DIOGO PASSARINHO STUDIO

Diogo Passarinho Studio developed the scenography and spatial consultancy for Melted for Love, establishing a cohesive spatial framework across three venues, W139, Arti et Amicitiae, and Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose.

Responding to the Biennial’s exploration of hospitality, kinship, and collective listening, the project approaches space as a sensitive and adaptive medium, one that holds, listens, and responds. Each venue is conceived as part of an interconnected ecology, supporting distinct curatorial trajectories while maintaining a shared spatial language grounded in attentiveness, care, and openness.

At W139, the scenographic approach supports works engaging ecological catastrophe, extractive histories, and contested infrastructures. At Arti et Amicitiae, the spatial framework embraces love as a regenerative, more-than-human force, accommodating practices rooted in ancestral memory, land, and environmental entanglement. At Rozenstraat, the design creates conditions for reflecting on ongoing grief and temporal continuity, resisting closure while holding space for collective mourning.

Across all sites, materials, thresholds, and spatial rhythms are carefully composed to foster proximity, permeability, and participation. Rather than prescribing fixed narratives or pathways, the design invites open-ended encounters, allowing sound, bodies, and stories to co-compose the environment. Visitors are positioned not as passive spectators, but as participants within a shared field of relations.

The project engages scenography as a practice of care, cultivating conditions for vulnerability, exchange, and solidarity. It contributes to the Biennial’s broader inquiry into how listening can shape new forms of togetherness, and how spatial design can support temporary yet meaningful experiences of belonging.

2026 Sonic Acts, NL
Curator: Angeliki Tzortzakaki
Exhibition Design: Diogo Passarinho Studio
Team: Diogo Passarinho and Gonçalo Reynolds
Artists at Rozenstraat: Eglė Budvytytė, Eliana Otta, Christian Nyampeta,  Kivu Ruhorahoza
Production: Radina Alexandrova
Photography: Pieter Kers

Diogo Passarinho Studio developed the scenography and spatial consultancy for Melted for Love, establishing a cohesive spatial framework across three venues, W139, Arti et Amicitiae, and Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose.

Responding to the Biennial’s exploration of hospitality, kinship, and collective listening, the project approaches space as a sensitive and adaptive medium, one that holds, listens, and responds. Each venue is conceived as part of an interconnected ecology, supporting distinct curatorial trajectories while maintaining a shared spatial language grounded in attentiveness, care, and openness.

At W139, the scenographic approach supports works engaging ecological catastrophe, extractive histories, and contested infrastructures. At Arti et Amicitiae, the spatial framework embraces love as a regenerative, more-than-human force, accommodating practices rooted in ancestral memory, land, and environmental entanglement. At Rozenstraat, the design creates conditions for reflecting on ongoing grief and temporal continuity, resisting closure while holding space for collective mourning.

Across all sites, materials, thresholds, and spatial rhythms are carefully composed to foster proximity, permeability, and participation. Rather than prescribing fixed narratives or pathways, the design invites open-ended encounters, allowing sound, bodies, and stories to co-compose the environment. Visitors are positioned not as passive spectators, but as participants within a shared field of relations.

The project engages scenography as a practice of care, cultivating conditions for vulnerability, exchange, and solidarity. It contributes to the Biennial’s broader inquiry into how listening can shape new forms of togetherness, and how spatial design can support temporary yet meaningful experiences of belonging.

2026 Sonic Acts, NL
Curator: Angeliki Tzortzakaki
Exhibition Design: Diogo Passarinho Studio
Team: Diogo Passarinho and Gonçalo Reynolds
Artists at W139: Lower Levant Company (in collaboration with Olga Micińska), Adelita Husni-Bey, Diana Policarpo and Bernardo Gaeiras, Alina Schmuch, Maeve Brennan
Production: Radina Alexandrova
Photography: Pieter Kers

D_P_S >> EXHIBITION ARCHITECTURE FOR ELEANOR ANTIN RETROSPECTIVE AT MUDAM

The groundbreaking retrospective of Eleanor Antin at Mudam Luxembourg demanded a spatial design as nuanced, theatrical, and conceptually rich as the artist’s own practice.
Entrusted with this task, Diogo Passarinho Studio created a scenography that acts not merely as a backdrop, but as a dynamic narrative framework and a critical accomplice to the artworks.
Understanding that Antin’s work, spanning photography, video, performance, and installation it revolves around the construction of identity, history, and storytelling, the studio conceived an exhibition architecture that seamlessly shifts in tone.
It provides distinct, immersive environments for each of Antin’s iconic personas and series. The visitor moves from the cinematic, road-movie pacing of the 100 Boots series, through the clinical, taxonomy-inspired space reflecting Carving: A Traditional Sculpture, to the theatrical stages for The King, The Ballerina, and The Nurse.
Each section’s materiality, lighting, and rhythm are carefully calibrated to heighten the viewer’s engagement with Antin’s feminist and political inquiries.
The scenography avoids a monolithic feel, instead creating a curated journey that mirrors Antin’s own method of weaving personal and historical stories. It allows for moments of intimate reflection alongside more expansive, dramatic presentations.
This exceptional result was born from a strict and amazing collaboration with Bettina Steinbrügge, Mudam’s curator of the exhibition. This close, symbiotic partnership was essential to translating the conceptual depth of Antin’s five-decade career into a coherent and powerful spatial experience.

Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (2025)
Curated by: Bettina Steinbrügge, assisted by Julie Kohn
Exhibition Architecture: Diogo Passarinho Studio
Studio Team: Diogo Passarinho & Gonçalo Reynolds
Production Team: Paula Fernandes, Matthias Heitbrink, Lou-Andréa Sultan
Media Partner: Le Monde
Special Thanks: Dikamar
Photography: Mareike Tocha © Mudam Luxembourg