Architect, artist, and curator Yuri Avvakumov shares examples from his own museum and exhibition practice. The book covers over one hundred projects, realized in thirty cities across fifteen countries, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Venice, Vladikavkaz, Paris, San Francisco, and Tokyo.
Each project is accompanied by explanatory notes and marginalia. The section on projects is preceded by thirty-three short essays on exhibition design for the visual arts and followed by articles on the subject of exhibition design selected by the author.
«The exhibition design projects are arranged not chronologically but according to the size of the exhibition spaces for which they were created—from the smallest, just a few square meters, to vast sites covering dozens of hectares. For the reader’s convenience, the book is divided into sections: S, M, L, XL, and XXL. Not all of the projects gathered here were realized—but all of them were experienced by me as completed in their own way, which is why I did not specify where a project reached the final stage of author’s supervision and where it did not. Almost all the projects come with explanatory notes; some are accompanied by stories recorded later as recollections. That is why I thought this book would not be merely my portfolio or a textbook on exhibition design but also a guide to the time in which they were created.» — Yuri Avvakumov
