Proun Room (Prounenraum)
Date
Credits
- El Lissitzky 3 Designer
Format
- Installation 18
Type of Work
- Archive 227
Locations Made
- Germany 90
- Berlin 4
- Land Berlin
El Lissitzky's Proun Room was a radical spatial experiment that took down the boundaries between graphic design and architecture. By transforming the exhibition space into a dynamic three-dimensional composition of intersecting geometric planes and bold color relationships, Lissitzky created an immersive environment that challenged viewers' perceptions of space and visual communication.
Made for the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1923, the installation embodied the Constructivist ideal of art as a revolutionary tool, breaking down traditional aesthetic hierarchies and reimagining design as a means of social transformation. The room became a physical example of avant-garde principles, where every angle, plane, and color served as a deliberate act of visual communication that rejected decorative conventions and embraced technological precision and abstraction.
