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OPEN Architecture unveils its collaboration with Powerhouse Parramatta in Sydney, Australia, on the curatorial conception and exhibition design for Task Eternal, the landmark exhibition which will serve as the opening spectacle for the highly anticipated launch of Powerhouse Parramatta in late 2026. Powerhouse Parramatta, located in Sydney, will be the latest museum affiliated with Powerhouse, Australia’s largest museum group. Task Eternal will be staged in Powerhouse Parramatta’s largest exhibition space, PS1, and will run for two to three years.
The construction of the exhibition has already begun. “Task Eternal will be one of the most ambitious aerospace exhibitions ever staged in the world to date,” said Powerhouse Chief Executive Lisa Havilah. The sheer scale and scope of the exhibition effectively transform OPEN’s task into designing a museum within a museum.
Drawing on Ted Chiang’s science fiction The Tower of Babylon, which underlines the curatorial concept, OPEN’s design for the exhibition traces a linear journey structured like cinematic movements of acts and scenes. This unique experience unifies not only a constellation of exhibition themes, spaces, and objects, but also the dialectic between heaven and earth, and the positionality of humanity in the cosmos.
