'Life After BOB’
Ian Cheng–
LAS, Berlin
Life After BOB is a large-scale new media exhibition by Ian Cheng, presented by LAS Art Foundation in Berlin. The project involved a complex technical setup spanning custom software, real-time systems, and spatial installation.
As Exhibition Producer, I led the exhibition’s production from planning through delivery, working closely with the artist, technical teams, and LAS Art Foundation to realise a complex, software-driven work within a public exhibition context.
The project required balancing experimental artistic intent with the demands of scale, reliability, and institutional standards, ensuring the work functioned coherently over time while maintaining the integrity of Cheng’s vision.
Life After BOB: The Chalice Study was co-commissioned by LAS, The Shed and Luma Foundation.
Press:
“(…)visitors at LUMA Arles in France, The Shed in New York, and the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul have had the opportunity to see Life After BOB, but the Halle am Berghain may be the most ambitious iteration yet.”
“(…) the exhibition is a hypnotic, techno-psychedelic future in the grips of a “Great Anomic Era.”
“(…) this exhibition is a fundamentally physical and bodied experience (…)”
“It’s a prelude to the film, an unconscious spa to massage your brain and mood into feeling the world.”
Credits:
Ian Cheng: Life After BOB
9 September - 6 November 2022 at Halle am Berghain, Berlin
© 2022 Ian Cheng, Presented by LAS Art Foundation
Partners: Media Cooperation
Special thanks to:
Film Credits:
Producer: Veronica So
Animation Production: Nicholas Sung
Technical Production: Ivaylo Getov
Editor: Jess Fulton
Cinematography: Eric Yue
Supervisor Animation: Valerie Scheiber
Sound Design: Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr
Music Composition: Brian Reitzell
Featuring Voices: Poonam Basu, Cherami Leigh, Dana Lee, Gwendoline Yeo, Aly Mawji, Jennifer Swanner, and Sean Patton
Research Development: Transformations of the Human at the Berggruen Institute
Exhibition Team:
Artist: Ian Cheng
Producer: Veronica So
Producer: Flinder Zuyderhoff-Gray
Exhibition Producer: Ewa Kniaziak
Technical Lead: Andrea Familari
Technical Consultant: Ivaylo Getov
Spatial Sound Design: Lugh O’Neill
Light Design: Henning Schletter
Exhibition Design: TheGreenEyl
Set Design, Conceptualisation and Design Consultant: Grace Nicholas
Exhibition Build: Tischlerei Schuster
Cinema Architecture and Acoustic: Arup
Building Company Cinema: MWB
AV Installation: Eidotech
Exhibition Team (LAS):
Founder and Co-Director: Jan Fischer
Director: Dr. Bettina Kames
Commercial Director: Kristina Leipold
Head of Programs: Amira Gad
Curator: Amira Gad
Assistant Curator: Liz Stumpf
Curatorial Assistant: Sophie Korschildgen
Personal and Curatorial Assistant: Manon Bernard
Project Manager: Flinder Zuyderhoff-Gray
Project Manager, LAS: Alexis Convento
Junior Producer: Harriet Collins
Head of Marketing and Communications: Felix Thon
Communications Manager: Selin Şahin
Communications Manager: Evelyn Nossol
Communications Assistant: Stephanie Richter
Communications Assistant: Alice Lamperti
Social Media Manager: Veronica Jonsson
Art Administration: Jasna Kohnert-Stavenhagen
Event Coordinator: Louise Nielsen
Connect Team: TZ
Collectibles:
Project Manager, LAS: Alexis Convento
Producer, LAS: Louise Nielsen
Creative Consultant and Design Lead: Josh Woolford
Designer: Johannes Schnatmann
Creative Production Assistant: Vanda Skácalová
Illustrator: Mochipanko
Music Box Composer: Brian Reitzell
True Name NFT:
True Name NFT Technical Director: Ivaylo Getov
Project Manager, LAS: Alexis Convento
Developer: Cezar Mocan
Web Design: Sixing Xu
Connect Team: TZ
Additional Support:
Support Interactive Mobile Application: Leeum Museum of Art (Seoul)
NFT Powered: Tezos
Visual Identity: Studio Yukiko