From January 26 to October 18, 2025, the Museum of Trendy Artwork (MoMA) presents the exhibition “Pirouette: Turning Points in Design”
Supply: Museum of Trendy Artwork (MoMA) · Picture: Ed Hawkins. Warming Stripes 1850-2023. 2018-ongoing. © Ed Hawkins
The exhibition will embrace a variety of objects, drawn largely from MoMA’s assortment, which have had a deep impression, whether or not on the design subject or on the world at massive—together with furnishings, electronics, symbols, info design, and extra—spanning from the Thirties to at present. A few of these objects are universally recognizable, whereas others is perhaps recognized solely to a smaller viewers of followers and specialists. Some have remodeled behaviors, provoked departures from earlier typologies and stereotypes, or embodied innovation in supplies, kind, or perform. They’ve supplied unconventional options to traditional issues, or designed model new, constructive issues that result in new and extra developed research and options. Seen collectively, the objects within the exhibition spotlight how design helps folks result in change, or adapt to it. Pirouette: Turning Factors in Design is organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Division of Structure and Design, and Director, Analysis and Growth, with Maya Ellerkmann, Curatorial Assistant, Division of Structure and Design.
“Every object has a story. Some objects, moreover, make history—or change it,” mentioned Antonelli. “Design can help us steer the course in positive directions by making us aware of, and helping us correct, negative behaviors. It can also invent novel behaviors that embody new goals, sustainability and justice among them. In this exhibition, we will highlight a sample group of these significant objects, one by one.”
Objects included in Pirouette will exhibit how designers have utilized experimentation, creativeness, rigorous analysis, and generally playfulness to form and redefine human behaviors and experiences. A few of the objects within the exhibition, similar to Tejo Remy’s “You Can’t Lay Down Your Memory” Chest of Drawers (1991), Don Pettit’s Espresso Cup for Astronauts (2008), or Sabine Marcelis’s Sweet Dice (2014), are experiments that by no means discovered and even seemed for a large market, however nonetheless have had a robust affect on different designers. Others, just like the Apple Macintosh 128K (1983), the Sony Walkman (1979), Artwork Fry and Spencer Silver’s Put up-it Word (1977), or Sara Blakely’s Spanx (2000), started as revolutionary experiments, achieved large distribution, and went on to redefine the way in which we dwell. Some newer objects hopefully will go on to attain related affect, like Gabriel Fontana’s Multiform sport and set of sports activities uniforms (2019) that promote openness and a brand new form of group spirit.
