & Architects, in collaboration with facts and fiction, won the two-stage realisation competition for the design of the Austrian pavilion.Music has been a part of Austro-Japanese relations since the very beginning, when Emperor Franz Josef gifted the Japanese Emperor, or Tennō, with a Bösendorfer grand piano in 1869. The concept behind the Austrian pavilion is a musical interpretation of the Expo’s motto – “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”. The idea is that, in Austria, the future is not “designed”, but rather composed: “Austr... More

London-based architects and designers Nissen Richards Studio have completed their fourth exhibition for The National Library of Norway in Oslo. The exhibition deals with one of the most intriguing subjects the studio has dealt with to date – the musical phenomenon of Norwegian Black Metal, a cultural world-within-a-world described by the curators as a ‘primeval forest of emotions’. All images by Gareth Gardner ‘This has been a particularly thrilling and theatrical subject to investigate and work with’, Nissen Richards Studio Director Pippa Nissen commented. ‘Our team has responded with great enthusiasm and creativity to the curatorial brief ‘to inspire the audience to search within their own f... More

The Shape of Freedom is a new, temporary exhibition at MUNCH in Oslo, which has just opened and is set to run to 21 May 2023. The exhibition brings together high-profile artworks from collections worldwide and examines the story of the great 20th century post-war art recovery, especially through the Transatlantic dialogue between the USA and Europe after the Second World War and the birth of abstract expressionism and its European counterpart, art informel. The exhibition design for the project, including graphic design and bespoke furniture, is by Nissen Richards Studio, with the collaboration representing the studio’s second commission from MUNCH, following the success of ‘Playing Pieces’ in 2022, which presented the Spa... More

This renewed museum is all about the wonder and versatility of the human mind. Science, history of healthcare, philosophy, art and personal stories are woven together in an attempt to get a grip on this invisible piece of humanity. On your mind and that of the other. Because what is the mind really? And where is it located? In your body or out of it? Can you influence your mind and how do you keep it healthy? The visit is a quest, which ends with a call to sign the Universal Declaration of the Open Mind. Thijs Wolzak Stories that stimulate These stories are presented with a lot of images and with the help of expressive forms. For example, there is an installation of hands pointing at you. Stigmatizing terms from different times are p... More

What appears as a small, wooden building on the outside transforms into a thriving beehive on the inside through integrated architecture and scenography. Gigantic honeycombs made from a material mimicking wax split the interior into different sections. Two large cells resemble a queen larva’s gestation cell. In these cells, you can lounge, listen to stories, and consider new perspectives about nature and its preservation as your knowledge expands. Supper organism In contrast with our individualistic society, the honeybees’ world depends on collectivity. Individual bees fulfil the same role as collaborating cells in a human’s body: the colony is a super organism. Much in the same way, the information embedded in each of t... More

Founded in 1914, Wilson’s iconic brand has consistently shaped the world of sports through developments and advancements in sporting goods and gear. Their products can be found across the globe and in the hands of some of the greatest athletes at the top of their sporting leagues. And perhaps most iconic is their role and ubiquity in tennis. So, as a tie-in to the 2021 U.S. Open, Wilson looked to create a partner experience in the City that strove to capture the energy and excitement of that marquee event. Richard Cadan Photography To bring Wilson’s vision to fruition, Bergmeyer was enlisted to lead the collaboration with the Wilson creative team to create a distinctive experience; part museum, part lab, part lounge, and p... More

Nissen Richards Studio has once again worked with client Historic Royal Palaces - this time on a new, temporary exhibition at London’s Kensington Palace. Life Through a Royal Lens explores the Royal Family through photography and brings together in one place some of the most iconic images of the Royal Family ever taken. The new exhibition is now open and runs until 30 October in Kensington Palace’s Pigott Galleries.  All images by Gareth Gardner The commission to Nissen Richards Studio follows a successful collaboration between the cultural-specialist architects and exhibition designers with Historic Royal Palaces on Victoria: Woman and Crown, an exhibition which went on to win the 2021 Eastern Eye ‘Editor&rsquo... More

In our project we wanted to merge Georgian heritage and modern  design together to show visitors our  point of view  how to keep together heritage sites and modern shapes . We have  minimalistic shapes with white metal frames and historic Georgian house named "Oda" in all 3 stands. Also in Georgia wine has religious and cultural significance. Georgia is one of the oldest wine regions in the world and is considered as the “cradle of wine.”  The inspiration behind the shape of the building comes from Fibonacci’s golden ratio. The universe is built according to “divine proportions” and can be identified in the structure of many organisms. Caption Caption The main challenge of th... More

studioplusthree were commissioned to design this exhibition for the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney) in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust (London), “This is a Voice” explores the qualities of the human voice- its form, weight and body. The exhibition allows visitors to contemplate the power of voice before and beyond words, and to examine the human voice in an immersive way. Noel Mclaughlin Visitors can experience how the human voice locates us socially, geographically and psychologically, and learn how the voice is utterly flexible and can be altered with treatment and training. Designed as an acoustic journey, it allows visitors to delve inside vocal tracts, restless minds and speech devices to discover how meaning and emo... More

The Nicholson Galleries are the new home for the University of Sydney’s extensive collection of ancient Egyptian, Greek and Italian antiquities, within the university’s new purpose-built Chau Chak Wing Museum. The six exhibition spaces across Level 2 create an atmospheric experience that brings the stories of these ancient cultures to the public through techniques of light, colour, volume and texture. Brett Boardman Brett Boardman Brett Boardman Taking inspiration from classical architecture and construction methods as well as contemporary art and scenography, the Nicholson Galleries establish an immersive and emotive approach to the relationship between visitors and objects, in which massive walls are bisected b... More

The Story of Gardening museum has been awarded a RIBA South West Award 2021 and a RIBA South West Award Sustainability Award 2021, and the Newt in Somerset have received the RIBA South West Client of the Year 2021. “…..for the signature intervention, the client brought in Stonewood Design, appointed on the strength of its 2015 RIBA award-winning Gloucestershire Pod Gallery. The architect felt its 1000m2 ‘Story of Gardening’ museum was as much part of the weighty architectural legacy of the site as it was of The Newt’s expanding visitor experience. Originally to be sited further south, it was moved to its current position only when the Bekkers decided to install a winding treetop walkway, ‘The Viper&rsq... More