Balloon Museum, a traveling inflatable art exhibit out of Italy, will open in the Tin Building on July 15. Ticket sales start June 8.

This is the first permanent location for the show — they have a five-year lease; the concept launched in Italy in 2021 as an experimental showcase by a group called Lux Entertainment. There are monumental site-specific works as well as inflatable
commissions developed with renowned artists.

Marina Abramović

The 53,000-square-foot Tin Building, a two-story food emporium and restaurant destination created by Jean-Georges Vongerichten, closed in February after four years at the Seaport. The museum has taken the entire space.

The opening show at Balloon Museum, titled DAYDREAM – Air Becomes Art, will be anchored with a piece by performance artist Marina Abramović called Snowy/Windy/Spring on Planet Z. This is her first sustained exploration of light, air and environment as an immersive installation. Visitors will move through a field of shoulder-high inflatable grass and swirling artificial snow, immersed in a glowing white world — a wintery extraterrestrial meadow.

Martin Creed

There will also be installations by Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, who will fill a transparent room with hundreds of blue balloons; Alex Schweder, with a giant mirrored ball and fabric-covered lungs that rise and fall as it ‘breathes’; Thom Kubli, using compressed air to release soap bubbles that drift through the room.

More after they open.

Thom Kubli