About
Lightroom is an immersive venue designed by 59 with sites in London and South Korea. There are plans for a future global rollout of the venue in the coming years.
Opened Dec 2023 - Ongoing
The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks
OPENED FEb 2023 - ONGOING
David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away)
Designing the venue
We designed Lightroom to be a four-wall storytelling canvas and somewhere for audiences to fully immerse themselves in the worlds we’ve created.
creating The Shows
Lightroom is a space in which we will develop innovative shows that combine the scale and spectacle of immersive experiences with a focus on new forms of storytelling. In collaboration with some of the world’s greatest artists, thinkers, creatives and innovators, Lightroom will present pioneering work that brings together a diverse range of design and narrative disciplines.
OPENED FEb 2023 - ONGOING
David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away)
David Hockney: Bigger & Closer is a brand new kind of immersive show which takes audiences inside the practice and imagination of one of the world’s most acclaimed and popular living artists.
Working closely with Hockney over a period of three years, the 59 team wrote, directed and designed this 50 minute show which plays with scale, spectacle and intimacy to give audiences fresh perspectives into Hockney’s work. Narrated by the artist himself, and accompanied by a new score from composer Nico Muhly, the show takes the audience on a personal journey through his art, featuring iconic paintings alongside some rarely seen pieces and newly created work. His life-long fascination with the possibilities of new media is given vibrant expression in a show that invites visitors to see the world through his eyes.
A breathtaking triumph.
David Hockney viewing the model box containing “August 2021, Landscape with Shadows” Twelve iPad paintings comprising a single work © David Hockney. Photo by Mark Grimmer
David Hockney and Mark Grimmer at Lightroom, photographed by Justin Sutcliffe.
Opened Dec 2023 - Ongoing
The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks narrates an epic experience that offers a unique, new perspective on humankind’s past and future voyages to the moon.
Telling the stories of the Apollo mission in intimate detail, The Moonwalkers also provides an insight into the impending return of crewed surface missions by going behind-the-scenes of the Artemis programme, including interviews between Hanks and Artemis astronauts.
Lightroom’s powerful projection and audio technology transforms the immense space into a vehicle for a spectacular immersive voyage to our closest celestial neighbour.
Designed and directed by 59, the show uses a combination of bespoke animation and high-resolution NASA imagery to take audiences on an incredible journey into space – set to an original score by Anne Nikitin.
A thrill ride into the wonder of space.
An image of astronaut Edward White floating in space during Gemini 4, June 1964 is projected across one wall of Lightroom. Photographed within Lightroom by Justin Sutcliffe.
Geologic Maps of Apollo landing sites projected within Lightroom. Photographed by Justin Sutcliffe.
Opening on Oct 25th
at Lightroom, London
VOGUE: Inventing the Runway
Inventing the Runway explores the history of the fashion runway show, from the intimate couture salons of the early 20th century, right up to the significant, mass media events we see today. Using Vogue’s remarkable archive and contributor network, we’re creating an experience that brings together the industry’s leading voices from the past, present, and future.
Through a cycle of thematic chapters, the productions will use original animation and immersive sound design accompanied by an original score that fuses classical and pop music to evoke the worlds that these iconic shows inhabited as they shifted the cultural landscape.
Future projects
59 and Lightroom are developing a slate of forthcoming shows that will open at Lightroom, King’s Cross and Lightroom, Seoul – follow us to hear more about our future projects.