This summer the High will unveil Panorama, its ninth site-specific installation on the Woodruff Art Center’s Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza, by Rotterdam-based design practice Studio Sabine Marcelis. The immersive experience continues the High’s multiyear series of inclusive and inviting commissions to activate the museum’s outdoor space and encourage community engagement.

Panorama presents a new dimension for play as visitors are invited to interact with four kinetic pillars of glass, which subtly shift from a natural mirror effect to a deep orange hue. As the monumental structures rotate, they alter our perception and experience of our surroundings.

Panorama is grounded in Marcelis’s interest in material experimentation to transform spaces through an investigation of light, transparency, color, and movement. Constructed with four pillars of variegated glass that serve as magnets for light and color, the installation captures sunlight, creating reflections of the natural environment and expanding the work’s visual impact. Visitors are encouraged to walk in between and around the pillars, adding to the installation’s dynamic movement.

Panorama introduces a new dimension for Studio Sabine Marcelis, marking the designer’s first monumental and kinetic work. The project also introduces the designer’s debut collaboration in the United States, with the High’s piazza providing a contemplative backdrop within an art museum setting.

Studio Sabine Marcelis Sabine Marcelis is an artist and designer who runs her practice from the harbor of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2011, Marcelis began working within the fields of product, installation, and spatial design with a strong focus on materiality. Her work is characterized by pure forms that highlight material properties.



Marcelis applies a strong aesthetic point of view to her collaborations with industry specialists. This method of working allows her to intervene in the manufacturing process, using material research and experimentation to achieve new and surprising visual effects for projects both showcased in museums and commissioned by commercial clients and fashion houses. Marcelis considers her designs to be true sensorial experiences: the experience becomes the function, with a refined and unique aesthetic. Her work has been acquired into the permanent collections of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, among others.



She has recently won the prestigious Elle Deco International Design Designer of the Year award in 2023 and the Wallpaper* Designer of the Year award in 2020.



Notable exhibitions include solo shows at the Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, and Vitra Design Museum as well as group shows at Design Miami, Les Musée des Arts Décoratifs, and Kunsthal Rotterdam. Marcelis has received art installation commissions from Fendi, Dior, and Noor Riyadh, among others.

Panorama is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Panorama is sponsored by a grant from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, which is part of the family of foundations that includes the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation. The Lettie Pate Evans Foundation is an independent private foundation that invests primarily in education, arts, and culture.