Program
Inside Outside
What’s in a Curtain?
Outdoor Installation 07.05-28.11.2026
What’s in a Curtain?
Outdoor Installation 07.05-28.11.2026
The work of Inside Outside focuses primarily on large-scale, site-specific interventions and is distinctive in how it transforms and engages with spatial conditions through an experimental, unconventional use of materials.
Autonomous textile interventions, the works play with references that are simultaneously material, conceptual, poetic, and aesthetic – as well as with echoes from their own creative archive.
While industrial PVC and packaging are among the studio's preferred materials, at Ca'Buccari, powder blue tulle organza, yellow silk, and bubble wrap define a space of transition that is fleeting and delicate, at the intersection of inside and outside.
For Ca'Buccari, Inside Outside developed several iterations on the idea of the curtain – each drawing on past work, each deliriously celebratory in its own way. Hung and rehung over the course of the seasons, the curtains weather a Venetian spring, summer, and autumn; facing inward toward the gallery and outward toward the lagoon, they embrace impermanence and fragility as the work shapeshifts over time.
Inside Outside is an Amsterdam-based creative studio that shapes art, architectural, natural, and public spaces through ever-changing, climate-responsive, site-specific interventions.
Since its founding in 1987, the studio, with partners Petra Blaisse, Jana Crepon, and Aura Luz Melis, together with Peter Niessen and a team of twelve, continues to evolve through design projects and research on soil life and bio-receptive materials.
Some of their most well-known projects include interventions at Kunsthal Rotterdam (1994), Prada Epicenter New York (2001), Casa da Música in Porto (2005), as well as the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012), and the Biblioteca degli Alberi in Milan (2018). A major retrospective toured several institutions, including ETH Zürich (2018), Triennale Milan (2018), and MAXXI Rome (2021).
This project is made possible with the generous support of Mike Guyer, Poeticwalls, Loe van Scherpenberg, and Salome Steib.
While industrial PVC and packaging are among the studio's preferred materials, at Ca'Buccari, powder blue tulle organza, yellow silk, and bubble wrap define a space of transition that is fleeting and delicate, at the intersection of inside and outside.
For Ca'Buccari, Inside Outside developed several iterations on the idea of the curtain – each drawing on past work, each deliriously celebratory in its own way. Hung and rehung over the course of the seasons, the curtains weather a Venetian spring, summer, and autumn; facing inward toward the gallery and outward toward the lagoon, they embrace impermanence and fragility as the work shapeshifts over time.
Inside Outside is an Amsterdam-based creative studio that shapes art, architectural, natural, and public spaces through ever-changing, climate-responsive, site-specific interventions.
Since its founding in 1987, the studio, with partners Petra Blaisse, Jana Crepon, and Aura Luz Melis, together with Peter Niessen and a team of twelve, continues to evolve through design projects and research on soil life and bio-receptive materials.
Some of their most well-known projects include interventions at Kunsthal Rotterdam (1994), Prada Epicenter New York (2001), Casa da Música in Porto (2005), as well as the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2012), and the Biblioteca degli Alberi in Milan (2018). A major retrospective toured several institutions, including ETH Zürich (2018), Triennale Milan (2018), and MAXXI Rome (2021).
This project is made possible with the generous support of Mike Guyer, Poeticwalls, Loe van Scherpenberg, and Salome Steib.