Acclaimed Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa will open three new exhibitions at RMIT Gallery on Wednesday April 13 at 6 pm.

The exhibitions all explore the role of air, light and sound in contemporary architectural space.

• Chelle Macnaughtan: Spatial Listening
• Ainslie Murray: Intangible Architecture
• Malte Wagenfeld: Aesthetics of Air

About the artists:
Chelle Macnaughtan’s background in music, interior design and architecture, has focused her transdisciplinary practice in spatial listening. Her floor-based collection of etched black aluminium panels invite gallery visitors to participate in the work by walking over the surface. The marks left and the resonating echo invite an inward journey of deep listening which engages the mind as well as the ears.

Munich-based Sydney architect and artist Ainslie Murray’s work points to a new way of understanding architectural space and the way we move in it. This ‘intangible architecture’ is an invisible architecture of the air that relies wholly upon reading absence over presence and disturbance over inertia.

Industrial designer Malte Wagenfeld will exhibit a series of installations using lasers and fog that give us a glimpse into the stunning complexity and beauty of air, and allow us to contemplate how we might work with this medium. His research “The Aesthetics of Air” is a phenomenological investigation into sound, light, air, breezes, smells, humidity and temperature.

Exhibitions will run to 28 May.

If you can’t make it…