Thursday, April 28, 2016

Petra Bachmaier

Artist :: Co-founder of Luftwerk

Focusing on site-specific installations, Luftwerk explores the unique relationships between light, architecture, and environment and how the public interacts within these places transforming their experience of space and site through light and color. With immersive artwork at landmarks such as AT&T Plaza in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Illinois, most recently Chicago’s Garfield Park Conservatory and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich to name a few, Luftwerk opens new aesthetic conversations within public spaces. Luftwerk is the creative vision of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero.

Projects to date have been featured in periodicals such as Architectural Record, Condé Nast Traveler, Dwell, The Creators Project, and designboom. Recent awards include an Endorsement Award for Innovation from Surface Magazine, a Media Art Award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), a CODAaward for integration of commissioned art in a public setting, and featured projects honored by the American for the Arts Public Art Network (PAN).