A Mies Space for Senses

Luftwerk, the artistic duo of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero,  explores light, color, and perception in immersive, experience-based installations. Focused on the site of each project, Luftwerk applies their own interpretive layer, integrating the physical structure, historical context, and embedded information into each piece. Since founding in 2007, they have amassed a significant body of work ranging from site-specific installations to experimental projects that interpret data, nature and the built environment. Their work explores the power of light as a crucial element to sight and its relationship to the perception of color. Using various modalities—projecting videos, casting shadows, creating custom sculpture—light is integral to every project. Through their career, Luftwerk has developed projects for iconic buildings by architects including Renzo Piano, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Goff and Mies van der Rohe. In each project, they draw from the surrounding environment to interpret and expand on the context of the site.