This Spring, Windhover Hall of the Milwaukee Art Museum comes to life with Meadow, the second iteration of the seasonal Winter Series. The awe-inspiring installation by DRIFT is free and accessible to the public during Museum hours, January 18–April 13, 2025, complementing the organic architecture of the Quadracci Pavilion with luminous, dynamic blooms.
“DRIFT has long worked at the intersection of nature and technology, and I’m excited to present to our visitors their work within the context of the Quadracci Pavilion, a biophilic space designed by architect Santiago Calatrava,” said the exhibition’s curator Shoshana Resnikoff, Demmer Curator of 20th- and 21st-Century Design. According to the architect, The Quadracci Pavilion’s design “responds to the culture of the lake: the sailboats, the weather, the sense of motion and change.” Movement and interrelatedness amongst things play an important role in Calatrava’s work, and this sentiment is also echoed in DRIFT’s Meadow installation.
“We are honored that we have the opportunity to immerse our artwork Meadow in the awesome space that is the Calatrava building of the Milwaukee Art Museum,” said Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta of DRIFT. “As longtime fans, it was a dream to design this artwork specifically to fit Windhover Hall. We worked with the perspective to draw the eye into the height of the open atrium to make visitors wander through the space vertically.”
Through winter and into spring, Meadow will hang in the atrium of Windhover Hall with the lakefront as its backdrop. This presentation offers a new experience with each visit as the landscape outside transforms with the change of seasons, providing different perspectives.
Photo courtesy of the Milwaukee Art Museum
