Penique productions

The clever artists from Spanish collective Penique Productions create incredibly colorful installations by using inflatable balloons that expand and fill these rooms completely, creating spaces…

Barcelona-based Penique Productions is an artist collective founded in 2007 that creates transformative installations in public spaces. To do this the group utilizes massive plastic balloons that are inflated inside buildings and other interior areas. Coupled with exterior lighting that illuminates the colored plastic, the results can be beautifully dramatic, making the new environment almost unrecognizable from the actual space. You can see many more views of several installations on their…

The Market Estate ProjectLondon, UK2010

Penique Productions is an artist collective based in Barcelona, Spain. The group's installations are simple yet transformative. Using variously colored plastic, Penique Productions inflates the material within different types of structures, from churches to apartments. The installations are so complete that the spaces nearly seem to be painted over. Indeed, part of the installations' intention is to completely saturate a space. All of a room's individual details are erased by being covered…

Bathroom Nottingham, UK January 2009 2,5 x 2,5 x 2,5 m Penique’s third exhibition, the second at Nottingham Trent University, was an opportunity to showcase the limitless possibilities offered by the inflatable. The venue, a bathroom, was of key importance and lent the finished work its character, impeding its usual function to become a work […]

Barcelona-based Penique Productions is an artist collective founded in 2007 that creates transformative installations in public spaces. To do this the group utilizes massive plastic balloons that are inflated inside buildings and other interior areas. Coupled with exterior lighting that illuminates the colored plastic, the results can be beautifully dramatic, making the new environment almost unrecognizable from the actual space. You can see many more views of several installations on their…

Take a SeatSant Cugat del Vallès, Spain28 January 201830 x 33 x 12 m “(…) we worked with some of Barcelona’s most creative minds. We gave each artist a phrase that captures our way of thinking, and paired them with a director to capture their vision. All of it came together to create a film […]

You may have seen the mindbogglingly great work of Barcelona-based Penique productions before; it’s the nature of the blogosphere that things come round weeks, months or even years after they first pique the design world’s interest. But that does not mean work as good as this doesn’t deserve some love from us, because quite simply this is splendid.

We give you twenty two examples of textile installation art - big and small - that will knock your socks off.

Barcelona-based Penique Productions is an artist collective founded in 2007 that creates transformative installations in public spaces. To do this the group utilizes massive plastic balloons that are inflated inside buildings and other interior areas. Coupled with exterior lighting that illuminates the colored plastic, the results can be beautifully dramatic, making the new environment almost unrecognizable from the actual space. You can see many more views of several installations on their…