DANCING MIRRORS / FORUM SCHWANTHALERHÖHE
“We were looking for an eye-catcher for the new shopping centre that would be
suitable for Instagram. We have achieved much more: a work of art for the public
space,” says Heiner Hutmacher, Managing Director of Centre Management.
Ingo Maurer and team member Sebastian Hepting designed the installation of
polished stainless-steel spheres for Munich’s “Forum Schwanthalerhöhe” shop-
ping centre. The dynamic installation “Dancing Mirrors” is a large, almost 10-
metre-high, 17-metre-wide kinetic work of art consisting of 24 pendulums of
varying lengths that plays with the laws of physics.
The “Dancing Mirrors” are activated mechanically
every hour. Over 60 minutes the pendulum
completes an ascending number of complete
oscillations in a fixed period.
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Preliminary design phase: As a part of the pre-
sentation, a miniature model of the “Dancing
Mirrors” is set up in our showroom in Munich.
