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An ever-changing immersive and interactive art show with a full bar






Featured Artwork: Plume by Ian Brill
Photo credit: Matt Dayak

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Wonderspaces presents an evolving lineup of 16 extraordinary art installations and signature cocktails to experience with friends and family in the heart of Philadelphia. Open year-round with regular artwork changes.

 
 

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SUBMERGENCE Squidsoup

Submergence is an immersive installation comprised of 8,064 individual points of light visitors walk through. The lights continually change colors in correspondence to music. Submergence creates awe-inspiring feelings of movement within physical space.

SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime Eliza McNitt

This interactive virtual reality journey uncovers the hidden songs of the cosmos. Space is not silent. It is full of sounds. We look to the stars to find our place in the Universe, but for the first time we listen to its music. 

ERUPTURE Nicole BanowetzErupture is an inflatable sculpture that depicts a surreal landscape of microscopic lifeforms. Their enlarged presence makes the installation feel calm, comforting, yet disorienting. The arrangement of these inflatables recalls dioramas from biology class, with large groupings of these odd forms bursting at delicate seams

ERUPTURE Nicole Banowetz

Erupture is an inflatable sculpture that depicts a surreal landscape of microscopic lifeforms. Their enlarged presence makes the installation feel calm, comforting, yet disorienting. The arrangement of these inflatables recalls dioramas from biology class, with large groupings of these odd forms bursting at delicate seams

ON A HUMAN SCALE Matthew Matthew  On a Human Scale is an interactive instrument that highlights our diversity and our shared humanity. It consists of a modified harpsichord that plays, in real-time, people singing.

ON A HUMAN SCALE Matthew Matthew

On a Human Scale is an interactive instrument that highlights our diversity and our shared humanity. It consists of a modified harpsichord that plays, in real-time, people singing.

A MIND SANG Vier Nev

A Mind Sang is a short film by Portugese artist Vier Nev that explores a viewer’s perception as it weaves togeher multiple narratives about birth and transformation.

THANK YOU BAGS Reed van Brunschot  Playing with scale as it invites visitors to consider the overuse of plastic and its environmental impact, Thank You Bags reclaims a generic yet iconic symbol of mass consumerism and the excesses of capitalism thro…

THANK YOU BAGS Reed van Brunschot

Playing with scale as it invites visitors to consider the overuse of plastic and its environmental impact, Thank You Bags reclaims a generic yet iconic symbol of mass consumerism and the excesses of capitalism through two enormous fabric sculptures, filled to capacity with nothing.

BEFORE I DIE Candy Chang

Before I Die is a global participatory public art project that reimagines our relationship with death and with one another in the public realm. Originally created by artist Candy Chang in New Orleans after the death of a loved one, the artwork invites people to reflect and share their personal aspirations in public.



BODY PAINT Memo Akten  Playing on our natural instinct to express ourselves through movement and dance, Body Paint interprets our physical gestures into evolving compositions. Body Paint is about interaction experience, captured through this motion …

BODY PAINT Memo Akten

Playing on our natural instinct to express ourselves through movement and dance, Body Paint interprets our physical gestures into evolving compositions. Body Paint is about interaction experience, captured through this motion and the energy of the body.

FUJI Joanie Lemercier

Fuji is part of Lemercier‘s ongoing artwork series on volcanoes. It combines a large scale hand-drawn landscape depicting Fujiyama, augmented by a layer of projected light. The abstract narratives are inspired by the legend of Kaguya Hime, a folk-tale from the 10th-century and a key element in Japanese culture. It gives an imaginary and poetic vision of this story in an immersive environment.

MICROMONUMENTAL MAPPING,  THE ESSENCE OF CREATION  Limelight  This visual projection is displayed onto a 1:40 3D model of the Opéra de Lille building in France. Inspired by the national divinity of the Greeks, the artwork conveys this complexity by …

MICROMONUMENTAL MAPPING,
THE ESSENCE OF CREATION

Limelight

This visual projection is displayed onto a 1:40 3D model of the Opéra de Lille building in France. Inspired by the national divinity of the Greeks, the artwork conveys this complexity by using the symbolic and physical elements of the building.

Rainbow Rooms Pierre le Riche

Rainbow Rooms recreates a home scene in which the objects are covered with various fabrics and multi-colored yarn. Even the walls themselves are made of woven yarn. The installation reflects the artist’s experience growing up as a gay man in conservative South Africa, and is intended to stimulate a dialogue about identity, exploring struggles of discrimination, acceptance, and masculinity.

BLOOMS John EdmarkBlooms are 3D-printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The rotational speed and the strobe light frequency are synchronized so that one flash occurs every time the bloom turns 137.5 degrees--the angular version of the golden ratio (0.618...).

BLOOMS John Edmark

Blooms are 3D-printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The rotational speed and the strobe light frequency are synchronized so that one flash occurs every time the bloom turns 137.5 degrees--the angular version of the golden ratio (0.618...).

RADIANCE (INFINITY BOX NO. 6) Matt Elson

Radiance (Infinity Box No. 6) created in 2013 by Matt Elson is part of the Awakened Vision Series. Radiance is a two-person experience with two distinctly different views; from the hub looking outward and the wheel facing inward. Each offers their own unique perspectives and insights.

PLUME Ian Brill

Plume is an immersive, interactive dome of synchronized light and sound gestures. The installation uses motion, sound and color to present an ephemeral and ethereal ecosystem.

OUR TOP 100 Jody Servon

Our Top 100 is a community-built playlist consisting of songs and memories about songs shared by participants in specific cities and towns. People have shared stories of love, loss, travels, sadness, celebrations, families, and much more.

THE LAST WORD Illegal ArtThe Last Word is an invitation to share thoughts left unsaid. Thousands of tightly rolled pieces of paper, dyed red on one end and left untouched on the other offer an opportunity to anonymously complete your conversations or explore the unexpressed sentiments of others.

THE LAST WORD Illegal Art

The Last Word is an invitation to share thoughts left unsaid. Thousands of tightly rolled pieces of paper, dyed red on one end and left untouched on the other offer an opportunity to anonymously complete your conversations or explore the unexpressed sentiments of others.


HOURS*

Monday: 12PM-10PM

Tuesday: 12PM-10PM

Wednesday: 12PM-10PM

Thursday: 12PM-10PM

Friday: 10AM-10:30PM

Saturday: 10AM-10:30PM

Sunday: 10AM-9PM

Spring Break Hours- March 25-28

Monday: 10AM-10PM

Tuesday: 10AM-10PM

Wednesday: 10AM-10PM

Thursday: 10AM-10PM

Holiday hours may vary.


LOCATION

Wonderspaces Philadelphia is located in Center City just two blocks from the Pennsylvania Convention Center and inside Fashion District Philadelphia. Our mall entrance is on street level across from the escalators at the 11th Street end. Our street entrance at 27 North 11th St is temporarily closed.

 
 
BODY PAINT Memo Akten Photo by Devon Hutchins

BODY PAINT Memo Akten
Photo by Devon Hutchins

 
 

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