Trailer: Tomás Saraceno - in orbit

Tomás Saraceno - in orbit
since Mar 2017
K21
Suspended at a height of more than 25 m above the piazza of K21 is the enormous installation in orbit, a work by the artist Tomás Saraceno. The installation appears as a surreal landscape, and is reminiscent of a sea of clouds or floating planetary bodies. The physically accessible work is constructed of virtually transparent steel mesh that interlaces three levels spanning the massive glass dome. Five air-filled “spheres” are positioned within the net structure that encompasses an area of 2500 m².
Visitors are invited to enter the installation, and explore it by climbing. The brave ones who venture into the structure look upon museum visitors down below, wandering in the piazza, as miniature figures that occupy a miniature-like world. From the ground floor and the mezzanines of the Ständehaus, the installation’s visitors on the net look like floating in the sky.
Once several people enter the structure simultaneously, it is set to motion, altering the tension of the steel cables and distances between the three levels of the interlaced net. The floating space now becomes a vibrating web of relationships, resonances, and synchronous communication.
Video: Ralph Goertz
Production: IKS - Institut für Kunstdokumentation
© IKS / Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen

[@janeappleton435]

We visited this awesome installation this week and it's so exciting! As people walk around different parts of the net tremble and you feel like you're in a giant spiders web. It was worth going to Dusseldorf just for this !!

[@kleinerwiesenknopf6330]

The singing of the man at 03:29 touches my soul so deeply I can't help shedding a tear every time I'm listening to it. So genuine, pure and beautiful

[@TomskiJablonski]

Sehr schöne, gewagte Installation. Danke an alle am Projekt Beteiligten - hat Spaß gemacht dort durch die Sphären zu klettern :-))

[@selinamartinez2111]

Hermoso 😊

[@christinamasberg]

Jetzt wollten wir sie endlich besuchen, und nun musstet Ihr sie vorzeitig schließen. So so traurig. Das muss ganz toll gewesen sein, dort zu klettern und zu liegen.

[@RalfNeuhaeuser]

Hatte heute morgen "in orbit" ganz für mich allein. Großartig! Bitte verlängern!

[@Elena-us2rq]

Wow this is a very nice!😍

[@BohdanKoshyk]

this is so cool !

[@brianmcd9492]

Nice a giant hammock in an orbit. My concept would be a swimming pool in a "giant gravity- space- ship" outer orbit looking down at earth🙂

[@lyannesaldanavillacorta953]

wooooooooo!!!!

[@bankaefg]

Creative Juzz Idea

[@giuseppemarzocchi4338]

WHOSE IS THE MUSIC?

[@mnldgbD]

Who's the music from anybody knows?

[@omggatitoelpro]

la tarea del maestro artes 1 👍

[@soyunapersona2314]

Confirmo JAJA

[@strangefruititi]

(._.) complete artwork

[@VolkerCarlJacobyvonDuMont]

Wo man sich so nach oben schob, sich kolossal vom Boden hob und tobte, flog, sich bog und stob: drob ich dies tolle Netzwerk lob! P.S.: Kein Job, ist man grob akrophob...

[@KaligulRomanov-uq2ox]

no, she's not. she's saracena; saravjena; this is her planet. she seems deaf. born april 23, 1984. really. temen'jy 14. god cares.