Mysterious Universe


design for manufacture

project team: Gabriel Lester, Darya Akhrameika, Miruna-Maria Stanciu


June - August 2025




Assisting on the exhibiton design for Mysterious
Universe
, a group show of Gabriel Lester and Eugène Brands at museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo.

The works are showcased across two rooms, one pitch dark and one well lit. Between them, a perforated series of parallel walls serves as a tunneled transiton. 

Over the span of a couple of months, I was requested to develop the final manufacturing files for this particular section of the show, guided by initial technical drawings of the design. I worked on splitting the walls, fitting them on more than 100 MDF plates and testing various styles of linework for the CNC cutouts. 






































1) work in progress: sample of CNC cut

2) wall example from original design, drawing and models by
Darya Akhrameika

3) puzzling sections of walls as economically as possible on the maximum size of the MDF plates

4) exhibiton build-up, museum van Bommel van Dam

5)  detail of wall on the evening of the official exhibiton opening 


© Miruna-Maria Stanciu