Video production for museums and exhibitions
The exhibition comes down. The film stays.
Videos that announce the exhibition, performances filmed among the works, paintings in 3D you can step into, and trailers: what keeps telling the story once the show has closed. For museums, foundations and galleries.
Who we’ve worked with
In short
What is video production for museums?
Video production for museums means films, animation or 3D that accompany an exhibition or a collection: announcing it before it opens, bringing it to people who can’t visit, or explaining it in the gallery. It can start from the works themselves, a shoot in the gallery, a performance or a 3D recreation of a piece.
Our work with museums and foundations focuses on the pieces that get an exhibition or a collection seen. We’ve made them for Fundación Mapfre, Fundación BBK, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Teatros del Canal, and for corporate collections such as Iberdrola’s.
What we make for museums and exhibitions
Six kinds of piece, each with a real case behind it. A single exhibition can combine several.
Exhibition promo videos
A piece to announce the show on the web and social media, made from the works themselves: for Tomoko Yoneda at Fundación Mapfre, her photographs split into strips and frames.
Tomoko YonedaPerformances filmed in the gallery
An artist, a dancer or a ceramicist responds to the works and we film it among them: Nicolás Villamizar facing Bill Brandt, Paco Hidalgo before Pérez Siquier and Gasparini, María Lázaro with Morandi.
Bill Brandt & Nicolás VillamizarMusic videos with a dedicated track
For the Bill Brandt exhibition, a music video for the song the band Delaporte dedicated to him, with the gallery as the set and the photographs behind.
DelaporteArtworks in 3D
Paintings treated as 3D simulations you can step into and explore from the inside, made for the museum’s social channels.
Artworks from BBK and the ThyssenTrailers for cultural programmes
For Teatros del Canal, the trailer for “Todas las cosas del mundo” by Colectivo Armadillo: live arts, music and images projected onto the stage.
Todas las cosas del mundoA collection in one video
For corporate or foundation collections: a journey through Iberdrola’s art collection, filmed at its offices in Bilbao, Madrid, Valencia and San Agustín de Guadalix.
Iberdrola’s art collection
With museums and foundations
Three commissions, and the problem each one had to solve.
01Reaching people who can’t visit
Part of the audience for the Paolo Gasparini and Pérez Siquier exhibition at Fundación Mapfre lived in other cities. The dancer Paco Hidalgo stood before the photographs and fused them with his flamenco: the exhibition, in a piece that travels.
Pérez Siquier & GaspariniFundación Mapfre
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02Promoting without betraying the work
The photographer Tomoko Yoneda looks at history through landscapes and interiors tied to conflict: her work called for a piece that didn’t shout. We made it using only her photographs, for the Fundación Mapfre exhibition.
Tomoko YonedaFundación Mapfre
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03Stepping into the painting
For the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza’s 25th anniversary, a dozen works treated as 3D simulations, to explore from the inside on the museum’s social channels. The campaign passed 300,000 views.
Artworks for BBK and the Thyssen MuseumMuseo Thyssen · Fundación BBK
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How we work with a museum
Four steps, with your team’s sign-off at each one: communications, curators or whoever has the final say on the exhibition.
Start with the briefStep 1: You tell us about the exhibition
Which work, which dates, who it’s for and where the piece will be seen: the website, social media, a screen or a presentation.
You getA proposal with the idea, plan and budget
Step 2: The idea
How to tell the story of the work without betraying it: through its own images, a shoot in the gallery, a guest artist or 3D.
You getThe idea and the script for the piece
Step 3: Filming or production
We film in the gallery or produce the animation and 3D, and you review each version.
You getVersions to review
Step 4: Delivery
The final piece and its versions: landscape for the web and screens, vertical and square for social, with subtitles.
You getThe final video in every format
Frequently asked questions
What videos can you make for an exhibition?
To announce it: a promo video made from the works, a trailer or a music video. While it’s on: performances filmed in the gallery, pieces for social and artworks recreated in 3D. And for people who can’t visit, a piece that brings it to them. For Fundación Mapfre we’ve made almost all of these, for the Tomoko Yoneda, Morandi, Bill Brandt, and Pérez Siquier and Gasparini exhibitions.
Can you film inside the exhibition space?
Yes. We’ve filmed performances among the hanging works, such as the artist Nicolás Villamizar’s in the Bill Brandt exhibition and the dancer Paco Hidalgo’s in front of the photographs of Pérez Siquier and Gasparini, both for Fundación Mapfre.
Bill Brandt & Nicolás VillamizarCan you make a video using only the works in the exhibition?
Yes. The piece for the Tomoko Yoneda exhibition is made entirely from her photographs, with no filming. For that, we need high-resolution images of the works and to know what permissions there are to use them.
Tomoko YonedaDo you make 3D recreations of artworks?
Yes. For the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza’s 25th anniversary, we treated a dozen works as 3D simulations to explore from the inside on the museum’s social channels, and the campaign passed 300,000 views. We did the same for Fundación BBK.
Artworks from BBK and the ThyssenWhich museums and foundations have you worked with?
Fundación Mapfre, on the Tomoko Yoneda, Giorgio Morandi, Bill Brandt, and Pérez Siquier and Gasparini exhibitions; the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación BBK, on their artworks in 3D; and Teatros del Canal. We’ve also worked with corporate collections, such as Iberdrola’s.
What do you need to prepare a quote?
The exhibition and its dates, where the piece will be seen, the length or number of pieces, the material that already exists (images of the works, wall texts or curatorial texts) and whether we need to film in the gallery. With that, we’ll prepare a proposal with the idea, plan and budget.
Do you work with museums outside Madrid?
Yes. We’re based in Madrid, but we’ve worked for Fundación BBK and filmed at Iberdrola’s offices in Bilbao, Madrid, Valencia and San Agustín de Guadalix. Meetings can be on a video call or at the museum.
What exhibition are you working on?
Tell us which work, which dates and where it will be seen. We’ll get back to you and talk it through with your team, on a video call or at the museum.
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