Atelier des Lumières, Digital art center in Paris.
Atelier des Lumières is a digital art center in Paris' 11th arrondissement housed in a converted 19th-century industrial building. Works by famous artists are projected in large format onto walls and floors, creating a fully immersive experience that surrounds visitors completely.
The Plichon brothers opened the Chemin-Vert steel foundry here in 1835; it stayed in their family for four generations and thrived for over a century. The 1929 economic crisis closed it, and the Martin family, the current owners, bought it in 1935. Culturespaces chose the site in 2017 and opened the Atelier des Lumières on 13 April 2018.
The exhibitions present works by famous artists projected onto walls, allowing visitors to step into their worlds. You experience how classical artworks are reimagined through light and sound effects.
The venue is easy to reach by public transport and sits near several metro stations. Plan to spend at least an hour or two wandering through the different rooms to fully experience the projections.
The projection system, called AMIEX (Art and Music Immersive Experience), was developed in-house by Culturespaces from 2012 and uses specially calibrated Barco projectors. The venue runs 140 projectors with spatial sound from 50 speakers, and the images are fed in very high resolution over optical fibre. The equipment is tuned so the pictures follow the irregular shapes of the old foundry walls.
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