The Art Direction of the Noguchi Museum, 2018–






Titled after Isamu Noguchi’s museum of the same name, designed and created by Noguchi, Round’s ongoing work, The Art Direction of the Noguchi Museum is an enquiry into the role an artist might play as an integral part of institutional and design teams, but also of society’s infrastructures and organisations at large. Through this methodology, Round has been an artist in residence with the Serpentine Gallery’s General Ecology project (2018–ongoing), in charge of the project’s art direction. For the Wellcome Collection, Round devised Colour Palette: Living with Buildings (2018), in which a colour palette drawn from their research into the effect of colour on health became an integral part of the exhibition design, as the artist embedded himself within the Wellcome exhibition teams.

Colour Palette, Persones Persons, 2022
Colour Palette devised for Biennale Gherdëina 8
Dimension Variable

Factories, Mountains, Trees, 2022
Wall paintings for Welcoming Persones, Persons & Persones, Persons Dimension Variable

Exhibition views: Museion, Bolzano & Salle Trenker, Ortisei
Photography by Luca Meneghel, Tiberio Sorvillo & Giles Round







Working together, graphic designers hund and Giles Round developed the graphic identity of the Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Graphic elements such as the colour palette and a suite of geometric symbols were drawn from walks through the forest and the town, as well as from research into Val Gardena’s industrial and residential architecture. Taking inspiration from the traditional ornaments to be found on the architecture in Ortisei and fascinated by the lunar myths of the Monti Pallidi – the name of the Dolomites in Fanes Saga mythology – the process led them to conceive a visual system. Focusing on lunar phases and the Gregorian calendar as markers of time, colours and symbols encode this information into a cipher.